Dilini Lakshika Pathirana- Doctor of Law
- Senior Lecturer at University of Colombo
Dilini Lakshika Pathirana
- Doctor of Law
- Senior Lecturer at University of Colombo
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Introduction
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Education
September 2015 - January 2019
July 2012 - July 2013
October 2004 - September 2008
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Publications (20)
The Colombo Port City Project (CPC or the “Project”) is the most prominent Chinese direct investment in Sri Lanka. The case study highlights the prospects and resilience of a BRI project in the cyclical process of democratic decay and consolidation in a host state with democratic dispensation and welfare commitments. It traces the geopolitics of th...
The EU–China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI or the Agreement) is a politically win-win deal for the EU, driven by the urgency of addressing asymmetries of its investment relationship with China, and China, which wants to safeguard the EU’s openness to its investors. Economically, however, the impact of its market and liberalization offe...
The geopolitical and geo-economic significance of the Indian Ocean region has been increasing, and a noticeable rivalry has developed amongst the nations who aspire to have a strategic regional presence
for economic and security reasons. Sri Lanka is critical in this geopolitical rivalry due to its strategic location in the Indian Ocean. In this
co...
Over the past two decades, the Sri Lankan judiciary has often been called to make decisions incidental to proposed or ongoing foreign investment projects by way of fundamental rights petitions. These proceedings have resulted in landmark judgments that upheld the rule of law, making an outstanding contribution to the country’s fundamental rights ju...
The politically sensitive nature of Chinese investments in Sri Lanka has made investment protection by the China-Sri Lanka BIT highly relevant. However, the treaty has a pro-state orientation, with limited protection for investors. This gives rise to a modern paradox in which China has become the top investor in Sri Lanka, despite the absence of an...
“Non-precluded measures” (NPM) clauses have become a fixture of the modern international investment regime. As an integral aspect of attempts to recalibrate the public-private balance in investment treaties, these clauses are intended as a corrective to the pro-investor interpretations of early arbitral tribunals. They expressly provide for the pri...
The end of thirty years of civil war in 2009 gave Sri Lanka hope for a new era of national development supported with peace and new development opportunities. As a result, the economic revival was given top priority in the country’s post-war national development agenda. The significance of foreign investment has been frequently emphasized in this r...
International investment is one of the fields of global governance that is likely to be affected by China’s rise as a global superpower in general, and its rise as a global investor in particular. It has become manifest by China’s leadership in forming of the G20 Guiding Principles for Global Investment Policymaking and in establishing the Asian In...
Based on the historical notion of the “Silk Road”, China launched the ‘One Belt, One Road” [OBOR] initiative – the Chinese vision for regional integration expected to be accomplished by creating an extensive network of infrastructure projects connecting East Asia with the Middle East and Europe. The implementation of this vision gives rise to a wav...
The People's Republic of China has experienced steady inbound and increased outbound flows of foreign direct investment in recent years. It has concluded a web of international investment agreements that includes 131 bilateral investment treatiesç110 of which are in forceças well as 21 other agreements with investment provisions. This treaty networ...
Sri Lanka is the first country against which a foreign investor has had recourse to international arbitration based on the dispute settlement clause in a bilateral investment treaty (BIT). This was the case of AAPL v. Sri Lanka. Since then, the country has been challenged twice before the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (...
