Shepard Broad Law Center

In Families Redefined, the authors recognize that numerous families extant today include those founded on kinship relationships. Kinship relationships are non-conjugal consensual adult relationship based on emotional and economic interdependence. Similar to marriage, civil unions and domestic partnerships, these relationships deserve and require legal protections and benefits to sustain them.This article examines 1) the nature of kinship families, 2) the benefits accorded to married couples, 3) kinship families that lack protection and benefits, 4) the impact of denying kinship protection and benefits, 5) the use of contract law in kinship relationship and 6) using legislation to benefit kinship relationships. The article advocates for the expansion of legal concepts of family to include kinship relationships by comparing the treatment of these issues in various states and nations. In this manner, the authors support a new definition of family that goes beyond conjugal arrangements.

British Honduras, British Guiana, Dutch Guiana and French Guiana. Colonial settlement in Belize (British Honduras), Guyana (British Guiana), Guyane (French Guiana) and Suriname (Dutch Guiana) began with incursions into Spanish territory. Spanish discovery of Guiana occurred in 1499, after Christopher Columbus' third voyage to the America in 1498, and Spain laid claim to all of Guiana and Central America. Nonetheless, Dutch trade in Guiana began shortly after Netherland gained independence from Spain in the late 1500's. Spain sanctioned Dutch trade in the region and Dutch settlements emerged in the early 1600's. By 1665, immigrants from the Netherlands, Great Britain and France had established settlements in various areas of Guiana. About the same time, in Central America, English and Scottish buccaneers and logwood and mahogany cutters were also making incursions into Spanish territory. No one country was able to occupy more than a few areas scattered throughout the infiltrated regions.

On 14 February 2009, His Excellency Judge Patrick L. Robinson of Jamaica, President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), spoke at the Nova Southeastern University (NSU) Shepard Broad Law Center, for Black History Month. The event was initiated by the Consul General of Jamaica and co-sponsored by the Caribbean Law Programs, the Inter-American Center for Human Rights of NSU Law Center, the Latin American Caribbean Forum of NSU's Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Unique Creations, Inc. After the presentation, Judge Robinson submitted his speech for publication to the ILSA Journal of International and Comparative Law. Judge Robison's comments are insightful and timely in their exploration of the interaction between the common law and civil law systems in the structure and procedure for the ICTY. Judge Robinson has served as the President of the ICTY since 17 November 2008, and has been on the ICTY since 1998. He has served...

Snow whose support and guidance has been invaluable to my success and sanity in this process. In addition, I thank Andrea Ewart and Kenneth Lewis for their invaluable comments on this article. Moreover, I wish to acknowledge my indebtedness to my colleagues in the American and Caribbean Law Initiative. Finally, I salute the courage, persistence and optimism of the Caribbean people as they chart the course to increasing regional integration. 2020

Drafting and researching a dual education proposal for Nova Southeastern University College of Law and the Council of Legal Education law schools in the Caribbean; recruitment of distinguishing visiting law professors; acting as liaison with Caribbean community in South Florida; coordinating summer law conferences on issues in Caribbean law; and proposing and developing programs concerning Caribbean law.

Although coaching has seen tremendous growth and success, it is still regarded as controversial because there is no governing body that oversees coaches or the coaching industry. In this manner, the industry has not achieved uniformity, therefore is under much scrutiny with regards to the validity of the industry as a whole. With female entrepreneurship on the rise, many industry personnel are hiring business coaches to teach them the business building skills they need to start their solo ventures. This study aimed to understand the perceptions of the one-on-one business coaching experience from the perspective of the client. Because there seemed to be no empirical evidence regarding one-on-one coaching and female entrepreneurs, the purpose of this case study was to relate the experiences of women online entrepreneurs who had undergone one-on-one business coaching to build their brands. Quantitative elements were documented during the course of the study when appropriate, but the focus was primarily on perceptions of how one-onone business coaching could contribute to success. By surveying female online entrepreneurs who had experienced one-on-one business coaching, women considering entering the world of solo ventures and business building could empirically see evidence of the effects of one-on-one coaching. Business coaches who served this population were also be able to use this research as a tool that enabled them to develop useful coaching curricula in their own practices, particularly as it served female entrepreneurs. This research also added to the body of literature regarding both coaching and women entrepreneurs in the online space, because the relationship between the two had been under represented. v Acknowledgments You never really travel alone. Life is full of amazing people who sojourn with you along the way. This journey was no different, and I am so thankful God saw fit to put these people in my life. I would like to thank my family for their never-ending support in my seemingly crazy adventures. To my mom and brother who have supported every leap, thank you for your prayers and encouragement. My friends at The Brook who have become like family, I see no distinction. To The Kid, thank you for being you and teaching me more than you will ever know. To my colleagues of Co-hort 30, it would have been nearly impossible to make it this far without you all. The Faculty and Staff at NSU, especially my dissertation chair, Dr. Kimball, my committee member, Dr. Lucille Meisner, and my IRB representative, Dr. Andrew Buckner for finishing strong with me, and in such an expeditious manner. To my coaches (especially Stephan Lovegrove) who have held space for my success. Thank you for coming into my experience and showing me how to tap into my own greatness. To all of the women who participated in this study, thank you for your time and for being so transparent! And to all of my fellow coaches out there making it happen, thank you for being agents of change in our industry and in the world. In closing, I would like to dedicate this work to those who believe that they were meant for more. Remember, your dreams are your responsibilty. v

In Families Redefined: Kinship Groups that Deserve Benefits, the authors examine 1) the nature of kinship families, 2) the benefits accorded to married couples, 3) kinship families that lack protection and benefits, 4) the impact of denying kinship families protection and benefits, 5) the use of contract law in kinship relationships, and 6) using legislation to benefit kinship relationships. This exploration of expanding family law protections to kinship groups addresses a series of interrelated topics. The first two sections of the article explore the characteristics and creation of kinship families in different societies. The third section addresses the legal benefits provided by marriage, while the fourth and fifth sections examine, respectively, the types of kinship relationships that should have similar benefits and the effect of denying such benefits. The next two sections present legal solutions that propose using contract law and adopting legislation to provide legal protection and benefits to kinship units. Accordingly, the article advocates for the expansion of legal concepts of family to include kinship relationships by comparing the treatment of these issues in various states and nations. In this manner, the authors support a new definition of family that goes beyond conjugal arrangements.

An immensely plural amalgam of many older European laws and some local traditions, the legal systems of this region are prominently based on different types of civil law or common law, often specific mixtures of both. Considerable U.S. influence adds to the plethora of hybrid laws in the numerous independent nations of the Caribbean region, plus a variety of territories in various stages of affiliation and colonial dependency. Shared legal traditions are particularly evident in the former British Caribbean nations and territories and among countries/territories with a strong civil law tradition. However, Caribbean civil law systems are less similar to one another as a result of different colonization processes, the relative paucity of fully autonomous civil law states in the Caribbean, and the unique political histories of Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti.