Jonathan M. Freiman

Jonathan M. Freiman is a Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School and a Partner at Wiggin and Dana. He represents clients in complex and high-stakes disputes, including appeals, transnational litigation, and cases involving art and artifacts. His nationwide appellate work has included victory in a major art case before the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as reversals in major cases before the Supreme Courts of California, Connecticut, and Georgia. He regularly counsels clients on art and artifact matters involving provenance, cultural property, authenticity, and export law. In addition to his counseling and litigation work for clients involving art and artifacts — which included the successful defense of the title of one of Van Gogh’s most famous paintings — he drafts museum collections policies, art purchase agreements, loan agreements, and other documents for individual and institutional clients in the art world. After graduating from Yale Law School, he taught “Collective Violence and Memory” at Yale College and clerked for the former Yale Law School Dean Louis H. Pollak on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He is a former Bernstein Fellow, Lecturer in Law, and Senior Schell Fellow at Yale Law School.