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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.
At Harvard University, the title of University Professor is the institution's most distinguished professorial post, [1] and is conferred upon a select group of 25 tenured faculty members whose scholarship and other professional work have achieved exceptional distinction and influence. [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.
University of Sri Lanka. The University of Sri Lanka was a public university in Sri Lanka. Established in 1972 by amalgamating the four existing universities, it was the only university in Sri Lanka from 1972 until 1978. The university was based at six campuses in Colombo, Peradeniya, Sri Jayewardenepura, Kelaniya, Moratuwa and Jaffna.
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]
Harvard Law School ( HLS) is the law school of Harvard University, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1817, Harvard Law School is the oldest law school in continuous operation in the United States. Each class in the three-year JD program has approximately 560 students, which is among the largest of the top 150 ...
In 2009, women were 21.6% of law school Deans, 45.7% of Associate, Vice-Deans or Deputy Deans and 66.2% of Assistant Deans. Women have better representation on law school law reviews. In the top 50 schools as ranked by US World and News Reports in 2012–2013, women made up 46% of leadership positions and 38% of editor-in-chief positions.
Yale University (B.A., J.D.) Policy research, author, telecommunications and information law. Susan P. Crawford (born February 27, 1963) is the John A. Reilly Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. She served as President Barack Obama 's Special Assistant for Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy (2009) and is a columnist for WIRED.