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Mrs. Niluka Damayanthi

LLB Second Class Honours (Upper Division)University of Colombo LLM (Honours) University of Pune, India CTHE (OUSL) Reading MPhil leading to PhD, University of Colombo Attorney-at Law

Senior Lecturer (Gr.I)

Legal Studies
  • CRC, 2nd floor, HSS Building
  • Office: 112881648, Ext: 2306
  • E-mail: hndam@ou.ac.lk nilu.damayanthi@yahoo.com

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Jurisprudence

Constitutional Law,Administrative Law,Human Rights and Environmental Law

Programme Coordination:
Program Director of the Degree of Master of Laws in Criminal Justice Administration Program from 1 st
September 2017 to 31 st August 2018

Course Coordination:
LWU3311- Administrative Law

Unpublished Dissertation -Master of Laws -Freedom of Speech and Expression; Scope of Administrative Discretion and Judicial Control

Ongoing Research:

Economic Rights of the Fishing community

Conference Proceedings/Full Papers

  • HN Damayanthi ‘Right to Health v Fruit Ripen Law in Sri Lanka’(5th International Conference on Sustainable Built Environment, ISBN:978-955-589-187-5(2014)
  • HN Damayanthi, ’Equality in Education; Analyzing of Educational and legislative policies relating to physically disabled children in Sri Lanka’ (ICOPH 2 nd International Conference on Public Health 2016) c)
  • HN Damayanthi ‘The UN Watercourse Convention: Its applicability in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka’ (International Conference on Water Sharing in SAARC Region Legal Issues and Challenges 2017)
  • HN Damayanthi ‘Protection of the Right to Livelihood of Fishermen in Palk Bay Region-A Human Rights Law Perspective’ (RUICHSS, 5 th Ruhuna University International Conference on Humanities and Social Sciences 2019)
  • HN Damayanthi ‘Right to Development v Right to Property: Significance of Re-visit the Law relating to Acquisition of Land in Sri Lanka’ (ICSUSL 7 th International Conference of Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka 2019)
  • HN Damayanthi ‘Expanding right to life through legislative interventions; A study of a fishing community in Sri
    Lanka’ (RIRC Rajarata International Research Conference 2019)
  • HN Damayanthi ‘Adequacy of the Legislative Interventions to Protect the Educational Rights of the Disabled Children in Sri’(5th World Disability and Rehabilitation Conference 2020)
  • HN Damayanthi ‘Efficacy of Collective Actions Approach for Sustainable Fishing in Palk Bay Region’ (iPURSE, Peradeniya University International Research Session 2021)
  • Damayanthi H.N (2021) Towards equitable sharing of Fishing Harvest in Plak-Bay Region; State responsibility on assuring Viable Solutions to Fishing issues 04th International Conference on Contemporary issues of Commerce, Education, Arts and Information Technology (ICCEAIT)
  • HN Damayanthi ‘Evaluation of the legal framework in fishing sector for prevention of environmental damages caused by unauthorized fishing in Palk Bay’(IRCHSS ,University of Sri Jayawardanapura 2022)

LLM dissertation supervisor and examiner, Masters of Laws in Criminal Justice Administration Degree Programme, Department of Legal Studies, the Open University of Sri Lanka

Life time member of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka

  • Visiting Lecture, Marking and Setting Examiner of the National Police Academy
  • Resource person of the Curriculum Development panel of the Diploma on Case Operation, National Police
    Academy
  • Course Team Chair for the Jurisprudence and Administrative Law of the LLB Degree Program and
    Introduction to the Laws of Sri Lanka course of the Bachelor of Industrial Studies, Faculty of Engineering
    Technology
  • Resource person of the Curriculum development panel of the Short Course in Irregular Migration, Human Smuggling and Human Trafficking designed by Department of Legal Studies.
    Served as a Committee member of the Criterion 5-Programme Design and Development for the Institutional Review 2019
  • Served as a Chairperson of the Criterion 1 for the Program review conducted by the University Grant Commission 2017
  • Faculty Representative of the By- Laws committee 2018-2021
  • Faculty Representative to the Operations Committee since 2021
  • Department Representative of the Faculty Research Committee 2017-2020
  • Organizing Committee Member – OURS 2023
  • Co-Chair -International Conference on Water Sharing in SAARC Region: Legal Issues and Challenges – 2017-Session organized by the University of NALSAR, India-
  • Panel of Reviewer -1 st Student Research Symposium of the Faculty of HSS 201
  •                                  – Open University Research Session- 2018 (IOURS 2018)
  •                                  –  2 nd Student Research Symposium of the Faculty of HSS December 2019
  •                                  –  The Open University Research Session OURS 2020

ICCR Scholar
Sri Lanka Law College

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