Dumindu Madhushan is an Attorney-at-law and legal academic. He serves as a Lecturer (Probationary) attache to the Department of Private and Comparative Law, Faculty of Law, University of Colombo.
Mr Madhushan completed his Bachelor of Laws degree with Honours at the Faculty of Law, University of Colombo in 2015 and Master of Laws at Faculty of Graduate Studies, General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University, Sri Lanka in 2021. In 2016 he joined the Department of Private and Comparative Law, University of Colombo as a Temporary lecturer. Before he joins the Faculty of Law, He worked as a researcher at the Centre for Policy Alternatives, Sri Lanka on Language rights, Right to Information, and a Legal researcher at Right to Information Commission of Sri Lanka. He was called to the BAR as an Attorney-at-law in January 2017. He completed Making Teaching Effective (MaTE) course at the Staff Development Centre of University of Colombo in 2016. Mr. Madhushan was head of student affairs at the Legal Aid Unit, Faculty of Law, University of Colombo from 2016-2018.
Mr Madhushan was awarded P.A. Weerasinghe Memorial Scholarship on the Results of the G.C.E. A/L Examination 2010 – Art Section and ANADA PRADEEPA Academic Achievements based on the results at the G.C.E. (A/L) Examination 2010 – Logic and Scientific Method, Ananda College, Colombo 10 in 2010.
Mr Madhushan is an author of several scholarly articles published nationally and internationally. His research interests are Land Law, Law of Property, Right to Information, Jurisprudence, Legal Systems, and the law of Interpretation.
Currently, he holds several positions at the Faculty of Law such as Temporary Student Counsellor, Assistant Coordinator in LL.M. programme of the Faculty of Law, University of Colombo, A Consultant Research and Academic Coordinator of the Advanced Certificate in Human Rights Approach to Prison Administration at the Centre for Study of Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Colombo, A Research Supervisor of Bachelor of Labour Education, Institute of Human Resource Advancement, University of Colombo.