Mr K.A.A.N. Thilakarathna is a Lecturer at the Department of Public and International Law. Prior to re-joining the Faculty of Law, he served as a Lecturer in Law at the Institute of Human Resource Advancement of the University of Colombo from 2018 to 2022. He Started out as a Temporary Lecturer at the same Department and served in that capacity from 2016 to 2017.
Mr K.A.A.N. Thilakarathna obtained his LL.B. with honours from the Faculty of Law in 2015. He has successfully completed two postgraduate degrees in Law and Sociology. He obtained his LL.M. with a merit pass from the General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University in 2020 coming at the top of the batch and completed his M.Soc from the University of Colombo in 2022. He also successfully completed a course on Making Teaching Effective (MaTE) and Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education with SEDA accreditation from United Kingdom conducted by the Staff Development Centre of the University of Colombo. He is currently a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Law of the University of Colombo.
Mr. Thilakarathna has published extensively in many areas of law and his notable publications include a book chapter on ‘Making Those Accountable for Man-Made Natural Disasters: A Critical Appraisal of the Law with Special Reference to Sri Lanka’ which is a Springer publication that he co-authored with Prof. Kokila Konasinghe. He has also co-authored a paper with Dr. Rohan Perera, who was a member of the International Law Commission on ‘M.C.W. Pinto’s Contribution to the Development of International Law’, and that publication came out in 2023 in the well-known Asian Yearbook of International Law. He has also contributed as a writer to the Encyclopaedia of Public International Law in Asia (3 Vols) where he contributed to the section on The Evolution and Creation of the State.