Carla Shapreau

Carla Shapreau is a Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, specializing in art and cultural property law. She also serves as a Senior Fellow in the Institute of European Studies and Curator of the Ansley K. Salz Collection in the Department of Music. Her academic career includes a judicial externship with U.S. District Court Judge Robert F. Peckham and extensive work in intellectual property law.

Her research focuses on Nazi-era cultural plunder, provenance of musical instruments, and post-war restitution efforts. Notable projects include analyzing archives of Parisian violin traders (Caressa & Français) and studying the confiscation of Wanda Landowska’s musical collection. She has held key roles in symposia like the Cité de la musique’s 2022 conference on musical instrument spoliation.

Shapreau’s scholarship spans legal, historical, and musicological domains. Recent work highlights include Colonialism, Provenance, and Musical Instrument Collectors (2023) and contributions to the Oxford Handbook of Musical Repatriation (2018). Her 2015 collaboration on the Ferrell-Vogüé Machaut Manuscript earned the Palisca Award.

Awards include the 2015 American Musicological Society Claude V. Palisca Award. She actively participates in the Lost Music Project, investigating WWII-era cultural loss. Though no formal advisees are listed, her research collaborations (e.g., with Christine Laloue) reflect mentorship in interdisciplinary studies.