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Carson is an associate in King & Spalding's International Arbitration practice. He represents clients in international commercial disputes and investment treaty arbitrations.
Carson has experience in arbitrations before the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), the American Arbitration Association and its International Centre for Dispute Resolution (AAA/ICDR), and the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). Committed to the latest developments in the field, Carson has served as a delegate to the U.N. Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) during its discussion on reforms to Investor-State Dispute Settlement. Although Carson's practice focuses primarily on international arbitration, Carson is also a registered mediator and devotes his pro bono efforts to mediating local civil disputes.
Carson received his J.D. from Pepperdine University School of Law where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Dispute Resolution Law Journal. Carson earned his B.A. from Brigham Young University and graduated with University Honors.
During law school, Carson served as a judicial extern to the Honorable Dolly M. Gee of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California in Los Angeles. He also interned in the chambers of Presiding Justice Tricia A. Bigelow of the California Court of Appeal.
Carson is fluent in Portuguese.
J.D., Pepperdine University School of Law
B.A., Brigham Young University, University Honors
District of Columbia
Georgia
American Society of International Law
J. Reuben Clark Law Society
Young ICCA
Portuguese
Representing Chevron Thailand Exploration & Production Co. in a Zurich-seated ad hoc arbitration against the Government of Thailand concerning the decommissioning of offshore oil platforms in the Gulf of Thailand.
Part of the commercial arbitration team that won declaratory relief worth over US$ 600 million for a U.S.-based natural gas liquefaction company in a AAA arbitration involving a disputed payment calculation.
Representing a major Spanish energy company in an UNCITRAL arbitration involving a force majeure declaration resulting from an earthquake in the Caribbean and a utility's inability to take regasified LNG.
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June 13, 2023
Quantum Quarterly – Issue 14 – 4 Quarter 2022
February 1, 2023
Protections for Hydrogen Projects Under the Modernized Energy Charter Treaty
November 21, 2022
Protections for Hydrogen Projects Under the Modernized Energy Charter Treaty
Representing Chevron Thailand Exploration & Production Co. in a Zurich-seated ad hoc arbitration against the Government of Thailand concerning the decommissioning of offshore oil platforms in the Gulf of Thailand.
Part of the commercial arbitration team that won declaratory relief worth over US$ 600 million for a U.S.-based natural gas liquefaction company in a AAA arbitration involving a disputed payment calculation.
Representing a major Spanish energy company in an UNCITRAL arbitration involving a force majeure declaration resulting from an earthquake in the Caribbean and a utility's inability to take regasified LNG.
See more
June 13, 2023
Quantum Quarterly – Issue 14 – 4 Quarter 2022
February 1, 2023
Protections for Hydrogen Projects Under the Modernized Energy Charter Treaty
November 21, 2022
Protections for Hydrogen Projects Under the Modernized Energy Charter Treaty
J.D., Pepperdine University School of Law
B.A., Brigham Young University, University Honors
District of Columbia
Georgia
American Society of International Law
J. Reuben Clark Law Society
Young ICCA
Portuguese