Background
Buxbaum, David Charles was born on July 16, 1933 in New York City. Son of Sol and Sunny (Todrin).
Buxbaum, David Charles was born on July 16, 1933 in New York City. Son of Sol and Sunny (Todrin).
New York University (Bachelor of Arts, 1954). University of Michigan (Juris Doctor, 1959). Concurrent graduate studies.
University of Michigan Graduate School. Graduate study, Harvard University and University of Washington (Master of Arts, 1963. Ph.D., 1968). Member, Far East Honor Society, University of Michigan.
Awarded the following Fellowships: Schwed Fellow, New York University, 1953-1954. Leckie Fellow, University of Michigan Law School, 1956-1959. National Defense Education Act Fellow, University of Washington, 1961-1962.
National Defense Education Act Fellow, Harvard University, 1962-1963. Fulbright Senior Research Fellow and Fellow of the Modern China Project, University of Washington, Taiwan, 1965-1966. Social Science Research Fellow, Taiwan and Hong Kong, 1966-1967.
National Defense Education Act Fellow, University of Washington, 1967-1968. Spoken languages: English, Chinese. French, German and Japanese (specialized reading).
Working as a partner of REVISER OF THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA LAW DIGEST FOR THIS DIRECTOR Y. DAVID C. BUXBAUM, born New York, New York, July 16, 1933. Admitted, 1970, New York. 1971, United States. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
1974, United States. Supreme Court. 1975, United States. Court of Appeals, Seventh and Fourth Circuits. 1978, United States. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
1979, United States. Court of Appeals, First Circuit. 1981, California (Not admitted in China). Education: New York University (Bachelor of Arts, 1954).
University of Michigan (Juris Doctor, 1959). Concurrent graduate studies. University of Michigan Graduate School.
Graduate study, Harvard University and University of Washington (Master of Arts, 1963. Ph.D., 1968). Member, Far East Honor Society, University of Michigan. Awarded the following Fellowships: Schwed Fellow, New York University, 1953-1954.
Leckie Fellow, University of Michigan Law School, 1956-1959. National Defense Education Act Fellow, University of Washington, 1961-1962. National Defense Education Act Fellow, Harvard University, 1962-1963.
Fulbright Senior Research Fellow and Fellow of the Modern China Project, University of Washington, Taiwan, 1965-1966. Social Science Research Fellow, Taiwan and Hong Kong, 1966-1967. National Defense Education Act Fellow, University of Washington, 1967-1968.
Author: Articles: "Preliminary Trends in the Development of the Legal Institutions of Communist China and the Nature of the Criminal Law,” International and Comparative LawQuarterly, January, 1962, reprinted in Government of Communist China, Chandler, San Francisco, 1966. "Horizontal and Vertical Influences Upon the Substantive Criminal Law of Mainland Chinese, Some Preliminary Observations," Osteuropa Recht, No. 1, 1964; "Chinese Family Law in Common Law Setting: A Note on the Institutional Environment and the Substantive Family Law of the Chinese in Malaysia and Singapore," Journal of Asian Studies, August, 1966.
"Some Aspects of Civil Procedure and Practice at the Trial Level in Tanshui and Hsinchu..,” XXX Journal of Asian Studies, 1971. Lawyer's Challenge in China Trade: New and Developing Legal System, New York Law Journal, International Law Finance and Trade, February, 1979. Commodities Trade with China, New York Law Journal, December, 1978.
Regulation of Commodity Futures Exchanges in Japan. New York Law Journal, October, 1978. Commodities Transactions in China and Hong Kong, New York Law Journal, June, 1978.
Jurisdiction Over Foreign Transactions and Foreign Nationals, New York Law Journal, April, 1978. Two Cases of Dispute Settlement, United States.-China Business Review, Volume 1, No. 2, March/April, 1974.
Two Cases of Dispute Settlement, Arbitration and Dispute Settlement in Trade with China, Special Report No. 4 for Members of the National Council for United States-China Trade, February, 1974. Negotiation with the Chinese, Trade with China, 1973.
American Trade with the People's Republic of China: Some Preliminary Perspectives, Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, Volume 12, No. 1, 1973; Liability of Federal Officials in Damage for Acts Unconstitutional or in Excess of their Authority. Expanding the Concept of the Rule of Law, Capital University Law Review, Volume 8, Issue 4, 1979.
Taking on the Government Alone. Sole Practitioner Battles Way to Supreme Court and Wins, Legal Times of Washington, December, 1978. Disclosure of Management Remuneration.
Transaction, Litigation and Employment History, Los Angeles Daily Journal. March, 1979; Contracts in China, China Trade, Praeger, 1982. Monthly Columnist, New York Law Journal on Commodities Law, 19761982.
Author: The Commercial Laws of China, and Patents Law and Practice, Trademark Law and Practice, The People's Republic of China, Digest of the Commercial Laws of the World, 1983. Master of Arts Dissertation: "Legal Institutions of Contemporary Mainland China,” University of Washington, 1962. Ph.D. Dissertation: Some Aspects of Substantive Family Law and Social Change in Rural China, 1896-1967," University of Washington, 1968.
Reviews: Law and Society in Traditional China by Chu T’ung-tsu, Journal of Asian Studies, May, 1962. The Draft European Patent Convention, Maylaya Law Review, December, 1963. Chinese Family and Commercial Law by G. Jamieson, XXX Journal of Asian Studies, 1971.
