David Farquhar Cavers (1902-1988) served on the Harvard Law School faculty from 1929 to 1988. He was an Instructor in Law 1929-1930; Ezra Ripley Thayer Teaching Fellow 1930; Professor of Law 1945-1952; Associate Dean of the Faculty of Law 1951-1959; Fessenden Professor of Law 1952-1969; and an Emeritus professor 1969-1988.
Research: Conflict of laws, dispute resolution, atomic energy.
Education: Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania B.S. 1923; Harvard Law School LL.B. 1926.
Selected Scholarship / Representative Publications: “International Cooperation in the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy” (1958); “The Choice-of-Law Process” (1965); “Choice of Law: Selected Essays” (1985).
Noteworthy Appointments: Associate General Counsel, Office of Price Administration during World War II.