Ongoing Collaborative Project with Professor GL Peiris

The academic staff of the Department of Private & Comparative Law is currently engaged in a collaborative project with Prof. GL Peiris to assist in the preparation of revised editions of his previously published legal texts. As part of this initiative, Ms. Buddhika Munasinghe, Ms. Tavini Nanayakkara, and Ms. Udani Imesha are working on updating his book ‘The Law of Property in Sri Lanka – Volume I’. Further, Mr. Kamal Ahamed and Ms. Prineetha Bandaranayake are contributing to the revision of his book on ‘Law of Evidence in Sri Lanka’. Their work involves incorporating recent legal developments and landmark judicial decisions into the revised editions, with a view to ensuring that the texts remain up to date. The revised books are expected to be published in the near future.

Staff Research

April 2025

  • Prof. A. Sarveswaran has published an article titled, “A Reflection on the Termination of Employment of Workmen (Special Provisions) Act in the Light of Different Types of Termination of Employment” in KDU Law Journal, Volume 05, Issue 01, March 2025.
  • Ms. Tavini Nanayakkara has contributed an article entitled “Sitting on a goldmine: A critical analysis of the role of the actio injuriarum under the Roman Dutch law in safeguarding personal data privacy of data subjects in Sri Lanka” further to an invitation extended by the editors of the BASL Law Journal of 2025. This was as a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the BASL.
  • Ms. Tavini Nanayakkara has co-authored a blog entitled “The diffusion of the Public Trust Doctrine in South Asia: Environmental Constitutionalism or Beyond?” with Prof. Dinesha Samararatne published in adminlawblogorg.

March 2025

  • Prof. (Chair) Rose Wijeyesekare has published an article titled ‘Executive Pardon in the Sri Lankan Constitution: An Analysis through Sovereignty of the Executive and Morality of Law’ in Volume XI of the Judicial Services Association Law Journal, 2024.

August 2024

  • Prof. A. Sarveswaran Presentation on “A Reflection on the Legal Regime Governing Elder’s Rights in Sri Lanka” in a Symposium jointly organized by the Department of Social Services (Northern Province) in collaboration with the Faculty of Medicine, University of Jaffna on 15-10-2024.

June 2024

  • Ms. Tavini Nanayakkara has published a paper in the University of Colombo Review – June 2024, on ‘Analysis of privacy policies in Sri Lanka’.
  • Ms. Tavini Nanayakkara’s abstract on ‘Future-proofing expression in the online sphere’ has been selected for presentation at the Munster Conference in Germany in September 2024.

March 2024

  • Ms. Tavani Nanayakkara has been selected to present two papers on ‘Diffusion of privacy laws in South Asia,’ conducted by the Oxford Programme of Asian Laws to be held at the National University of Singapore in August 2024.
  • Ms. G.I.D.I Udani has been selected to present a paper at the international conference on “Women and Worlds of Learning: From the Medieval to the Modern Day” which will be held on April 13th and 14th, 2024, in Oxford. The conference is organized by the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, and the University of London.