The Arctic is changing, and peoples and nations are approaching that change holding quite different images of the Arctic. In this wide-ranging lecture and visual tour, David Caron identifies the images involved, the politics and law implicit in each, and the futures for the Arctic that are both possible and likely.

CGLP Special Speaker: Professor David Caron

Thursday, February 9
Bannan Hall 142
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.

Snacks provided!
 

David Caron is President of the American Society of International Law and the C. William Maxeiner Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. He currently teaches public international law, resolution of private international disputes, ocean law and policy, and an advanced international law writing workshop.

Professor Caron is the co-director of the Miller Institute on Global Challenges and the Law and the co-director of the 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 a member of the board of editors of the American Journal of International Law, a co-editor in chief of the World Arbitration and Mediation Review and co-editor in chief of the SSRN International Environmental Law Ejournal.

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.