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Author: Prof. Suri Ratnapala

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Politics and Governance, The Constitutional Coup

On the Comparison of Sri Lanka’s Present Constitutional Question with the Dismissal of the Whitlam Government in Australia

“Most countries with a Parliamentary form of government have ceremonial heads of state. Even in such countries, the head of state can exercise his discretion in dissolving Parliament. The British constitutional authority…

Prof. Suri Ratnapala Prof. Suri Ratnapala on 12/03/201812/03/2018
Colombo, Constitutional Reform, Human Rights, Identity, Politics and Governance

Ending poverty by judicial decree: Constitutionalised welfare rights are a utopian nightmare

There is a movement around the world that is clamouring for the recognition of an extensive catalogue of positive social, economic and cultural rights as constitutionally protected and judicially enforceable entitlements. The…

Prof. Suri Ratnapala Prof. Suri Ratnapala on 04/13/201704/13/2017

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