The University of the West Indies Open Campus Dominica and the National Bank of Dominica Limited are pleased to announce the staging of their Fourth NBD/UWI Open Campus Dominica Distinguished National Lecture Series. This year, like last year, there will be two Public Lectures, featuring the same topic, but in different parts of the island.
The lectures will be delivered by Ms. Tracy Robinson, Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Cave Hill Campus, The University of the West Indies. They will be held at the Conference Room, Fort Young Hotel, on Thursday, May 5 at 7:30 pm and at Our Lady of La Soie Catholic Church on Friday, May 6 commencing at 7:00 pm.
Ms. Robinson will present on the following topics on both nights, “Family Law’s Institutions in Transition: Rights, Rhetoric and Reform”. She will look, inter alia, at shifts in how we understand family law, especially the centrality of marriage; the borrowing of English law; the apparently fragmented justice across magistrates and high courts as well as the fundamental shifts which are influenced by the emergence of both women’s and children’s rights.
On the first night, Thursday, May 5th, the event will be chaired by Head of the UWI Open Campus Dominica Dr. Francis O. Severin. Remarks will be delivered by General Manager of the National Bank of Dominica Limited, Mr. Michael Bird, before the main item of the evening, the lecture. This will be followed, as usual by a question and answer session. The vote of thanks will be delivered by Mr. Felix A. Wilson, Programme Officer, Open Campus Dominica.
His Excellency the President Dr. Nicholas J. O. Liverpool and Mrs. Liverpool will be in attendance at the event at the Fort Young Hotel on Thursday, May 5th. The audience should be seated by 7:15 pm.
This year, in an effort to decentralize non-formal education, the lecture will be taken to the north east, at Wesley, the following night on Friday, May 6th. This is part of the educational aim of nurturing informed and structured debate on relevant social, cultural and economic issues. The event in the North East will be held at Our Lady of La Soie Catholic Church. We hope as many residents as possible from Wesley, Marigot, Calibishie, Woodfordhill and Concord, and other communities, will attend. It is open to the general public and is not a denominational/church event.
If you require any clarification or additional information, please do not hesitate to contact Dr. Francis Severin at telephone 448-3182/3482 (at The UWI Open Campus Dominica).
A warm invitation is thus extended to you, our good and steadfast friends of the media. We look forward to seeing you at the Conference Room, Fort Young Hotel on Thursday, May 5th at 7:30 PM and at Our Lady of La Soie Catholic Church on Friday, May 6th at 7:00 PM.
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Tracy Robinson is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law, University of the West Indies (UWI) Cave Hill, Barbados. A graduate of the University of the West Indies, she joined the Faculty of Law as a lecturer in 1996, having completed postgraduate degrees at University of Oxford and Yale Law School. She was called to the Jamaican Bar in 1997.
She directs undergraduate courses in Family Law, Gender and the Law, Constitutional Law and Commonwealth Caribbean Human Rights Law. She is the co-author of a major report on the law of domestic relationships in the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), part of the ongoing OECS Family Law and Domestic Violence Judicial and Legislative Reform Project, the largest regional initiative in family law reform. She is also part of the team that oversees the UN Women Child Support, Poverty and Family Responsibilities Project, one of the largest policy-oriented socio-legal research studies undertaken in the English-speaking Caribbean.
At the regional level, she has served as a consultant to international organizations and been a presenter at and participant in numerous expert meetings on gender-based violence and human rights, family law reform, child support and the administration of justice, sex work and the law,
Wow, natural beauty…and intelligent too, that warms the heart.
Will be present!!