Stephen K. Urice

Stephen K. Urice, Professor of Law, University of Miami School of Law, is a former archaeologist and attorney and a scholar in art, museum, and cultural property law. He also teaches trusts & estates and tax-exempt organization law. He earned his Ph.D. and J.D. at Harvard University.

As a doctoral candidate, he excavated in Cyprus, Tunisia, and Jordan and traveled extensively to archaeological sites in the eastern Mediterranean. His doctoral dissertation on his excavations in Jordan appeared as Qasr Kharana in the Transjordan (A.S.O.R., 1987).

He has served as advisor to the Aspen Institute’s Artist-Endowed Foundations Initiative since 2007; taught for 30 years in the American Law Institute’s course Legal Issues in Museum Administration; and worked since 1987 as pro bono counsel, board member, and officer of the International Cultural Property Society.

He is a co-author of Wills, Trusts, & Estates: The Essentials, 3d ed. (Aspen Publ., 2024).

Urice is a member of the NY, MA, and CA bars, Amer. Bar Assoc., Intn’l. Council on Museums, and a life-member of the Archaeological Instit. of America.