By Peaceful Means: International Adjudication & Arbitration - Essays in Honour of David D. Caron was published on 18 January 2024. Edited by a team of David's friends and colleagues, with authors from legal practice and academia, from Berkeley, Washington DC, London, The Hague, and beyond, the book celebrates David's immense contribution to international dispute settlement.
The book's cover features an image of the Peace Palace Doves, an invocation of a building that is at the heart of the peaceful settlement of disputes and which was central to David's life and work. The book also features a frontispiece artwork, "David", by his brother Ray Caron.
Essays cover topics including jurisdiction, procedure, and substantive international law and theory, as well as procedures and rules relevant to investor-State arbitration and mediation, bilateral disputes, UNCLOS Annex VII arbitration, the International Tribunal for Law of the Sea, the United Nations Compensation Commission, the International Court of Justice, and the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal.
Launch at ASIL AM 2024
The book was launched on Thursday 4 April 2024 at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law. The book's five editors were present at the launch: Charles N. Brower, Joan E. Donoghue, Cian C. Murphy, Cymie R. Payne, and Esmé R. Shirlow; gathering together in the same place for the first time since David's memorial at The Hague in 2018.
In additional, many authors, and David's wife, Susan L. Spencer, gathered with friends, colleagues, and the wider legal community to celebrate the book and its dialogue with David's work. The session is available to view via the video opposite.
London Celebration
The book had its London Launch on 21 November 2024 at King's College London.
Speakers including Professor Federico Ortino, Ucheora Onwuamaegbu, Professor Yuval Shany, Penelope Nevill, and Professor Andrea K. Bjorklund, discussed the book's essays and David's contributions to international law and dispute settlement.
