Regional Integration in the Caribbean: CARICOM and the Caribbean Court of Justice

Berry, David S.

David Berry

European Yearbook of International Economic Law 2018

Bungenberg, Marc and Krajewski, Markus and Tams, Christian J. and Terhechte, Jörg Philipp and Ziegler, Andreas R.

Springer International Publishing

2019

Cham

This chapter introduces readers to Caribbean integration law, through an examination of both the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and its regional court, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ). After briefly situating CARICOM in its historical and economic context, the chapter reviews the CCJ's development of regional integration law through its original jurisdiction (treaty-interpreting) jurisprudence. Most of the seminal original jurisdiction cases of the Court are briefly, but critically assessed, in a roughly chronological order. The chapter concludes by drawing comparisons between some of the Caribbean developments, on the one hand, and their parallels in the European Union, on the other. The chapter concludes by offering some final observations on what may appear to be a recent, `cooling off' period for the court.

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