Marcel Berlins

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Marcel Berlins is a legal commentator who is best known for his weekly column in The Guardian newspaper. He is also a lecturer in media law at City University, London.[1] He was the presenter of BBC Radio 4's legal programme Law in Action and retired after 15 years in 2004.

He was born in Marseille, [2]France, but moved with his parents to South Africa as a teenager and stayed there till early adulthood [3].

In his Guardian column on February 15th 2006 Marcel said of Wikipedia that it had, "an open door policy, heart-warmingly inclusive of the whole world. That, regrettably, does not ensure intellectual validity."

In the same article he said, "If I wish to find out about pigeon racing, I want to be sure that the person writing about it has bred, raised, trained and raced pigeons, and has intensively studied the history of the sport."

A French citizen by birth, Berlins voted in the 2007 French presidential election[4].

[edit] Bibliography

  • 1979 - Ramesh Maharaj, barrister behind bars
  • 1982 - Living Together - with Clare Dyer
  • 1986 - The Law Machine - The last edition was published in 2004- with Clare Dyer

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  1. ^ Marcel Berlins City University London official website
  2. ^ Marcel Berlins (2006-08-30). "Ségolène Royal is the left's best bet to be the next leader of France. But the socialist elephants are out to stop her". The Guardian. Retrieved on 2008-04-25.
  3. ^ Marcel Berlins (2005-12-14). "I lived in a South Africa ruled by apartheid. Now I return to find that freedom has plunged the country into the real, hard world". The Guardian. Retrieved on 2008-04-25.
  4. ^ Marcel Berlins (2007-04-25). "Yes, I backed the wrong horse in the French election, but at least I had some fun voting". The Guardian. Retrieved on 2008-04-25.

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