Dr Asanga Welikala is a Lecturer in Public Law at Edinburgh Law School and the Director of the Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law. He is also a Research Associate of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, and Research Fellow of the Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA), Sri Lanka. Asanga's research and teaching interests lie in British public law, comparative and Commonwealth constitutional law, applied constitutional theory, and the history of constitutional ideas. He is a leading expert on Sri Lankan constitutional law, and has been engaged in constitutional and legal advisory work in Sri Lanka, Iraq, the Maldives, Nepal, Thailand, Somalia, Egypt, Libya, Myanmar, and The Gambia.      

LLB, LLM, PhD

http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/people/asangawelikala

• Plurinational Constitutionalism
• Federalism, Devolution, and Other Forms of Territorial Governance 
• Comparative Constitutional Design
• Democratic Backsliding and Institutional Resilience
• Comparative Constitutional Law in the Commonwealth
• British and Commonwealth Constitutional History
• Parliamentary Constitutionalism 
• States of Emergency 

• Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law
• Constitutional Law Discussion Group
• Legal Theory Group
• Territorial Politics Research Group
• Centre for South Asian Studies, University of Edinburgh  

Twitter: @welikalaa

Groundviews Author Page: http://groundviews.org/author/asanga-welikala/

ConstitutionNet Voices from the Field Sri Lanka Page: http://www.constitutionnet.org/news/voices?language=All&region=56

Constitutional Reform in Sri Lanka: http://constitutionalreforms.org  

Edinburgh Dialogues in Post-Conflict Constitution Building workshop series, with the Political Settlements Reserach Programme (PSRP) and the Constitution Building Programme of International IDEA.

The Arthur Berriedale Keith Forum on Commonwealth Constitutionalism.

Democratic Consdolidation and Constitutional Endurance, with the Melbourne Law School. 

Yes

• Public Law of the UK and Scotland (PLUS) (Ordinary)
• Public Law and Individual Rights (PLAIR) (Ordinary)
• The Changing Constitution (Honours)
• Fundamental Issues in Comparative Constitutional Law (Honours)
• Advanced Comparative Constitutional Law (LLM)
• Human Rights and Conflict Resolution (LLM in Human Rights)
• South Asia in the World 

Course Organiser, Fundamental Issues in Comparative Constitutional Law

Course Organiser, Advanced Comparative Constitutional Law

Course Organiser, The Changing Constitution

Director, Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law