Academic and Administrative Service

Appointments

  • Guest Editor, University of Colombo Review (2022)
  • Guest Editor, inaugural special issue, Journal of Comparative Constitutional Studies
  • Academic Warden, Muttiah Girls Hostel, University of Colombo (2021 to present)
  • Member of Sub-Committee of the Senate of the University of Colombo for revising the University Policy against Sexual Harassment (May – July 2016)
  • Reviewer for: Asian Journal of Comparative Law (2016) Australian Journal of Asian Law (2016)
  • Australia Awards Fellowship awarded by the Government of Australia (April – May 2015)
  • Member, Editorial Committee of the Bar Association Law Journal Sri Lanka (September 2015 to date)
  • Grant from the Higher Education for the Twenty-first Century (HETC) project of the World Bank (Sri Lanka)for the M.Phil/Ph.D (2011 – 2014).
  • Editor, Sri Lanka State of Human Rights published annually by the Law & Society Trust, Colombo, Sri Lanka (2013 – to date)
  • Member, Editorial Board, Disability and the Global South hosted and published by the Critical Institute
  • Fulbright Junior Scholar 2008-09
  • Visiting Fellow, Gilbert and Tobin Centre for Public Law, Faculty of Law of the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. (April-May 2012)
  • Visiting Researcher, Institute for Human Rights, Abo Akademi, Turku, Finland (August – September 2010)
  • Verite Research Associate, Colombo, Sri Lanka (2009 – 2012)

Contributions

  • Kathleen Fitzpatrick Visiting Fellow, Laureate Program in Comparative Constitutional Law, Melbourne Law School, (April – May 2018)
  • Member, Drafting Sub-Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights for the National Action Plan for Human Rights 2016 – 2021 for Sri Lanka
  • Member, Drafting Sub-Committee on Rights of Persons with Disabilities for the National Action Plan for Human Rights 2016 – 2021 for Sri Lanka
  • Member , Sub-Committee of the Senate of the University of Colombo for revising the University Policy against Sexual Harassment (May – July 2016)
  • Reviewer for: Asian Journal of Comparative Law (2016) Australian Journal of Asian Law (2016), Colombo Law Journal (2016)
  • Member, Editorial Committee of the Bar Association Law Journal Sri Lanka (September 2015 to date)
  • Member, Ethics Review Committee, Post-Graduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo (2013- 2017)
  • Visiting Fellow, Gilbert and Tobin Centre for Public Law, Faculty of Law of the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. (April-May 2012)
  • Visiting Researcher, Institute for Human Rights, Abo Akademi, Turku, Finland (August - September 2010)

Administrative Responsibilities

  • Member, Management Committee of the Centre for Excellence in Disability Research Education and Practice, University of Colombo (December 2015 to date)
  • Senior Advisor, Legal Aid Unit, Faculty of Law (2016)
  • Departmental Co-ordinator of Examinations, Department of Public &International Law (2015 to date)
  • Departmental Convenor for Annual Research Symposium, Faculty of Law, University of Colombo (2015)
  • Senior Treasurer, University of Colombo Christian Fellowship (2016)
  • Senior Treasurer, Rotaract Club of the Faculty of Law, University of Colombo (2014 to date)