Borderlines

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.

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Thousands of non-binding agreements are shrouded in secrecy. A handful of publicly debated agreements - the Paris Climate Accords, the Iran Nuclear Deal or the Global Tax treaty – were made non-binding precisely to avoid a vote in Congress. Chicago Professor Curt Bradley, Harvard Professor Jack Goldsmith and Yale Professor Oona Hathaway sued the departments of State, Defense, and Homeland Security to find out what else the executive branch, and its many agencies, have negotiated. In comprehensive empirical work, they explain why greater transparency and accountability is needed not only for binding executive agreements, but also for non-bindings. For example, Congress does not know what exactly the Trump administration agreed with the governments of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador in agreements that likely dump responsibility for refugees on weak states.

Non-binding agreements are on the rise globally, and greatly influence how states act. We should reorient international law scholarship and teaching to pay greater attention to this under-explored tool.

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.

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How did Apple manage to pay an effective tax of 0% on its European profits? Will the new global minimum tax agreement change this? Duke Professor Rachel Brewster explains how corporate families are structured to take advantage of different countries’ laws; Chicago professor Adam Chilton empirically explores the regulation of supply chains; while Berkeley Professor Stavros Gadinis explains why progressives and conservatives alike call for sustainability in corporate governance.

In this episode of Borderlines, we discuss successful global coordination efforts, such as the spread of anti-corruption efforts from the US to the world, as well as harmonization in accounting standards. But we also debate the major costs of a global economy structured around the free flow of capital, and regulation that ends at the national border. 

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.

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The US welcomes refugees from Afghanistan but turns away Haitians. Why? Debating how best to share responsibilities for refugees, UCLA professor Tendayi Achiume argues that empires owe special duties to former colonies; Temple Professor Jaya Ramji-Nogales explains the special rules following the US occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan; while Berkeley professor Seth Davis contrasts how different US states, notably Texas and California, respond.

We discussed Title 42 – a controversial public health tool used to close the Southern border, and discussed how climate change calls for a new response to mass migration, as a new White House report emphasizes. We also compared regional solutions, including solutions that can be fairly called responsibility sharing, and others that resemble responsibility dumping.

For more details, stay tuned for a special spring 2022 symposium issue of the California Law Review featuring many perspectives on refugee responsibility sharing.

Borderlines from Berkeley Law is a show 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.

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Introducing Borderlines from Berkeley Law, a show 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. Katerina has spent 15 years researching how nations make war with one another, spreading devastation. But she has also seen how countries work together to build global institutions and learn from one another. She has met brilliant scholars, visionary leaders, brave advocates, and Machiavellian strategists. 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.

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