Dr Gehan Gunatilleke
I am an international human rights lawyer and scholar focusing on religious liberty and free speech and am currently working on a book titled ‘Reimagining the Limits of Free Speech under International Law’. I first came to Pembroke College as a Junior Research Fellow in the Religion and the Frontier Challenges Programme (2022-2024). I was also an Early Career Fellow at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights and have previously taught courses in human rights to visiting undergraduates at New College and St Catherine’s College. In 2023, I was appointed a Commissioner of the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka and continue to serve in that capacity in Colombo, Sri Lanka. I am also a senior partner at LexAG, a law firm based in Colombo and a former advisor to Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs where I advised the government on international treaty compliance. I have a Master’s in International Human Rights Law from New College and DPhil in Law from St. Catherine’s College. I also have an LL.M from Harvard Law School, where I was a Fulbright Scholar.
‘Do Faith-based Conflict Resolution Mechanisms Prevent and Mitigate Ethnoreligious Conflict in Sri Lanka?’ (forthcoming) Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science
‘Limiting Fundamental Freedoms in Sri Lanka: Majoritarianism in Constitutional Practice’ (2023) 19 International Journal of Law in Context 334
‘Is Section 3 of Sri Lanka’s ICCPR Act Fit for Purpose? (2023) 26 The Bar Association Law Journal 156
‘Fear, Radicalism and Violence: Sri Lanka’s Cyclical Crisis’ in (2023) Farahnaz Ispahani (ed.) The Politics of Hate: Regional Majoritarianism in South Asia (Gurugram: HarperCollins)
‘Orthodoxy and Order: The Denial of Religious Liberty to Ahmadis in Colonial Ceylon’ (2022) 43(1) Sri Lanka Journal of the Humanities 1 (co-authored with Shamara Wettimuny)
Dr Gehan Gunatilleke
I am an international human rights lawyer and scholar focusing on religious liberty and free speech and am currently working on a book titled ‘Reimagining the Limits of Free Speech under International Law’. I first came to Pembroke College as a Junior Research Fellow in the Religion and the Frontier Challenges Programme (2022-2024). I was also an Early Career Fellow at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights and have previously taught courses in human rights to visiting undergraduates at New College and St Catherine’s College. In 2023, I was appointed a Commissioner of the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka and continue to serve in that capacity in Colombo, Sri Lanka. I am also a senior partner at LexAG, a law firm based in Colombo and a former advisor to Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs where I advised the government on international treaty compliance. I have a Master’s in International Human Rights Law from New College and DPhil in Law from St. Catherine’s College. I also have an LL.M from Harvard Law School, where I was a Fulbright Scholar.
‘Do Faith-based Conflict Resolution Mechanisms Prevent and Mitigate Ethnoreligious Conflict in Sri Lanka?’ (forthcoming) Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science
‘Limiting Fundamental Freedoms in Sri Lanka: Majoritarianism in Constitutional Practice’ (2023) 19 International Journal of Law in Context 334
‘Is Section 3 of Sri Lanka’s ICCPR Act Fit for Purpose? (2023) 26 The Bar Association Law Journal 156
‘Fear, Radicalism and Violence: Sri Lanka’s Cyclical Crisis’ in (2023) Farahnaz Ispahani (ed.) The Politics of Hate: Regional Majoritarianism in South Asia (Gurugram: HarperCollins)
‘Orthodoxy and Order: The Denial of Religious Liberty to Ahmadis in Colonial Ceylon’ (2022) 43(1) Sri Lanka Journal of the Humanities 1 (co-authored with Shamara Wettimuny)