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Remarks on the Change of Chair in the ITA: Introduction of Lucy F. Reed, the New Chair of ITA - WAMR 2009 Vol. 3, No. 3

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David D. Caron
Page Count: 
10 pages
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PDF from "World Arbitration and Mediation Review (WAMR)"
Published: 
December, 2011
Jurisdictions: 
International
Practice Areas: 
Sources of Arbitration Law,
Powers of Arbitrators,
UNCITRAL
Author Detail: 

David D. Caron is the C. William Maxiener Distinguished
Professor of Law at the Boalt Hall School of Law of the
University of California at Berkeley. Following his own
graduation from Boalt, he served as legal assistant
successively to Judges Richard M. Mosk and Charles N.
Brower at the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal in The
Hague. Professor Caron writes and teaches in the area of
international dispute resolution. From 1996 to 2003, he
also served as a member of the Precedent (E2) Panel of the United Nations
Compensation Commission resolving claims arising out of the Gulf War.
Professor Caron currently serves as an arbitrator in several ICSID and NAFTA
arbitrations, and is a member of the U.S. Department of State Advisory
Committee on Public International Law. In 2006, Oxford University Press
published a Commentary on the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules authored by
Professor Caron, Judge Matti Pellonpaa of the European Court of Human Rights
and Lee Caplan of the U.S. Department of State. Professor Caron is Chair of the
Advisory Board of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration, and President-
Elect of the American Society of International Law.

 

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REMARKS ON THE CHANGE OF

CHAIR IN THE ITA
Introduction of Lucy F. Reed, the New Chair of ITA,
by David D. Caron

It is my pleasure to introduce the next chair of ITA. A year
ago, a committee was formed of myself and the two previous
chairs of ITA: Donald Donovan and Charles Brower. ITA is
fortunate to have leading figures in its membership. In looking
for the best candidate among us we felt we could also look for the
best. We were unanimous in our recommendation to Mike
Marchand, President of the Center, who appoints the chair, and
who, in his wisdom, agreed with us. Tonight I am delighted to
have the opportunity to introduce our new chair of the ITA, Ms.
Lucy Reed. (Applause). Lucy is someone who has given much to
international law, to our ITA community, and to her country, the
United States. She is a friend and I would stress that I use that
word, as many would use that word, to the fullest. She is a friend
to many of us and a mentor sought out and appreciated by many
others as well. And now she has agreed to step forward and lead
ITA in its efforts to promote international arbitration.
I have had the privilege of knowing Lucy for over 25 years.
Over those years there are several qualities that I have seen
consistently exhibited by Lucy: an astounding ability to focus on
the effort at hand, a clarity and maturity of insight that can
redefine the entire effort at hand, a simply wonderful playful
sense of humor that makes the joint effort not only fun, but
memorable, and the capacity to ask the right questions to inspire
us to right action.
Our new chair is a law graduate of the University of Chicago,
formerly the U.S. Agent to the US-Iran Claims Tribunal, the first
General Counsel of the Korean Peninsula Energy Development
Organization, a member of the Ethiopia-Eritrea Claims
Commission, the co-head of the international arbitration group at
Freshfields, a member of the ITA’s Executive Committee since
1995, the President of the American Society of International Law
(for another nine months), and a very good friend to ITA. Please
join me in calling Lucy Reed to the podium. (Applause).