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Development and the Shift to Better Citizen Security.’ Her article, “Social Constructions
of Crime in Antigua and Barbuda: Perceptions of Structural Theories of Crime in a Post-
Colonial Era,” is published in the edited collection, Caribbean Crime & Criminal Justice:
Impacts of Post-Colonialism and Gender (Routledge (2017).
Tracy Robinson
Tracy Robinson joined MonaLaw in 2011 after teaching for
a decade and a half at the Faculty of Law, The UWI, Cave
Hill. She teaches Constitutional Law, Commonwealth
Caribbean Human Rights Law and Family Law. In 2016,
Robinson was the Bok Visiting International Professor at
University of Pennsylvania Law School. She co-authored
Fundamentals of Caribbean Constitutional Law (with
Bulkan and Justice Saunders) and co-edited (with D
Berry), Transitions in Caribbean Law. In 2017, her jointly
authored article, “"Constitutional Comparisons by A
Supranational Court in Flux: The Privy Council and Caribbean Bills of Rights" was
published by Modern Law Review. In 2016, she was appointed a Commissioner on the
WHO/PAHO led Independent Review of Equity and Health Inequalities in the Americas.
She served as a member of the Committee on Judicial Appointments established by the
Law Association of Trinidad and Tobago in 2017. She was a member of the Inter
American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) from 2012-15 and served as its
President in 2014-15. In 2017, she was named as an honouree on the Gender Justice
Legacy Wall which celebrates persons who have made significant contributions to the
field of international gender justice. This year, she was awarded the 2019 Prominent
Women in International Law Award from the American Society of International Law
(ASIL) achievements as a member of the IACHR in advancing human rights protection
related to gender and sexuality.
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