Dr. Christopher Malcolm | Faculty of Law

Dr.
Christopher
Malcolm

Job title:

Senior Lecturer (On Leave for 2024/2025)

Education:

LL.B. Hons. (UWI) LL.M. & Ph.D. (Lond), FCIArb, FAiADR

Professional Affiliation:

Attorney-at-Law

Telephone:

876-927-1855

Email:

christopher.malcolm@uwimona.edu.jm

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Overview

Dr Christopher Malcolm ’93 is a Senior Lecturer and Director of the Mona Law Institutes Unit, as well as an attorney-at-law admitted to practice in Belize, the BVI, Dominica, Jamaica and St. Lucia. He is a Fellow of and a certified trainer for the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He is also a former Attorney General of British Virgin Islands and oversaw the enactment of that territory’s 2013 Arbitration Act while serving as Attorney General. Dr. Malcolm has served in many and varied capacities on specialised bodies and processes related to dispute resolution. In this field, he is a central figure in the Caribbean in developing collaborative training initiatives for practitioners, technical support for legislative reform and building institutions that enhance the provision of dispute resolution services.

Research Interests:

Regional Integration and Economic Development

Banking and Financial Law

Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution

Construction and Real Estate Law

Corporate and Commercial Law

Courses :

Contract Law II

Alternative Dispute Resolution

Profile

Dr. Malcolm is an expert in dispute resolution methodologies. He was a Member of the Technical Advisory Group concerned with Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution on the Improved Access to Justice in the Caribbean (IMPACT). This group oversaw the production of a regional model arbitration bill. He was a member of the Steering Committee that worked to establish the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Caribbean Branch) and he served as its second Chair from 2014-2107. In that role, he prepared the document now relied upon as a point of departure when considering implementation of the UN Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Model Law for International Commercial Arbitration. He is also Secretary General of the Jamaica International Arbitration Centre Limited and a Fellow of the Asian Institute of Alternative Dispute Resolution, as well as the Dispute Resolution Centre of Trinidad and Tobago.

Research

The Jamaica Arbitration Act 2017 repealed and replaced the Arbitration Act 1900. A central goal of the new law is to provide a framework for Jamaica to be able to secure meaningfully participation in and derive sustainable value from the lucrative global arbitration economy.

Dr Malcolm was instrumental in the process for the enactment of the new Jamaica Arbitration Act 2017. In February 2010, Dr. Malcolm organised a MonaLaw Workshop, Modernising the Framework for Arbitration in Jamaica: Identifying the Imperatives and Crafting an Implementable Plan of Action. The recorded proceedings were relied upon in developing the policy and implementation strategy that culminated in the Jamaican Arbitration Act, 2017. Those proceedings also informed an agenda that is now culminating in arbitration law reform and implementation across the region.

Publications

Chapters in Books:

C.P Malcolm, ‘Jamaica Chapter’ in L Mistelis, L Shore & H Smit (eds) World Arbitration Reporter (2nd edn Juris Publishing 2010).

D. Byron and C.P Malcolm, ‘CARICOM’ in Max Planck Public International Law Encyclopaedia (Oxford University Press 2009).

C.P Malcolm, ‘Financial Harmonisation in the OECS: Implications for CARICOM’ in K Hall & D Benn (eds) Production Integration in CARICOM: From Theory to Action (Ian Randle Publishers Kingston 2006).

Articles:

CP Malcolm, “Geo-political Insignificance, Information Sharing, and Economic Survival: An Unofficial Perspective from within the Caribbean Region” (2013) 19 Law and Business Review of the Americas 23.

C.P Malcolm, ‘And then there was One – An Overview of the Fifth Summit of the Americas’ (Law and Business Review of the Americas, Volume 16 Number 1, Winter 2010).

C.P Malcolm, ‘Constructing a Financial Integration Model for CARICOM: Essential Provisions and Agenda for Reform’ (Law and Business Review of the Americas, Volume 14 Number 3, Summer 2008).

C.P Malcolm, ‘Re-thinking the Framework for Regulation of the Jamaican Financial Sector’ (Journal of International Banking Regulation, Volume 5 Number 4, July 2004).

C.P Malcolm, ‘Dispute Settlement Vulnerability: Distilling Some Concerns for Small Latin American and Caribbean States under the Proposed’ FTAA (Law and Business Review of the Americas, Volume 10 Issue 4, Special Summer 2004 Publication).

C.P Malcolm, ‘Caribbean Integration within the CARICOM Framework: The Socio-historical, Economic and Political Dynamics of a Regional Response to a Global Phenomenon’ (Law and Business Review of the Americas, Volume 10 Issue 3, Autumn 2004).

C.P Malcolm, ‘The Settlement of Foreign Investment Disputes: Distilling some of the Considerations for Jamaican Arbitration Practitioners’ (Caribbean Law Review, June & December 2004).

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