Professor Camena Gunaratne is an Attorney-at-Law and holds an LLB from the University of Colombo, LLM from Harvard Law School and a PhD from the University of Waikato, New Zealand. She is currently a Professor at the Department of Legal Studies, Open University of Sri Lanka, with prior experience as the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Head of the Inter-Faculty Environmental Studies Unit and Head of the Department of Legal Studies. She was a Smuts Visiting Scholar in Commonwealth Studies at the University of Cambridge and a Fulbright scholar at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is currently a member of the Incorporated Council of Legal Education and was previously on the Law Commission and the National Committee on Women. She has several years of experience writing and contributing to books, monographs, essays, book chapters and journal articles.