Resume of Stephen Vasciannie

Resume of Stephen Vasciannie




STEPHEN C. VASCIANNIE
c/o The Department of Government
University of the West Indies, Mona
Kingston 7
Jamaica, West Indies

Tel: (876) 946-2982 (Home)
(876) 512-7602 or 702-4167 (Work)
(876) 977-1809 (Fax)
E-mail: svasciannie@kasnet.com

DATE OF BIRTH: January 17, 1960

MARITAL STATUS: Married, 2 sons

NATIONALITY: Jamaican


PRESENT EMPLOYMENT:

Professor of International Law, University of the West Indies (since April 2002)

Deputy Solicitor General, Attorney General's Chambers, Jamaica (20 hours per week) (since April 2005), and Director of International Division at the level of Deputy Solicitor General (since April 2003)

Associate Tutor (Lecturer in Constitutional Law and Law and Legal Systems), Norman
Manley Law School, Jamaica, since September 2001

Chairman, Air Policy Committee, Government of Jamaica, since February 2005

Member of the United Nations International Law Commission (since January 2007)


PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

1990 Attorney-at-Law, New York (Called to the Bar, the Appellate Division of the Supreme
Court of the State of New York (Second Judicial Department), January 1990)

1996 Attorney-at-Law, Jamaica (Called to the Bar, High Court of Jamaica), February 1996



ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS AT THE TERTIARY LEVEL:


1989 D.Phil. International Law - University of Oxford


1984 LL.M. International Law - University of Cambridge
(First Class Honours with
a Mark of Distinction for work
of special merit)

1983 B.A. Jurisprudence - University of Oxford (First Class Honours)

1981 B.Sc. Economics - University of the West Indies
(First Class Honours)


SCHOLARSHIPS AT THE TERTIARY LEVEL:

1984 The Commonwealth Scholarship (Jamaica)
1981 The Jamaica Rhodes Scholarship
1978 The University of the West Indies Open Scholarship



ACADEMIC AWARDS:

2006 The Principal’s Award for Best Research Project, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of the West Indies, Mona (Research Day, January 2007)

2004 The Principal's Award for Best Researcher, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of the West Indies, Mona (Research Day, January 2004)

2003 The Vice Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of the West Indies (October 2003)

2001 Smuts Visiting Fellowship in Commonwealth Studies, University of Cambridge, England

2001 The Principal's Award for Best Publication, in Recognition of Outstanding Research in the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of the West Indies (Research Day, October 18, 2001)

1984 The Clive Parry Prize for overall first place in the LL.M Examinations (International Law) at the University of Cambridge

1984 The Sir William McNair Award for coming Top of Class at Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge in the LL.M Examinations

1984 The Gonville & Caius Honorary Scholarship for Academic Excellence

1983 The Paton Studentship for coming Top of Class in the Final Honour School of Jurisprudence at Balliol College, Oxford University

1981 The Charles T. Kennedy Award for Excellence in Economics at the University of the West Indies. (Best results ever in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University). Various awards for outstanding academic achievement throughout the Economics degree programme


WORK EXPERIENCE:

2007 Chairman of the Board of Dehring, Bunting and Golding, Investment Bank

2005 Member of the Board of the Bank of Nova Scotia Jamaica Limited; member of various Subsidiary Boards and Committees of the Bank of Nova Scotia Jamaica Limited, including Scotia Jamaica Life Insurance Company and Scotia Jamaica Investments Limited (to the present).

2004 Member of the Inter-American Juridical Committee of the Organization of 2005 American States (elected for period from October 2004 to December 2005, participated in meetings of the Committee held in Managua, Nicaragua and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Sept. 2003- Head, Department of Government, University of the West Indies, Mona
July 2006 (Acting Head, August 2002 to August 2003)

Sept. 2001- Smuts Visiting Fellow in Commonwealth Studies, University of Cambridge, and
June 2002 Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College, Cambridge (Member of the Council of Wolfson
College for that Academic Year)

May 1994 - Senior Lecturer in International Law in the Department of Government, University
May 2002 of the West Indies (Introduced M.Sc courses in (a) The Law and Politics of theSea, and (b) Selected Issues in International Law. Completely revised and restructured
undergraduate courses in (a) Principles of Public International Law, (b) International Law and Development, (c) International Political Economy, and (d) University Foundation Course on Law, Governance, Economy and Society. Have supervised at least 15 M.Sc and M.Phil students in successful thesis preparation since 1996)

