| Vidya Jyothi T. Nadaraja |
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| Chancellor of the University of Jaffna |
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| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge Royal College Colombo |
| Profession | Academic, Lawyer |
Vidya Jyothi T. Nadaraja was a Sri Lankan academic. He was the Chancellor of the University of Jaffna, a Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Ceylon[1]
Nadaraja was the son-in-law of Sir Arunachalam Mahadeva and educated at the prestigious Royal College Colombo, where he won many prizes and the coveted Shakespeare Prize. He proceeded to the University of Cambridge for his legal studies and entered Trinity College, Cambridge. There he was awarded First Class Honours in both parts of the Cambridge Law Tripos, the Bond Prize for Roman Law, the Davies Prize for English Law and the Post Graduate Law Studentship at Trinity College, Cambridge. Thereafter at Lincoln's Inn, London, Nadaraja was awarded the First Class Certificate of Honour by the Council of Legal Education, London, and the Buchanan Prize of Lincoln's Inn.
He obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the Cambridge University, and he was awarded the Hon. LLD (University of Colombo) and the Jaffna University conferred the degree Hon. D.Litt. on him.
Professor Nadaraja was a lecturer at the Ceylon Law College from 1943-49. When the University of Ceylon started a Department of Law in 1947 Nadaraja joined the Law Department in 1947. He was appointed Professor of Law in 1951. He was Dean of the Faculty of Arts 1957-1960.
When the Department of Law was made a Faculty of Law, he was the Head of Dean of the Faculty of Law from 1960 until he retired from the University. He was Chancellor of the University of Jaffna from 1984 until he died on 20 January 2004.