Kushanthi is a an Assistant Professor attached to the School of Law, Faculty of Humanities and Sciences. She also functions as the Coordinator of the LLB(Hons) program of Liverpool John Moores University, UK, delivered at Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT).

Kushanthi has a B.A (Hons) in English Literature from the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, an LLM degree from Deakin University, Australia, and a Ph.D in law from Monash University, Australia. She has won many scholarships and awards for her studies including the Monash Law School Foundation Scholarship and the Australian Postgraduate Award.

Kushanthi took oaths as an Attorney-at-Law of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka in December 2004 and has about fourteen years’ experience in the legal field in various capacities such as a practicing Attorney-at-Law, a legal researcher and an academic. She has taught law at the Monash Law School (2011-2013), at the Royal Institute of Sri Lanka for the LLB(Hons) degree of University of London, UK (2013) and at the Asia Pacific Institute of Information Technology (APIIT) Sri Lanka for the LLB(Hons) degree of Staffordshire University, UK (2014-2018). Before joining SLIIT in October 2018, Kushanthi functioned as the Head of Law School at Asia Pacific Institute of Information Technology, Sri Lanka.

Kushanthi’s teaching interests include Contract Law, Criminal Law, Law of Sale, Export and International Trade Law, and Equity and Trusts. Her research interests include criminal law, legal philosophy, cyber-crime and anti-terrorism law.

• PhD in Law, Monash University, Australia, 2012
  Thesis: Theoretical Justifications for Australia’s Anti-Terrorism Financing  Laws

• Master of Laws (LLM), