College of Law
Pamoda Jayasundara
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Key information
Key information
- Department
- College of Law
- Qualifications
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Bachelor of Law (First Class Honours) - Department of Law, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
Master of Human Rights and Comparative Constitutional Law - School of Law, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Attorney-at-law at the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka - Subject
- Law
- Email address
- 734195@soas.ac.uk
- Thesis title
- Value-assumptions about Human-Animal Interactions : Underpinning the Evolving Discourse of Global Animal Law
- Internal Supervisors
- Professor Philippe Cullet & Dr Birsha Ohdedar
Biography
Pamoda Jayasundara is currently an MPhil/PhD candidate at the College of Law at SOAS, University of London. She obtained her LL.B from University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka with a first-class honours and serves as a Lecturer there.
She pursued her LL.M in Human Rights and Comparative Constitutional Law at the University of Texas at Austin, USA as a Fulbright Scholar. She was awarded the M.D. Anderson Research Fellowship by the Institute for Transnational Law at the University of Texas. Pamoda is also enrolled as an Attorney-at-Law in Sri Lanka.
In her academic career, she has taught courses such as Jurisprudence, Animal Protection Law, Human Rights Law, Art of Advocacy and Legal Clinic at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Since 2015, she has been an active participant in several projects and programs conducted by organizations including the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka, the Legal Aid Commission of Sri Lanka, The Asia Foundation, and the Campaign for Free and Fair Elections, where she worked with fellow human rights activists on progressive causes such as empowering women in disadvantaged communities, combating election violence, promoting rights of ethnic minorities and promoting national reconciliation.
Her interest in Animal Protection Law evolved with the seminar on Animal Law she followed as part of her Master’s degree, and she considers being able to contribute to the initiative of introducing Animal Protection Law as an optional course to the curriculum of the Department of Law of the University of Peradeniya as an achievement in her academic journey. Pamoda has also submitted a proposal to make Animal Rights Law a compulsory course with the hope of expanding its impact to other institutions of legal education in the future. Her doctoral research focuses on the value-assumptions about human-animal interactions underpinning the evolving discourse of Global Animal Law where she aspires to explore its philosophical lineages by employing multiple critical lenses with the view of enhancing its inclusivity and receptiveness to diversity.
Research interests
- Theory and philosophy of Global Animal Law
- Critical Legal Studies
- Critical Race Theory
- Marxism
- Third World Approaches to International Law
- Postmodernism
