Kurt Rattray is engaged as a full-time Tutor at the Law School. He teaches on both the Legal Drafting and Interpretation (first year) and Probate Practice and Procedure (second year) courses.

Mr. Rattray is a graduate of the Faculty of Law, University of the West Indies, and the Norman Manley Law School. He was called to the Jamaican Bar in 1984.

After a few years of private legal practice, he entered the Government Service, joining the Legal Reform Division (later the Legal Reform Department) of the Ministry of Justice. He was appointed Deputy Director of Legal Reform in 2002, and spent almost twenty years in the field of law reform.

During his employment to the Government, Mr. Rattray was significantly involved in the development of legislation to counter money laundering and the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT). He was appointed by the government as a legal examiner for the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATFA), a regional body which, inter alia, conducts a Mutual Evaluation programme to assess regional states compliance with international AML/CFT benchmarks.
As legal examiner, Mr. Rattray served as a member of three CFATF Mutual Evaluation panels, which assessed the AML/CFT regulatory framework of the British Virgin Islands, St. Kitts and Nevis and Barbados.

He also co-authored an article on the CFATF which was published in a special Caribbean edition of the Journal of Financial Crime.