Natasha Wijeyesekera

Lecturer

Attorney-at-Law; LL.B(Hons.) (Colombo); LL.M (Colombo)

Natasha Wijeyesekera is an Attorney-at-Law of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka with experience spanning litigation, legal research, legal education, and consultancy.

She is a Part-Time Lecturer at APIIT Law School, where she serves as Module Leader for Criminal Law and the Law of Evidence. She has also served as Patron of the Moot, Debate and Mock Mediation Society. Natasha is committed to student-centred legal education and seeks to support students in developing effective learning strategies and achieving their academic goals.

Natasha holds an LL.B. (Hons) and an LL.M. from the University of Colombo. She graduated with High Distinction in Advanced Legal Writing and obtained Distinctions in Constitutional Law and Administrative Law.

Alongside her academic work, Natasha maintains an active legal practice with a particular focus on public law. She also works as a Consultant with Women In Need (WIN), one of Sri Lanka’s leading non-profit organisations working on issues of gender-based violence and women’s rights. Under a project funded by the Royal Norwegian Embassy, she is currently leading a comprehensive review of Sri Lanka's legal and policy frameworks on abortion and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), contributing to the development of advocacy and law reform initiatives.

Her research interests include comparative constitutional law, environmental constitutionalism, gender and women’s rights, and transitional justice.

Publications:

• Peradeniya Law Journal | 2025 (Vol. I) “Is the Aragalaya in Sri Lanka an Awakening of the Sleeping Sovereign? A Reading through the Lens of the Social Contract Theory”
https://arts.pdn.ac.lk/law/plj-articles/Is-the-Aragalaya-in-SL-an-Awakening-of-the-Sleeping-Sovereign-N-Wijesekera.pdf

• South Asian Environmental Law Report | 2024 (Vol. IV, pp. 59–63) Case Reviewer: M.K. Ranjitsinh & Ors. v Union of India, Writ Petition (Civil) No. 838 of 2019
https://celp.cmb.ac.lk/

• Sri Lanka Journal of Legal Studies (Dept. of Legal Studies, Open University of Sri Lanka) | 2024 (Vol. I, Issue 2, p. 115) “Case Analysis of Sampanthan v AG SC(FR) 351–361/2018, SC Minutes 13 December 2018”
https://www.academia.edu/124317311/Case_Analysis_Sampanthan_v_AG#:~:text=Consequently%2C%20the%20Court%20found%20that,arbitrary%20exercise%20of%20public%20power.

• ‘The Kandyan Law of Intestate Succession: The Plight of the Diga Married Daughter in Light of the Ruling in Peiris Singho v Menikhamy’ Junior Bar Law Journal 2021 (Volume XII)

• Looking Beyond the Shores of Home: The Value of Comparative Constitutional Adjudication in Advancing Environmental Justice in Sri Lanka General Sir John Kotelawela Defence University Law Journal of 2023 (Volume III, Issue 01).