Suri Ratnapala

Suri Ratnapala is an Australian academic. He is a Professor of Public Law and Director of the Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law in the School of Law at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.

Biography

Born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Suri Ratnapala attended the Royal College, Colombo and the University of Colombo, where he gained his first law degree.[1] His father Amaradasa Ratnapala was a medical doctor of repute, a brilliant schoolboy cricketer, a member of Parliament and renown scholar of Buddhist Philosophy, whose book on Abhidharmartha Pradeepeka is a highly regarded commentary on the doctrine. His mother Ancy Samarasinha was member of a prominent family of landed gentry in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka. Ratnapala is married to Rusri, née Gunasekera a member of a prominent Colombo family of intellectuals, journalists and outstanding cricketers. Their son Adrian Ratnapala is a physicist at the Centre for Cold Matter of the Imperial College, London (CCM).

Ratnapala served as a Senior State Counsel,[1] representing the Sri Lankan State in landmark constitutional cases before he migrated to Australia where he completed masters and doctoral degrees before accepting tenure at the University of Queensland. He was appointed to the Chair of Public Law in 2001.

In 1990, his book Welfare State or Constitutional State? was awarded a Sir Antony Fisher International Memorial Prize by a panel chaired by James Buchanan. In 2000, he received a John Templeton Foundation award for inter-disciplinary teaching spanning legal, political, economic and social theory. In 2003 he was awarded a Centenary of Australian Federation Medal for his contribution to Australian society through research in law and economics.[2] He is a Fellow of the International Centre for Economic Research and a Visiting Fellow of the Social Philosophy and Policy Centre at the Bowling Green State University in Ohio. He is also a member of the Editorial Advisory Council of the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS). He has been a member of the Mont Pelerin Society since 1998 and a member of its Board of Directors since 2008.

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Centenary medal for Prof. Ratnapala
  2. ↑ It's an Honour

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