Publications

  • 2015 - present
    Published Journal Articles - Representative List

    • Conflict Related Sexual Violence: Patriarchy’s Bugle Call’ (2020) XXI Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law 671.
    •  ‘Grasping at Straws: Judicial Review of Legislation in Sri Lanka’ (2019) 13(3) Vienna Journal on International Constitutional Law 281.
    • ‘A New Constitution for Sri Lanka: Process, Presage or Hiatus?’ (2018/19) XXVI Bar Association Law Journal of Sri Lanka 35.
    • ‘Walking on a Tight Rope: Sri Lanka’s Fragile Transitional Justice Process’ (2017) Harvard Human Rights Journal’s Online Symposium on Transitional Justice.
    • ‘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 227.
    •  ‘Chasing Tails: Establishing the Right to Truth, Mourning and Compensation’ (2016) 46 (2) California Western International Law Journal 69 (Lead Article)
    •  ‘International Law Developments in Sri Lanka in 2015’ for the Asian Yearbook of International Law (accessible at https://brill.com/abstract/book/edcoll/9789004344556/front-7.xml)
    • ‘Justice in Dire Straits: Unlawful Pretrial Detainees, Family Members and Legal Remedies’ (2015/16) 22 Buffalo Human Rights Law Review 189

  • 2019 - present
    Book chapters

    • Danushka S. Medawatte, ‘Implementation of IHL Obligations with Regard to Missing Persons in Post-Armed Conflict Sri Lanka’ in Seneviratne and Mendis (ed), The Continued Relevance of International Humanitarian Law in Post-Armed Conflict Sri Lanka (ICRC 2019) 31.

     

    • Neloufer de Mel & Danushka S. Medawatte, ‘Women’s Access to Post-War Justice in Sri Lanka: Locating Refusal’ (forthcoming as a chapter in In the Shadow of Transitional Justice: Cross-national Perspectives on the Transformative Potential of Commemoration in Routledge Europa Series on Perspectives in Transitional Justice).

  • 2013 - present
    Technical Reports

    • Interim Report to the CEDAW Committee 2019 (authored on behalf of the Ministry of Women, Sri Lanka)
    • “Report: Tackling Stigma of Conflict Related Sexual Violence through the Sri Lanka National Action Plan on Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV Nap)”, commissioned by FOKUS Women and the British High Commission, Colombo. (August 2017) – Click here to access the report.
    • Co-author of “Right to Food Security in Sri Lanka: Analysis of Legal and Policy Documents and Recommendations” commissioned by SAWTEE / OXFAM and Law and Society Trust (coauthored with Mr. Jagath Gunawardena.) (January 2013 – August 2013

  • 2018 - present
    Briefing Papers

    • Briefing Paper ‘Reconciling Sri Lanka: What the Women Say’
    • Briefing Paper on Conflict Related Sexual Violence in Sri Lanka
    • Briefing Paper on Definitions of Conflict Related Sexual Violence

  • 2015 - present
    Blog Posts

    • Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Teaching International Law in Sri Lanka. Authored for Afronomics Law Symposium on Teaching and Researching International Law: Global Perspectives. Reviewed by Prof. Tony Anghie and Prof. James Thuo Gathii. Access the post here
    • Sri Lankan National Anthem: Symbolism, Nationalism, Racism and Other Stories. Read this post on Groundviews

  • Present
    Works in progress / Pending Publication

    • The Academic Displaced: The Eviction of the ‘Legal Educator’ from Pedagogy, Curriculum, and the Profession. Presented at the Symposium of the Faculty of Law, 2020. Access the recording here. Click hereto read the working draft.
    • Single Stories, Selective Amnesia, and a Stillbirth of Constitutional Reforms: A Story of Sri Lanka. Preprint available here. Presented at the Junior Faculty Forum of Indian Law Teachers – January 2021. Currently pending publication.
    • (Un)doing Constitutional Resilience in Postwar Sri Lanka: Interest – Incommensurability of Etho-nationalism (currently being edited). Presented at the ‘Constitutional Resilience in South Asia’ Workshop held in Melbourne Law School in December 2019.
    • Feminist Methodology of Law – Achalie Kumarage and Danushka Medawatte (currently authoring)
    • Phallocentricism in Sexual Violence Cases of Sri Lanka.