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A Caribbean common law

Faculty of Law, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus

The recent establishment of a Caribbean Court of Justice prompts reflection on the nature of legal regionalism in the Caribbean. This commentary explores the development of a regional identity around a shared legal system and the concept of `West Indian law', describing the forces underlying these processes and their contradictions.

Key Words: Caribbean area • Caribbean Court of Justice • law and development • Privy Council

References

• Hugh Wooding, `Foreword' in Keith Patchett (ed.), The Law in the West Indies: some recent trends ( London, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, Commonwealth Series, no. 6, 1966), p. vii.
• Dorcas White, `Patterns of law-making in the West Indies' (on file with the faculty of law library, UWI, Cave Hill campus, undated), pp. 1—2 (emphasis added).
• William Conklin, Images of a Constitution (Toronto, Buffalo and London, University of Toronto Press, 1989).
• Belinda Edmondson, Making Men: gender, literary authority, and women's writing in Caribbean narrative (Durham and London, Duke University Press, 1999), p. 23.
• Tracy Robinson, `The gender of the common law constitution' (unpublished manuscript, 2006).
• 6 Edmondson, op. cit.
• Hugh Wooding, A Collection of Addresses (Trinidad and Tobago, Government Printing Office 1968), p. 122 (emphasis added).
• Ibid.
• Ibid.
• Tracy Robinson, `Taxonomies of conjugality' (unpublished manuscript, 2006).
• Conklin, op. cit., p. 4.
• David Simmons, `Judicial legislation for the Commonwealth Caribbean: the death penalty, delay and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council', Caribbean Law Bulletin (Vol. 3, nos. 1—2, 1998 ), pp. 1—10.

Race & Class, Vol. 49, No. 2, 118-124 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/03063968070490020608


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