Case Note: "Freedom of Marriage in a Pluralistic Society,” Malaya Law Review, 1963. Editor: Traditional and Modern Legal Institutions in Asia and Africa. Journal of Asian and African Studies, Supplement Edition, 1967.
Family Law and Customary Law in Asia: A Contemporary Legal Perspective, 1968. Law and Social Change: A Case Study of Family Law and Social Change in China and Other Developing Areas, University of Washington Press, 1971. Transition and Permanence: Chinese History and Culture, A Festschrift in Honor of Doctor Kung-Ch'iian Hsiao, 1971.
Chinese Family Law and Social Change in Historic and Comparative Perspective, University of Washington Press, 1978. China Trade: Prospects and Perspectives, Prager, 1982. Sole Counsel for Successful Respondents, Butz v.
Economou, 438 US 478, 1978. Associate Professor, Chinese Law, Comparative Law and Domestic Relations, University of Washington, 1968-1969. Assistant Lecturer, Chinese Law, Domestic Relations, Labor Law, Jurisprudence, Comparative Law, University of Singapore, 1963-1964.
Adjunct Professor of Law: Touro Law School, 1980. Southwestern University School of Law, since 1983. Member, Commission on Labor Law, Singapore, 1963-1964.
Member, Panel of Arbitrators, American Arbitration Association. Member:; Admitted to the bar, 1970, New York. 1971, United States. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
1974, United States. Supreme Court. 1975, United States. Court of Appeals, Seventh and Fourth Circuits. 1978, United States. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
1979, United States. Court of Appeals, First Circuit. 1981, California (Not admitted in China).
Bar: New York 1970, United States Court 2nd District Court of Appea circuit) 1971, Supreme Court of the United States Court 1974, United States Court Appeals (7th and 4th circuits) 1975, United States Court Appeals (8th circuit) 1978, United States Court Appeals (1st circuit) 1979, California 1981.
Articles: "Preliminary Trends in the Development of the Legal Institutions of Communist China and the Nature of the Criminal Law," International and Comparative Law Quarterly, January, 1962, reprinted in Government of Communist China, Chandler, San Francisco, 1966. "Horizontal and Vertical Influences Upon the Substantive Criminal Law of Mainland Chinese, Some Preliminary Observations," Osteuropa Recht, No. 1, 1964
"Chinese Family Law in Common Law Setting: A Note on the Institutional Environment and the Substantive Family Law of the Chinese in Malaysia and Singapore," Journal of Asian Studies, August, 1966."Some Aspects of Civil Procedure and Practice at the Trial Level in Tanshui and Hsinchu..," XXX Journal of Asian Studies, 1971. Lawyer's Challenge in China Trade: New and Developing Legal System, New York Law Journal, International Law Finance and Trade, February, 1979. Commodities Trade with China, New York Law Journal, December, 1978.Regulation of Commodity Futures Exchanges in Japan, New York Law Journal, October, 1978. Commodities Transactions in China and Hong Kong, New York Law Journal, June, 1978. Jurisdiction Over Foreign Transactions and Foreign Nationals, New York Law Journal, April, 1978.Two Cases of Dispute Settlement, United States.-China Business Review, Volume 1, No. 2, March/April, 1974. Two Cases of Dispute Settlement, Arbitration and Dispute Settlement in Trade with China, Special Report No.4 for Members of the National Council for United States-China Trade, February, 1974. Negotiation with the Chinese, Trade with China, 1973: American Trade with the People's Republic of China: Some Preliminary Perspectives, Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, Volume 12, No. 1, 1973
Liability of Federal Officials in Damage for Acts Unconstitutional or in Excess of their Authority.Expanding the Concept of the Rule of Law, Capital University Law Review, Volume 8, Issue 4, 1979. Taking on the Government Alone. Sole Practitioner Battles Way to Supreme Court and Wins, Legal Times of Washington, December, 1978.Disclosure of Management Remuneration, Transaction, Litigation and Employment History, Los Angeles Daily Journal, March, 1979. Contracts in China. China Trade, Praeger, 1982. Monthly Columnist, New York Law Journal on Commodities Law, 1976-1982.Contract Law in China, The Dynamics of Statuatory Development and Practice, Doing Business in China, 1989, Streng et al, ed. Author: The Commercial Laws of China, and Patents Law and Practice, Trademark Law and Practice, The People’s Republic of China, Digest of the Commercial Laws of the World, 1983-1990. Master of Arts Dissertation: "Legal Institutions of Contemporary Mainland China," University of Washington, 1962.Ph.D. Dissertation: Some Aspects of Substantive Family Law and Social Change in Rural China, 1896-1967," University of Washington, 1968. Case Note: "Freedom of Marriage in a Pluralistic Society," Malaya Law Review, 1963.
The Association of the Bar of the City of New York. State Bar of California. New York County and American (Member, Committee on Far Eastern Law, Section of International and Comparative Law, 1965-1971) Bar Associations.
New York Trial Lawyers Association (Member, Liaison Committee with Judicial Conference, 1971-1978). American Society of International Law. Association of Immigration and Nationality Lawyers.
Baseball, writing, swimming.
Children: Beryl, Ben, Elisheva, Joe.