1991-94 Regular Associate, Wall Street law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell, New York
(General Practice Group). Primary emphasis on the legal aspects of domestic and international securities transactions (including initial public offerings, debt issuances and privatizations), project financing and on banking transactions.
Participant in the following completed transactions:

n Purchase by Banco Popular de Puerto Rico of branch offices in the Virgin Islands owned by CoreStates Bank, N.A. (1993)

n Purchase by Banco Popular de Puerto Rico of branch offices in New York City owned by Bank Leumi Trust Company of New York (1993)

n Execution of $2,500,000,000 Revolving Credit Facility Agreement among International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) and a syndicate of various banks, with Credit Suisse as agent and administrative agent for the banks (1993)

n Execution of Execution of $500,000,000 Revolving Credit Facility Agreement among IBM and a syndicate of various banks, with Credit Suisse as agent and administrative agent for the banks (1993)

n Execution of $1,300,000,000 Revolving Credit Facility Agreement among IBM Credit Corporation and a syndicate of various banks, with Credit Suisse as agent and administrative agent for the banks (1993)

n Execution of $300,000,000 Revolving Credit Facility Agreement among IBM Credit Corporation and a syndicate of various banks, with Credit Suisse as agent and administrative agent for the banks (1993)

n Application by First Fidelity Bancorporation to the Office of Thrift Supervision and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation concerning the acquisition of the Irvington Federal Savings Bank (1993)

n Project Financing for the development of the Zaldivar Project in Chile by Outokumpu Copper Resources and Placer Dome Inc. (Represented Outokumpu Copper Resources – $500,000,000 financing) (1992)

n Issuance of $300,000,000 Ten Year Notes by the Asian Development Bank (1992)

n Issuance of $100,000,000 Senior Notes and $100,000,000 Senior Subordinated Notes by AMC Entertainment Inc. (1992). Execution of Supplemental Indentures to the Indenture governing the Senior Notes and Senior Subordinated Notes (1993)
n Initial Public Offering of Orbital Engine Corporation (an Australian company) (1991-92)

n Issuance of $300,000,000 Ten Year Notes by the Asian Development Bank (1991)

n Privatization of Telefonos de Mexico (The Mexican telephone system) (1991)

n Issuance of $250,000,000 Medium Term Notes by Bausch & Lomb Incorporated (1991)

n Issuance of $100,000,000 Debentures by Monsanto Company (1991)


1989 - 91 Legal Consultant, then Legal Adviser, United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations (UNCTC). Activities included drafting legislation and investment codes for various developing countries, negotiating petroleum and mining agreements on behalf of national governments, and preparation of legal briefs on International Law and Natural Resources Law. U.N. missions to Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Sri Lanka, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Kenya and Swaziland; Associate Editor, CTC Reporter; Assistance in organizing the UNCTC's Programme of Support for Institutions of Higher Learning in Developing Countries.

1987-88 Research Fellow in International Law, St. Catharine's College, Cambridge and member of the Faculty of Law, Cambridge University (Work focused mainly on the role of developing countries in the evolution of the new Law of the Sea; completing D.Phil thesis)

1987-88 External Examiner for the M. Phil Examination in International Relations at Cambridge University

1984-87 Tutor in Public International Law and the Law of the Sea at Oxford University (Part-time) Students from Corpus Christi College, Mansfield College, Oriel College, Merton College and Pusey House, Oxford.


SENIOR DIPLOMATIC AND CASE LAW EXPERIENCE:


2007 Head of Jamaican Negotiating Team, Jamaica/Mexico Negotiations on the Preparation of a Bilateral Air Transport Agreement, June 2007


2007 Head of Jamaican Negotiating Team, Jamaica/United Kingdom Negotiations on the Revision of the Bilateral Air Services Agreement, London, April 2007

2007 Head of Jamaican Negotiating Team, Jamaica/Federal Republic of Germany Negotiations on the Preparation of a Bilateral Air Services Agreement, Kingston, February 2007

2006 President, Conference on Maritime Delimitation of the Caribbean Sea, elected September 2005, Mexico City, Mexico (also served as Chairman of the annual meeting of the Conference in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, October 2006)

2006 Prepared Response for the Jamaican Government in the Dudley Stokes Case before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, October/November 2006

2006 Head of Jamaican Negotiating Team, Jamaica/Brazil Negotiations on the Preparation of a Bilateral Air Services Agreement, August 2006, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2006 Head of Jamaican Negotiating Team, Jamaica/Chile Negotiations on the Preparation of a Bilateral Air Services Agreement, August 2006, Kingston, Jamaica

2006 Representative of Jamaica at the Meeting of the CARICOM Legal Affairs Committee held in Scarborough, Trinidad and Tobago, June 8-9, 2006

2006 Lead Counsel for Jamaica in the Jermey Smith Case before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, March 2006

2006 Lead Negotiator, Jamaica/Venezuela Preliminary Talks concerning a Revised Bilateral Air Services Agreement, Kingston, Jamaica, March 2006

2006 Representative of Jamaica at the 9th Meeting of the Legal Affairs Committee of CARICOM, Kingston, Jamaica, March 27 and 28, 2006

2006 Head of Jamaican Negotiating Team, Jamaica/Federal Republic of Germany Negotiations on the Preparation of a Bilateral Air Services Agreement, February 2006, Bonn, Federal Republic of Germany

