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Nationality. Sri Lankan. Awards. Fukuoka Prize. Academic background. Alma mater. Ladies College, University of Peradeniya, Harvard Law School. Savitri Goonesekere is a jurist and academic [ 1] from Sri Lanka. She is an international expert on the rights of children.
Radhika Coomaraswamy. Deshamanya Radhika Coomaraswamy (born 17 September 1953) [ 1] is a Sri Lankan lawyer, diplomat and human rights advocate who served as an Under-Secretary General and Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict from 2006 to 2012. Secretary-General Kofi Annan appointed her to the position in April 2006. [ 2]
Tiruchelvam held several academic positions in Sri Lanka and the USA. He was Fulbright Fellow (1969–71) and fellow in law and modernization at Yale Law School (1972–74). He was then reader at the Faculty of Law, University of Sri Lanka Colombo campus and Edward Smith Visiting Fellow and Lecturer at Harvard Law School.
In 2006, Suk became an assistant professor at Harvard Law School, making her the second woman of minority background to join the faculty (after Lani Guinier). [1] In 2010, Suk was granted tenure; she was the first Asian American woman awarded tenure in the law school's history. [1] She is currently the John H. Watson, Jr. Professor of Law.
Harvard Law School: Magdalen: 1939 United States Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (1971–1985) Dom Mintoff: University of Malta: Hertford: 1939 Malta Prime Minister of Malta (1955–1957, 1971–1984) Waldemar Nielsen: Brasenose: 1939 United States Expert on philanthropy and philanthropic ...
Established in 1935, this position enables scholars to work across disciplines and at any of Harvard's schools. [2] The number of University Professors has increased over time, made possible by new endowed gifts to the university. In 2006, there were 21 University Professors. [3] As of 2022, the total has risen to 25 University Professors. [4]
John Chipman Gray (LL.B. 1861), property law professor and founder of the law firm Ropes & Gray. Livingston Hall, Roscoe Pound Professor of Law at Harvard Law School until his 1971 retirement. George Haskins (1942), Algernon Sydney Biddle Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Author. lawyer. law professor. Ruth Lade Okediji (born 1963) is an American legal scholar. She is the Jeremiah Smith. Jr, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and co-director of the Berkman Klein Center. [3] She also founded and serves as faculty director of Harvard Law School's Program on Biblical Law and Christian Legal Studies.