Gabrielle Elliott-Williams

Bio:

Gabrielle is a PhD student in UCL’s Faculty of Laws. Her research focuses on the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), established in 2001, which operates with a unique dual jurisdiction: as an apex court for some Caribbean states and as a regional integration court under its original jurisdiction.

Gabrielle's research employs constitutional theory as well as comparative and socio-legal methods to examine the Court’s integration and self-definition work across its jurisdictions. Her work aligns well with the Centre’s focus on the relationship between constitutional structures and democratic government, as well as on identifying the supporting conditions for constitutional resilience, since the CCJ contributes to shaping constitutional identity and governance in the region through a distinctly decolonial brand of transnational constitutionalism.

Gabrielle is a lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of the West Indies, Mona. She holds an LLM from the University of Cambridge, where she received the Hugh Bevan Prize for the most distinguished performance by a Wolfson College student in the LLM programme, and an LLB (Hons) from the University of the West Indies.

Representative publications: 

Gabrielle Elliott-Williams, Tracy Robinson, Kamille Adair Morgan, Jeffrey Foreman, Dione Jackson-Miller and Tenesha Myrie, ‘Jamaica: Legal Response to Covid-19’, in Jeff King and Octávio LM Ferraz et al (eds), The Oxford Compendium of National Legal Responses to Covid-19 (OUP 2021)

Gabrielle Elliott-Williams, ‘Who Belongs?: The Caribbean Court of Justice Reveals Caribbean Identity’s Inclusive Potentiality’ (2020) 69(1/2) Social and Economic Studies 73

Gabrielle Elliott-Williams, ‘The CCJ Decolonizing Caribbean Constitutionalism’ (2019) 45(4) Commonwealth Law Bulletin 742