About Marcel Berlins
Marcel Berlins (30 October 1941 – 31 July 2019) was a French lawyer, writer and broadcaster. He was best known for his work in the United Kingdom, writing for British national newspapers The Times and The Guardian, presenting BBC Radio 4's legal programme Law in Action for 16 years, and teaching Media Law at City, University of London. == Biography == Berlins was born in Marseille, France, on 30 October 1941, the only child of Jacques Berlins and his wife, Pearl. Of Latvian-Jewish heritage, they had moved to France to open a hotel. When the country was occupied by the Nazis in 1940, Jacques became active in the Resistance; the family moved to a village near Luberon. In 1951, the family moved to South Africa. There Berlins learnt English, reputedly in part through reading the works of Agatha Christie. He remained a French citizen, however, and voted in the 2007 French presidential election. Berlins studied law at the University of the Witwatersrand and spent his early career in the courts in Johannesburg. The worsening political situation in South Africa saw Berlins move firstly to Paris, and then to London to avoid French military service.
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