Prior to entering academia, Professor Jennifer Anglim Kreder was a Litigation Associate with Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, LLP, in New York, concentrating on Holocaust-era inter-governmental negotiation and property litigation issues, art disputes and class actions. She also was awarded for her work on behalf of Catholic nuns and others tortured and murdered during the Salvadoran civil war. Previously, she clerked for The Honorable Barefoot Sanders, United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas.
Jennifer Kreder is a graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center. She received her Bachelor of Arts with High Honors in Political Science from the University of Florida and studied at Karl Marx University of Leipzig, Germany, as well as in Austria, Costa Rica and Mexico. She also has taught abroad.
Professor Kreder has published extensively, including in legal journals at Harvard, Northwestern, Penn, Vanderbilt, Duke, Virginia, Georgetown, University of Southern California, Washington University, Brooklyn, Utah, Southern Methodist University, Miami, Oregon, NKU-Chase, University of Melbourne, Australia, and the Institute of Art & Law in the United Kingdom, as well as the American Journal of Legal History, the World Arbitration & Mediation Review, and other trade publications. She is the author of Chapter 1 in the 2009 Yearbook of Cultural Property Law. By invitation, she has given presentations about legal issues affecting the international art market in many domestic and foreign venues.
Professor Kreder has filed amicus briefs on behalf of the American Jewish Congress, the Commission for Art Recovery, law professors dedicated to alternative dispute resolution, Holocaust educators, Jewish community leaders, artists and art historians concerning conflicts law and U.S. executive policy in Nazi-looted art appeals (and a petition for certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court), as well as briefs regarding proper Act of State analysis in cases concerning art stolen during the Russian Revolution. She has participated in State Department efforts to create a Nazi-looted art commission and serves as Chair of the American Society of International Law's Cultural Heritage & the Arts Interest Group.
