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Winston Anderson was born in
Saint Ann’s Bay and raised in Brittonville, Saint Ann,
Jamaica. He attended the Brittonville Primary School and
later the Ferncourt High School in Clermont, Saint Ann
from which he subsequently transferred to the Saint
Andrew Technical High School (STATHS) in Kingston. He
entered the Faculty of Law, University of the West
Indies in 1980, and graduated in 1983 with the Degree of
Bachelor of Laws, Upper Second Class Honours. From 1983
to 1984 he taught International Law, among other
subjects, at his Alma Mater, whilst pursuing the
Masters in Law degree there.
In 1984, Dr Anderson proceeded
on a Commonwealth Scholarship to Cambridge University in
England and graduated with a Doctorate in Philosophy in
1988 majoring in International and Environmental Law.
Also, in 1988, he completed a course of training at the
Inns of Court School of Law in London (with Honours) and
was called to the Bar of England and Wales, as a
Barrister of the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn.
He rejoined the Faculty of Law
of the University of the West Indies in 1988 and was
called to the Bar of Barbados in 1989. He was awarded
indefinite tenure at the University of the West Indies
in 1994. From 1994-1995 he was research Fellow at the
University of Sheffield. In 1996 Dr. Anderson was
appointed Senior Lecturer on Fellowship Leave at the
University of Western Australia, and in 1999 became
Senior Lecturer in the University of the West Indies on
indefinite tenure. He was appointed Executive Director
(Ag) of the Caribbean Law Institute Centre for the
academic year 2000-2001.
Dr. Anderson was appointed the
General Counsel of the Caribbean Community Secretariat
on secondment from the University of the West Indies,
2003-2006. In 2006 he was appointed Professor in the
Faculty of Law, University of the West Indies. Professor
Anderson’s major publications include, The Law of
Caribbean Marine Pollution, published by Kluwer Law
International, The Netherlands, 1997; Elements of
Private International Law (2003, Caribbean Law
Publishers); and Private International Family Law
(2005, Caribbean Law Publishers). Professor Anderson is
pursuing the publication of several other books on
aspects of Caribbean jurisprudence.
Following his return to the
Faculty of Law in 2006, Professor Anderson was appointed
Executive Director (Ag) of the Caribbean Law Institute
Centre; and was appointed Executive Director in December
2007, a position he holds at present.
Professor Anderson is married
to Dr. Sandra Anderson, a graduate teacher in the public
service of the Government of Barbados, and they have
three children.
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