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Dr. Christopher P Malcolm, FCIArb, FAIADR, CIP
Over twenty years’ experience as a Legal Management Professional, Academician, International Legal Consultant, highlighted by progressively responsible and diversified experience in public sector and competitive business environments spanning: international and comparative arbitration and alternative dispute resolution (ADR), contract law, regulation and compliance, banking and finance, international trade and investment, competition and consumer protection, legal drafting, regional integration and economic development.
A strategic thinker, visionary, doer, skilled supervisor, trainer, leader, and motivator. Proven ability to work effectively with organizational leadership and workplace personnel.
Take a look at some of what I do
| Malcolm Gordon, Attorneys-at-Law | Partner – Focus areas in practice are Dispute Management (including mediation, facilitated contract renegotiation, arbitration, adjudication and litigation), Banking and Finance, Trade and Investment. |
- Lead Counsel in an international arbitration where the substantive dispute concerned a claimed breach of a construction contract between a Canadian statutory corporation and one in a Caribbean jurisdiction.
- Counsel in an international arbitration where the substantive dispute concerned claimed liability for hurricane damage to a marine development in the Caribbean region.
- Lead counsel on behalf of a Government in the Caribbean region in an arbitration where the substantive dispute concerned a claimed breach of contract for construction of a water treatment facility.
Recent engagements have included:
- Sole Arbitrator in an international arbitration seated in the Eastern Caribbean where the substantive dispute concerned a claimed breach of a trade financing arrangement.
- Sole Arbitrator in an arbitration seated in the Eastern Caribbean concerning a land development project.
- Sole Arbitrator in an international arbitration seated in Jamaica where the substantive dispute concerned a claimed breach of a supply of goods contract.
Served as principal legal advisor to the Governor and to the Government of the British Virgin Islands from 1 January 2012 – 31 December 2014.
Lecturer
| Faculty of Law, The UWI, Mona Campus | Senior Lecturer – Areas of teaching focus are Contract Law and Alternative Dispute Resolution |
Scholar
- Principal’s Award for Research, 2019 (The UWI, Mona Campus)
- International Financial Law Unit, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London Scholar, 2004
- Commonwealth Scholar, 2002
Selected Publications
An illustrative list of selected publications includes:
- CP Malcolm, Preparing for Harvest in a Perfect Storm: Dispute Management in a Time of Crisis, The Commonwealth Lawyer, August 2020
- CP Malcolm, Dispute Management in a Time of COVID-19, The Jamaica Observer, 12 April 2020
- CP Malcolm, ‘Taking Law to the Streets: Fostering a new form of engagement in support of economic development through community-centred legal education’ in D McQuoid-Mason, Street Law and public legal education: A collection of best practices from around the world in honour of Ed O’Brien (JUTA Law, Cape Town, South Africa, 2019)
- CP Malcolm, “Jamaica Chapter” in L Mistelis, L Shore & H Smith (eds) World Arbitration Reporter (2nd edn Juris Publishing 2018)
- CP Malcolm, Geo-political Insignificance, Information Sharing, and Economic Survival: An Unofficial Perspective from within the Caribbean Region (Law and Business Review of the Americas, Winter 2013)
- D Byron and CP Malcolm, ‘CARICOM’ in Max Planck Public International Law Encyclopaedia (Oxford University Press 2009)
- D Byron and CP Malcolm, ‘Caribbean Court of Justice’ in Max Planck Public International Law Encyclopaedia (Oxford University Press 2009)
- CP Malcolm ‘Constructing a Financial Integration Model for CARICOM: Essential Provisions and Agenda for Reform’ (Law and Business Review of the Americas, Volume 14 Number 3, Summer 2008)
- CP Malcolm, ‘Financial Harmonisation in the OECS: Implications for CARICOM’ (ch 16) in K Hall & D Benn (eds) Production Integration in CARICOM: From Theory to Action (Ian Randle Publishers Kingston 2006)
- CP Malcolm, ‘Re-thinking the Framework for Regulation of the Jamaican Financial Sector’ (Journal of International Banking Regulation, Volume 5 Number 4, July 2004)
- CP Malcolm, ‘Dispute Settlement Vulnerability: Distilling Some Concerns for Small Latin American and Caribbean States under the Proposed’ FTAA (Law and Business Review of the Americas, Volume 10 Issue 4, Special Summer 2004 Publication)
- CP Malcolm, ‘Caribbean Integration within the CARICOM Framework: The Socio-historical, Economic and Political Dynamics of a Regional Response to a Global Phenomenon’ (Law and Business Review of the Americas, Volume 10 Issue 3, Autumn 2004)
- CP Malcolm, ‘The Settlement of Foreign Investment Disputes: Distilling some of the Considerations for Jamaican Arbitration Practitioners’ (Caribbean Law Review, June & December 2004)
- I-Neutral, a global online dispute resolution platform (https://ineutral.jaic.org)
- Coffee Time @ JAIAC (https://coffeejaiac.com)
- Senior Legal Advisor, Minister of Justice (Jamaica)
| JAIAC (https://jaiac.org) Jamaica International Arbitration Centre Limited |
Founder and Secretary General |
| CiADR Caribbean Institute of Alternative Dispute Resolution Limited |
Founder and President |
| Street Law Caribbean Street Law Caribbean Limited |
Founder and Executive Director |
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- Dispute Management in the New World: Conversations with Dr Christopher Malcolm
- Arbitration Week Jamaica
- CIArb Centenary event for the Caribbean Branch
- Street Law projects in Jamaica and across the Caribbean region.
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