ALBERT KODZO FIADJOE
Professor of Public Law
Faculty of Law, University of the West Indies
Cave Hill Campus, P.O. Box 64
Bridgetown, BARBADOS BB11000
And
P. O. BOX 8789, ACCRA NORTH, GHANA
| Tel: Work |
246-417-4242 |
| Tel: Home |
246-424-6354 |
| Fax |
246-424-0109 |
| Cell |
246-260-3270 |
| Cell - Ghana |
233 246 507691 |
| Email |
albertfiadjoe@gmail.com |
CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATIONAL HISTORY
1956 - 1962 - Achimota
School, Accra, GHANA
1962 – 1966 - University
of Ghana (School of Law)
1966 – 1969 - University
of London, England
QUALIFICATIONS:
| 1965 |
- LL.B. (Hons.),
University of Ghana |
| 1966 |
- BL-Ghana School of Law, Barrister-at-Law |
| 1967 |
- LL.M., University of London, England |
| 1969 |
- Ph.D., University of London, England |
| 1989 |
Certificate in Law Reporting (C.F.T.C./UWI/USAID) |
| 1998 |
Certificate in Alternative Dispute
Resolution, University of Windsor,
Canada |
| 1999 |
Certificate in International Arbitration &
Alternative Dispute Resolution, International Law Institute
in association with Georgetown University, Washington D.C. |
| 2001 |
Certificate in Mediation, International Law Institute in
association with Georgetown University, Washington D.C.
Certificate in Rights and Obligations of the WTO, International
Law Institute in association with Georgetown University Washington
DC |
| 2004 |
Certificate in Teaching with Cases, UWI, Learning Resource
Center |
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
| 1968 |
Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Ghana and
Attorney - Civil Litigation |
| 1969 – 1975 |
Lecturer in Law, University of Ghana |
| 1976 – 1979 |
Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Ghana |
| 1984 |
Senior Lecturer, University of the West Indies, Barbados |
| 1986 – 1989 |
Head, Teaching Department, Faculty of Law, University of
the West Indies, Barbados |
| 1987 - 1988 |
Deputy Dean (Ag.), Faculty of Law, University of the West
Indies, Barbados |
| 1989 |
Spring Semester - Visiting International
Scholar and Associate Professor of Law, School of American & International
Studies, Ramapo College of New Jersey, U.S.A. |
| 1989 - 1991 |
Adjunct Professor of Law, Florida State |
| 1996 - 1997 |
University Summer School in Barbados |
| 1990 June |
Visiting Guest Scholar, Institute of Humanities and Law,
Ramapo College of New Jersey, USA |
| 1992 - 1995 |
Dean, Faculty of Law, University of the West Indies |
| 1994 |
Prime mover & Sole Negotiator
of the University of Toronto/University of the West Indies
Exchange Program in Law |
| 1995 |
Fall Semester -Visiting Professor of Law, College of Law,
Florida State University, Tallahassee |
| 1996 |
Spring Semester - Visiting Professor of Law, School of
Law, Howard University, Washington DC |
| 1997 |
Reader in Public Law |
| 1997-2003 |
Director/Liaison Officer, UWI/University of California
Education Abroad Program |
| 1999 |
Professor of Public Law, University of the West Indies |
| 1999 |
Executive Director, Caribbean Law |
| (Aug - Oct) |
Institute Center, UWI, Barbados (Ag.) |
| 2000 – 2003 |
Honorary Law Reform Commissioner for Belize |
REFERRED SCHOLARLY OUTPUT
Books And Book Chapters (Subject to Peer Review)
(1) Alternative Dispute
Resolution – A
Developing World Perspective. 2004, Cavendish Publishing
Co. Ltd. (UK) – Circa 200
pages
(2) Caribbean Public Law,
2nd Edition, 1999, Cavendish Publishing Co. Ltd. (UK) - 295
