AUTHOR
Punsara Amarasinghe
Punsara is a PhD researcher at Institute of law and politics at Scuola Superiore Sant Anna in Pisa, Italy. After having obtained LL.B from University of Colombo, Sri Lanka in 2015, he went on to study LL.M in International Law and Legal Theory at South Asian University in New Delhi, India under SARRC scholarship. He graduated LL.M with a Distinction in 2017 and his thesis titled –Evaluating the Concept of Justice in Medieval Hinduism with Thomas Aquinas- was presented before Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka in the same year. After serving as a visiting lecturer at Faculty of Arts, University of Colombo for a short time, he spent a year as a research fellow at Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia. His research areas include History of International Law, TWAIL Scholarship, Critical Legal Studies focusing on Human Rights, Classical Hindu Law and Colonial Legal History in South Asia. Besides his affiliation to International Law, he shares a passion in oriental religions. PhD research of Punsara deals with Social Economic Rights in the Global South and Neo-Liberalism. Punsara is a life member of Royal Asiatic Society
