Kimberly Alderman – The Alderman Law Firm

This article presents a practical guide to assist Wisconsin attorneys in calculating judgment interest after the changes imposed by Wisconsin Act 69…more

Government agencies, non-profits, scholars, and advocacy groups alike assert that organized crime dominates the illicit antiquities trade. The illicit antiquities trade has been linked to money laundering, extortion, the drug…more

This Article examines how the ordinary family uses popular narratives about the criminal justice system to cope with and reconcile the increasing intrusion of the system into the family experience. It explores these narratives…more

This article explores strategies for effectively supervising the legal writing of junior attorneys and non-lawyer employees…more

Ancient and historical objects and sites are designated “cultural property” because the property model has traditionally controlled their disposition and trade. In recent decades, however, the cultural property protection model…more

This Article considers whether the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (“1954 Hague Convention”) should extend to protect against in situ appropriation of culturally…more

This article discusses the apparent resolution between Yale and Peru over the disputed artifacts removed from Machu Picchu by Hiram Bingham in 1911. The article considers how Peru has, in recent years, asserted itself on an…more

This is the second article in a two-part series on how to effectively litigate ineffective assistance of counsel (IAC) post-conviction claims. This article focuses on communicating with trial counsel in advance of an IAC…more

This essay explores the impact that a post-conviction claim of ineffective assistance of counsel has on the ongoing duty of confidentiality owed to a criminal defendant client by trial counsel…more

A critical discussion of the recovery and ongoing litigation over what are believed to be the Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes shipwreck remains, located and recovered by Odyssey Marine Exploration…more

In this article, I use the 5Ps Framework for Ethical Problem Solving to begin meaningful discourse on the ethical problems in cultural property law pertaining to indigenous descendants of creator cultures. I use the divisiveness…more

This article considers from an ethical perspective the role that auction houses play as facilitators of the illicit antiquity trade. It reviews the laws that regulate the antiquity auction industry and explains why they fail to…more

This short article focuses on book thieves who, rather than stealing whole books, cut pages from valuable texts while visiting libraries. It explores several notable examples of this practice, and discusses the relatively light…more

This article critiques the race conscious thinking inherent in Critical Race Theory ("CRT") and offers an alternative to structuralism and determinism. It reviews the colonial origins of race consciousness, and argues that…more