Pages
(3) Caribbean Public Law, 1st Edition,
1996, - Published by Cavendish Publishing Ltd. (UK) - 238
pages
(4) The Ghanaian Law of Torts (jointly
with Prof. Samuel K. Date-Bah) - published by
The University
of Ghana Press - 1978 - 200 pages
- Commonwealth Caribbean Legal Studies, Butterworths,
London, 1992, Chapter on Judicial Approaches to Constitutional
and Statutory Exclusion of Judicial Review in Commonwealth
Caribbean Public Law - 18 pages
- Essays in Ghanaian Law (Ghana Publishing Corporation,
1976), Eds: G. Woodman and W.C.E. Daniels - Chapter on "A
Century of Company Law in Ghana" - 12 pages
- Chief Justice Telford Georges- A Legal Odyssey (a
book on the life and times of His Lordship Telford Georges) with
Prof. Kodilinye. Completed January 2005. Awaiting
publication by Ian Randle Publishers, Jamaica
NON-REFERRED SCHOLARLY OUTPUT
Law Reports
(a) Editor, OECS Law Reports Vol. III - Grenada Law Reports (with
Dr. N.J.O. Liverpool) 1995 - Published by UWI/USAID Caribbean Justice
Improvement Project - 641 pages
(b) Editor, Cases on Commonwealth Caribbean Bills of Rights (with
Dr. N.J.O. Liverpool) 1991 - Published by UWI/USAID Caribbean Justice
Improvement Project - 655 pages
(c) Compiler, Commercial, Business and Trade Laws - Caribbean
Trade and Business Law 1990 (With Sir Fred Phillips) - Published
by Oceana Inc., New York, April 1991 - 600 pages.
Books Reviews
Book Review: The Constitution and You (Barbados) by Mr.
L. Inniss (1992) Sunday Sun, Barbados - 11 pages.
SAMPLE OF CITATIONS OF
PUBLICATIONS IN OTHER WORKS
1. Book
Caribbean Public Law, 1st edn.
(a) Cited in Re
Guyana Telephone & Telegraph Co. Ltd., Supreme Court of
Guyana, High Court, Suit 4491 of 1995 decided
13 January, 1997
(b) Cited in Re Aubrey Norton,
Supreme Court of Guyana, High Court Suit 5932 of 1997
(c) Cited in a Paper on
Dispute Settlement Practices in the Commonwealth Caribbean at the
XVIth Inter-American
Commercial
Arbitration Commission (IACAC) Conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
May 11-13, 1997
(d) No less than nine
citations made of Chapter on Locus Standi in a Law Commission
Working Paper on Public Interest
Litigation
issued by the Law Commission of Trinidad and Tobago, September
15, 1997
(e) Reviewed by
Prof. G. R. Woodman in (1997) Vol.1 1, Caribbean Law Review 414
(f) Reviewed by
G. Broadbent in (1998) Vol. 32, 1, The Law Teacher 111
(g) Cited in Re Hanoman, Supreme
Court of Guyana, Suit 23M of 1999
(h) Cited in arguments
in the High Court, Barbados in Sally Cools v. Medical Council, 1997
- Cited in Pearson Small v Belgrave in the High Court,
Barbados, 2000
(j) Numerous other
citations in the Supreme Court decisions across the Caribbean
2. Sample Of Articles Cited
In Other Works
(i) An Overview of the
Public Law Revolution in the Commonwealth Caribbean,
(1992) 21 Anglo- American Law Review 310 - Cited in the
Supreme Court of Belize in the case of John Rivas v. Belize
Advisory Council, Supreme Court Action No. 299 of 1991.
(ii) Is there a Right to Pre-trial
disclosure in West Indian Constitutional Law? (1996)
6 Caribbean Law Review 273 - Cited in arguments adopted
by the High Court in the Belizean case of Courtenay v. Attorney
of Belize.
(iii) The Clock Reversed(1990)
14 W.I.L.J 17 - Cited in a Law Commission Working Paper
on Public Interest Litigation issued by the Law Commission of Trinidad & Tobago,
September 15, 1997.
