Amanda Janell DeAmor Quest

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Amanda Janell DeAmor Quest is a Commonwealth Caribbean lawyer and emerging thought leader in the field of AI ethics. Her work on AI ethics, human rights and the rule of law has been featured by the AI Law - International Review of Artificial Intelligence Law and the official blog of the International Society of Public Law (which is published by the Oxford University Press in association with the New York University School of Law), AfricLaw (which is a joint venture of the ICLA & the CHR at the Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria), and the Oxford Human Rights Hub, among other transnational platforms. Amanda earned her Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree from the Caribbean's premier institute of higher learning with First Class Honours in 2017, and in the top 2% of her graduating cohort. After receiving her Legal Education Certificate (LEC) from the Council of Legal Education, she was admitted to the Jamaican bar on December 17, 2021, and is also eligible to practice law throughout the Commonwealth Caribbean. In 2019, Amanda was declared the winner of the 2nd staging of the Intellectual Property Caribbean Association (IPCA) essay competition.

Through her public intellectual work—which has now been published by leading newspapers in ten Caribbean countries (specifically Jamaica, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, St. Kitts and Nevis, Haiti, Guyana, Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, and Dominica) and featured internationally—Amanda contributes to discussions on a range of topical subjects, including AI ethics and governance, human rights, consumer protection, public law and intellectual property law. Amanda is the founder of Musings by Amanda J.D. Quest, an intellectual space that facilitates the expression of her musings on a diversity of topical subjects. Her current AI ethics-related research is broadly concerned with exploring the connections between AI ethics and democratic constitutionalism together with their implications for AI governance strategies within the Commonwealth Caribbean, across comparable Global South contexts and beyond.

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Jan 14, 2026 ∙ 2 min

Towards Constitutionalized AI Governance in the Commonwealth Caribbean

*Image credit: Antigua Newsroom With the AI-driven Fourth Industrial Revolution now in full swing, artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming embedded in policing, healthcare, employment, and other critical areas of social life. While the Commonwealth Caribbean lags behind more technologically developed regions in AI uptake and deployment, there have been discernible movements toward a measured socio-technical integration of AI across the region. Thus far, at least one Commonwealth...

Dec 15, 2025 ∙ 8 min

Affirming the (Constitutional) Belonging of sexual minorities in Saint Lucia: The ECSC Propels a Commonwealth Caribbean Renaissance

*Image credit: inclusivv (formerly civic dinners) On July 29, 2025, the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (“the ECSC”) [1] delivered its judgment in the landmark decision of Randall Theodule & Ors v The Attorney General of Saint Lucia [2025] ECSC J0729-1 (“the ECSC decision”), where it declared sections 132 and 133 of Saint Lucia’s Criminal Code, Cap. 3.01 of the Revised Edition of the Laws of Saint Lucia (“sections 132 and 133 of the Criminal Code”) unconstitutional. Crucially, it insisted...

Nov 15, 2025 ∙ 8 min

Conceptualizing GIs as a pathway to sustainable development in Jamaica

*Image credit: World Intellectual Property Organisation In recent times, the synergistic connections between Geographical Indications (GIs) and sustainable development have become a focal point of discussions around the global developmental agenda. Indeed, this is to be expected in an era where intellectual property (IP) is increasingly becoming recognised as the “oil of the 21st century” . As such, there has been a proliferation of studies exploring (both directly and indirectly) the...