Over the last three years, MonaLaw public law teachers and students have jointly organised an annual debate around issues in Constitutional Law and Commonwealth Caribbean Human Rights Law. The debates have tackled public law questions that have captured public imagination such of the role of the executive in the appointment of Caribbean chief justices, and whether restrictions on fundamental rights in the context of Covid-19 require the calling of a state of public emergency.

The debates support student development by providing an avenue for developing their skills in legal research, analysis and advocacy and by promoting team work and student leadership. 

They have become exciting events in the calendar of MonaLaw students, none more than the 2019 debate between Year 1 students doing Constitutional Law and Year 2 students doing Commonwealth Caribbean Human Rights Law in which the Year 1s defeated the second years!