2005 Member, Jamaican Team, Meeting of Commonwealth Law Ministers and Senior Officials, Accra, Ghana, October 17 to 20, 2005

2005 Head of Jamaican Negotiating Team, Jamaica/United Kingdom Negotiations on the Preparation of a Bilateral Air Services Agreement, May 2005, Kingston, Jamaica

2005 Representative of Jamaica at the 8th Meeting of the Legal Affairs Committee of CARICOM, Paramaribo, Suriname, February 8-10, 2005

2005 Representative of Jamaica at the Meeting to Establish an Informal Mechanism on Human Rights among Latin American and Caribbean Countries, Mexico City, January 2005

2005 Member of the Legal Team (headed by the Solicitor-General) that represented the Attorney General of Jamaica in the case of Independent Jamaica Council for Human Rights v Syringa Marshall-Burnett and the Attorney General of Jamaica (the CCJ Case) before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council

2004 Representative of Jamaica at the 59th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, Sixth (Legal) Committee, October 2004

2004 Participant at the Commonwealth Law Ministers Conference, London, September 2004

2004 Participant at the Commonwealth Senior Law Officers Meeting, London, September 2004

2004 Representative, Jamaican Delegation, International Seabed Authority, August 2004

2004 Representative of Jamaican Attorney General's Chambers, Third Joint Meeting of Attorneys-General and Ministers with Responsibility for National Security, St. Michael, Barbados, June 2004

2004 Member of the Legal Team (headed by the Solicitor-General) that represented the Attorney General of Jamaica in the case of Lambert Watson v The Attorney General of Jamaica before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council

2004 Retained as Counsel for the Government of Trinidad and Tobago for Maritime Dispute with Barbados (to 2006)

2003 Prepared Jamaican Responses for CARICOM consideration of the Jamaica/Trinidad and Tobago exchanges on the treatment of Liquefied Natural Gas under the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas

2003 Member of the Jamaican Negotiating Team, Jamaica/United States of America Negotiations on the Revision of the Maritime Counter-Narcotics Agreement

2003 Representative of the Jamaica at the 6th Meeting of the Legal Affairs Committee of CARICOM, Port of Spain, Trinidad





PUBLICATIONS:

Books:

Land-locked and Geographically Disadvantaged States in the International Law of the Sea (Oxford
University Press, pp. 244, 1990)

Here and Elsewhere: Short Essays on Local and International Affairs, 1995-1997 (Pear Tree Press,
Jamaica, pp. 252, 1997): based mainly on newspaper columns published in the Jamaican Gleaner
and the Jamaica Herald in the period specified.

International Law and Selected Human Rights in Jamaica (Norman Manley Law School, pp. 130,
2002)

Investor-State Dispute Settlement: United Nations Conference on Trade and Development Series
on Issues in International Investment Agreements (United Nations, 2003, pp. 128)(Manuscript co-
author with Professor Peter Muchlinski)


Monographs:

The Privy Council Versus the Caribbean Court of Appeal: Some General Observations, Caribbean
Contemporary Affairs, Number 3 (Cultural Studies Initiative, Office of the Deputy Vice
Chancellor, University of the West Indies, pp. 33, 1996)

Fair and Equitable Treatment: United Nations Conference on Trade and Development Series on
Issues in International Investment Agreements (United Nations, 1999, pp. 66)(Manuscript author)

Us and Them: International Law in a Time of Trial (Inaugural Professorial Lecture at the University of the West Indies, pp. 94, 2004)

Transparency: United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Series on Issues in International Investment Agreements (United Nations, 2004)(Manuscript author for parts of the document)


Articles:

"Land-locked and Geographically Disadvantaged States and the Question of the Outer Limit of the
Continental Shelf", The British Yearbook of International Law Vol. LVIII (1987), pp. 271-302

"Part XI of the Law of the Sea Convention and Third States: Some General Observations", The
Cambridge Law Journal, Vol. 48 (1989), pp. 85-97

"The Namibian Foreign Investment Act: Balancing Interests in the New Concessionary Era", The
ICSID Review - Foreign Investment Law Journal, Vol. 7, No. 1 (1992), pp. 114-140

"Ownership and Control Aspects of Government Joint Ventures in Developing Countries" Lesotho
Law Journal, Vol. 7 (1991), pp. 119-155 (co-authored with Charles J. Lipton)

"Bilateral Investment Treaties and Civil Strife: The AAPL/Sri Lanka Arbitration", The Netherlands
International Law Review, Vol XXXIX, Issue 3 (1992), pp. 332-354


"The Charter of the Preferential Trade Area of Eastern and Southern African States (the PTA
Charter) on Multinational Industrial Enterprises", Transnational Corporations, Vol. 1, No. 2,
August 1992, pp. 97-110

"Haiti and the Use of Force: An Ex Post Facto Legal Argument", West Indian Law Journal, Vol.
20, Nos. 1 & 2, (1995), pp. 1-21

"The 1996 Cuban Asylum-Seekers in Jamaica: A Case Study of International Law in the Post-Cold
War Era", University of Miami, Inter-American Law Review, Vol. 28, No. 1 (1996), pp. 5-39

"Jamaica and International Law: Certain Perspectives Concerning the Law of the Sea, Investment
and the Environment", West Indian Law Journal, Vol. 22, No. 1 (1997), pp. 1-32.

