Jason Haynes, PhD

Affiliation: University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus

Dr. Jason Haynes is Deputy Dean (Graduate Studies & Research) at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados. He previously served as Senior Legal Officer at the British High Commission, Bridgetown, Barbados, where he acted in the capacity of an international lawyer for the UK Crown Prosecution Service’s (CPS) International Division. He is an Academic Fellow at the Honourable Society of Middle Temple, UK; an O’Brien Fellow in Residence at McGill University, Canada; and a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. He is an attorney-at-law admitted to practice in St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Barbados, and is the author of the monograph, Caribbean Anti-Trafficking Law and Practice (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2019), which has been well received by lawyers and judges globally, including Mrs. Justice Maura McGowan DBE QC, High Court Judge of England and Wales, who has described the book in her review as “a challenging intellectual workout”. Jason has recently been appointed as a Trafficking in Persons (TIP) International Legal Consultant for the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative (ABA ROLI) in Barbados, and is the National Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery at the International Academy of Comparative.

Research Interests:

• Labour Exploitation

• Sexual Exploitation

• Exploitation within Supply Chains

• Trafficking in Comparative Perspectives

• Caribbean Anti-Trafficking Law and Practice