The Honourable Mr Justice Bulkan holds a Bachelor of Laws from The University of the West Indies, a Legal Education Certificate from Hugh Wooding Law School, a Master of Laws from University College London, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Law from Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada.
His career spans regional and international work as a litigator, academic, author, activist, judge, and international law expert.
Mr Justice Bulkan was admitted to the Bar in Guyana in 1990 and served in the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions until 1996, rising to Assistant DPP. He practised privately from 1997 to 2004. He sat on the Court of Appeal of Guyana in 2018 and has served as a Judge of the Court of Appeal of Belize since May 2022.
From 2008 to 2022, he lectured at The UWI, Faculty of Law. He was an expert member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee, serving as Vice Chairperson from 2019 to 2022. In June 2023, he was elected to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights for a four-year term and currently serves as its Second Vice-President.
Mr Justice Bulkan has published extensively on indigenous rights, human rights, and constitutional law, including The Survival of Indigenous Rights in Guyana (2012) and Fundamentals of Caribbean Constitutional Law (2015, 2021). He received the Anthony Sabga Caribbean Award for Public and Civic Contributions and was named a PANCAP/CARICOM Champion for Change in 2017.
He was sworn in as a Judge of the Caribbean Court of Justice on 16 October 2025, becoming the third Guyanese national appointed to the CCJ Bench.