Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Recognizes the Value of Legal History Scholarship

Dr Harshan Kumarasingham (left), Researcher at the Institute with effect from February, organized a conference in order to launch his recent book The Road to Temple Trees - Sir Ivor Jennings and the Constitutional Development of Ceylon: Selected Writings in Colombo (Sri Lanka) on 19 December 2015, the 50^th anniversary of Jennings’ death. Jennings, an eminent British constitutional lawyer, spent many years in Ceylon, as it then was. Dr Kumarasingham presented a copy of the book to Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe who said that it would be particularly useful for him in contextualizing the present round of constitution making which has just begun with the Sri Lankan Parliament transforming itself into a ‘Constitutional’ Assembly.