Suri Ratnapala

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Suri Ratnapala is an Australian academic. He is Emeritus Professor of Public Law of 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[1] was a medical doctor of repute, a brilliant schoolboy cricketer, a member of Parliament and renowned scholar of Buddhist Philosophy, whose book on Abhidharmartha Pradeepeka is a highly regarded commentary on the doctrine.^{[citation needed]} His mother Ancy Samarasinha was member of a prominent family in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka. Ratnapala is married to Rusri, née Gunasekera a member of a prominent Colombo family. Their son Dr Adrian Ratnapala is a scientist working Germany.

Ratnapala served as a Senior State Counsel,^[1] and represented the Sri Lankan State in landmark constitutional cases. He migrated to Australia in 1983. In 1988 he was appointed as Lecturer at the T C Beirne School of Law[2] and, in 2001, was appointed to the Chair of Public Law. He retired at the end of 2014 and was appointed Emeritus Professor.

In 1990, his book Welfare State or Constitutional State?^[2] 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.^[3] He is a Fellow of the [3] 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.

Bibliography[]

• Australian Constitutional Law: Foundations and Theory
• Welfare State or Constitutional State?
• Illusions of Comparable Worth
• Jurisprudence
• Jurisprudence of Liberty

References[]

External links[]

• http://www.law.uq.edu.au/emeritus-professors

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