(iv) Citation by the Privy Council of
the Grenada Law Reports in Michael Yearwood v. R., Privy
Council Appeal #75 0f 2000 OECS Law Reports Vol.1
3. Articles/Case Notes
(1) Estimates Don’t
Hold Water - Case Comment on Knitwear Ltd v. The Barbados Water
Authority (1997)
7 Carib. L. R. 414 - 5 pages
(2) Is there a Right to Pre-Trial
Disclosure in West Indian Constitutional Law? (1996) 6
Carib. L R. 273 - 45
pages
(3) Oil Over Troubled Waters: The
Constitutional Implications of a Pre-Trial Pardon in Trinidad & Tobago
- Florida State University
Journal of Transnational Law & Policy,
Florida State University (1994) Vol. 3 No. 1, 41 - 11 pages
(4) Public Service Law - The Developing
Jurisprudence - A Case Note on Dyer v. Williams 1991. Vol.
1 No. 2 Caribbean Law
Review 88 - 11 pages
(5) Police Powers - With Reference to Search,
Arrest, Confessions and Admission (With Prof. C.E.K. Kumado) -
In a report to
the Ninth Commonwealth Magistrates and Judges Conference, Sydney,
New South Wales in September, 1991 - 10 pages
(6) An Overview of the Public Law Revolution
in the Commonwealth Caribbean - (1992) 21 Anglo-American Law Review
310- 31 pgs
(7) Damages for Administrative Errors:
The Developing Jurisprudence (1991) 16 West Indian Law Journal
59 - 8 pages
(8) The Clock Reversed: A Case Note on Richards
and James v. The Attorney General of St. Vincent and the Grenadines (1991)
14 West Indian Law Journal 16 - 15 pages
(9) Legal Factors Involved in the Provision
of Family Planning Services to Special Groups in Legal Aspects
of Nursing and Midwifery,
Patients' Rights and Protection, UWI - Johns Hopkins Publication
1990 - 26 pages
(10) Natural Justice versus National Security: A Sequel
to the Council of Civil Service Unions
Case, (1988) West
Indian Law Journal 60 - 4 pages
(11) Judicial Attitudes to Commonwealth Caribbean Constitutions
(1991) 20 Anglo-American Review 116 Vol. 20 - 14 pages
(12) Human Rights and Comparative Constitutions - A Non-Traditional
View - 1989 West Indian Law Journal 1 - 22 pages
(13) The Westminster Transplant in the Commonwealth Caribbean
- 1987 West Indian Law Journal 64 - 15 pages
(14) Book Review: West Indian Constitutions: Post
Independence Reform - [1986] Public Law 500 - 4 pages
(15) Natural Justice versus National Security - Case Comment
on R. v. Secretary of State for the
Foreign
and Commonwealth Office Ex Parte CCSU - 1984 October
West Indian Law Journal 220 -10 pages
(16) Fundamental Freedoms and Rights of Property
Judicial Activism Beyond Recall 1984
October West Indian Law Journal
212 - 8 pages
(17) The Position of the Non-Member Director and the Oppression
Remedy - (1976) 8 Review of Ghana Law 236
(18) Till Divorce Us Do Part - A Look at the Law and Practice
in Matrimonial Causes in Ghana - Silver Jubilee Anniversary Lecture
delivered at the
University of Ghana, Legon on 17th January 1974, and repeated at
the British Council Hall, Accra at the request of the Ghana Home Science Association. The Universitas (1974)
Vol. 4 No. 1, 151
(19) Easy Divorce - Right About Turn: A Note on Knudsen
v. Knudsen - (1974) Review of Ghana Law 18
(20) Shareholders and the Oppression Remedy - (1975) 7 Review
of Ghana Law 136
(21) Companies and Creditor Rights: Salomon v.
Salomon - The Ghanaian Experience - (1973) 5 Review of Ghana
Law 187
(22) The Standard of Proof of Adultery in Divorce Cases
- (1973) 5 Review of Ghana Law 63
(23) To Stop or Not to Stop - That is the Motorist's question
- The Dilemma at Traffic Lights - (1973) 10 University of
Ghana Law Journal
74
(24) Book Review: Tort by C.D. Baker - (1972) 4
Review of Ghana Law 258
(25) Fatal Accident Claims - Can one Claim for Mental Distress?