"The Haitian Invasion: After the Dust Has Settled", Caribbean Affairs, Vol. 7, No. 6 (1997),
pp. 103-114

"The Jamaica/United States Shiprider Negotiations: Policy and Political Issues", Caribbean
Quarterly, Vol. 43, No. 3 (1997), pp. 34-53

"International Law and the Settlement of Investment Disputes in Developing Countries: Aspects of
the Evolving Treaty Practice", West Indian Law Journal, 25th Anniversary Volume (1998), pp. 13-
24

"The Caribbean Court of Justice: Further Reflections on the Debate", West Indian Law Journal,
Vol. 23, No. 1 (1998), pp. 37-77

"Resource Entitlement in the Law of the Sea: Some Areas of Continuity of Change", in Goodwin-
Gill and Talmon (eds.), The Reality of International Law: Essays in Honour of Ian Brownlie
(Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 539-564

"Fair and Equitable Treatment in International Investment Law", in The British Yearbook of
International Law, Vol. 70 (1999), pp. 99-164 (Winner of the Principal's Award for Best
Publication, Faculty of Social Sciences, Research Day 2001, University of the West Indies)

"In Re Ganja: International Law and the Decriminalisation of Marijuana in Jamaica", West Indian
Law Journal, Vol. 26, No. 1 (2001), pp. 1-49

Review Essay: "Judges at the Border of Law and Politics: Aspects of the Caribbean Constitutional
Order", Social and Economic Studies, Vol. 51, No. 2 (March 2002), pp. 193-213

"Deep Seabed Mining Under the Law of the Sea Convention and the Implementation Agreement:
Developing Country Perspectives", Social and Economic Studies, Vol. 51, No. 2 (June 2002), pp.
63-115 (co-authored)
"Deep Seabed Mining in Customary International Law: Reconsidering Aspects of the Evidence",
West Indian Law Journal, Vol. 27, No. 1 (2002), pp. 149-183.

"The Caribbean Court of Justice: The Need for Confidence Building Measures", in Kenneth O. Hall
and Denis Benn (eds.), Governance in the Age of Globalisation: Caribbean Perspectives (2003),
pp. 568-583.

"Human Rights in Jamaica: International and Domestic Obligations", in United Nations
Development Programme, Human Rights and Human Development Issues in Jamaica (2003), pp.
54-83.

"Background and Introduction to Human Rights in Jamaica: International and Domestic
Obligations", in United Nations Development Programme, Human Rights and Human
Development Issues in Jamaica (2003), pp. 104-116.

"Foreign Policy Options for CARICOM: An Analytical Review", The Integrationist, Vol. 1, No. 2
(2003), pp. 16-34 (abridged version)

"Humanitarian Intervention: Towards a Legal Response to the United Nations Secretary General",
West Indian Law Journal, Vol. 28, No. 2 (2003), pp. 17-53

"Security, Terrorism and International Law: A Skeptical Comment", in Ivelaw Griffith (ed.),
Caribbean Security in the Age of Terror (2004), pp. 52-71

"A Note on Ethics, Transparency and International Investment Law", West Indian Law Journal,
Vol. 29, No. 2 (2004), pp. 15-27

"The Debate on the Establishment of the Caribbean Court of Justice", The Integrationist, Vol. 2,
No. 1, June 2004, pp. 39-53



"CARICOM and International Intervention: Aspects of the Investment Debate", in Kenneth Hall
and Denis Benn (eds.), Caribbean Imperatives: Regional Governance and Integrated Development
(2005), pp. 247-270

“International Law and the Use of Force in Afghanistan and Iraq”, Journal of Diplomatic Language, Vol. 2, No. 1, June 2005, Article 2)(online publication, reprint of part of 2004 Inaugural Lecture)

“Land-locked and Geographically Disadvantaged States” Commonwealth Law Bulletin, Vol. 30, No. 1 (2005), pp. 59 to 68

“Deconstructing the First Sentence? The Lambert Watson Case from Jamaica on the Mandatory Death Penalty in Jamaica”, West Indian Law Journal, Vol. 30, No. 2 (2005)

“Caribbean Perspective on Human Rights”, Organization of American States, Inter-American Juridical Committee, XXXII Course on International Law, August 2005, pp. 350-369

Executive Summary, The Jamaica Human Development Report 2005: Global Challenges, A World of Opportunities (2005), pp. xii to xxx

“Foreign Policy Options for CARICOM: An Analytical Review”, in Kenneth Hall and Myrtle Chuck-A-Sang (eds.), CARICOM Options Towards Full Integration into the World Economy, (The Integrationist, Vol. 3, No. 2, (2006), pp. 35-88

“Human Rights in the Caribbean: Notes on Perception and Reality”, Organization of American States and University of Ottawa, “Jornadas de Derecho Internacional”, 2006, pp. 405-418

“Abortion in Jamaican and International Law”, in Kenneth Hall and Myrtle Chuck-A-Sang (eds.), Survival and Sovereignty in the Caribbean Community, 2006

“The Relationship between International Law and Caribbean Domestic Law”, West Indian Law Journal, Vol. 32, No. 1 (2007), pp. 51-64

Book Review: "The Legality of Non-Forcible Counter-Measures in International Law" (by Dr. O.Y.
Elagab) in The Cambridge Law Journal, Vol. 47 (1988), pp. 493-495.



Miscellaneous Publications

Introductory Note on the Charter of the Preferential Trade Area of Southern and Eastern Africa (the
PTA Charter) on Multinational Industrial Enterprises, in International Legal Materials, Vol. 30
(1991), pp. 696-8.

"No Legal Basis for Haitian Intervention", DataPac: Caribbean Business Trends, Vol. 14 (1994),
pp. 3-7

"Cuba -- No Threat to the United States", DataPac: Caribbean Business Trends, Vol. 15, No. 1
(1995), pp. 3-7 and 14

Over 600 newspaper columns on public affairs in The Daily Gleaner, The Jamaica Herald, and
Caribbean Today newspapers.


Papers Presented at Conferences and/or Seminars:

"The Draft Charter on Multinational Industrial Enterprises", presented at a Seminar of Legal
Officers of the Preferential Trade Area of Eastern and Southern African States, Lusaka, Zambia,
September 1990

"International Humanitarian Law as applied in the Caribbean", presentation at the 1995 Seminar on Red Cross Law sponsored by the Jamaican Branch of the International Committee of the Red Cross

Paper presented at the 22nd Annual Dr. Ena Thomas Memorial Symposium (1995) on the theme
"Social Violence: Clinical Perspectives) -- Perspectives on Societal Violence"; presentation
entitled "Under the Gun"

"On the Haitian Invasion", paper presented to the Government of Jamaica/University of the West
Indies Seminar on Issues concerning the 1995 Summit of the Americas ("Summit of the Americas:
Caribbean Priorities for Trade, Governance and Adjustment"), November 6, 1994

"Identifying the Issues Concerning the New World Order", paper largely in response to Presentation
by Sir Shridath Ramphal to Roundtable Conference sponsored by the Commission on Global
Governance and the Department of Government, University of the West Indies, on "A United
Nations for the 21st Century: Reform, Good Governance in the Emerging Global Society", July 21,
1997

"Settlement of Trade and Investment Disputes", presented at the Caribbean Regional Symposium of
the Organization of American States, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
and the University of the West Indies on International Investment Agreements and their
Implications for Caribbean Countries, Kingston, September 1998

Paper on "Jamaica's International Law and Treaty Obligations, with Specific Focus on Maritime,
Trade/Investment and Environmental Matters", presented at a Symposium Organized by the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Jamaica, to commemorate the United Nations Decade of International
Law, September 1, 1999

"Dispute Settlement in the Prevailing International Economic Environment", presented at the
Venezuelan National Symposium on Foreign Direct Investment, sponsored by the United Nations
Conference on Trade and Development, Caracas, Venezuela, December 6-7, 1999

Paper on "The Admission and Protection of Foreign Direct Investments", presented at the
Subregional Symposium on International Investment Agreements and their Implications for
Regional Integration in Central America, sponsored by the United Nations Conference on Trade
and Development, Guatemala City, Guatemala, December 9-10, 1999

Paper entitled "Evolving Treaty Practice concerning the Settlement of International Investment
Disputes in Developing Countries", presented at the Subregional Symposium on International
Investment Agreements and their Implications for Regional Integration in Central America,
sponsored by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Guatemala City,
Guatemala, December 9-10, 1999

Paper on the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the Caribbean Court of Justice, presented
to the Internal and External Affairs Committee of the Jamaican Parliament, March 1, 2000
(submission invited by the Committee)

Paper on the Legal and Political Aspects of Proposals to Decriminalise the Use of Marijuana in
Jamaica, June 12, 2001 (submission invited by the National Commission on Ganja established by
the Jamaican Government)

"Human Rights in Jamaica: International and Domestic Obligations", 70-page document submitted
to the United Nations Development Programme (Jamaican Office); presented at UNDP Seminar on
Human Rights and Development in Jamaica, Kingston, December 2001

