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Professor Mahanamahewa holds Doctorate, Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Law from the University of Queensland (Australia), University of Melbourne (Australia) and the University of Colombo (Sri Lanka), respectively. He is an attorney-at-law in the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka and has membership in the International and the Sri Lanka Bar Association.<\/p>\n
He is a professor Faculty of Law, University of Colombo in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n
A former Human Rights Commissioner of Sri Lanka, he represented the World Sri Lankan Association in the recently concluded 39th<\/sup> Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva.<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″] Ph.D in Law<\/p>\n\t\t\t T. C Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland, Australia.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t Degree of Master of Laws (Honours) in Commercial Law<\/p>\n\t\t\t University of Melbourne, Australia<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t Degree of Bachelor of Laws (Honours)<\/p>\n\t\t\t University of Colombo, Sri Lanka<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t Attorney-at-Law (First Class)<\/p>\n\t\t\t Supreme Court of Sri Lanka<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t Arbitrator<\/p>\n\t\t\t Arbitration Center, Sri Lanka<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li><\/ul>[\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″] Faculty of Law, University of Colombo<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t Sir John Kothelawala Defence University, Rathmalana, Sri Lanka<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t Information Technology Law Committee, Sri Lanka Bar Association<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t <\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t Bandaranayake Center for International Studies, Sri Lanaka<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t Graduate School, University of Tribhuwan, Nepal<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t Sri Lanka Police Academy, Katana<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t Sri Lanka PoliceCollege, Kalutara<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t Training Center Spesial Task Force, Katukurunda, Sri Lanka<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t Faculty of Management, Uva Wellassa University, Badulla, Sri Lanka<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t University of Colombo, School of Computing, Sri Lanka<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t Department of Engineering and Computing, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t Journalism Unit, university of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li><\/ul>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”164″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center”][vc_btn title=”Google Scholar” style=”outline-custom” outline_custom_color=”#666666″ outline_custom_hover_background=”#666666″ outline_custom_hover_text=”#ffffff” align=”center” el_class=”research-btn” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fscholar.google.com%2Fcitations%3Fhl%3Den%26authuser%3D1%26user%3D7HAJWlEAAAAJ||target:%20_blank|”][vc_btn title=”ResearchGate” style=”outline-custom” outline_custom_color=”#666666″ outline_custom_hover_background=”#666666″ outline_custom_hover_text=”#ffffff” align=”center” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-pagebuilder.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/commercial.law\/mahanamahewa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/commercial.law\/mahanamahewa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/commercial.law\/mahanamahewa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/commercial.law\/mahanamahewa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/commercial.law\/mahanamahewa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/commercial.law\/mahanamahewa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258,"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/commercial.law\/mahanamahewa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94\/revisions\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/commercial.law\/mahanamahewa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Qualifications, Fellowships and Certifications<\/h3>\n
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