Dr Dinesha Samararatne

Senior Fellow (Melbourne Law Masters)

University of Colombo, Sri Lanka

Overview

Dinesha Samararatne is a Professor at the Department of Public and International Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka and an Attorney-at-Law. Her research interests include judicial review, public participation in constitution-making, constitutional resilience, women and constitutional law, fourth-branch institutions and the relevance of the global south in comparative constitutional law. Dinesha has published widely. Dinesha is a Senior Fellow and Co-Convenor of Constitution Transformation Network (CTN) of the Melbourne Law School, Australia. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the Indian Law Review and Editor of the University of Colombo Review. In 2023 she was appointed as an independent expert to the Constitutional Council of Sri Lanka.

Teaching (2024)

Melbourne Law Masters