Notes on Contributors

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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

CELIA BLAKE

Celia Blake is a Senior Lecturer at the University of the West Indies where her teaching

assignments include corporate law. She has served as a Commissioner of the Financial

Services Commission, Jamaica’s securities, insurance and pensions regulator, and has

also been a board member of the country’s central bank. In addition to her body of

research and publications in language and the law/forensic linguistics, she has written

on issues involving fi nancial regulation in the Caribbean, including judicial oversight

of fi nancial regulatory action and regulatory aspects in cross-border insolvency. In this

volume, she considers the legal position of the directors of fi nancial regulators in the

Commonwealth Caribbean and provides an insight into their role in institutional and

regulatory governance.

JANET DINE

Janet Dine was educated at King’s College, London, 1969–1972 (LLB) and 1979 (PhD)

and at the Inns of Court of Law, 1973, and practised as a barrister dealing with crimi-

nal and commercial cases. She became a lecturer at King’s College London between

1978 and 1992 in charge of the London LLM, coordinating the courses at all of the

London Colleges, and became Director of the Centre of European Law at King’s and

taught on Criminal Law, European Law, Confl ict of Laws and Company Law. In 1990

she was appointed legal adviser on the European Company Statute in the House of

Lords’ Committee on the European Communities. Professor Dine was appointed as

a Reader at the University of Essex in 1992 teaching Company Law, Criminal Law

and European Law. From 1992 to 2001 she was a Commissioner for Friendly Societies

(a government appointment). She was promoted to a Chair at Essex University and

became the Head of the Law School in 1994 until 1997. She took an MA in Theology

and Society (2002) at the University of Essex.

In 2003 Professor Dine was appointed as a commercial law expert in a project

funded by the World Bank, the EU and the Deutsche Gesellschaft fűr Internationale

Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH which aimed to assist the Balkan states to join the

EU. She drafted laws and advised governments in Kosovo, Serbia, Montenegro and

Albania to align their law with the EU acquis communautaire. With Michael Blecher she

drafted ‘Albanian Law 9901 on Entrepreneurs and Companies’ of 14 A pril 2008.

In 2005, Professor Dine was appointed as the Director of the Centre of Commer-

cial Law Studies at Queen Mary College, London.

SUZANNE FFOLKES-GOLDSON

Mrs Suzanne Ffolkes-Goldson is an Attorney at Law, Lecturer and former Deputy

Dean for Graduate Matters & External A airs, in the Faculty of Law at the UWI

Mona Campus. She specialises in Corporate Governance, Criminal Law, Company/