The UWI mourns Nicholas Liverpool: visionary, pioneer, builder of people and institutions

The University of the West Indies, Vice-Chancellery: the collective Faculty of Law, the University of the West-Indies (the UWI), mourns the passing of one of its stalwarts, Dr. The Hon Nicholas Liverpool, a founding dean of the Faculty of Law, then at Cave Hill, former president of the Commonwealth of Dominica and judge on the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court.

Dr. Liverpool was honoured at an exhibition at the Faculty of Law for The UWI’s 60th Anniversary in recognition of his immeasurable contribution to the Faculty, The UWI and the Commonwealth Caribbean. Two of his daughters are also graduates of The UWI’s Faculty of Law.

In a tribute by Professor Rose-Marie Belle Antoine, University Dean of Law, she notes that ‘he was a true visionary – a pioneer and builder, of both people and of institutions’. One of The UWI’s early scholars in Law Reform, Legal Systems and Real Property, it was perhaps in public and institutional service that Dr. Liverpool made his greatest contributions. It was Dr. Liverpool who started the Caribbean Law Institute Clinic, the USAID project at The UWI, facilitated the Faculty’s entry into international mooting and so much more.

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