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ABOUT PROFESSOR ROSE-MARIE
BELLE ANTOINE
Professor Rose-Marie Belle Antoine is an attorney- at- law who holds the
Chair as Professor of Labour Law and Offshore Financial Law at the Faculty
of Law, University of the West-Indies, a regional university serving the
entire Commonwealth Caribbean and its premier educational institution.
She is the Deputy-Dean and the former Program Director of the LLM programme. |
Her specialist subject areas are Offshore/ International Financial Law,
Labour Law, including Discrimination in Employment , Public Law and Law & Legal
Systems. Previously, Professor Antoine was employed as a legal officer
at the International Labour Office (ILO) in Geneva, Switzerland and worked
briefly in London. One of Professor Antoine’s outstanding achievements
is her receipt of the prestigious UWI Vice-Chancellor’s Regional
Award for Excellence in Research. She also received an Award from the Guild
of Undergraduate Students for her ‘courage and dedication to students’. 2008 Honoured as one of the ‘60 Under 60 Outstanding Academics’ in celebration of the 60th Anniversary – UWI. 2008 Won the UK Emerald Literarti Award of Excellence 2008- Highly Commended Paper category for a published article’. Article entitled ‘The Offshore Trust – A catalyst for Development’. (See link).
In 2009 received an award from the Students’ Guild for Excellent Work on behalf of students
Professor Antoine holds a doctorate
from Oxford University, an LL.M. from Cambridge and an LL.B. from
the University from the West-Indies. She is a Cambridge Scholar,
an Oxford Commonwealth Scholar and a Cambridge Fellow. She also
holds diplomas and certificates with distinction in international
human rights from the International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg,
France. Professor Antoine has served as the legal consultant to many governments,
including the government of Canada, and to several international and regional
organisations. These include the Inter-American Development Bank,
the World Bank, CARICOM, OECS, UNICEF, ILO, UNIFEM and UNDCP. She
is the author of well-known Reports on regional issues including
Labour Law, Discrimination, Public Service Reform, Juvenile Justice, Mutual
Legal Assistance (UNDCP/OECS) and ‘Women’s Rights in the Workplace’ (
ILO). As ILO consultant, she drafted a Labour Code for Saint. Lucia. She
also serves as an associate professor to Case Western Reserve University
USA in International Financial Law and was the Distinguished Goodwin
Scholar 2004 for Nova SE University in Florida.
She has published widely in international
legal journals and is the author of several books, notably, Confidentiality
in Offshore Financial Law and Trusts and Related Tax
Issues in Offshore Financial Law, both published by the prestigious
Oxford University Press. Her first book, Commonwealth Caribbean
Law and Legal Systems, published by Routledge Cavendish, London, is
now into its second edition and is used by universities abroad. She is
also the co-author and editor of the Unfair Dismissal Digest,
ILO, Geneva, and Legal Issues in Offshore Finance (Randle Publishers). Professor
Antoine has also contributed chapters to leading texts such as the Legal
Systems of the World Encyclopedia, ABC, CLIO, USA, Law and
Employment: Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean, edited by
the Nobel Prize Winner in Economics, James Heckman and Human Resource
Development and Workplace Governance in the Caribbean, Randle Publishers.
She is the author of the well known CARICOM Harmonisation in Labour
Law Report 1992, which formed the basis of the Commonwealth Caribbean’s
(CARICOM) model laws and the blueprint and catalyst for labour law reform
in the Commonwealth Caribbean.
Professor Antoine is actively involved
in administration and policy planning at the university. An avid
gardener, trained vocal soloist, mainly in classical music, and amateur
artist, she has strong interests in cultural and social activities, including
writing and singing calypsos and singing folk music. She has a background
in voluntary welfare work and is committed to active community service.
A former Patron of the Salvation Army, she was a member of the Coalition
against Sexual Harassment in Barbados. She is a legal resource person for
regional HIV/ AIDS organizations such as CAREC, PANCAP and other community
groups and sits on the UWI/ HIV Committee (UWI HARP). Professor Antoine
is proud to be a past pupil of St. Joseph’s Convent, St. Joseph in
Trinidad, where she was the Head-Girl and Sports Captain.
Winner of the Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Research and an Award from the Students’ Guild for ‘courage and dedication to students’, Professor Rose-Marie Antoine’s diverse and pioneering publications reach beyond regional borders and have been described by leading international scholars as ‘original’, ‘insightful,’ and ‘amazing’. A Cambridge and Oxford Scholar, Professor Antoine (DPhil, Oxford; LLLLM, Cambridge; LLLLB,UWI), lectures at Case-Western Reserve USA, consults for governments and international organizations, including the government of Canada, IDB, World-Bank, CARICOM, UNICEF, ILO, UNIFEM, UNDCP and PANCAP, and drafted the Labour Code of Saint Lucia and the CARICOM Harmonization of Labour Law Report, the blueprint for CARICOM labour reform. She authored several articles and books: Confidentiality in Offshore Financial Law, Trusts and Tax in Offshore Financial Law, both Oxford Press, Law and Legal Systems, Cavendish, London; co-authored the Unfair Dismissal Digest, ILO, Legal Issues in Offshore Finance; contributed chapters to Legal Systems of the World, USA, Industrial Relations in the Caribbean, ILO, Human Resource & Workplace Governance; and Labour Law and Development, McGill. The first Director of the LLLLM in Corporate Law, Professor Antoine initiated financial self-sustaining regional workshops in the faculty. A vocal soloist at the Holders Hill Classical festival in Barbados and the national stage in St Lucia, gardener, calypsonian and legal resource person on HIV, Professor Antoine is a past pupil and head girl of St. Joseph’s Convent, St. Joseph in Trinidad.
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