Dr. K. A. A. N. Thilakarathna is a Lecturer attached to the Department of Public and International Law, Faculty of Law, University of Colombo. He obtained his LL.B. (Hons) with Second Class Upper Division from the Faculty of Law in 2015. In 2020, he completed his LL.M. at the General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University, graduating at the top of his batch. He subsequently pursued a Master of Sociology (M.Soc) at the University of Colombo, which he successfully completed in 2022.
Dr. Thilakarathna was awarded the Ph.D. in March 2025 for his thesis titled “The Role of Judicial Activism in the Domestication of International Human Rights Treaties: A Comparative Study.” His doctoral research critically examined how courts contribute to the internalization of international human rights obligations within domestic legal systems, with a comparative focus on selected jurisdictions. He is also an Attorney-at-Law of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka and has been engaged in both teaching and research in the fields of public law and international law.
At present, Dr. Thilakarathna is reading for a Master of Human Rights and Democratization at the Centre for the Study of Human Rights (CSHR), Faculty of Law, University of Colombo. His academic and professional interests include constitutional law, international human rights law, judicial activism, and the intersection of law and society.