David Alexander Lawson III

Dr Lawson has over 40 years of experience in international legal matters, today focusing on acting as Arbitrator or Mediator in international commercial and financial disputes. From his firm’s office in Geneva, he advises both corporate and personal clients in all types of international transactions and cross-border disputes. He is also interested and has written on legal ethics and the rules of deontology as applied across jurisdictional borders. Dr Lawson obtained a Doctor in Philosophy in Law (D.Phil) from Oxford University, specializing in choice of law theories and practice, as well as the Hague Academy Certificate in Private International law. His initial professional work was in the field of high-energy physics, and taught reactor physics for six years at the U.S. Navy’s Nuclear Power School in California prior to switching to the law.

California

Since 1972

Geneva Foreign Lawyer

Since 2005

Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst

Undergraduate Degree

Golden Gate Univ School of Law

Law Degree

Oxford Univeristy

D,Phil (Law) (1974) | Private International Law

1971 - 1974

California State Bar  # 51935

Member

1972 - Current

Advance Waivers of Conflicts of Interest, SABE - Ordre des Avocats, Geneva, Switzerland

October 10, 2016

Ordre des Avocats de Geneve

Arbititrator Conflicts of Interest, Congress of International Legal Studies, Salzburg Austria

June 2, 2016

CILS

Arbitration - What suppliers offer, Geneva Global Pound Conference, Geneva, Switzerland

September 29, 2016

GPC