David D. Caron, professor of international law

David Caron is a professor of international law in Berkeley’s law school. His areas of expertise include international courts and tribunals, investment, climate change, polar regions, international environmental law, use of force and ocean law. A graduate of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy (1974), University of Wales (1980), Leiden University (1990) and Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law (1983), Caron is co-director of the law school’s Law of the Sea Institute, an international consortium of scholars that has played a major part in studies of ocean law since the 1970s. He is also President elect of the American Society of International Law and a member of both the State Bar of California and the Bar of England and Wales.

Before joining Berkeley’s law faculty in 1987, he practiced with the San Francisco firm of Pillsbury Madison & Sutro and was a senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public and International Law. He served as a legal assistant to Judges Richard Mosk and Charles Brower at the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal in The Hague. Among his professional affiliations, Caron served as Chair of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration from 2005 to 2009 and is a member of the Global Agenda Council of the World Economic Forum. In 2000, he received the Stefan A. Riesenfeld Award of the University of California for outstanding achievement and contribution to the field of international law.