Chetana Rukshani

Chetana Rukshani Karunatilaka is a lecturer attached to the Department of Law, Faculty of Arts at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. She obtained LLB (Hons) Degree from Faculty of Law, University of Colombo in 2011 and LLM in Global Business Law from the La Trobe University, Australia in 2015. Her Master of Laws research was based on the International trade and environmental law, namely, “International Trade Related Environmental Disputes: Is the World Trade Organization Appropriately Dealing with Matters of Such Nature?”.

Her research interests include Environmental Law, International Trade Law and Commercial Arbitration. She has presented several papers in International Conferences and she was the scholar to represent Sri Lanka at the 26th Annual Conference of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association held in 2016. She recently won the Best Paper award at the Amity International Conference on Legal Dimensions of Environment 2017 which was held in New Delhi, India.

Currently Ms. Karunatilaka teaches Law of Contract, Company Law, Environmental Law, Business Law and International Trade Law. Further she supervises and examines undergraduate level thesis at the Department of Law. She is also a member of the Visiting Lecturers Panel at the Open University of Sri Lanka, who conducts lectures in Law of Contract and Environmental Law.

Papers and Publications

• “Use of Right to Information in Battling for Environmental Justice in Sri Lanka”, Published and presented at The 1st Amity International Conference on Legal Dimensions of Environment, 2017 (New Delhi, India)
• “Reforms to International Trade Regime for the Protection of Marine Living Resources”, Published & presented at the 10th International Research Conference of General Sir John Kothalawela Defense University, 2017 (Sri Lanka)
• “Evaluation of Right to Information in Preserving Environmental Rights in Sri Lanka”, Published and presented at the iPURSE International Research Conference of University of Peradeniya, 2017 (Sri Lanka)
• “Citizen’s Right to Information in Sri Lanka”, Full Article published in the Junior Bar Law Journal 2017, Sri Lanka “Duty of Confidentiality in International Commercial Arbitration: A Lesson for Sri Lanka”, Published at Postgraduate Institute of Humanities & Social Sciences Research Congress, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
• “Admission of Foreign Lawyers and Law Firms to the Sri Lankan Jurisdiction”, Presented at the IPBA 26th Annual Conference (2016) Malaysia