Professor David S Berry, BA (UT), LLB (UBC), LLM (Queen’s), PhD (Edin)

Professor Berry is an attorney-at-law, Professor of International Law and Regional Integration Law in the Faculty of Law, the University of the West Indies (UWI), Cave Hill Campus and consultant to the practice. He is on the Roll of Eminent Caribbean International Law Jurists (conferred by the CCJ Academy for Law), a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb.) and a recipient of the Principal’s Award for Excellence (Academic category) at UWI.

Professor Berry practices in various areas of international law, primarily serving Governments and regional and international organisations. He has served as Deputy Agent, counsel or legal adviser in cases before a range of international tribunals, including the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the Caribbean Court of Justice and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Counsel.

Professor Berry served for eight years as Dean of the Faculty of Law of UWI, Cave Hill Campus, and for four years as University Dean of Law. He teaches in the areas of general public international law, regional integration law and international commercial arbitration. He has written books, chapters and journal articles in those fields as well as in the areas of constitutional law, indigenous rights, law of the sea and legal theory. His book, Caribbean Integration Law (OUP, 2014), is widely cited and used by jurists, practitioners and students across the Caribbean.

His article on the law of the sea is available open access from the journal Frontiers in Marine Science: Frontiers | Unity or Fragmentation in the Deep Blue: Choices in Institutional Design for Marine Biological Diversity in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction | Marine Science (frontiersin.org). Professor Berry served as Barbados’ Alternative Representative, and as the CARICOM Lead on Area Based Management Tools, to the Inter-governmental Conference which concluded the BBNJ Agreement to protect and safeguard the world’s marine biodiversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction. He also served as the Legal Consultant to the Caribbean Shipping Lanes Project, UWI, and was accredited as a Barbados representative to the International Maritime Organization for the IMO’s 2nd Extraordinary Session of the Marine Environment Protection Committee and the 20th meeting of the Inter-Sessional Working Group on Greenhouse Gases.