- (1972) 4 Review of Ghana Law 143
(26) Fatal Accidents: Capacity to Sue - (1972) Review of
Ghana Law 65
(27) The Discretion of a Prosecutor to call Witnesses -
(1972) 4 Review of Ghana Law 284
(28) Conversion: A new twist- Archibold v. C.F.A.O. Revisited
- (1972) 4 Rev. of Ghana Law 78
(29) The Police Service Act, 1970, Act 35 - (1972) 9 University
of Ghana Law Journal 81
(30) Registration of Prospective Members of a Company -
(1971) 3 Review of Ghana Law 39
(31) Seduction Actions: The Ghanaian Experience jointly
with Dr. S.K. Date-Bah - (1971) 3
Review of Ghana Law 39
(32) A Point of Jurisdiction - Steiner v. Steiner -
(1970) 2 Review of Ghana Law 73
(33) Failing to Plead Res Ipsa Loquitur - A note
on Nelson v. Klutse - (1970) 2 Review of Ghana Law 97
(34) Company Returns - Some Random Thoughts on the Annual
Return (1970) 2 Review of
Ghana Law 97
(35) Recent Judicial Pronouncements on Matrimonial Property: Clerk
v. Clerk (1969) 1
Review of Ghana
Law 66
(36) Recent Judicial Pronouncements on Matrimonial Property: Canfor
v. Kpodo (1969) 1 Review of Ghana Law 62
(37) The Pre-Incorporation Contract and section 13 of the
Companies Code - a Rejoinder (1969) 6 University of Ghana Journal
410
(38) Gall v. Gall (1967) 4 University of Ghana
Law Journal 75
(39) Juliana Ashong v. Daniel Cobblah Ashong- an
Exercise in Excessive Judicial Caution (1969) 6 University
of Ghana Law Journal
53
(40) Insane Delusion - a Critique of R. Seidman's Article
(1965) 2 Univ. of Ghana L. Journal 74
(41) Of Conflicts and Dispute Resolution Processes, The
Caribbean Law Review, vol 10 No 1, 2000, p 58 -16 pages
- Access to Justice –What Has the Ombudsman Got to do
with it? www.uwichill.edu.bb/bnccde/belize/conference/papers/fiadjoe.html
- Skating on Thin Ice – Cable & Wireless (Dominica)
Ltd. v. Marpins Ltd. [2001] Caribbean
Law Review, Vol 11, No 2, 178
(44) The Independence of the Judiciary, 2001 Caribbean
Law Bulletin, vol 6 No. 1, 8
(45) Droit Public – Caribbean Style: 3rd.
Distinguished J. O. F. Haynes Memorial Lecture November 15, 2002,
University of Guyana, in 2004 Guyana Law Review
(46) Alternative Dispute Resolution – An Overview:
Delivered to the Judicial Update Forum, Barbados, to be published
as part of the Jack Dear Memorial Lecture Series
(47) Natural Justice: An Extension to the Principle
in Bias, 2004 Vol. 13 No. 1Caribbean Law Review 86
- Disciplinary Proceedings against the Bar - What is the proper
role of the Court of Appeal? To be published in 2004 Caribbean Law
Review
- Amending to Hang: The Constitution, Privy Council and Human
Rights, 2003, 20 Student Law Review, 32
Non Referred Articles /Case Notes
(50) The Rise of Public Law in the Caribbean published
in the 1997 Vol. 13 Student Law
Review, Cave Hill - 163 - 9 pages
(51) Tidbits in the Law - 1985 Students Law Review
1 - 11 pages
HONORIFIC AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIP
Member:
Society of Public Teachers of Law (UK)
British Institute of Securities (UK)
Ghana Bar Association (Ghana)
Notary Public (Ghana)
West Indies Group of University Teachers (WIGUT)
Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR, USA), 2005
Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, July 2005
INVITATION TO PRESENT PAPERS AT DISTINGUISHED ACADEMIC
MEETINGS
- The US Constitutional System and the Rule of Law -
Paper presented to an International Group of 25 Lawyers, Meridian
International Center, Washington D.C. April 29, 1996
- The Rules of Natural Justice - UWI/USAID Guyana
Justice Improvement Project Workshop on Administrative Justice,
delivered to the Judges of the Guyana Supreme Court, Guyana December
14, 1995
- Whither Caribbean Public Law? - Academic
Enrichment Seminar, College of Law, Florida State University,
November 30, 1995
- Arbitration/Alternative Dispute Resolution and the
Law School Curriculum - Paper presented at the Dover
Convention Center, April 1995
e. The
Development of Public Law in the Caribbean -
Paper presented at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, Canada,
April 1995
f. Human
Rights and Comparative Constitutions - A Non-Traditional View -
delivered at the Institute of Humanities and
Law,
Mahwah, New Jersey, USA, 1990, to a Panel of Academic Lawyers,
Anthropologists and Legal Philosophers.
