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Dinesha Samararatne<\/h1>\n[vc_column_text]Dinesha Samararatne is a Professor at the Department of Public & International Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka where she has been working as an academic since 2005. Dinesha is a Senior Fellow of the Melbourne Law School, Australia and Editor of the University of Colombo Review. In 2023 she was appointed as an independent expert to the Constitutional Council of Sri Lanka. Her research interests include judicial review, public participation in constitution-making, constitutional resilience, women and constitutional law, guarantor institutions and the relevance of the global south in comparative constitutional law. Her research work has been published with the Hong Kong Law Journal, the Indian Law Review, the World Comparative Law Journal, the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies and the Asian Journal of Comparative Law. She has published three co-edited volumes Democratic Consolidation & Constitutional Endurance Comparing Uneven Pathways of Constitutional Development in Asia and Africa<\/em> coedited with Tom Daly with Oxford University Press in 2024, Constitutional Resilience Beyond Courts: Views from South Asia <\/em>co-edited with Swati Jhaveri and Tarunabh Khaitan published with Hart in 2023 and Women with Disabilities as Agents of Peace, Change and Rights<\/em> co-edited with Karen Soldatic and published with Routledge in 2020. She was an honorary visiting fellow at, Pantheon-Sorbonne, Paris 1 University, France (2023), a postdoctoral fellow at the Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, Australia (2019 \u2013 20), a Kathleen Fitzpatrick Visting Fellow at the Melbourne Law School (2018) and a Junior Fulbright Scholar (2008-09).\u00a0 She won the Vice Chancellor\u2019s Research Award for Law in 2021, the CVCD Excellence Award for the Most Outstanding Young Researcher in 2020 for the fields of Management and Law and the Senate Award for research (2019 and 2023, 2024).[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″]

Qualifications, Fellowships and Certifications<\/h3>\n
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  • \n\t\t\t\tOctober 2023<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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    Honorary Visiting Fellow<\/p>\n\t\t\t

    Pantheon-Sorbonne, Paris 1 University, France <\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t

  • \n\t\t\t\tMarch 2021 \u2013 2023<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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    Senior Research Associate<\/p>\n\t\t\t

    Laureate Program in Comparative Constitutional Law, Melbourne Law School <\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t

  • \n\t\t\t\t2019-2020<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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    Postdoctoral Fellow<\/p>\n\t\t\t

    Laureate Program in Comparative Constitutional Law, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, Australia <\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t

  • \n\t\t\t\tApril \u2013 May 2018<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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    Kathleen Fitzpatrick Visiting Fellow<\/p>\n\t\t\t

    Laureate Program in Comparative Constitutional Law, Melbourne Law School<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t

  • \n\t\t\t\tPhD<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t2015<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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    Doctor of Philosophy<\/p>\n\t\t\t

    University of Colombo, Sri Lanka<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t

  • \n\t\t\t\tLL.M<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t 2009<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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    Master of Law<\/p>\n\t\t\t

    Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, USA <\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t

  • \n\t\t\t\tLLB (Hons) <\/span>\n\t\t\t\t 2005<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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    Degree of Bachelor of Law<\/p>\n\t\t\t

    Faculty of Law, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t

  • \n\t\t\t\tAttorney-at-Law <\/span>\n\t\t\t\t 2006<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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    Admitted and enrolled as an Attorney-at-Law<\/p>\n\t\t\t

    Supreme Court of Sri Lanka <\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t

  • \n\t\t\t\tCertificate<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t 2017<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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    Certificate of Accreditation of Senior Teachers in Higher Education<\/p>\n\t\t\t

    SEDA (Staff and Educational Development Association, UK) accreditation, Staff Development Centre of the University of Colombo <\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t

  • \n\t\t\t\tCTHE<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t 2008<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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    Certificate of Teaching in Higher Education <\/p>\n\t\t\t

    with SEDA (Staff and Educational Development Association, UK) accreditation, Staff Development Centre of the University of Colombo <\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li><\/ul>[\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″]

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      Present<\/span>March, 2023<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

      Editor, University of Colombo Review<\/h4>

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      Present<\/span>January 2023<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

      Member, Constitutional Council of Sri Lanka<\/h4>

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      December 2023<\/span>October 2021<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

      Director, Career Guidance Unit, Faculty of Law<\/h4>

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      • \n\t\t\t\t
        2023<\/span>2021<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

        Guest Editor, Journal of Comparative Constitutional Studies (Special Issue on Methodologies)<\/h4>

        <\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t

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        2022<\/span>2022<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

        Guest Editor, University of Colombo Review (Special Issue on Equity)<\/h4>

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      • \n\t\t\t\t
        Present<\/span>2020<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

        Articles Editor<\/h4>

        Indian Law Review<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t

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        2021<\/span> 2019<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

        Postdoctoral Fellow<\/h4>

        Laureate Program in Comparative Constitutional Law, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, Australia. <\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t

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        2021<\/span> 2011<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

        Senior Lecturer<\/h4>

        Faculty of law, University of Colombo <\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t

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        2018<\/span>2016<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

        Member<\/h4>

        Steering Committee, Centre for Gender Equality, University of Colombo<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t

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        2018<\/span>2015 <\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

        Member<\/h4>

        Management Committee of the Centre for Excellence in Disability Research Education and Practice, University of Colombo<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t

      • \n\t\t\t\t
        2018<\/span>2016<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

        Senior Advisor<\/h4>

        Legal Aid Unit, Faculty of Law<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t

      • \n\t\t\t\t
        2018<\/span>2016<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

        Legal Advisor<\/h4>

        Newsletter of the University of Colombo<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li><\/ul>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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