Mr. Vaithulla Kamal Ahamed is attached to the Department of Private and Comparative Law. Currently, he teaches Legal Method and Legal Writing, Evidence and Criminal Procedure, Family Law and Law of Delict.
Kamal is an Attorney-at-Law of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka. He was called to the Bar in February 2018. He completed his LL.B Degree with Second Class (Honours) Upper Division at the Faculty of Law, University of Colombo in 2016. Before joining the Department, he worked as a Legal Research Officer (Judicial Clerk) at the Court of Appeal of Sri Lanka, the second most senior court in the Sri Lankan legal system.
After graduating, he successfully completed a Post Graduate Diploma in Diplomacy and World Affairs from the Bandaranaike International Diplomatic Training Institute (BIDTI), and an Advanced Diploma in Transitional Justice from the Bandaranaike Center for International Studies (BCIS).