Email: satate56@gmail.com

Professor Shirley Anne Tate, Sociology Department, University of Alberta  Canada and Visiting Professor in Institute for Reconciliation and Social Justice, University of the Free State, South Africa. Born and educated in Jamaica, she continues to have regular contact with the island. She has also done fieldwork in Trinidad and Tobago and has a general  knowledge of the rest of the Anglo-Hispano- and Francophone Caribbean. She is unprepared, however, to serve as a COI expert witness for the Dutch-speaking Caribbean.

Tel: 212-431-2126
Email: stacy-ann.elvy@nyls.edu

Dr Stacy-Ann Elvy is an Associate Professor of Law at New York Law School where she teaches Comparative Human Rights Systems, International Business Transactions, and Commercial Law. Professor Elvy is the associate director of the Center for Business and Financial Law at New York Law School and she is affiliated with the Center for International Law. Professor Elvy has also taught courses on Commonwealth Caribbean Legal Systems and has conducted extensive research on sexual violence against women in the Commonwealth Caribbean with a focus on Trinidad & Tobago and Jamaica. Her most recent article, A Postcolonial Theory of Spousal Rape: The Commonwealth Caribbean and Beyond has been published in the University of Michigan’s Journal of Gender and Law. Professor Elvy has served as an expert to the ABA-United Nations Development Program International Legal Resource Center and has provided legal opinions on anti-discrimination legislation proposal for Jamaica. Professor Elvy received her Bachelor of Science in Industrial Labor Relations from Cornell University in 2001 and was awarded her Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 2004. Professor Elvy’s scholarship has also been published in the Emory International Law Review and the University of Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law.