g. The
Westminster Transplant in the Commonwealth Caribbean -Some Pertinent
Issues - Paper presented at
the Washington
Center, USA in January 1989
h. The
Nurses and Midwives Acts -
Paper presented in Antigua in May 1988 at a Teleconference on the
Legal Aspects of Nursing sponsored
by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) in conjunction with
the Caribbean Justice Improvement Project (CJIP)
i. Paper
Presented at the Dover Convention Centre, Barbados in November
1987 at a conference to celebrate the Bi-Centennial of the U.S.
Constitution on the theme "Stability and Change
in Constitutions"
j. International
Human Rights Norms and the Judicial Function, Heywoods, Barbados
1993 (sponsored by the Inter-American Commission
on Human Rights)
k. Regional
Seminar on Training and Judicial Co- operation Against Drugs for
French-Speaking and English- Speaking Justice officials
of the Caribbean Region, Fort de France, Martinique, December 15
- 17, 1992
l. Workshop
on Environmental Law, UWI/Dalhousie University - November 20-22,
1992, Barbados
m. The
Public Law Revolution in the Commonwealth Caribbean -
Guest Speaker, Barbados Bar Association Annual Dinner, 1985
n. A
Lawyer for the Millenium? - Guest
Speaker, Barbados Bar Association Annual Dinner, 1999
o. The
Independence of the Judiciary - Guest
Speaker, Guyana Bar Association Annual Conference, 2000
p. Amending
to Hang: The Constitution, The Privy Council and Human Rights -
Faculty of Law Public Forum, Cave Hill, November
13, 2002
q. ADR and
Family Disputes - Bench/Bar Colloquium,
Belize, Nov. 22, 2002
r. Droit
Public Caribbean Style – Retrospects
and Prospects - The 3rd. J. O. F Haynes Memorial Lecture,
Turkeyen, Guyana, November
2002.
s. Overview
of ADR - Caribbean Law
Institute Workshop for the OECS Judges, St. Lucia, Dec. 5, 2002
t. PAHO\CARICOM
Workshop on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS Measures) under the WTO,
Barbados, April 7-8, 2003.
u. Managing
Our Constitutions - UWI School
of Continuing Studies, St. Kitts & Nevis, May, 2003
v. 2nd
Caribbean Conference on Dispute Resolution – Riding
the tides of Troubled Times,
Kingston,
Jamaica, May 2004 Feature
Address – The Changing Role of Mediation in CARICOM
INVITATIONS TO SERVE ON NATIONAL/REGIONAL/INTERNATIONAL
PUBLIC AND SCHOLARLY BODIES
1990 Invited to assist with a Project
organized by the IDRC (Canada) on Small Business Enterprise
Development in the Organization of Caribbean
States
1993 Appointed by the Government of the Gambia
to advise on the reform of the laws governing the Financial Sector
in the Gambia (with
Mr. Justice Austin N. E. Amissah)
1994 Appointed by the United Nations Development Project
(UNDP) to advise on the Regulatory Reform of the Public Service
of St. Kitts & Nevis
(with Dr. K. Anthony, now the Prime Minister of St. Lucia)
1996 Appointed by the Commonwealth Secretariat (UK)
to advise on the Regulatory Reform of the Public Service of Ghana
(with Nick Manning
(UK) and Patrick Fitzgerald (S. Africa) May/June, 1996
1997 Appointed by the Caribbean Examinations Council
to serve as Chairman of the Caribbean Proficiency Examinations
(CAPE) Subject Panel
for Law.
