Carla Shapreau is a Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, where she teaches art and cultural property law. She also is a Senior Fellow in the Institute of European Studies, where she is conducting cultural property research. In the Department of Music, she is Curator of the Ansley K. Salz Collection. While earning her Juris Doctor, Carla Shapreau was a judicial extern for the Honorable Chief Judge Robert F. Peckham, U.S. District Court, San Francisco, before becoming an intellectual property, art, and cultural property law practitioner.
A recipient of a 2018 National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship in connection with her research, Shapreau has written and lectured broadly on the topic of cultural property, including:
- “Provenance and Instruments of the Violin Family,” in Colonialism, Provenance, and Musical Instrument Collectors, 1850-1940, ed. Christina Linsenmeyer, Routledge Book Series: Histories of Material Culture and Collecting, 1700-1950 (forthcoming)
- “Restitution, Restoration and Repertoire: New Findings in the Wanda Landowska and Denise Restout Papers at the Library of Congress,” Panel and Performance, Library of Congress, Coolidge Auditorium, Washington, D.C., May 25, 2022
- Keynote speaker, Cité de la musique – Philharmonie de Paris, Symposium: “The spoliation of musical instruments in Europe. 1933-1945,” Paris, April 7-9, 2022
- “The Nazi-Era Confiscation of Wanda Landowska’s Musical Collection and its Aftermath,” Polin, Studies in Polish Jewry, Vol. 32: Jews in Polish Musical Life, The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization in association with Liverpool University Press, 2020
- “Documenting the Violin Trade in Paris: The Archives of Albert Caressa and Émile Français, 1930-1945,” Carla Shapreau, Christine Laloue, and Jean-Philippe Échard in Collecting & Provenance: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach, eds., Jane Milosch and Nick Pearce, Smithsonian Provenance Research Initiative, Smithsonian Institution and University of Glasgow in association with Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2019
- “Bells in the Cultural Soundscape: Nazi-Era Plunder, Repatriation, and Campanology,” in The Oxford Handbook of Musical Repatriation, Oxford University Press, 2018/2019
- “The Plunder and Restitution of Vg: The Nazi Era and its Aftermath, 1940–9,” The Ferrell-Vogüé Machaut Manuscript, Introductory Study, by Lawrence Earp with Domenic Leo and Carla Shapreau, Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music Publications, Oxford University, 2014 (American Musicological Society Claude V. Palisca Award, 2015)
- Violin Fraud, Deception, Forgery, and Lawsuits in England and America, by Brian W. Harvey and Carla J. Shapreau, Oxford University Press, 1997
