Constitutional Controversies and Judge-made Constitutional Law | Caribbean Public Law Dialogues

The Faculty of Law, The UWI Mona presents an online discussion 'Constitutional Controversies and Judge-made Constitutional Law: A Roundtable on Proportionality, Implied Principles and Direct Horizontality'.
The roundtable discussants include the Jamaican comparative constitutional law scholar at Durham Law School, Professor Se-shauna Wheatle '06. She is a leading scholar on common law constitutionalism, unwritten constitutional principles and Caribbean constitutionalism. She is the author of the 2017 book, Principled Reasoning in Human Rights Adjudication, which studies implied constitutional principles in Australia, Canada, the Caribbean and the UK, and she is a co-editor of the 2020 Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Constitutions.
Dr. Gautam Bhatia is a comparative constitutional law scholar and a constitutional lawyer who works in India. His public law focused blog in India is described as the 'go-to place for incisive, yet timely, analyses of court judgments'. A prolific author, his books include include Offend, Shock or Disturb: Free Speech under the Indian Constitution (OUP India 2016), The Transformative Constitution (2019), Horizontal Rights: An Institutional Approach (Bloomsbury 2023) and Unsealed Covers: A Decade of the Constitution, the Courts and the State (Harper Collins 2023).
Rico Yearwood '18, '21 teaches Commonwealth Caribbean Human Rights Law at the Faculty of Law, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill. He is the author of several articles on Caribbean constitutional law, including the recently co-authored article with Professor Cynthia Barrow-Giles, 'Monarchism to Republicanism in the Commonwealth Caribbean: Pathways, Progress and Pitfalls' recently published in Social and Economic Studies.
The MonaLaw team of public law teachers leading the discussion are Professor Tracy Robinson '91, Gabrielle Elliott-Williams '10 and Jeffrey Foreman '09, '13.
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