Roshan de Silva-Wijeyeratne

Adjunct Lecture, Griffith University Law School
Member, Advisory Board, Centre on Human Rights in Conflict, University of East London

Regional Focus: Sri Lanka
Date of Comments: Session 3, February 11, 2021

Biography:

Dr Roshan de Silva-Wijeyeratne is a Member of the Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law, University of Edinburgh, and a Member of the Advisory Board, Centre on Human Rights in Conflict, University of East London, and an Adjunct Lecturer in Law at Griffith University, Australia. He graduated from the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London) and completed his doctorate on Buddhism and Constitutional discourse in Sri Lanka at the University of Kent. In 2014 he published Nation, Constitutionalism and Buddhism in Sri Lanka with Routledge. He recently published a chapter on Buddhist Constitutionalism in a collection of essays on Constitutions and Religion edited by Susanna Mancini. He is currently working on a co-edited collection of essays (in collaboration with Dr James Taylor) on state and religious transformation in South and Southeast Asia. Roshan’s works draws on contemporary debates in Social and Postcolonial Theory.