Susan Duke Biederman, Esq.  is a fine arts attorney and author, having been in private practice in New York for more than 40 years. Ms. Duke Biederman is a 1975 graduate of UCLA, Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude, with a joint degree in mathematics and French, and a 1978 graduate of the Law School of the University of Chicago, where she earned her Doctor of Law degree. Trained as a litigator, she has represented all facets of the fine arts industry, on a worldwide basis, on matters involving artists, their heirs and estates, private collectors, their heirs and estates, dealers, galleries and art advisors, auction houses, museums and curators, corporate collections and corporate creators, legislative, law enforcement and governmental agencies and bodies. She is the co-author of the award-winning (Scribes Book Award, Best Work of Legal Scholarship, 1987) multi-volume treatise, Art Law: The Rights and Liabilities of Creators and Collectors, published by Little, Brown and Company, and has lectured and taught widely in the field. The founding chairman of the Art Law Committee for the New York State Bar Association, Ms. Duke Biederman has also served on the Board of Directors of Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, as well as the Art Law Committee of the Bar Association of the City of New York.