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Dr Se-shauna Wheatle's Outputs (6)

The Structure of Common Law Constitutionalism (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wheatle, S. (2020, December). The Structure of Common Law Constitutionalism. Paper presented at Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) Conference

Contradictions in faith in the Caribbean context: postcolonialism, religion and the constitution (2020)
Journal Article
Campbell, Y., & Wheatle, S. (2020). Contradictions in faith in the Caribbean context: postcolonialism, religion and the constitution. Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 58(3), 277-284. https://doi.org/10.1080/14662043.2020.1782624

Revealing an enduring tension between law and religion and between colonial and independence institutions of law and politics, the Caribbean functions as a site of contestations over ̶ and responses to ̶ religion, identity, and rights. Both the postc... Read More about Contradictions in faith in the Caribbean context: postcolonialism, religion and the constitution.

Constitutional Faith and Identity in the Caribbean: Tradition, Politics and the Creolisation of Caribbean Constitutional Law (2020)
Journal Article
Wheatle, S., & Campbell, Y. (2020). Constitutional Faith and Identity in the Caribbean: Tradition, Politics and the Creolisation of Caribbean Constitutional Law. Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 58(3), 344-365. https://doi.org/10.1080/14662043.2020.1773637

This article maintains that in order to develop constitutional faith in the region, there must be both a firm constitutional identity and trust in the state’s capacity to deliver important public goods. The limited growth of both constitutional ident... Read More about Constitutional Faith and Identity in the Caribbean: Tradition, Politics and the Creolisation of Caribbean Constitutional Law.