We are delighted to announce that the second RAM-T book Law and Finance in International Art Markets: Tools for the Future has just been published by Routledge.

The book brings together scholars and practitioners from numerous fields of expertise to explore the legal and financial structures of historic and contemporary art markets around the world.

Please join us to celebrate the book publication on Tuesday 13 January 2026 at 16:30-18 UTC/GMT – Teams link here at CEOS #36 (mini-symposium) - Law and Finance in International Art Markets: Tools for the Future, moderated by Elisabetta Lazzaro (University for the Creative Arts), Nathalie Moureau (University Paul Valéry Montpellier), and Adriana Turpin (IESA).

Speakers and presentations from contributed chapters include:

  • “The legal status of the Commissaires-Priseurs and its long-term impact on the genesis of the French art market” (Darius Spieth, Louisiana State University) – Darius Spieth
  • “Emerging legal issues of NFTs from the theory of punctuated equilibrium: A case study” (Yuha Jung, University of Kentucky) – Yuha Jung
  • “‘Telegram me on Monday’: Speculating with contemporary art in nineteenth-century England” (Joshua Eversfield Jenkins, University of Edinburgh and National Galleries of Scotland) – Joshua Eversfield Jenkins
  • “Are art investors rational? Investor sentiments and art returns” (Jiaxin Liu, Boram Lee, and Ruth Rentschler, University of South Australia) – Jiaxin Liu