Lakmali Bhagya Manamperi holds an LL.M in Constitutional Law from the University of Lucknow, India, awarded under the Maulana Azad Scholarship program. She earned her LL.B. from the Open University of Sri Lanka and her Bachelor’s Degree in Arts from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura. She is an Attorney-at-Law of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka.
Lakmali currently serves as the Module Leader for final-year subjects such as Private International Law and Jurisprudence and is also a Final Year Dissertation Supervisor. Her primary areas of interest are International Law, International Human Rights Law and Jurisprudence.
Her passion for legal research has deepened through years of experience and she is the Pillar Leader of the APIIT Lab Pillar; the research arm dedicated towards fostering a research culture at APIIT.
The Most Recent Conference Presentation
- International Conference of Human Rights; Youth in Asia 2023 organized by University of Tokyo.
Abstract Published and Results Presented on “International Human Rights Standards v. National Security – A Critical Analysis on the Post 2015 Developments of Sri Lanka’s Prevention of Terrorism Act”.
The Most Recent Publication
- International Journal on Religious Studies, Vol 16. No. 01 (2023)
Full Paper Published on “A critical human rights perspective on the Sri Lankan government’s forced cremation policy of COVID-19 deceased in the context of religious majoritarianism”.
