Staff profile

Se-shauna Wheatle joined Durham Law School in 2013, and teaches Comparative Constitutional Law and UK Constitutional Law. She was previously Lecturer in Law at Exeter College, University of Oxford, where she taught Constitutional Law and Administrative Law. She achieved her Bachelor of Laws (LLB) at the University of the West Indies before attending the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar to read for the Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) and Doctor of Philosophy in Law (DPhil).

Se-shauna's monograph, Principled Reasoning in Human Rights Adjudication, was shortlisted for the Society of Legal Scholars Birks Prize 2018. Her current research interests lie in comparative constitutionalism, comparative human rights, common law constitutionalism and implied constitutional principles. Her work has been published in journals such as Public Law, McGill Law Journal, the Journal of Comparative Law and the European Human Rights Law Review. She is also co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Constitutions.

 

• Rule of Law
• Comparative Constitutional Law
• UK Constitutional Law
• Common Law Constitutionalism
• Constitutional Principles
• Commonwealth Caribbean Human Rights

• Human Rights Centre

Available for media contact about:

• Human rights:

Authored book

• Wheatle, Se-shauna (2017). Principled Reasoning in Human Rights Adjudication. Oxford: Hart Publishing.

Book review

• Wheatle, Se-shauna (2015). Final Judgment: The Last Law Lords and the Supreme Court. Public Law 489-492.

Chapter in book

• Wheatle, Se-shauna (2022). The Unintended Consequences of Legislative Constitutionalism: The Common Law Constitution and Judicial Comparativism. In The New Labour Constitution: Twenty Years On. Gordon, Michael & Tucker, Adam Bloomsbury. 63-84.
• Wheatle, Se-shauna (2020). Constitutional Principles: Forging Caribbean Constitutionalism. In The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Constitutions. Albert, Richard, O'Brien, Derek & Wheatle, Se-shauna Oxford: Oxford University Press. 79-104.
• Wheatle, Se-shauna (2020). Access to Justice: From Judicial Empowerment to Public Empowerment. In Common Law Constitutional Rights. Elliott, Mark & Hughes, Kirsty Bloomsbury. 49-70.
• Masterman, Roger & Wheatle, Se-shauna (2018). Unity, Disunity and Vacuity: Constitutional Adjudication and the Common Law. In The Unity of Public Law? Doctrinal, Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives. Elliott, Mark, Varuhas, Jason & Wilson Stark, Shona Oxford: Hart Publishing. 123-148.

Edited book

• Albert, Richard, O'Brien, Derek & Wheatle, Se-shauna (2020). The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Constitutions. Oxford Handbooks. Oxford University Press.

Journal Article

• Wheatle, Se-shauna (2022). Responsive Judicial Review and Multipolar Constitutional Theories. National Law School of India Review 34(2): 94-103.
• Campbell, Yonique & Wheatle, Se-Shauna (2020). Contradictions in faith in the Caribbean context: postcolonialism, religion and the constitution. Commonwealth & Comparative Politics 58(3): 277-284.
• Wheatle, Se-shauna & Campbell, Yonique (2020). Constitutional Faith and Identity in the Caribbean: Tradition, Politics and the Creolisation of Caribbean Constitutional Law. Commonwealth and Comparative Politics 58(3): 344-365.
• Wheatle, Se-shauna (2019). Common Law Constitutionalism Through Methodology. McGill Law Journal 65(2): 341.
• Masterman, Roger & Wheatle, Se-shauna (2017). Unpacking separation of powers: judicial independence, sovereignty and conceptual flexibility in the UK constitution. Public Law 2017(3): 469-487.
• Wheatle, Se-shauna (2016). The Constitutionality of the “Homosexual Advance Defence” in the Commonwealth Caribbean. Equal Rights Review 16: 38-60.
• Wheatle, Se-Shauna (2016). Bounded Cosmopolitanism and a Constitutional Common Law. Journal of Comparative Law 11(2): 235-267.
• Masterman, Roger & Wheatle, Se-shauna (2015). A Common Law Resurgence in Rights Protection? European Human Rights Law Review 2015(1): 57-65.
• Wheatle, Se-shauna (2014). Comparative Law and the Ius Gentium. Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law 3(4): 1060-1083.
• O'Brien, Derek & Wheatle, Se-shauna (2012). Post-Independence Constitutional Reform In The Commonwealth Caribbean And A New Charter Of Fundamental Rights And Freedoms For Jamaica. Public Law 2012: 683.
• Wheatle, Se-shauna (2012). The Rights to Equality and Non-Discrimination and the Jamaican Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms. West Indian Law Journal 2012: 126.

Other (Digital/Visual Media)

• Masterman, Roger & Wheatle, Se-shauna (2019). Miller/Cherry and Constitutional Principle. UK Constitutional Law Blog.
• Masterman, Roger & Wheatle, Se-shauna (2016). Courts vs Parliament? A Response to Ekins and Forsyth.
• Se-shauna Wheatle (2015). Engagement and 'New Imperialism'. Inherently Human
• Wheatle, Se-shauna & Masterman, Roger (2015). The ‘Constitutional Aspect’ in Evans v Attorney General.
• Wheatle, Se-shauna (2015). Opinion 2/13 and its UK Human Rights Effects.
• Se-shauna Wheatle (2013). Maurice Tomlinson v Television Jamaica Ltd: Horizontal Rights Application in Jamaica. UK Constitutional Law Blog
• Se-shauna Wheatle (2013). Criminalising Cross-Dressing in Guyana: Quincy McEwan et al vs. Attorney General of Guyana. Oxford Human Rights Hub Blog
• Wheatle, Se-shauna (2012). The Residual Powers of the Court. UK Constitutional Law Blog
• Derek O'Brien & Se-shauna Wheatle (2011). The Commonwealth Caribbean and the Uses and Abuses of Comparative Constitutional Law. UK Constitutional Law Blog

Presentation

• Wheatle, Se-shauna (2021), Plenary Lecture: Creolizing Constitutional Law: Lessons from the Caribbean Court of Justice, The Global Summit.
• Wheatle, Se-shauna (2020), The Structure of Common Law Constitutionalism, Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) Conference.
• Wheatle, Se-shauna (2019), The Rule of Law in the Caribbean Court of Justice, Caribbean Association of Judicial Officers Conference. Belize.
• Wheatle, Se-shauna (2016), A Cosmopolitan Common Law Constitution, ICON-S Public Law Conference. New York, USA.
• Wheatle. Se-shauna (2016), Unity, Disunity and Vacuity: Constitutional Adjudication and the Common Law, Cambridge Public Law Conference. Cambridge, England.
• Wheatle, Se-shauna (2015), Principled Reasoning in Human Rights Cases, Younger Comparativists' Conference. Florida, USA.
• Wheatle, Seshauna (2014), ‘Constitutional Principles: Expression of the Ius Gentium?’, Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law Conference. Cambridge, England, Cambridge.
• Wheatle, Se-shauna (2013), Violence Against LGBT Persons in the Commonwealth Caribbean, Caribbean Association of Judicial Officers Conference. Barbados.
• Wheatle, Se-shauna (2013), Constitutional Reform and the Courts, Constitutional Reform and the Commonwealth Caribbean. London, England, London.
• Wheatle, Se-shauna (2011), Reflections on the Rule of Law and Substantive Equality, International Graduate Legal Research Conference. London, England, London.

Report

• Se-shauna Wheatle (2013). Adjudication in Homicide Cases involving Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered (LGBT) Persons in the Commonwealth Caribbean. Faculty of Law, University of the West Indies.