"Foreign Policy for CARICOM: An Analytical Review", principal background paper for Retreat of
the CARICOM Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR), January 2002, prepared
pursuant to the UWI/CARICOM Consultancy Project

Paper on aspects of the Caribbean Court of Justice, presented at the Mona Conference on
Governance, University of the West Indies, September 2002

Paper on the "Nature of Security in the Post-September 11 World", delivered to the Joint Florida
International University/University of the West Indies Conference on "Caribbean Security in the
Age of Terror: Challenge and Change", January 31, 2003, University of the West Indies, Mona

"A Note on Transparency in the International Investment Process", presented at the 3rd Annual
Research Colloquium of the Department of Management Studies and the Mona School of Business,
on Ethics in Caribbean Business -- Philosophical, Social and Political Perspectives, February 23,
2003

"Legal Issues Surrounding the Caribbean Court of Justice", presented at the Caribbean Regional
Conference of the International Law Association, March 26, 2003, Bridgetown, Barbados

Paper on Management of Investment Policy in the Current International Environment,
presented at JAMPRO Seminar on Investment Relations, Kingston, October 9, 2003

"CARICOM and International Integration: Aspects of the Investment Debate", presented at the CARICOM 30th Anniversary Conference on Regional Governance and Integrated Development, October 17-19, 2003, University of the West Indies, Mona

Paper on the Main Elements in the Debate on the Caribbean Court of Justice, presented to the
New York Chapter of the International Law Association, October 2003, New York

"Hang Them! Hang Them! Hang Them! Human Rights and the Death Penalty in Jamaica",
presented at the 3rd International Conference on Crime and Criminal Justice in the Caribbean,
February 11-14, 2004, University of the West Indies, Mona

"The International Criminal Court: The Triumph of Liberalism", presented at a Public Forum
organized by the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade,
Jamaica, in collaboration with the International Coalition on Crime and Criminal Justice, Canada,
February 17, 2004, Norman Manley Law School, Jamaica

"A Jamaican Perspective on the International Criminal Court", presented at a Workshop on the
International Criminal Court organized by the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs and Foreign Trade, Jamaica, in collaboration with the International Coalition on Crime and
Criminal Justice, Canada, February 18, 2004, Jamaica Conference Centre, Kingston

"Caribbean Court of Justice: Jurisprudential Issues", presented at the International Conference on
the Caribbean Court of Justice sponsored by the School for Graduate Studies, University of the
West Indies, Mona, May 2004

"Balancing Security and Human Rights: The Role of the Ombudsman", presented at the Third
Regional General Conference of the Caribbean Ombudsman Association (CAROA), May 11, 2004,
Runaway Bay, Jamaica

"The Lambert Watson Decision of the Privy Council", presented at the American Caribbean Law
Initiative Conference, on "Caribbean Market Forces: Emerging Trends in International and
Comparative Law", July 23-24, 2004, Ocho Rios, Jamaica

“Implementation of the Law of the Sea Convention by Land-locked Countries”, main presentation, Seminar of Land-locked States in Africa, organized by the Commonwealth Secretariat, June 13-15, 2005, Ezulwini, Swaziland

“The International Criminal Court: Structure, Tasks and Penalties”, presentation for the CARICOM Regional Seminar organized by the European Union and the Government of Suriname, Paramaribo, Suriname, June 2005

“Caribbean Perspectives on Human Rights”, International Law Course of the Organization of American States, Rio de Janeiro, August 2005

“Access to the Sea for Southern African States” and “Access to Living Resources for Land-locked States”, main presentations at a Seminar organized by the Commonwealth Secretariat, Maseru, Lesotho, November-December 2005

“Human Rights: Is the Caribbean Below Average?”, Symposium organized by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Commonwealth Secretariat, St. John’s, Antigua, April 25-26, 2006

“Human Rights: A Comparative Review”, Conference in Honour of Richard Hart, organized by the Centre for Caribbean Thought, University of the West Indies, Mona, June 2006

“Overview of the Law of the Sea Convention” and “Rights and Obligations of Land-locked States in the Law of the Sea”, presentations at a Seminar on Land-locked and Coastal States in Africa, organized by the Commonwealth Secretariat, Pretoria, South Africa, December 2006

“The Role of the Original Jurisdiction of the Caribbean Court of Justice and its Implications for Jurisprudential Development”, paper presented at the Commonwealth Meeting of Justices and Registrars of Final/Regional Appellate Courts, Kingston, January 22-25, 2007

“The Relationship between International Law and Caribbean Domestic Law” and “Some Legal and Political Issues concerning the Caribbean Court of Justice”, presented at a Conference on “The Caribbean Single Market and Economy and Its Legal Implications: What does it mean for me and for you?”, organized by the Caribbean Court of Justice in partnership with the Judicial Education Institute of the Judiciary of Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, March 2-3, 2007

