Dr. Sumudu Atapattu,
Sri Lanka 
Lead Counsel, Human Rights Law and Poverty Eradication

Sumudu Atapattu, Ph.D Law & LL.M (Cantab)is Lead Counsel for Human Rights and Poverty Eradication with the CISDL, and an Attorney-at-Law of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka (was placed 1st in order of merit at the final examination). She held a Senior Fulbright scholarship for “Environmental Rights and Human Rights” at the New York University Law School and the George Washington University Law School. She taught as a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. She also serves as Consultant to the Law & Society Trust, and was editor of the LST Review.  She has worked on the Draft fundamental rights chapter of the proposed Constitution of Sri Lanka, and the draft legislation on equal opportunity, edited several publications and coordinated research for the annual State of Human Rights Report of the Trust.  In 2002, she edited the State of Human Rights Report. In 2001 she served on a panel of experts on liability and compensation issues for the WHO’s proposed Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.  She is presently a visiting scholar at the Institute for Legal Studies of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School.