Associate Professor, Queen's University
B.A. (Yale), J.D. (Columbia), Ph.D. (Cambridge)

Tel: 3366-8900 #55248

Room: 2605

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Professor Karton has taught at Queen's since 2009. Throughout 2015, he is serving as a visiting professor at the National Taiwan University. He has visited at NTU in the past, as well as at Wuhan University in China. He holds a BA in International Relations and Humanities from Yale (2001), a JD from Columbia Law School (2005), and a PhD in International Law from Cambridge (2011). A member of the New York Bar, he practiced in litigation and arbitration in the New York office of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP before commencing his doctoral studies.
He has published widely in his fields of scholarly interest. His first book, The Culture of International Arbitration and the Evolution of Contract Law, was published in 2013 by Oxford University Press. He has received several prizes for his teaching and research, including the International and Comparative Law Quarterly Young Scholar Award, the James Crawford Prize of the Journal of International Dispute Settlement, and the Queen's Law Student Society Teaching Prize. He is currently engaged in a multi-year research project studying how international arbitrators apply law, which is supported by a major grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.