Institute of International Studies; UC Berkeley
David D. Caron is Professor of Law and Director of International Legal Studies at UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law. Professor Caron earned his B.S. at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy; his M.Sc. (Marine Law & Policy) at the University of Wales; his J.D., at Boalt Hall; a Diploma from the Hague Academy of International Law; and his Doctorandus, and Dr.Jur., from Leiden University.
Following graduation from Boalt, Professor Caron served as a legal assistant to Judges Richard Mosk and Charles Brower at the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal in the The Hague. He was a senior research fellow at the Max Planck for Comparative Public and International Law in 1985-86. He then practiced with the San Francisco firm of Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro before joining the Boalt faculty in the fall of 1987.
Professor Caron was a visiting professor of international law at Cornell Law School in 1990 and Hastings College of the Law in 1996 and also served as Director of Studies (1987) and Director of Research (1995) at The Hague Academy of International Law. He is a member of the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law, and received the 1992 Deak prize of the American Society of International Law for outstanding scholarship by a younger academic. He presently serves as a Commissioner with the United Nations Compensation Commission for claims arising out of the Gulf War, as a member of the Department of State Advisory Committee on Public Internationl Law and as counsel to the Marshall Islands Nuclear Claims Tribunal. His work on "The Legitimacy of the Collective Authority of the Security Council" recently appeared in the American Journal of International Law.
Professor Caron teaches the following courses: International Environmental Law; International Law; Resolution of Private International Disputes; International Organizations.