Jan Yves Remy PhD.
Director 1-246-417-4585 janyves.remy@cavehill.uwi.edu
Biography
Dr. Jan Yves Remy became the Director of the SRC on August 1 2021, having joined as Deputy Director in August 2018. She is an international trade lawyer who, over the course of her twenty year career, has advised governments and private stakeholders on international trade matters, with a focus on dispute settlement under the auspices of the World Trade Organization (WTO). In her capacity as SRC Director, she is in charge of co-ordinating the SRC’s flagship Masters in International Trade Policy Programme (MITP), in which she also lectures in law and trade aspects of Caribbean regional integration. She has also designed and implemented a number of short courses which the Centre runs in collaboration with strategic international partners, including the WTO and the OECS Commission. She spearheaded the SRC’s Trading Thoughts bi-monthly column and monthly SRC Lunch Time Chats which she frequently contributes to.
She researches, writes and produces commentaries on international trade dispute settlement regimes, climate change and trade, WTO reform, trade and gender issues, e-commerce, regional integration and investment policy, in particular, how they affect small island states including those in the Caribbean. She is Barbados Chair under the WTO’s Chair Programme and has served as a WTO Panelist under the dispute settlement arm of the World Trade Organization and is an appointed arbitrator under a number of dispute settlement mechanisms under free trade agreements.
Jan Yves keeps abreast of topics and issues relevant to Caribbean governments relating to international law and policy and has been a featured speaker at a number of Caribbean and international seminars and conferences. Consultancies include work with the World Bank on Subsidies; with CARICOM and WTI Advisors on ecommerce strategies in the context of ongoing plurilateral negotiations on trade-related aspects of e-commerce at the WTO; and with the Commonwealth Secretariat on Natural Disasters and Climate Change.
Education
- PhD: International Law: The Role of the Caribbean Court of Justice (Original Jurisdiction) in Caribbean Integration” (summa cum laude) – Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva, Switzerland).
- LL.M in Commercial and International Law (Hons) – University of Cambridge (Cambridge, United Kingdom).
- LL.B (Hons) – University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus (Barbados).
- Bar Vocational Course a Inns of Court School of Law (London, United Kingdom).
Research Interests
- Caribbean Court of Justice
- E-commerce/Digital Trade
- Regional Integration
- WTO Dispute Settlement
- Gender and Trade
Select Publications/Presentations
- Working Paper FC/EU-LAC: The Promise of a Recalibrated Caribbean-European Union Partnership (co-authored with Junior Lodge) (2022) available here: (https://www.fundacioncarolina.es/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Especial_FC_EULAC_3_EN.pdf)
- Guest editor of Special Edition of Latin American Journal of Trade Policy on “Thematic Issue: Gender and Trade WCP” (co-edited with other WTO Chairs of Chile and Mexico) Available here: https://lajtp.uchile.cl/
- SRC Policy Brief entitled: “The Trade and Climate Change Interface: Initial Considerations for CARICOM” (co-authored by Rueanna Haynes and Kaycia Ellis-Bourne)Available here: https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.86/dk4.d52.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/The-Trade-and-Climate-Change-Interface-Policy-Brief.pdf
- Introduction and Editorial: Exploring Contemporary Caribbean Global Political-Economic Relations: China in the Caribbean (2021) in Global Discourse An interdisciplinary journal of current affairs (co-authored with Dr Ronnie Yearwood) available here: https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bup/gd/2021/00000011/00000004/art00001
- Caribbean Court of Justice: Digest of Case Law of Judgments in the Original Jurisdiction (available: https://ccj.org/the-digest-of-original-jurisdiction-cases/)
- Opinio Juris online blog on ILC Draft Articles on State Responsibility, as applied to the WTO, July-August, 2021: https://www.ejiltalk.org/the-ilc-articles-at-20-introduction-to-the-symposium/
- Forthcoming book: “The Role of the Caribbean Court of Justice (Original Jurisdiction) in Regional Integration” (PhD manuscript) (Routledge)
- Book Chapter: “Rules for State Owned Enterprises” (Chapter 17) in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement: Balancing Market-Oriented Discipline and Policy for States(co-authored with Iain Sandford) (OUP)
- Book Chapter: “Development, Aid and Preferential Systems” in The Oxford Handbook of International Trade Law(co-authored with Alicia Nicholls) (OUP)
- Chapter on “The Current State of Dispute Settlement at the WTO: How did we get here and What Next”? in Rethinking, Repackaging and Rescuing World Trade Law in the Post Pandemic Era(Hart Publishing)
- “Dispute Settlement at the WTO: How Did We Get Here and What’s Next for Commonwealth States?” Trade Hot Topics (Commonwealth Secretariat): (Issue 166/September 2020): Available at: https://thecommonwealth.org/sites/default/files/inline/THT_166_UPDF.pdf
- “Our Trade Vulnerability Index Explained: Why, What, How and What’s Next” Co-authored with Jason Cotton (CDB) (August 2020). Available at: https://www.afronomicslaw.org/2020/08/19/our-trade-vulnerability-index-explained-why-what-how-and-whats-next/
- “A Holistic Approach to Digital Trade: Closing the Digital Gender Divide” (2019) Co-authored with Chelcee Brathwaite. Available here:https://secureservercdn.net/198.71.233.86/dk4.d52.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Remy_Brathwaite_A-Holistic-Approach-to-Digital-Trade-Long-Version.pdf.
- “COVID-19 Makes the Case for Our Trade Vulnerability Index” (May 2020). (co-authored with Cotton, J. Jason, and Alicia Nicholls (Available at Afronomics Law Blog: https://www.afronomicslaw.org/2020/05/10/covid-19-makes-the-case-for-our-trade-vulnerability-index/)
- “The Belt and Road Initiative and the Caribbean-China Investment Policy Framework” in Caribbean Perspectives on the Belt and Road Initiative (UWI-GLOBAL Belt and Road Research Bulletin, January 2020) (Co-authored with Alicia Nicholls)
- “Closing the Gender Divide Through Trade Rules” (October 2019), CIGI Publication
- “Mainstreaming Gender in Trade Agreements (October 2018), CIGI Publication
SRC Working Papers/Policy Documents (available at: https://shridathramphalcentre.com/src-research-papers/ )