“The Interpretation and Application of International Human Rights Treaties by the Courts of Guyana”, presented at a meeting of Judges of the Court of Appeal and the High Court of Guyana on June 16, 2007; presentation on the same topic to members of the Guyanese Bar, on June 15, 2007; Georgetown, Guyana

The Lloyd Barnett Distinguished Lecture on the topic “Fundamental Rights in the Caribbean: An International Lawyer Takes Stock”, Antigua, August 25, 2007 (organized by the Council of Legal Education)

Other Papers Prepared:

Part IV of United Nations Document, "Foreign Direct Investment in Africa and Strategies to
Encourage Transnational Corporations to Respond Positively to the Improved Investment Climate:
Report of the Secretary-General", 13 March 1990 (E/C.10/1990/9)

Part II of the United Nations Document, "Experience Gained in Technical Co-operation Activities
with respect to the Formulation and Implementation of Foreign Investment Policies: Report of the
Secretary General", 1 February 1990 (E/C.10/1990/14)

Draft Response to the Annual Speech of the United Nations Secretary-General to the United Nations General Assembly for 1999, prepared for consideration by CARICOM Heads of Government, January 2000 (concerning the Use of Force in International Law)

“Commonwealth Land-locked States and the Law of the Sea”, prepared for the Commonwealth Secretariat and presented at the Meeting of Commonwealth Law Ministers and Senior Legal Officers, Accra, Ghana, October 17 to 19, 2005


PUBLIC AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:

1994 Coach, Kingston College Schools' Challenge Quiz Team, to 2003 (book of quiz questions, Quick Quiz Book, published July 2003)

1995 Member, Advisory Committee on Dissemination of Humanitarian Law, Red Cross Society/Government of Jamaica, to 1996

1995 Non-professorial member, University of the West Indies Academic Board, September 1995 to September 1996

1996 Member, National Committee on Political Tribalism in Jamaica chaired by the Hon. Mr.
Justice James Kerr, to 1997

1996 Chairman of the Policy Committee, and Spokesman on Foreign Affairs, National Democratic Movement, May 1996 to 1999

1997 Jamaican Representative, British Foreign and Commonwealth Office Conference on the future of the Commonwealth, Wilton Park, England, March 1997

1998 Occasional Consultant, Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, to 2000

1998 UNCTAD Resource Expert on Investment to 2003

1999 Member of the Board, The University Hospital of the West Indies, from August 1999 to August 2001 (Member, Finance and General Purposes Committee)

1999 Member, Special Committee of the Jamaican Bar Association on the Caribbean Court of Justice, September 1999 to April 2000, and from September 2002 to the present (The 5-person Committee received a Special President's Award for contribution to the Jamaican Bar Association, July 2000)

2002 Manuscript reviewer, Cambridge University Press, University of the West Indies Press, Caribbean Quarterly, Social and Economic Studies, and West Indian Law Journal

2002 Member, Board for Undergraduate Studies, University of the West Indies, September 2002 to 2004

2002 Member of the Academic Board, University of the West Indies, September 2002 to the present

2002 Member, election commentary team, Gleaner/Power 106, for General Election (October 16, 2002)

2004 Presenter, on International Investment Law and on The Diplomatic Context of International Law, Workshop for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Jamaica, organized by the Institute of International Relations, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad, November 16, 2004

2004 Member, Board for Graduate Studies, University of the West Indies, Mona, September 2004 to September 2005

2004 Lead Consultant, Planning Institute of Jamaica/United Nations Development Programme, Jamaica Human Development Report Project (Report published in October 2005). Project on Globalization: participant in various public sessions on aspects of globalization, including trade, investment and security implications of globalization on Jamaica.

2004 Member (selected by Jamaica) on the Panel of Arbitrators of the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID)

2005 Consultant, Commonwealth Secretariat, Project on Commonwealth Land-locked Countries
(Legal and Constitutional Division, Commonwealth Secretariat)

2005 Deputy Chairman, Interim Commission, Jamaican Anti-Doping Commission, to 2006

2005 Member, Editorial Committee, The Integrationist (CARICOM-UWI Project)

2005 Member, Editorial Committee, The Commonwealth Law Bulletin

2007 Member, Editorial Board, The West Indian Law Journal


MEDIA EMPLOYMENT:

1994 Regular participant on public affairs radio programmes, The Week in Review (June 1994 to May 1996), The Breakfast Club (August 1994 to May 1996) on KLAS FM89

1995 Weekly columnist on international affairs for The Jamaica Herald Newspaper, August to November 1995

1996 Weekly columnist on political, legal and international affairs for The Daily Gleaner Newspaper, from January 1996 to the present

1997 Monthly columnist, Caribbean Today Newspaper, Florida, United States of America, from January 1997 to February 2003

1999 Co-host, First Edition Radio Programme, January 1999 to June 2001 (three mornings per week)


PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

Member of the Jamaican Bar Association, the American Society of International Law, the British
Institute of International and Comparative Law, and the Independent Jamaica Council on Human
Rights

