Marie C. Malaro is an attorney who has devoted most of her career
to advising and educating the museum community. She served as a
legal advisor to the Smithsonian Institution for many years and
then accepted a professorship at the George Washington University
where she served a s Director of the university's Graduate Program
in Museum Studies. She now holds the position of Professor Emeritus
at that university and continues to teach occasionally. She has
lectured extensively in this country and abroad on museum related
-topics and has contributed to numerous other museum publications.
She is also the author of Museum Governance- Law, Ethics and Policy
(Smithsonian Institution Press 1994).
Ildiko Pogany DeAngelis holds BA and MA degrees in art history and
a Certificate in Art Museum Administration from the Smithsonian
Institution. After working in museums in the field of collection
management, she earned a law degree magna cum laude from the
American University's Washington College of Law in 1980. For the
majority of her legal career, she served as a member of the
Smithsonian Institution's in-house legal staff concentrating on
collections-related legal issues. In 1998, she left the Smithsonian
to direct the Graduate Museum Studies Program at George Washington
University for a decade. She now holds the title of Associate
Professor Emerita and continues to teach a course on law and ethics
in a distance education program that she developed with grant
support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. This online
graduate program is designed to train staff charged with
collections care in museums around the country. She has published
numerous articles and has also served as faculty and member of the
steering committee for the annual American Law Institute/American
Bar Association-sponsored seminar, Legal Issues in Museum
Administration.
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