Dr. Sumudu Atapattu
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Dr. Sumudu Atapattu is the Director of Research Centers and Senior Lecturer at the University of Wisconsin Law School in Madison. She teaches in the area of International Environmental law and climate change and human rights. She holds an LL.M. (Public International Law) and a Ph.D. (International Environmental Law) from the University of Cambridge, U.K., and is an Attorney-at-Law of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka. She held a Senior Fulbright scholarship at the New York University Law School and the George Washington University Law School in 2000-2001. She taught International Law and Environmental Law as a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka for several years. In 2001 she served on a panel of experts on liability and compensation issues for the World Health Organization's proposed Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. She has many publications in the fields of international environmental law, environmental rights and international sustainable development law and is particularly interested in the link between human rights and the environment, especially, climate change. |