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{{short description|Sri Lankan academic and lawyer}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = [[Professor]] Lakshman Marasinghe
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| nationality = Sri Lankan
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| known_for = Chairman Law Commission of Sri Lanka, <br>Director of the SCOPP
| education = [[University College, London]]<br>[[Royal College Colombo]]
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| occupation = Emeritus Professor of Law
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| spouse = [[Rohini Marasinghe]]
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| children = Leelan
Sureni
Granddaughter Maya A Marasinghe▼
Tarini
Daughter in law Ninik M Handayani▼
Irantha
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[[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">[
Educated at the [[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.
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He was a part of the formation of the post apartheid South African Constitution.
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