Cover of the book “The Law of the Sea in the Caribbean”.
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad--Justice Winston Anderson, a judge on the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), the apex Court in the Caribbean, has authored The Law of the Sea in the Caribbean, the latest scholarly contribution to an important field of international law in the Caribbean, according to a press release from A Global Internet Learning Experience (AGILE) Learning Inc., with headquarters in Plantation, Florida.
Using the lens of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, adopted in Kingston, Jamaica, on December 10, 1982, the book examines the possibilities for contribution by the Law of the Sea to economic and social development in the Region. The topics traversed include maritime jurisdiction, fisheries, offshore oil and gas, marine scientific research, peace and security, navigation, pollution, the deep seabed, maritime boundary delimitation and dispute settlement.
The book is premised on the fact that a generation of legal pioneers imagined a decisive role for the Law of the Sea in the advancement of developing states, and it attempts to give an account, in the 40th year since the adoption of the Convention, of the reach of the Law of the Sea into Caribbean development.
The Law of the Sea in the Caribbean argues for greater regional cooperation as a means of achieving the promise of truly significant participation by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea in Caribbean development.
The book is published by Brill Academic Publishers, a Dutch international publisher founded in Leiden, the Netherlands, in 1683, which prides itself on producing “over three centuries of scholarly publishing”.
The Law of the Sea in the Caribbean is the latest academic text authored by Justice Anderson. The judge has written several other leading texts, including Caribbean Private International Law (Second edition, Sweet & Maxwell, London, 2014) and Principles of Caribbean Environmental Law (Environmental Law Institute, Washington, 2012), according to the release.
He is also editor of the Eminent Caribbean Jurists Series published by the CCJ Academy for Law, of which he is Chairman. Titles in the Series thus far are: Eminent Caribbean International Law Jurists: The Rule of International Law in the Caribbean (2019); and Eminent Caribbean Jurists: Pioneering Caribbean Women Jurists (2021) (co-editor).
