BIOGRAPHY

Pramoda Vithanage is a Lecturer at the Department of Commercial Law, Faculty of Law, University of Colombo. She also conducts lectures on Commercial Law and International Trade Law at the Faculty of Management and Finance, University of Colombo.

Pramoda pursued her Master of Laws degree in International Commercial Law at the University of Exeter, United Kingdom where she was a Commonwealth scholar (2021/22). She holds a Bachelor of Laws Degree with first-class honours from the Faculty of Law, University of Colombo. She is also an Attorney-at-Law of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka.

Qualifications, Fellowships and Certifications

  • Degree of Bachelor of Law 2015

    LLB (Hons)

    Faculty of Law, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka

  • Attorney-at-Law 2017

    Attorney-at-Law

    enrolled as an Attorney-at-Law Supreme Court of Sri Lanka

  • SEDA 2020

    SEDA

    Certificate of Accreditation of Senior Teachers in Higher Education SEDA (Staff and Educational Development Association, UK) accreditation,Staff Development Centre of the University of Colombo

  • Certificate of Teaching in Higher Education 2019

    CTHE

    Staff Development Centre of the University of Colombo

  • Post Graduate Diploma 2016-2017

    Post Graduate Diploma in Diplomacy & World Affairs

    Bandaranaike International Diplomatic Training Institute (BIDTI), Sri Lanka

  • Diploma 2017

    Diploma in Commercial Arbitration

    The Institute for the Development of Commercial Law and Practice

  • Short Course 2016

    Short Course on Research Methodology

    Faculty of Education, The Open University of Sri Lanka

  • Certificate Course 2016

    Certificate Course on ‘International Law of Foreign Investment’

    conducted jointly by the department of Commercial Law, Faculty of Law and United States- Sri Lanka Fulbright commission

  • Diploma 2015-2016

    Diploma in Diplomacy & World Affairs

    Bandaranayake International Diplomatic Training Institute (BDITI)

  • Diploma 2012-2013

    Diploma in Counseling & Psychotherapy

    Institute of Psychological Studies, Sri Lanka

  • Diploma 2011-2012

    Diploma in International Relations (IR)

    Bandaranayake Centre for International Studies (BCIS)

Positions

  • 20182017

    Assistant Lecturer (Temporary)

    Department of Commercial Law, Faculty of Law, University of Colombo

  • present2018

    Lecturer (Probationary)

    Department of Commercial Law, Faculty of Law, University of Colombo

  • 20152017

    Visiting lecturer

    Department of Commercial Law, Faculty of Law, University of Colombo

  • present2017

    Visiting Lecturer

    Department of International Business, Faculty of Management & Finance, University of Colombo

  • present2017

    Visiting lecturer

    Department of Management & Organization Studies, Faculty of Management & Finance, University of Colombo