Congratulations to Justice Anthony Gafoor and Dr. Indira Rampersad on their publication
This publication, jointly authored with Dr. Indira Rampersad, an international relations specialist and Head of the Department of Political Science, UWI, St. Augustine, emanates from my PhD thesis supervised by Professor Rose Marie Belle Antoine, Principal of the UWI St. Augustine Campus. It explores the propensity of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) to promote regional integration as one of the main objectives of the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas (RTC). It seeks to so do by analysing some of the key decisions of the Court in both its original and appellate jurisdictions as well as having a strong theoretical focus on the impact of globalisation and movements towards regional integration. Previous studies have focused primarily on the Court's original jurisdiction in which it draws on international jurisprudence to interpret the RTC and its mandate to promote regional integration and the objectives of the Single Market and Economy in similar ways to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU). However, the Court also exercises an appellate jurisdiction in which it acts as the final Court of Appeal for five jurisdictions within the Caribbean region, Barbados, Guyana, Belize, Dominica and more recently St. Lucia. Such appellate decisions in such fundamental areas as Constitutional Law, Land Law and Criminal Law among others have heavily influenced the domestic jurisprudence of Member States of the Caribbean Community and the CCJ's decisions are widely cited by the State Courts of the region. This publication thus seeks to make a unique contribution to the spheres of international and regional jurisprudence and international relations and argues that both the original and appellate jurisdictions of the CCJ are critical for promoting regional integration within the Caribbean region.
Link to book: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-72870-9
