David Caron

David D. Caron is a professor of law, does public international law, environmental law, and international arbitration. He is the dean of the King's College, London School of Law, and an emeritus professor of UC Berkeley School of Law.

Caron attended the United States Coast Guard Academy, majoring in physics and political science and as Commander of the Corps of Cadets in 1974. He was an Arctic navigator and salvage-diving officer aboard the US Coast Guard cutter Polar Star. In San Francisco he was assistant chief of the Marine Environment Protection Service for California. Caron studied at the University of Wales in Cardiff in 1979 on a Fulbright Commission scholarship. He then studied law at the University of California, Berkeley. He subsequently joined the faculty in 1987. In 2013, Caron was appointed as Dean of the King's College London School of Law.