The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Constitutions

Richard Albert is the William Stamps Farish Professor in Law and Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. He has published more than one dozen books, including Constitutional Amendments: Making, Breaking, and Changing Constitutions. He has held visiting appointments at Yale University, the University of Toronto, the Externado University of Colombia, and the Interdisciplinary Center in Israel. Richard Albert holds law and political science degrees from Yale, Oxford and Harvard, and is a former law clerk to the Chief Justice of Canada.Derek O'Brien is a Reader in Public Law at Oxford Brookes University. Following qualification as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales he has held lecturing positions in the United Kingdom, France, and the Caribbean. O'Brien has written numerous journal articles and book chapters on issues relating to Caribbean constitutional law and regional integration, and he is the author of a monograph, Constitutional Law Systems of the Commonwealth Caribbean. He has previously served on the editorial board of the Commonwealth Human Right Digest and is presently a member of the editorial boards of the Caribbean Law Review and the Cayman Islands Law Review.Se-shauna Wheatle is an Associate Professor of Public Law at Durham Law School. She received her Bachelor of Laws at the University of the West Indies before attending the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar to read for the Bachelor of Civil Law and Doctor of Philosophy in Law. Her research interests include comparative constitutionalism, unwritten constitutional principles, Commonwealth Caribbean constitutional law, and UK public law. Her monograph, Principled Reasoning in Human Rights Adjudication, was shortlisted for the Society of Legal Scholars Birks Prize in 2018. She has also published articles in journals such as Public Law, the Journal of Comparative Law and the European Human Rights Law Review.

• Richard Albert: Introduction: Bringing Caribbean Constitutionalisms to the World Part I: Caribbean Constitutions in the World 1: Lindsay Stirton and Martin Lodge: Constitutionalism and Colonial Legacies in the Caribbean 2: Hamid Ghany: Constitutional Design in the Commonwealth Caribbean 3: Se-shauna Wheatle: Constitutional Principles: Forging Caribbean Constitutionalism 4: Yaniv Roznai: Constitutional Unamendability in the Region Part II: The Constitutions of the Caribbean 5: Derek O'Brien: The Commonwealth Caribbean and the Westminster Model 6: Jayson Haynes: The Constitutional Law of Guyana: Challenges and Prospects 7: Susan Dickson: The British Overseas Territories of Anguilla, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Montserrat, and Turks and Caicos Islands - A Modern Approach to a Traditional Relationship 8: Sofia Ranchordás, Irene Broekhuijse, and Ernst Hirsch Ballin: The Constitutions of the Dutch Caribbean: A Study of the Countries of Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten and the Public Entities of Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba 9: Ruben Gowricharn: Suriname's Constitutional Limits 10: David Marrani and Sacha Sydoryk: The Constitutional Framework of the French Caribbean: Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint Martin and Saint Barthelemy 11: Julio César Guanche, Julio Antonio Fernández Estrada, and Bradley Hayes: The Normative Framework of the Cuban Constitution and the Problems it Poses 12: Louis Aucoin: Haiti's Constitution of 1987: How Does it Fare Today as the Country's Foundation for the Rule of Law? 13: Leiv Marsteintredet: The Constitutions of the Dominican Republic: Between Aspirations and Realities 14: Joel Colón-Ríos: The Constitution of Puerto Rico Part III: Fundamental Rights 15: Margaret Burnham: Caribbean Constitutions and the Death Penalty 16: Westmin R.A. James: Social and Economic Rights in the Caribbean 17: Yonique Campbell: Rights and National Security Part IV: Forces and Institutions 18: Stephen Vasciannie: The Appellate Jurisdiction of the Caribbean Court of Justice 19: David Berry: The Effect of the Original Jurisdiction of the Caribbean Court of Justice on Regional Integration and National Law 20: Derek O'Brien: The Interpretation of Commonwealth Caribbean Constitutions: Does Text Matter? 21: Peter Clegg and Derek O'Brien: Constitutional Dissonance and the Rule of Law in the Turks and Caicos Islands 22: Rupert Lewis: Black Power in the Caribbean 23: Jane E. Cross: The Vestiges of Colonial Constitutionalism 24: Cynthia Barrow-Giles: Mapping the Future of Caribbean Constitutionalism