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Senior Professor (Chair) Wasantha Seneviratne currently serves as the Chair Professor of Public and International Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. She is also the Director of the\u00a0Centre for the Study of Human Rights<\/em>\u00a0(CSHR), a leading research institute affiliated with the University of Colombo. She has been an Attorney-at-Law of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka since 1995.<\/p>\n With nearly three decades of teaching, research, and publications in the fields of International Law, Human Rights Law, and International Humanitarian Law, Professor Seneviratne has contributed extensively to both undergraduate and postgraduate legal education in Sri Lanka. She teaches Public International Law, International Humanitarian Law, Human Rights Law, and Constitutional Law across multiple law-teaching institutions in the country. In addition, she supervises several PhD and M.Phil candidates in Law, as well as numerous Master\u2019s dissertations, thereby fostering the next generation of scholars. She has also been engaged in international research supervision and collaborations, including joint doctoral projects and co-supervisions with foreign universities, which extend her academic influence beyond Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n Her postgraduate research has focused on critical issues in international law. Her M.Phil research examined\u00a0Conflict-related Displacement: International Law and the Role of International Organizations<\/em>. Her PhD thesis was entitled\u00a0Assessing the Legality of Humanitarian Interventions in the Post-Cold War World under the United Nations Charter: An International Law Perspective<\/em>. Both works reflect her deep engagement with global humanitarian and legal challenges.<\/p>\n Her academic contributions include authoring, editing, translating, and publishing books, book chapters, and research articles in reputed local and international journals. She has also presented widely at international and national conferences. Her primary research interests focus on theories of Public International Law; humanitarian interventions and the use of force; the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine and its contemporary applications; the continued relevance of humanitarian law in post-conflict contexts; and the intersections of transitional justice and human rights in armed conflicts.<\/p>\n Professor Seneviratne is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the\u00a0Sri Lanka Journal of Human Rights<\/em>, published by the Centre for the Study of Human Rights. Beyond academia, she actively contributes to public discourse and professional training, particularly in disseminating knowledge to members of the armed forces and the Police.<\/p>\n She presently serves as a Commissioner of the\u00a0National Law Commission of Sri Lanka<\/em>, a Member of the\u00a0Office for National Unity and Reconciliation (ONUR)<\/em>, and a Member of the\u00a0National Monitoring Committee on Child Rights<\/em>. Her previous appointments include serving as a Member of the\u00a0Expert Committee on the Formulation of a New Constitution<\/em>, the\u00a0Law Reforms Committee of the National Child Protection Authority<\/em>, and the\u00a0National Steering Committee on Police Reforms<\/em>.<\/p>\n Her international engagements include serving as a Fellow at the Castan Centre for Human Rights at Monash Law School (Australia) and being an invited speaker at the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness at Melbourne Law School. She has also held academic leadership roles, including serving as the Vice-President for South Asia of the Asian Society of International Law and currently as a Member of the Governing Body of the Development of International Law in Asia (DILA).<\/p>\n Among her recent scholarly contributions, she served as the State Volume Editor for the\u00a0Encyclopaedia of International Law in Asia<\/em>\u00a0(Brill), overseeing the volume on Sri Lanka authored with a team of co-contributors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″] Doctor of Philosophy Candidate in 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 Master of Philosophy in Law <\/p>\n\t\t\t University of Colombo, Sri Lanka<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education<\/p>\n\t\t\t Staff Development Center, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t Attorneys\u2019 Final Examination<\/p>\n\t\t\t Sri Lanka Law College, Sri Lanka<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t Bachelor of Laws (Hons) <\/p>\n\t\t\t University of Colombo, Sri Lanka<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li><\/ul> National Police Reform Committee - Appointed by the Minister of Law and Order to bring reforms to the Sri Lanka Police<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t National Committee of Human Rights Action Plan (NHRAP) Appointed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs <\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t Expert Panel Appointed by the Non State Higher Education to review SLINTEC Academy, ACBT, EDULINK <\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t Final Evaluation committee of the Government School Text Book on Civic Education for Grade 10 published by the Ministry of Education, Government School Text Book , Published by the Ministry of Education, Sri Lanka <\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t Editorial Board on Government School Text Book on Civic Education Grade 8 published by the Ministry of Education, Government School Text Book , Published by the Ministry of Education, Sri Lanka <\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t Editorial Board on Government School Text Book on Civic Education Grade 11 published by the Ministry of Education, Government School Text Book , Published by the Ministry of Education, Sri Lanka <\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t Editorial Board on Government School Text Book on Civic Education Grade 9 preparing to be published by the Ministry of Education, Government School Text Book , Published by the Ministry of Education, Sri Lanka <\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t Expert Panel which prepared and reviewed the Teachers\u2019 Guides for Civil Education published by the National Institute of Education for Grade 6, 7 and 11, Appointed by the National Institute of Education, Sri Lanka<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t The Supplementary Reading Book on Human Rights and International Relations for Grade 11 Students \u2013 Joint Project by the Centre for the Studies of Human Rights and the Access to Justice Project of the UNDP for National Institute of Education, Sri Lanka<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t The Expert Panel on the Curriculum Development of the Course on Human Rights for the Undergraduates of the Department of Architect, Moratuwa University<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li><\/ul>Qualifications<\/h3>\n
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