The Faculty of Law of the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus is pleased to announce the return of the Caribbean Commercial Law Workshop, hosted at the Loews Miami Beach Hotel from August 18-20, 2013. For further information click
here.
The UWI Cave Hill Law Society will be hosting its 5th annual Clarke Gittens Farmer Mooting Competition 2013 with the kind sponsorship of the firm Clarke Gittens Farmer.
This semester the Faculty of Law has been pleased to facilitate guest lectures from a number of visiting academics during the Faculty’s one-hour timetabled lunch break. It is envisaged that the Guest Lecture Series will include lectures by members of the Bar in the near future. Such lectures expose our students to expertise from around the world, including in topic areas we do not presently teach. They also facilitate international connections between the Faculty of Law and other Faculties around the world.
Final year students wishing to take an out of Faculty course are asked to submit a completed Out of Faculty Course Request Form. Please click
here for the form.
Dr David S Berry
Dean of Law
During the Caribbean Court of Justice’s recent CALCA Conference the Dean of Law had the opportunity to visit the Court and to present a special award to the Hon. Justice Mr Winston Anderson for his longstanding and exceptional service to the Faculty of Law, in a small ceremony with his peers at the Court. Justice Anderson expressed his deep and sincere appreciation for the award and his resolve to maintain strong ties with the Law Faculty.
Please click
here for the Dean's response to the JCC Meeting held on January 24, 2013.
A team from the Faculty of Law,UWI Cave Hill Campus cupped the fourth Annual Caribbean Court of Justice International Moot Court Competition Challenge Trophy held on March 23, 2012 a the Caribbean Court of Justice,Trinidad.
Teaching timetables for both the Full and Part Time LL.B. programmes, as well as the Draft Full Time LL.B. Handbook for 2012-13 and materials related to the Part Time LL.B. have been added to the website.
Two senior academics in the Faculty of Law at The University of the West Indies (UWI) have been elected as Commissioners on the Inter American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) which sits in Washington and serves the United States, Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean.
The Washburn Summer Law Programme was again successfully hosted by the Faculty of Law over the months of May to July 2012. This programme is taught in conformity with American Bar Association criteria for summer programmes and offers two courses of approximately two weeks duration each, generally focusing on, or drawing from, the Washburn first year curriculum (Contracts, Torts, Property, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law and Procedure, Civil Procedure). Last summer the programme offered courses in the areas of Global Intellectual Property Treaty Enforcement Law and Comparative and International Taxation Law, with the co-course directors from the UWI side being Professor Eddy Ventose and Dr Trevor Carmichael. In addition to the cohort from Washburn, the programme was attended by four UWI students – Rashad Brathwaite, Alexandria Thomas, Odwin Trenton and Dario Welch. All four students performed admirably in their courses and the Director of International Legal Programs, Professor Nancy Maxwell, commented on their participation: “I am pleased to report that the UWI students performed quite well and the Washburn professors were extremely pleased with their input in the class discussions.”
Next summer’s programme will run from May to July and the two UWI co-course directors will be Westmin James (Comparative Constitutional Law) and Tom Durbin (Comparative Criminal Law and Procedure). I am pleased to inform you that the Agreement of Cooperation between our two institutions has been renewed until August 2015. For more information about the programme please see the Washburn University School of Law website at:
http://washburnlaw.edu/studyabroad/barbados/