Dinesha Samararatne

Dinesha Samararatne is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the ARC Laureate Program on Balancing Diversity and Social Cohesion in Democratic Constitutions, at the MLS Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies. Her research focuses on constitution‐making and enforcement in a post‐war context. During this time, she is on leave from the Department of Public & International Law, Faculty of Law, University of Colombo. Her recent research work has been in relation to judicial enforcement of economic and social rights, constitution-making, judicial interpretation of fundamental rights, war affected women with disability, the study of law from the perspectives of cultural studies and access to justice. Dinesha has held visiting positions at the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Law as a Kathleen Fitzpatrick Visiting Fellow at the Melbourne Law School, Australia, at the Gilbert and Tobin Centre for Public Law, Faculty of Law of the University of New South Wales, Australia and at the Institute for Human Rights, Abo Akademi, Turku, Finland. Dinesha participated in the Melbourne Forums in 2018 as a participant and as a ConTransNet Co-Convenor in 2019.