Guest Lectures on Climate Law, Maritime Law and Criminology by Alana Malinde S.N. Lancaster (University of West Indies, Barbados)

We are pleased to inform that we will host a visiting lecturer from the University of West Indies, (Cave Hill, Barbados), Alana Malinde S.N. Lancaster.

Our guest will give lectures at our Faculty, on: 

Especially for students of Legal Studies:

• April 25, 2:15 – 5:00 PM, Aud. C: The Wider Caribbean Region and the Baltic Sea
   
• April 26, 2:00 – 4:00 PM, Aud. B: Climate Change and the Regional Seas Regime, Oil Spills and Land-based Sources of Pollution

Especially for students of Criminology and Criminal Justice:

• April 26, 12:15 AM – 2:00 PM, Classroom 3050: Environmental, Fisheries and Marine-related Crime 

All members of our Faculty community are very welcome to attend!

Alana Malinde S.N. Lancaster is a Lecturer in International Environmental & Energy Law at the Faculty of Law at The UWI Cave Hill, a Co-Investigator and  Member of the Executive Team of the GCRF-funded One Ocean Hub. Alana specializes in international, regional (CARICOM and OECS) and comparative marine and environmental law, and has increasingly incorporated a focus on human rights to a healthy, sustainable marine environment, social equity in small-scale fisheries, blue crime & justice, climate justice, and the rights of children and youth to a healthy environment. Before joining the Faculty, Alana was a Director at the Environmental Protection Agency of Guyana and lectured at the University of Guyana. Most recently, she was appointed as the Regional Deputy Director of the GNHRE for the Caribbean Region, the GESAMP Working Group 41 on ‘Ocean Interventions for Climate Change Mitigation’ (formerly the GESAMP Working Group on Marine Geoengineering) and is among twenty-one members from 11 countries on the Technical Advisory Group to the LAC UNESCO Sites Climate Change, Risk and Resilience Platform. She also serves on the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law Climate Change Law Specialist Group; the EIA and ABMT Working Groups of the CARICOM Advisory Group on Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction, and represents The University of the West Indies on the Coordinating Committee and National Working Group for the GEF Islands Child Project 10279 Project, a five-year project which aims to strengthen the mechanisms for the environmentally sound management of chemicals and wastes in Barbados.

Alana’s recent research includes work on the blue economy, decolonialisation and gender in addressing environmental issues affecting women, children,Indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples in the C&OC’s small-scale fisheries to commemorate IYAFA 2022, marine renewables in the C&OC, and the role of early career researchers (ECRs) in transformative and transdisciplinary ocean governance.