A Sense of Place: Talking with Dick Buxbaum

Dick Buxbaum’s life and work are legendary far beyond his home base at UC Berkeley Law School, where he’s been a member of the faculty, a brilliant scholar of comparative corporate law, and a mentor since 1961. Listeners will relish accounts about key twentieth-century figures – from Nabokov to Savio to Suharto – and stories told from Dick’s unique perspective defending free-speech protesters, anti-Vietnam war activists, Third-World student strikers and advocates of affirmative action. Reflections on escaping Hitler’s Germany as a child refugee, growing up in the village serving the Akwesasne Reservation of the Mohawk Nation, practicing cross-border diplomacy during the Cold War, and on the importance of sense of place in an atomized world round out the timely lessons of this special episode of Borderlines. Episode Four of Borderlines showcases a candid conversation with Dick Buxbaum, sharing his wisdom, internationalism, and Renaissance outlook with legions of fans old and new alike.Borderlines from Berkeley Law is a podcast about global problems in a world fragmented by national borders. Our host is Katerina Linos, Tragen Professor of International Law and co-director of the Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law. In each episode of Borderlines, Professor Linos invites three experts to discuss cutting edge issues in international law.For a transcript, please visit the episode page on the Berkeley Law podcast hub. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.