Auke van Hoek

Working areas

Art Law, Intellectual property rights, Commercial contracts

About Auke van Hoek

Lawyer in the Art Law and Intellectual Property Law practice group. Auke has been involved in various high-profile cases in the field of art. He advises and litigates on matters including the restitution of looted art, the protection of cultural heritage, intellectual property, issues surrounding the authenticity and provenance of works of art, and contractual disputes. He publishes regularly on these topics and gives lectures. In addition, as a board member of the Museum Van Loon-100 Committee, he organises events centred on the museum’s collection.

Auke graduated in civil law from Leiden University in 2017. He specialises in the field of intellectual property law, having written a dissertation on ‘The architect’s moral rights’, for which he received an honourable mention at the symposium of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property in the Netherlands (2018). In 2016, he spent a semester at Queen Mary University of London (studying intellectual property law and art history) and undertook work placements at various intellectual property law firms during his studies.

Areas of focus

Transfer of Art

Protection of Cultural Property (Heritage Act)

Restitution of Looted Art

Intellectual Property Law

 

Career

Bergh Stoop & Sanders (2018 – present)

Academic

Board member Van Loon 100 Committee – Museum Van Loon in Amsterdam

Member of the Association for Intellectual Property (AIPPI) 

Grotius Summer School on Cultural Objects, Human Rights and International Law (2019)

Leiden University (2011 – 2017)

Queen Mary University, London (2016)

Personal/ additional functions

Member of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI)

Member Young Stedelijk Amsterdam

Member of the Arts and Culture Law Association (VKCR)

Drawing, reading and running

Register of jurisdictions

Auke has registered the legal area Intellectual property law/civil law in the Register of Legal Areas of the Dutch Bar Association. This registration obliges him to obtain ten training points per calendar year in this registered area of law, according to the standards of the Dutch Bar Association.