Table of Contents

Part I: Fundamentals of Caribbean Integration
1: Introduction
2: Foundations of Caribbean Integration
Part II: Institutional Frameworks
3: Status of the Treaties and Regional Organisations
4: Objectives and Membership
5: Organs - Structure, Competences, and Decision-Making Processes
6: The Creation and Nature of Legal Obligations
7: Implementation and Enforcement of Binding Obligations
8: Final Provisions of the Treaties
Part III: The Legal Systems
9: General Principles of Law and Other Foundational Legal Concepts
10: Substantive Rules and Policies
11: Introduction to Competition Rules
Part IV: Dispute Settlement and Enforcement Mechanisms
12: Dispute Settlement Mechanisms
13: Dispute Settlement Through Regional Courts
Part V: The Way Forward
14: Conclusions

About the Author

Dr David S. Berry, Barrister and Attorney-at-Law, is Dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, and University Dean. He teaches in the areas of general public international law and regional integration law. He has written articles and chapters in the same fields as well as in the areas of the law of treaties, aboriginal law, philosophy of law, and feminist theory. Dr Berry also practices in various areas, primarily serving
Governments and regional and international organisations. He has served as Deputy Agent, Legal Adviser, or Counsel, for the State of Barbados in cases before a number of tribunals and legal bodies,
including the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, the Barbados-Trinidad Maritime Boundary Arbitration, and the Caribbean Court of Justice.