Richard M. Buxbaum

Richard M. Buxbaum (* 1930 in Griesheim ) is a German-American law scholar who teaches at the University of California, Berkeley .

Life and accomplishments

Buxbaum is the son of the Hessian country doctor Heinrich Buxbaum. The Jewish family emigrated to the United States in 1938 and settled in New York State . After graduating from high school in 1946, Buxbaum studied economics and Slavic literature (AB 1950) at Cornell University . He then earned a Bachelor of Laws (1952) from Cornell Law School and a Master of Laws (1953) from Berkeley . He then worked as a defense attorney for eight years and worked u. a. For three years as a military defender at the headquarters of the US armed forces in Heidelberg . Since 1961 he has been a professor at the University of California, Berkeley . In 1964 he was appointed professor there for life (Jackson H. Ralston Professor of International Law, School of Law).

Buxbaum specializes in international business law and, above all, corporate law. He was a director of the Earl Warren Legal Institute (1970–1974) and the National Center on Financial Services, EWLI (1988–1990). From 1990 to 1993 he was Director of the University of California Center for German and European Studies and Chairman of the Center for Western European Studies, University of California at Berkeley (1990–1993). He was also Dean of the Faculty from 1993 to 1999 and headed the LL.M. program at the American University in Armenia, Yerevan (1996-2000).

Buxbaum was Editor-in-Chief, The American Journal of Comparative Law (1987-2003) and Contributing Editor, CEB California Business Law Reporter; La société anonyme suisse - The Swiss public limited company; Economy and competition; The International Lawyer; Business and Politics Fellow.

Memberships

• Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2001);
• Titular Member, International Academy of Comparative Law;
• Member, Society for Comparative Law ;
• Member of the Advisory Board, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
• Member, Advisory Council and Visitors' Committee, Cornell Law School (1978–1984; Chair, 1980–1984);
• Member of the founding committee of the Bucerius Law School ;
• Member, Science Council, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology
• Member, Committee on Corporate Laws, American Bar Association , (1972-1976); * Committee on Takeovers and Corporate Governance, State Bar of California (1985–1990);
• State of California Senate Commission on Corporate Governance, Shareholders' Rights and Securities Regulation (1986–1998);
• American Law Institute (Advisor, ALI Corporate Governance Project) (1986–1994)
• US Member, Property Commission, [German] Foundation for Responsibility, Remembrance

Awards

• Humboldt Prize for the Humanities and Social Sciences, 1992
• Large Federal Cross of Merit , 1992
• Dr. iur. hc, University of Osnabrück, 1992
• Dr. iur. and Professor hc, Eötvös Loránd University , Budapest, 1993
• Officier, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres , France, 1996
• Comendador, Ordem de Rio Branco , Brazil, 1998
• Professor hc, Peking University, 1998
• Arthur-Burkhardt Prize, 2000
• Dr. iur. hc, University of Cologne 2006
• Dr. iur. hc, Bucerius Law School, Hamburg, 2009

Fonts

• European economic and business law: legal and economic analyzes on integration and harmonization / Buxbaum, Richard M .. - Berlin [u. a.]: de Gruyter, 1996
• European economic and business law: legal and economic analyzes on integration and harmonization; [the conference was held in Vitznau in September 1993] Berlin a. a., de Gruyter, 1996
• Institutional investors and corporate governance / Baums, Theodor. - Berlin [u. a.], Berlin a. a., de Gruyter, 1994
• Institutional investors and corporate governance (with Baums, Berlin and others, de Gruyter, 1994)
• The new anti-corporate bias in American farm law, Journal for the Entire Cooperative System, Vol. 43 (1993), 4, pp. 296-305
• Is "network" a legal concept ?, Journal of institutional and theoretical economics, Vol. 149 (1993), 4, pp. 698-705
• European business law - legal and economic analyzes on integration and harmonization, Berlin u. a., de Gruyter, 1991
• The Soviet Sobranie of laws: problems of codification and non-publication, International and Area Studies, University of California at Berkeley, 1991
• European business law: legal and economic analyzes on integration and harmonization, Berlin u. a., de Gruyter, 1991
• Integration through law; Vol. 4; Legal harmonization and the business enterprise: corporate and capital market law harmonization policy in Europe and the USA, 1988
• Legal harmonization and the business enterprise: corporate and capital market law, harmonization policy in Europe and the USA, Berlin, de Gruyter, 1988
• Legal issues concerning the financial aspects of joint ventures with nonmarket economy firms, ICSID review, Vol. 2 (1987), 1, pp. 66-84
• Modification and adaption of contracts: American legal developments, Adaptation and renegotiation of contracts in international trade and finance (1985), pp. 31-54
• The politico-legal context of the purpose and effect of codification: the example of technology transfer negotiations, Legal problems of codes of conduct for multinational enterprises (1980), pp. 89-99
• The relation of the large corporation's structure to the role of shareholders and directors: some American historical perspectives, Law and Development of Large Enterprises in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries (1979), pp. 243-254
• Corporations: cases and materials (with Jennings), 5th ed .-- St. Paul, Minn. : West Publ., 1979

Web links

• Homepage
• Literature by and about Richard M. Buxbaum in the catalog of the German National Library
• A video accompanying the exhibition, "Saved by The Bay: The Intellectual Migration from Fascist Europe to UC Berkeley" (The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, University of California, Berkeley, Spring 2014)
• John Hickey: Buxbaum still going strong after seeing Berkeley through years of turmoil. In: Berkeley News. from February 14, 2019 ( online )
• Buxbaum, Richard M .: In: Who's Who in America 2011. Marquis Who's Who, New Providence, NJ, 2010, ISBN 978-0-8379-7025-7 , Volume 1 (A – L) p. 632 ( online )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Book of Members. (PDF) Retrieved July 23, 2016 (English).