MISCELLANEOUS:

1986 Certificate of Participation, The International Law Seminar of the International Law
Commission (Geneva)

1986 Certificate of Participation, Summer Course at the Hague Academy of International Law
(also 1987)

1988 Participant at EEC Seminar on the Lome Convention (Brussels)

1990 M.A. (By Accumulation), University of Oxford

1995 Member of various scholarship interviewing panels for (a) the Jamaica Rhodes Scholarship,
(b) the Commonwealth Scholarship to the United Kingdom, Canada and New Zealand, (c)
the Cable and Wireless/United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office Scholarship,
(d) the United Kingdom Chevening Scholarship, (e) various University of the West Indies
awards, at different times from 1995 to the present.

1996 Addresses to various organizations including: (a) The Nurses' Association of Jamaica, May
15, 1996, (b) 21st Anniversary Function of the Lions Club of St. Andrew, May 28, 1996, (c)
Managers of the Bank of Nova Scotia (May 30, 1996), (d) The Kiwanis Club of Liguanea,
August 26, 1997, (e) Youth Leadership Seminar of the Kiwanis Club of North St. Andrew,
October 23, 1999, (f) The Kiwanis Club of North St. Andrew, November 30, 1995

1996 Public commentary on Jamaican public policy issues to the present: interviewed on various
matters by BBC World Service, BBC Caribbean Service, CNN.com, Reuters, The Economist Magazine, the Telegraph (of London), The New York Times, National Public Radio (New York), Voice of America, Television Jamaica, CVM Television, the Jamaica Observer, Hot 102 (Jamaica), Power 106 (Jamaica); some local newspaper articles reproduced in World Press Review.

1998 Developed and introduced the Annual Jamaica Observer International Relations Prize for
students of International Relations at Mona

1998 Certificate of Participation, Centre for Hemispheric Studies, course on hemispheric security
issues, National Defense University, Washington, D.C., June 1998

1998 Guest Lecturer on International Law, Jamaica Junior Command and Staff Course of the
Jamaica Defence Force, 8 October 1998

1999 Resource Expert, Expert Meeting on International Investment Agreements: Concepts
Allowing for a Certain Flexibility in Promoting Growth and Development, Geneva, 24-26
March 1999

1999 Address to students at the General Assembly of the Mico College, Jamaica, on Humanitarian Intervention in International Law, May 3, 1999

2000 Michael Manley Lecture, invited by Students at the Cave Hill Campus of the University of
the West Indies, Barbados

2001 Presenter, Jamaican Ministry of Foreign Affairs Panel Discussion for Diplomatic Week
2001, on "Globalization: The Challenges for the Development of Jamaica's Human
Resources", January 2001

2001 Certificate of Appreciation, Norman Manley Law Students' Association ("in recognition of
invaluable contribution to the academic development of the students"), March 23, 2001

2001 Guest Lecturer, Northern Caribbean University (on Political Parties and Party Systems), April 2001

2001 Presentation to the Jamaica Junior Chamber (the Jaycees), May 24, 2001, on general aspects of the Caribbean Court of Justice

2002 World Trade Organization, Working Group on Trade and Investment, Experts Meeting,
April 19, 2002 (Part of the UNCTAD team)

2003 Guest Lecturer on Strategies to Improve the Jamaican Economy and their Gender
Implications, to students in the UWI International Training Programme, February 28, 2003

2003 Recipient of the Attica Fraternity Award (from students of Block "D", Taylor Hall,
University of the West Indies, May 17, 2003, for contribution to University life and to the wider society)

2003 Presentation to students at St. Joseph's Teachers' College on "Republican Status for Jamaica", St. Joseph's Teachers' College, November 13, 2003

2005 Fourth William Dennis Memorial Lecture, Faculty of Medicine, University of the West Indies, Mona, June 10, 2005

2005 Senior Associate Fellow (International Law), University of the West Indies Institute of International Relations, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago

2006 Participant in Study Tour organized by the Jamaican Fair Trading Commission to the United States Federal Trade Commission, Washington D.C., April 17 to 19, 2006

2006 Consultant, Forum on International Humanitarian Law for Chiefs of Defence of CARICOM States, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, June 1-2, 2006

2006 Presentation to the Retired Teachers Association of Jamaica on the CARICOM Single Market and Economy, June 17, 2006

2006 Delegate at the Global Symposium on Air Transport Liberalization organized by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Dhubai, United Arab Emirates, September 18 and 19, 2006

2006 Participant, International Humanitarian Law Workshop for University Teachers, 29-30 November 2006, Accra Beach, Barbados

2007 Second Annual Lloyd Barnett Distinguished Lecture, Council of Legal Education, Antigua, August 26, 2007


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