The research activities of the Centre's staff reflect the diversity of approaches to art and cultural property law, with projects at the crossroads of legal disciplines and interdisciplinarity. The Centre organizes regular colloquia, co-directs the Art Law Studies Series with the Art Law Foundation, and participates in various research projects, many of them long-term.

For example, the Centre participated in the drafting of the Dictionnaire comparé du droit du patrimoine culturel (2012), edited by Marie Cornu, Jérôme Fromageau and Catherine Wallaert, the 2nd revised edition of which will be published in 2024, and publishes the open-access platform "ArThemis" on dispute resolution in the field of cultural property.

The Centre has been hosting, monitoring and encouraging PhD projects since its creation. Some of these projects are supervised in Geneva, while others are co-directed or co-tutored. The Centre also regularly welcomes students, young researchers and advanced fellows - all self-funded - from all over the world.