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| Students may take part in the American and Caribbean Law
Initiative program as an extra-curricular activity. Thurgood
Marshall along with the Eugene Dupuch Law School in the Bahamas, the Hugh
Wooding Law School in Trinidad and Tobago, Howard University School of Law,
the Faculty of Law at the University of the West Indies in Barbados, Norman
Manley Law School in Kingston, Jamaica , Florida Coastal School of Law in
Jacksonville, Florida Shepard Broad Law Center of Nova Southeastern University
in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida have formed a consortium dedicated to the study
of domestic, international and comparative law issues involving several
countries of the Caribbean. The Initiative allows for the networking among
law schools as a resource for reviewing and evolving the law of participating
nations, creating an innovative learning and high impact public service
opportunity for students, create a means for the government officials, lawyers,
judges and legal educators to learn from their diverse experiences, and
create forums that bring experts from participating nations together regularly
to address common interest and concerns. The work of the Initiative involves
providing Caribbean legal authorities with a legal resource for information,
analysis, and strategies in substantive areas of the law. Attorney Generals
of various nations refer projects and legal issues to students to solve
through research and collaboration. The Initiative also sponsors forums
addressing international and comparative legal issues facing the Caribbean
nations. The first was held in July of 2004 in Ocho Rios, Jamaica. The Official
web-site of the American and Caribbean Law Initiative is www.fcsl.edu/acli/description/. |
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