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Attorney-at-Law Rajeev Amarasuriya has been appointed as the Sri Lanka Country Representative of the Commonwealth Legal Education Association (CLEA).
Founded in 1971, the CLEA is a Commonwealth-wide body with regional Chapters and Committees in South Asia, Southern Africa, West Africa, the Caribbean and the United Kingdom, and fosters and promotes high standards of Legal Education in the Commonwealth.
The goal of the Commonwealth Legal Education Association is to make Legal Education socially relevant and professionally useful, through Conferences, Moots, Newsletters, Lecture Series, Curriculum Development and activities for students.
Amarasuriya is the Immediate Past Secretary of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka and is credited for introducing many innovative and highly successful Continuous Legal Education and Professional Development Programs during the period of the Pandemic, including 175 publicly accessible Webinars, the introduction of the BASL Online Certificate Courses and many other such initiatives which to-date support the legal fraternity and law students.
He is a sitting Member of the Council of the University of Colombo, a Board Member of the Sri Lanka Accounting and Auditing Standards Board, an Executive Committee Member of the Law Association for the Asia and Pacific [LAWASIA], a Member of the Standing Committee on Legal Studies of the UGC, among several other offices and positions held.
He has also been a Council of Legal Education of Sri Lanka Member, the Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka Commissioner, an Advisory Board of the Faculty of Law Member, a Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology Member, the Sri Lanka National Arbitration Centre Board of Governors, and the University of Colombo Alumni Association President. He is also the Founder and Editor of the Junior Bar Law Journal launched in 2004 and the Bar Association of Sri Lanka Sinhala Law Journal launched last year.
He holds a Bachelor of Laws Degree with Honours from the University of Colombo, is the Gold Medal Winner of the Sri Lanka Law College, is a Fellow Member of CIMA (UK) and CMA Sri Lanka, an AFGG-Raisina Fellow and is reading for his PhD at the University of Colombo and has presented many papers at Conferences both Internationally and Nationally.
The Executive Committee of the CLEA is comprised of
President / Immediate Past President - Centre for Socio-Legal Studies South Africa Prof. David
MacQuoid-Mason
Vice Presidents - University of Notre Dame (London Law Centre) Dr. Peter Slinn, Sri Lanka Law College former Principal Dr. Joe Silva and University of Buckingham and UN Anti-Corruption
Academy Professor Prof. John Hatchard
Regional Representative for Australasia - University of Canterbury, New Zealand Faculty of Law
Prof (Dr.) Neil Boister
Regional Representative for Europe - European Law and Reform Professor and Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on the Rule of Law and European Values (CRoLEV) DirectorProf. Stéphanie
Laulhé Shaelou
Representative for the United Kingdom - University of London Undergraduate Laws Program
Associate Director Prof. Patricia McKella
Representative for South Africa - University of Johannesburg, Department of Private Law Dr.
Franaaz Khan
