Introduction to Caribbean Legal Systems & Methods

This course provides a brief introduction to the Common Law System, which is the dominant system of law throughout the Commonwealth Caribbean, and the “mixed” system of Common Law and Civil Law in the case of St. Lucia, and the Common Law and Roman-Dutch Law in the case of Guyana. The bulk of the course, however, focuses on the study of legal reasoning under the Common Law System, such as obtains in England and the Commonwealth Caribbean, and begins with an overview of the Court Structure of the Commonwealth Caribbean.