Daimeon Shanks-Dumont

Daimeon Shanks is a doctoral candidate in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy program at Berkeley Law, studying legal history, jurisprudence, and political philosophy. Daimeon's dissertation research project concerns the history of international legal norms and international community as articulated around energy extraction, in particular the nexus of sovereignty as it developed in relation to whaling on the high seas, and the global transition from coal to petroleum in the long nineteenth-century and after the First World War.

He graduated from the University of Colorado Law School in 2019, where he studied international law, international human rights, American Indian law, and administrative law. At Colorado, Daimeon was an assistant editor on the University of Colorado Law Review, a Student Attorney for the Maya Leaders Association of Belize in the American Indian Law clinic, and twice a member of Colorado's Jessup International Moot Court Competition team. He worked as a legal assistant to the Chair of the 70th session of the International Law Commission, a sub-organ of the United Nations General Assembly that is mandated with the progressive development and codification of international law.