David Caron [r]: C. William Maxeiner Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California at Berkley Law; From 1985 to 1986, he was a senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public and International Law; Former navigator and salvage diver in the United States Coast Guard; legal assistant at the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal in The Hague; chair of the Advisory Board for the Institute of Transnational Arbitration of the Center for American and International Law and a member of the U.S. Department of State Advisory Committee on Public International Law; executive council, American Society for International Law [e]