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L. Dolliver M. Nelson (27 June 1932 – 18 July 2016) was a Grenadian jurist. He was born in
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,
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. He received his BA from the
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and further education at the
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. He served as the Vice President of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea from 1999 to 2002 and later its President from 2002 to 2005. He had also been a national justice in his native
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and served as a presiding arbiter for the
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1932 births 2016 deaths Grenadian judges International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea judges Alumni of the London School of Economics University of the West Indies alumni People from Saint Patrick Parish, Grenada Grenadian judges of United Nations courts and tribunals {{Grenada-bio-stub