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Desire of Reintegration of ex-prisoners – A Universal Approach

Niriella, Jeeva (2008)

The rehabilitation of the offender and re integration of the offender are two main concepts which the criminal justice system demand of the day. Among the other forms of punishment, imprisonment is the most common ...
Ensuring Nation Security through Nation Building Process in the Post-Conflict Sri Lanka

Liyanage, G.I.M (2012)

Objective: In the post war scenario of Sri Lanka, a proper mechanism for sustainable Nation building is of utmost importance to ensure the security of all people belong various ethnicities. Scope: This paper focuses on ...
Chasing Tails: Establishing the Right to Truth, Mourning and Compensation

Medawatte, Danushka (California Western International Law Journal, 2016)

This article scrutinizes the possibility of introducing the right to truth and the right to mourn in Sri Lanka as an integral component of a right to an effective remedy that can be afforded to the family members of the ...
Road to Hell: Discrimination to Migration to Trafficking of Women?

Medawatte, Danushka (Colombo Law Review, 2016)

In this paper, the author seeks to examine the possibility of establishing the argument that the lack of equality towards women, irrespective of constitutional and other guarantees, makes genuine female empowerment a ...
Justice in Dire Straits: Unlawful Pretrial Detainees, Family Members and Legal Remedies

Medawatte, Danushka (Buffalo Human Rights Law Review, 2016)

This article engages with the issue of pretrial detention within the US criminal justice system. An argument is made to carve out legal remedies that family members of such detainees will be entitled to from within the US ...
Walking on a Tight Rope: Sri Lanka's Fragile Transitional Justice Process

Medawatte, Danushka (Harvard Human Rights Journal, 2017)

The Sri Lankan Transitional Justice (“TJ”) process, which commenced primarily at the end of the war in 2009, and then gained momentum after the change of administration in early 2015, is wrought with controversies. This ...
The Vanishing Act: Punishing and Deterring Perpetrators through the Concurrent Application of Diverse Legal Regimes to Enforced Disappearances

Medawatte, Danushka (Florida Journal of International Law, 2017)

The core argument that is made in this paper is that legal remedies from conflicting laws should be concurrently used with a view to ensuring that all those affected by enforced disappearances have access to legal remedies.
State Practice of Asian Countries in International Law: Sri Lanka

Medawatte, Danushka (Brill, 2018)

This brief account is a narrative of the status of human rights in Sri Lanka in 2015.
Implementation of IHL Obligations with Regard to Missing Persons in Post-Armed Conflict Sri Lanka

Medawatte, Danushka (ICRC (2019), 2019)

This chapter explores the possibility of continuing to apply IHL with regard to missing persons in post-armed conflict Sri Lanka.
A New Constitution for Sri Lanka: A Process, Presage, and a Hiatus

Medawatte, Danushka (The Bar Association Law Journal, 2019)

The article argues that all constitutional reform attempts in Sri Lanka have three main features: a process, presage, and a hiatus. This core argument is then applied to the constitutional reform process that commenced in 2015.
National Policy Space in the WTO General Agreement on Trade in Services: With Special Reference to Public Health Services

Mendis, N.M. (Maastricht University, 2020)
The Impact Of The Covid-19 Pandemic on ‘Right To Health’. Implications of Free Health-Care Vs. Health-Care Insurance Schemes: A Comparative Analysis

Amarasinghe, Kusal (Junior Bar Association, Sri Lanka, 2020)

The COVID-19 pandemic has created an unprecedented disruption for the entire civilization on a global scale. On 9th of April 2020, UN General Secretary, António Guterres stated the Security Council that the world faces its ...
Enforced Disappearances and Sri Lankan Human Rights Profile: An Analytical Reflection on Three Selected Enforced Disappearances Incidents in The Post-war Period

Amarasinghe, Kusal (Centre for the Study of Human Rights, University of Colombo, 2020)

According to the definition given by the United Nations’ Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances which has appointed under the provisions of the International Convention for the Protection of all Persons ...
Pure-Classical and Neo-Classical Schools of Criminology: Applicability Into the Present Context of Criminal Law in Sri Lanka

Amarasinghe, Kusal (David Publishing, USA, 2020)

There are several theories on the study in criminology. Among those theories, the Pure-Classical Theory of Criminology and the Neo-Classical Theory of Criminology are two major schools in criminological studies. These two ...
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Teaching International Law in Sri Lanka

Medawatte, Danushka (Afronomics Law, 2020)

This post explores the challenges of teaching International Law (IL) in Sri Lanka with reference to biases arising from dominant narratives, issues pertaining to study materials and teacher training, divisions caused by ...
Conflict Related Sexual Violence: Patriarchy's Bugle Call

Medawatte, Danushka (Georgetown University, 2020)

In this paper, it is argued that conflict related sexual violence is a product of patriarchy. Within that core argument, the author presents a feminist critique of the existing law pertaining to conflict related sexual ...
Asymmetric warfare: Applicability of International Humanitarian Law in Non-International Armed Conflicts

Amarasinghe, Kusal (2021)

Today's armed conflicts are not the same as the conventional and systematic wars described in the history books. In the 21st century, the political concept of “War” has been replaced by the factual concept of “Armed ...
Defending a wife who killed her husband: gender justice in defence of provocation in Sri Lanka

Pavithra, R. (Faculty of Law, University of Colombo, 2021)

Murder is an unjustifiable killing according to its legal definition. However, the Penal Code of Sri Lanka identifies some murderous acts of an accused where those can be considered as ‘justified kill’. A murder committed ...
Ill or Evil: comparative analysis of the defence of unsoundness of mind in England, India, and Sri Lanka

Niriella, M.A.D.S.J.S. (Faculty of Law, University of Colombo, 2021)

Mental illness is not an uncommon phenomenon. As found by the medical research studies Psychotics are more prone to abnormal behavior including criminality. Unsoundness of mind is recognized as a general defence that can ...
The extended Continental Shelf: a legal perspective of the implementation of Article 76 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 1982 (UNCLOS)

Hakeem, M. A. M. (Faculty of Law, University of Colombo, 2021)

This paper provides a legal perspective of the implementation of article 76 of the UNCLOS and its criteria for the determination and delimitation of the outer limits of the extended continental shelf beyond 200 nautical ...

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