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Line 1: {{short description\| ~~SHORT DESCRIPTION =~~ Sri Lankan academic and lawyer}}▼ {{More footnotes needed\|date=November 2019}} {{Infobox person \| name = [[Professor]] Lakshman Marasinghe \| image = ~~\| image_size =~~ \| caption = \| birth_name = Line 12 ⟶ 13: \| resting_place = \| resting_place_coordinates = ~~\| residence =~~ \| nationality = Sri Lankan \| ~~other_names~~other names = \| known_for = Chairman Law Commission of Sri Lanka, <br>Director of the SCOPP \| education = [[University College, London]]<br>[[Royal College Colombo]] Line 20: \| occupation = Emeritus Professor of Law \| title = ~~\| networth =~~ \| height = ~~\| weight =~~ \| term = \| predecessor = Line 28 ⟶ 26: \| party = \| boards = \| ~~religion~~spouse = [[Rohini Marasinghe]] ~~\| spouse = [[Rohini Marasingha]]~~ \| partner = \| children = Leelan Sureni Tarini Irantha Granddaughter Maya Avanthi Marasinghe Daughter in law Ninik Muji Handayani \| parents = \| relatives = Line 38 ⟶ 40: \| footnotes = }} [[Professor]] '''Lakshman Marasinghe''' is a [[Sri Lanka]]n [[academic]] and [[lawyer]]. An [[Emeritus Professor\|Emeritus Professor of Law]] of the [[University of Windsor]], he is the current [[Chairman]] of the [[Law Commission of Sri Lanka]] and was the Legal Director of the [[Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process]] during the [[Sri Lankan Civil War]].<ref>[http://www.lawcomdept.gov.lk/info_English/index.asp-xp=711&xi=718.htm Members of the present Law Commission] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100724021230/http://www.lawcomdept.gov.lk/info_English/index.asp-xp%3D711%26xi%3D718.htm \|date=2010-07-24 }}</ref><ref name="law">[~~http~~https://~~www~~archives.sundayobserver.lk/2005/03/27/new31.html Law students honour two illustrious law teachers] </ref> Educated at the ~~prestigious~~ [[Royal College, Colombo]], he went to study [[medicine]] at [[London Hospital Medical College]] before switching over to study law at the [[University College, London]], where he gained his [[LLB]] with first class honours and [[Master of Laws\|LLM]] with distinction in 1961. After a long teaching career in several universities, he retired as an [[Emeritus Professor\|emeritus professor]] of the University of Windsor and went on to briefly work for the [[Sri Lanka Law College]] in the formation of new courses of study. He is a council member of the Pemberley International Study Centre. He was an integral part in the formation of the first post Apartheid South African Constitution. ==References== {{~~reflist~~Reflist}} {{Authority control}} He was a part of the formation of the post apartheid South African Constitution. ~~{{Persondata <!-- Metadata: see [[Wikipedia:Persondata]]. -->~~ ~~\| NAME = Marasinghe, Lakshman~~ ~~\| ALTERNATIVE NAMES =~~ ▲\| SHORT DESCRIPTION = Sri Lankan academic and lawyer ~~\| DATE OF BIRTH =~~ ~~\| PLACE OF BIRTH = [[Sri Lanka]]~~ ~~\| DATE OF DEATH =~~ ~~\| PLACE OF DEATH =~~ }} {{DEFAULTSORT:Marasinghe, Lakshman}} [[Category:Sinhalese people]] [[Category:Sri Lankan lawyers]] [[Category:Sri Lankan ~~academics~~academic administrators]] [[Category:Alumni of ~~the~~ Royal College, Colombo]] [[Category:Alumni of University College London]] [[Category:Academic staff of University of Windsor ~~faculty~~]] [[Category:Sri Lankan emigrants to Canada]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Year of birth missing (living people)]] [[Category:Alumni of the UCL Faculty of Laws]]