1997 Appointed by the Government of Barbados to advise
on the regulatory reform of the Public Service of Barbados
1997 Appointed by the Government of Barbados to advise
on Legislation to Convert Casual Employees in the Public Service
to Public Officers
1997 Appointed by the University of California as
the Liaison Officer of the California Education Abroad Programme
in Barbados
1997 Specially invited to participate in the
Workshop on Alternative Dispute Resolution Process organized by
the Inter-American Commercial
Arbitration Commission, Washington, USA
1998 Appointed by the Dean of Law to serve on the
Board of the Council of Legal Education
1998 Appointed by the Dean of Law to serve on the
Editorial Committee of the Caribbean Law Review
1998 Appointed by the Government of Barbados as a
member of the Commission for Africa and African Diaspora
1998 Invited by the Barbados Association of Certified
Accountants to serve as Consultant to their Certification Programme
1999 Appointed a member of the Committee on Alternative
Dispute Resolution Project organized by the Florida State University
and the
Caribbean
Law Institute Center, UWI
2000 Appointed to serve on a World Bank/Canadian (IDMAG)
team as consultant on the Regulatory Reform of the Public Services
of Ghana
2000 Appointed by the Food and Agriculture Organization
of the United Nations as consultant to update the Veterinary Laws
of Guyana. Two
pieces of legislation passed in 2003.
2001 Appointed by the Food and Agriculture Organization
of the United Nations as consultant to update the Veterinary Drug
Legislation of
Barbados
2001 Appointed by the UNDP as Constitutional Law Advisor:
Constitutional reform in Antigua and Barbuda
2001 Appointed by the UNDP as consultant to advise
on constitutional reform in St. Kitts and Nevis
2001 Appointed by the Government of the British
Virgin Islands as sole consultant to re-write a new Evidence Law
for the BVI
2001 World Bank/Continental Consultants Project
on a new Local Government Service Law for Ghana
2002 Appointed by the Government of Barbados as consultant
to advise on the structural reform of the Civil Registry
2002 Appointed by the UNDP as Constitutional Law Advisor: Constitutional
Reform in Grenada
2002 Member, Campus Council, Mona, University
of the West Indies
2002 Member, Board of Undergraduate Studies,
Cave Hill, UWI
2003 UNDP Constitutional Law and Systems Expert,
continuation of the Constitutional Reform Process in St. Kitts
and Nevis dealing with
the question of secession
2003 September 2003 – March 2004, Organization
Of American States (OAS), Project by the Unit for the Promotion
of Democracy (UPD). A
comprehensive study to reform the Civil Registries in Belize, Dominica,
Grenada, Jamaica, St. Lucia and St. Vincent. Also,
the Project is to formulate recommendations against identity fraud. (Project
ongoing).
2003 November – Organization of American States
(OAS) - Member - Electoral Observer Mission, Grenada
2003 December – UNDP - Sole Member to undertake
a Technical Mission on the constitutional reform process in St.
Kitts and Nevis.
2004 February -- UNDP (BELIZE), Sole Consultant: Access
to Justice in Belize
2004-2005 – UNICEF (BELIZE) – Establishment of a Primary
Dispute Resolution process in the Belize Family Court.
2005 January – Caribbean Regional Negotiating
Machinery (CRNM) – Advice & Opinion on the legal status
of the CRNM for the Heads of
Government of Caribbean Community (CARICOM)
2006 Lead Consultant, National Dialogue Process
for St. Kitts and Nevis
GRADUATE STUDENTS SUPERVISION
PhD Theses Supervised
(a) Sonia Richards - The Development of
the Judiciary in Barbados - Ph.D. degree awarded in 1990
(b) Valerie Sawyer - The Concept of Legitimate
Expectation: A Weapon for Administrative Justice in the 21stt Century?
