ELI's highly successful Judicial Education program set its sights on the Caribbean in 2008. In August, ELI convened a meeting of project partners and advisors in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, to build the capacity of judges to enforce laws intended to protect and conserve biodiversity on the islands of Jamaica and Hispaniola (shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic). The project aims to make biodiversity law and environmental law a permanent feature of the education programs for judges in each country, where post-colonial conflict and political instability have slowed the development of modern environmental and natural resource laws and institutions.
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