Judges and Judiciary,
International Law
Mar. 9, 2018
Sitting with Sri Lankan Supreme Court Justice Shiranee Tilakawardane
Hers has been a lifetime of firsts.
Julie L. Kessler
PO Box 1582
Manhattan Beach , CA 90267-1582
Phone: (310) 403-0009
Email: Julie@VagabondLawyer.com
George Washington Univ Law School
Julie is an attorney based in Los Angeles, a freelance writer for several publications, and the author of the award-winning book "Fifty-Fifty, The Clarity of Hindsight." She can be reached at www.VagabondLawyer.com
Following Sri Lanka's peaceful independence from Britain in 1948, relative calm ensued but was followed by more than two decades of civil war along ethnic lines that raged between the Sinhalese government and the Tamil LTTE, known as the Tamil Tigers. Finally ending in 2009, and with open elections in 2015 resulting in the presidency of Maithripala Sirisena, the restoration of democracy and freedoms has commenced. This has also meant that an entire generation that gre...
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