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date: 14 December 2019

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This chapter provides an introduction to international claims and compensation bodies. It discusses the motives and functions of claims commissions; how compensation commissions are distinct from national compensation commissions; and the structure of, and claims process utilized in modern compensation commissions. The chapter concludes with three trends in the use and structure of compensation commissions.

Keywords: claims commissions, compensation commissions, international adjudication, structure, process, trends

David D. Caron

David D. Caron is Dean of The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College, London. He served as a Commissioner with the United Nations Compensation Commission, and worked with or appeared before the Marshall Island Nuclear Claims Tribunal, the Eritrea–Ethiopia Claims Commission, and the Iran–United States Claims Tribunal. He also served as a member of the PCA Steering Committee on International Mass Claims.

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