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Sanjit Dias, LL.M.

Legal Consultant

Project Activities

Sri Lanka

Areas of Expertise

Constitutional Law, Human Rights, Administrative Law, Public International Law

Other Activities and Research Interests

Comparative Constitutional Law, Fourth Branch Institutions, Independence of the Judiciary

  • Since 01/2026 Consultant, Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law; Attorney-at-Law, Supreme Court of Sri Lanka
  • 07/2023–12/2025 Research Fellow, Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law
  • 08/2022–05/2023 Master of Laws, Harvard Law School
  • 02/2020–07/2022 Attorney-at-Law, Supreme Court of Sri Lanka
  • 08/2019–02/2020 Legal Apprenticeship, Sri Lanka Law College
  • 08/2018–08/2019 Legal Research Officer (Judicial Clerk) to the late Hon. Justice Prasanna Jayawardena, President’s Counsel, Judge of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka.
  • 02/2015–07/2018 LL.B. (Hons), Faculty of Law, University of Colombo
  • Dias, S.J., Constitutional Chess? Strategic Considerations in the Sri Lankan Supreme Court’s Constitutional Amendment Jurisprudence, 25:2 Global Jurist (December 2025)
  • Dias, S, Between a rock and a hard place: The constitutional role of the Attorney-General in Sri Lanka (2022) 6 INDIAN L. REV. 434
  • Bar Association of Sri Lanka