Awards and grants

• 2019
  Senate Award for Research Excellence 2019 - Open Category

  Awarded for authorship of:

  • ‘Grasping at Straws: Judicial Review of Legislation in Sri
    Lanka’ (2019) 13(3) Vienna Journal on International Constitutional Law 281.
  • ‘Implementation of IHL Obligations with Regard to Missing Persons in Post-Armed Conflict Sri Lanka’ chapter in Seneviratne and Mendis (ed), The Continued Relevance of International Humanitarian Law in Post-
    Armed Conflict Sri Lanka (ICRC 2019) 31. (Book Chapter)
  • Briefing paper – ‘Reconciling Sri Lanka: What the Women Say’ commissioned by Centre for Equality and Justice.

   

   

• 2017
  Senate Award for Research Excellence - University Commendation - Early Career - Law

  Awarded for authorship of:

  • ‘The Vanishing Act: Punishing and Deterring Perpetrators through the Concurrent Application of Diverse Legal Regimes to Enforced Disappearances’ – [2017] 29 Florida Journal of International Law at p. 227
  • ‘Walking on a Tight Rope: Sri Lanka’s Fragile Transitional Justice Process’ – Harvard Human Rights Journal (Online Symposium on Transitional Justice [2017])

• 2016
  Senate Award for Research Excellence - Early Career Category - Law

  Awarded for authorship of:

  • ‘Justice in Dire Straits: Unlawful PretrialDetainees, Family Members and Legal Remedies’,Buffalo Human Rights Law Review, Volume 22 (2015/16) at p. 189
  • ‘Chasing Tails: Establishing the Right to Truth,Mourning and Compensation’, California WesternInternational Law Journal, Volume 46.2 (2016) atp.69 (Lead Article on the rights of indirect victimsof enforced disappearances.

• 2014 - 2015
  James Souverine Gallo Memorial Scholar (2014/15) Harvard

  James Souverine Gallo Memorial Scholar Harvard Law School