How should researchers deal with objects of unclear provenance? As a lawyer, teacher, and scholar specialising in art and cultural heritage law, Leila Amineddoleh offers expert advice on this issue. In our interview, she talks about the most common questions researchers ask her.

Just before the end of the year, two more PhD researchers from the CSMC Graduate School have completed their doctoral projects: Miruna Belea defended her dissertation in Jewish Studies and Xuan Tran Thi in Sinology. Congratulations!

Studying the 1,500 Dunhuang copies of the ‘Sutra of Limitless Life’ in the British Library seems tedious. However, in the new volume of SMC, Brandon Dotson and Lewis Doney show that examining a large set of seemingly interchangeable manuscripts can reveal numerous fascinating issues.