This book is part of the gLAWcal book series:

Transnational Law and Governance

Series Editor: Paolo Davide Farah

Investigating the unique EU-CARICOM legal relationship, this book explores the major theme of globalisation, which shapes inter-regional organisations individually and determines their relationship to one another. It evaluates how EU-CARICOM relations have fostered trade, security and other development measures, reflecting on the past, future and present of the Caribbean states that are active in the EU-CARICOM framework. Providing case studies on key issues such as immigration, tax and energy, it examines the impact that the EU-CARICOM has on the slave trade and the deportation of millions of people. Such bitter experiences still indirectly shape culture, hopes and the economic framework of possibilities today, therefore the focus of the volume is on the issues which the constant stream of globalisation creates. The book assesses many potential impacts that the agenda of the EU and Brexit pending will have upon the EU-CARICOM relationship, given the potential for these to create instability. Overall, it highlights how the EU and CARICOM are representations for multilateralism and serve as models that provide the basis for many successful initiatives and agreements. In all new agreements and negotiations, the will to accept the sustainable development goals and thus to make inequality, climate change and other goals of the SDGs the basis of an order that puts people at the centre, are evaluated, and the global agenda 2030 and its impact on EU-CARICOM.

Investigating the unique EU-CARICOM legal relationship, this book explores the major theme of globalisation, which shapes inter-regional organisations individually and determines their relationship to one another. It evaluates how EU-CARICOM relations have fostered trade, security and other development measures, reflecting on the past, future and present of the Caribbean states that are active in the EU-CARICOM framework. Providing case studies on key issues such as immigration, tax and energy, it examines the impact that the EU-CARICOM has on the slave trade and the deportation of millions of people. Such bitter experiences still indirectly shape culture, hopes and the economic framework of possibilities today, therefore the focus of the volume is on the issues which the constant stream of globalisation creates. The book assesses many potential impacts that the agenda of the EU and Brexit pending will have upon the EU-CARICOM relationship, given the potential for these to create instability. Overall, it highlights how the EU and CARICOM are representations for multilateralism and serve as models that provide the basis for many successful initiatives and agreements. In all new agreements and negotiations, the will to accept the sustainable development goals and thus to make inequality, climate change and other goals of the SDGs the basis of an order that puts people at the centre, are evaluated, and the global agenda 2030 and its impact on EU-CARICOM.  

Cover, Table of Contents, Preface, Introduction, Acknowledgements and Forwards can be downloaded at the following link

FOREWORD FROM THE EDITOR OF THE BOOK SERIES

FOREWORD FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE CARIBBEAN COURT OF JUSTICE

ABBREVIATIONS

INTRODUCTION

Chapter 1: The EU-CARICOM in Context

Alicia Elias-Roberts, Stephen Hardy and Winfried Huck

PART I: BREXIT AND EU-CARICOM RELATIONS

Chapter 2: The impact of BREXIT: In search of a new legal order?

Stephen Hardy

Chapter 3: The impact of the UK’s BREXIT on Anti-suit injunctions

Margaret Liu

PART II: TRADE AND SECURITY IN EU-CARICOM

Chapter 4: EU-CARICOM Trade Law as a tool for development?

Achim Rogmann

Chapter 5: Building a digital anchor: a legal perspective on a prospective improvement of electronic data interchange in maritime trade

Hannes Prochno

Chapter 6: European Union and CARICOM: current challenges and potential solutions in the energy and investment sector

Claudia Kurkin

PART III: TAXATION AND IMMIGRATION IN EU-CARICOM

Chapter 7: Select jurisprudence of the CJEU and CCJ – a comparative perspective

Anthony Gafoor

Chapter 8: From Haven to Blacklist: UK, EU and Caribbean Co-operation on tax avoidance, after BREXIT

Stuart MacLennan

Chapter 9: Impoverished Law: A Review of Trinidad and Tobago’s Immigration Act

Aschille Clarke-Mendes

PART IV: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND REGIONAL GOVERNANCE ISSUES IN THE EU-CARICOM

Chapter 10: CARICOM Regional Integration and Challenges in Maritime Law – a case study of Guyana’s Offshore Energy Developments

Alicia Elias-Roberts

Chapter 11: SDGs and its impact on African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States and CARICOM – soft law on its way through the legal order

Winfried Huck

Chapter 12: National Champions and their impact on trade, trade policy and SDGs

Fabian Stancke

Chapter 13: Charting a path to sustainable development: goals of CARICOM and the EU

Cherisse Francis

CONCLUSIONS

Chapter 14: Reflections for the future