Professor Belle Antoine was a student and head girl at Saint Joseph’s Convent, Saint Joseph, Trinidad. She subsequently obtained a Bachelor of Laws degree at University of West Indies, where she was the Irvine Hall valedicatorian. She then obtained a Master of Laws degree at University of Cambridge, where she was a Pegasus Scholar, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in law at the University of Oxford.
Prior to taking her Chair she was senior lecturer at the University from 1998-2004. From 2004 to 2009 she served as Deputy Dean (Outreach) of the Faculty of Law at the University. In 2008 she was named as one of "60 under 60" distinguished academics at the University of the West Indies.
She has also served as an adjunct professor at Case Western Reserve University (2005-2009) and DePaul University (2010-2011).
She also serves as a Commissioner of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and was elected President of the Commission in 2015. She works with a number of public and private bodies as a consultant, drafted several laws in the Caribbean, including the Labour Code of Saint Lucia and the CARICOM Harmonization of Labour Law Report.
Professor Belle Antoine was once mistakenly beaten and then arrested by police whilst trying to protect students at a student protest.
