Sir David Arthur Rhodes Williams (born 17 April 1941) is a New Zealand lawyer, jurist, and international arbitrator. From 2005 to 2010 he served as

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. Williams was born in 1941 in

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. In the

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, he was appointed a

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, for services to international law and international arbitration.

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