David Caron

David Caron (2011)

David D. Caron (born June 28, 1952 in Hartford , Connecticut , † February 20, 2018 in London ) was an American lawyer and professor at King's College London .

Education and professional career

Caron attended the United States Coast Guard Academy and graduated in 1974 with a major in physics and political science . This is followed by a lasting until 1980 and from the closed Fulbright Program funded Master's degree at the University of Wales at. He then returned to his home country and worked as a research assistant for Stefan Riesenfeld . 1983 he was awarded the title of Juris Doctor at the University of California, Berkeley. Between 1983 and 1986 Caron worked at the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal , initially withCharles N. Brower , then with Richard N. Mosk . He also did a dissertation at the University of Leiden , where he received his doctorate in law in 1985. Caron then spent a year researching at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law .

After returning to the United States, Caron worked as an attorney at Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro in San Francisco . There he was involved in international court proceedings. In 1987 he received a call from the University of California, Berkeley. There he held the C. William Maxeiner Professorship in Law and was Vice Director of the Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law . He also held visiting professorships at Cornell (1990), San Francisco (1997) and Hawaii (2009) universities , and taught several times at the Hague Academy of International Law . Between 1994 and 1996 he appeared before the Marshall Islands Nuclear Claims Tribunal and was a member of the United Nations Compensation Commission from 1996 to 2003 to clarify claims from the Second Gulf War . Between 2004 and 2005 Caron represented Ethiopia in proceedings before the Permanent Court of Arbitration regarding claims arising from the Eritrea-Ethiopia war . He was selected as an ad hoc judge on two occasions at the International Court of Justice .

David Caron died in February 2018 after a short illness at the age of 65 in London.

Memberships and honors

Caron had been a member of the American Arbitration Association since 1988 . As a member of the International Law Association , he worked on the further development of the law of state responsibility . In 2010 he succeeded Lucy Reed as President of the American Society for International Law and was Associate Editor of the American Journal of International Law . In 1979 Caron received the Coast Guard Achievement Medal , was awarded the Ferenc Deák Prize in 1991 and received the Stefan A. Riesenfeld Memorial Award in 2000 for his research in the field of international law .

Others

Caron was a third mate in the US Merchant Navy and was a rescue diver with the US Coast Guard. From 1974 to 1979 he was a member of the crew of the research vessel Polarstern . In addition to his admission to the bar in the United States, Caron was also a member of the bar in England and Wales.

Publications (selection)

• The UNCITRAL arbitration rules: a commentary (with an integrated and comparative discussion of the 2010 and 1976 UNCITRAL arbitration rules) . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2nd edition 2013, ISBN 978-0-19-969630-7 (with Lee M. Caplan).
• Climate change and Arctic governance: three images of a changing Arctic . In: Davor Vidas , Peter Johan Schei (eds.): The world ocean in globalization: climate change, sustainable fisheries, biodiversity, shipping, regional issues . Martinus Nijhoff, Leiden 2011, ISBN 978-90-04-19175-4 , pp. 155-163.
• International courts and tribunals: their roles amidst a world of courts . In: International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes Review . 26 (2011), No. 2, ISSN  0258-3690 , pp. 1-13.

Web links

• Biography on the homepage of the University of California, Berkeley in English, with picture
• Literature by and about David Caron in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Andrew Cohen: Berkeley Law Professor Emeritus David Caron '83 Passes Away at 65th UC Berkeley School of Law, February 23, 2018, accessed February 26, 2018 .