- Ph.D.
degree awarded in 1998
(c) Hal Gollop – Judicial Review
of Administrative Action: A Critical Appraisal of Aspects
of Governmental Administrative Machinery
in Barbados (Currently ongoing)
LL.M. Theses and Research Papers SupervisedCirca
150
LL.M. Students supervised as at
December 2005 (List of students and Titles of Theses and Research
Papers available at the Graduate Section of the Registry, Cave
Hill)
(These Theses and Research Papers represent the works of students
drawn from the Caribbean, Africa, Asia and the Pacific, whose presence
at Cave Hill brings international respectability to the work of
the Faculty)
PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT
1998 - Designed new course on Alternative Dispute Resolution
1986 Responsible for developing and redesigning the LL.M.
Course in Public Law I
1990 Solely responsible for redesigning the LL.M.
Course in Public Law II
EVIDENCE OF QUALITY TEACHING
Student Evaluation for the past 15 Years (Available
on Request)
Teaching of Courses for the LL.B. & LL.M. degrees
in Administrative Law, Constitutional Law & Alternative
Dispute Resolution & Ph.D. degrees.
WORKS IN PROGRESS
Book
Companion Casebook on Commonwealth Caribbean
Public Law
WORKSHOPS (RECENTLY ATTENDED)
Jan 1999 ADR
Workshop organized by the Florida State University
May 1999 Inter-American
Institute of Human Rights Conference on international Human Rights
and the Caribbean,
Grand Barbados Hotel, Barbados
Oct 1999 Hemispheric
dialogue of Technical Specialists and Policy Experts on Environmentally
Sound Trade Expansion
in the Americas,
sponsored by the North-South Center, University of Miami, USA
Nov 1999 Judicial
and legal Summit - The Bench and Bar in the New Millennium,
Belize City, Belize
Dec 1999 Workshop
on Hemispheric Network of Officials and Experts in Environmental
Law, its Enforcement and Compliance,
organized by the Organization of American States, Miami, Florida,
USA
Mar 2000 Human
Rights in the Caribbean, Belize City, Belize
Sept 2000 Human
Rights Seminar for the Commonwealth Caribbean, Belize
City, Belize
Nov 2000 Fair
and Speedy Trials - Bench/Bar Colloquium:
Belize City, Belize
Feb 2001 Inter-American
Systems and Instruments for the Promotion and Protection of Human
Rights, St. Georges,
Grenada
May 2002 The Second
Annual Conference of the Association of Caribbean Ombudsman (CAROA),
the Hilton, Trinidad
April 2003 PAHO/CARICOM Workshop
on Sanitary & Phytosanitary Measures (SPS Measures) under the
WTO
February 2004 Teaching with Cases, UWI, Education Media Services,
Cave Hill Campus
April 2004 Establishment of
the /Caribbean Court of Justice: The Effect on Intellectual Property
and International Trade
May 5, 2004 2nd Conference of Caribbean Mediators,
Jamaica
Sept. 2005 Association for
Conflict Resolution, Minneapolis, USA
2005/2006 Conducted 3 Workshops
in Belize for the Belize Family Court and the UNICEF in Alternative
Dispute Resolution
Processes
TEACHING /EXAMINATIONS IN OTHER INSTITUTIONS
Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA
Howard School of Law, Washington DC
Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC)
University of Guyana
College of the Bahamas
EXPERT TESTIMONY
Expert evidence given in the United States District Court, Southern
District of Florida in the case of Belize Telecom Ltd et al
v. The Government of Belize.
Case No. 05-20470-CIV-Ungaro-Benages, decided on August 16, 2005
EXPERT RECOGNITION
Appointed member of a three-man panel of International Arbitrators
under the UNCITRAL RULES of the UN, NEWCO LTD & LUFTHANSA
v. GOVT. OF BELIZE (Ongoing)
PRINCIPAL'S AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE, UWI, CAVE HILL
December 2006 - Recognized for the Principal's Award for Excellence
in research accomplishments.
CARIBBEAN COURT OF JUSTICE - EVALUATION
December 14, 2006 - Appointed by the Commonwealth Secretariat,
UK to undertake an analysis of the CCJ's first 18 months at a Workshop
for Justices and Registrars of Final / Regional Appellate Courts.
Updated December 2006
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