David Caron

Early life Caron was born in Connecticut. He was the youngest of three siblings. His parents were emigrants from Quebec, Canada. Education At the United States Coast Guard Academy, Caron took physics and political science as his major. He was Commander of the Corps of Cadets in 1974. While a legal assistant at the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal Caron undertook a PhD in law at Leiden University. He received the 1991 Deak Prize of the American Society of International Law for outstanding scholarship by a younger academic. In 2000, Caron received the first Stefan A. Riesenfeld Award. Between 2013 and 2016 he served as Dean of the law school at King's College London. Caron left this position to take up membership of the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal, while he kept his links to the law schools in Berkeley and London. Arbitrator & Judge Caron served as counsel, and at times as an expert, before international courts and tribunals. In the former role, he became a barrister, and member of 20 Essex Chambers in London. Caron then built up his extensive expertise as an international arbitrator, including as a Commissioner with the Precedent Panel of the U. N. Compensation Commission in Geneva that resolved claims from the 1990 Gulf War. Death Caron died at St. Thomas' Hospital, London, on 20 February 2018 after a short illness. Only three days before he had been sitting as a Judge at the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal. == Legacy ==

On 23 March 2018, a “packed service of celebration and thanksgiving for his life” was held at The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple in London. The Society later announced a fund in Caron's honour, the David D. Caron Fund, which would support the activities of young scholars and, in particular, the Society's Mid-Year Meeting. On 14–15 September 2018, UC Berkeley School of Law held a memorial and conference in Caron's honor. The conference was on the theme “The Elegance of International Law”. The proceedings of the conference were jointly published by the Berkeley Journal of International Law and the Ecology Law Quarterly, with both of which Caron had strong ties. In 2024 Oxford University Press published a collection of essays by judges, arbitrators, lawyers, and academics in Caron's honour. Entitled By Peaceful Means: International Adjudication and Arbitration - Essays in Honour of David D. Caron, the volume was edited by then ICJ President, Joan Donoghue, as well as Judge Charles N. Brower, Cian C. Murphy, Cymie R. Payne, and Esmé R. Shirlow. The book was launched at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law. ==Publications==

Books Caron's books include the following: • The International Law of Disaster Relief (editor with Michael J. Kelly, Anastasia Telesetsky), 2016, Cambridge University Press. • Practising Virtue: Inside International Arbitration (editor with Stephan W. Schill, Abby Cohen Smutny, and Epaminotas E. Triantafilou), 2015, Oxford University Press. • The Oceans on the Nuclear Age: Legacies and Risks, Second Expanded Edition (editor with Narry N. Scheiber), 2014, Brill Nijhoff. • The UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules: A Commentary (author with Lee M. Caplan), 2013, Oxford University Press. Articles Caron's articles include the following: • 'The Alien Tort Statute: An Overview of Current Issues' (2010) 28 Berkeley Journal of International Law (with Richard M. Buxbaum) • 'The ILC Articles on State Responsibility: The Paradoxical Relationship between Form and Authority' (2002) 96(4) The American Journal of International Law 857 • 'War and International Adjudication: Reflections on the 1899 Peace Conference' (2000) 94(1) American Journal of International Law 4 • 'The legitimacy of the collective authority of the Security Council' (1995) 87(4) American Journal of International Law 552 • 'The International Whaling Commission and the North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission: The Institutional Risks of Coercion in Consensual Structures' (1995) 89(1) The American Journal of International Law 154 • 'The Legitimacy of the Collective Authority of the Security Council' (1993) 87(4) American Journal of International Law 552 • 'Iraq and the Force of Law: Why Give a Shield of Immunity?' (1991) 85(1) The American Journal of International Law 89 Lectures • Fifth Annual Charles N. Brower Lecture on International Dispute Resolution: The Multiple Functions of International Courts and the Singular Task of the Adjudicator, American Society of International Law, 2017. • Understanding Why International Courts and Tribunals Look and Act as They Do, for the UN Audio Visual Library. ==References==