Mr. Codlin has recently published the first book on Jamaican legal history entitled Historical Foundations of Jamaican Law and that book was launched at the Norman Manley Law School on the 20th of June 2003. Since then, the publication has enjoyed considerable wide readership and the following extracts are just a very few of the many reviews of which the book has been subject.

"A fascinating and unique study of the evolution of legal statues in Jamaica. Raphael Codlin has meticulously researched not only the history but the exogenous and endogenous factors which affected or influenced the enactment of those statues. His account progresses effortlessly into the contemporary period through extensive and relevant references to cases which have not only been adjudicated at the local bar but, in most cases, were finally decided at the Privy Council in the United Kingdom. Further, his style of writing his highly accessible to readers whether they are laymen, students or practitioners at the bar." Miss Leila Palmer, Attorney at Law

"In tracing the history of Jamaican Law over a period of more than three hundred years, the author has managed to compress into a comparatively small monograph, a vast amount of information by reference not only to the events themselves giving rise to the summary but to a comparatively large number of cases dating back to the 17th century. Discussions of the cases show that a vast area of research was covered by the author in collecting the material for the work. For example in discussing the subject of double jeopardy, the author critiqued the case of the Queen v. Nasralla and has set out in his work, considerable material which gives a clear insight into this difficult area of criminal law."

Mr. Ripton MacPherson Attorney-at-Law since 1952 Former Speaker of the House of Representatives of Jamaica Between February 1972 and October 1980.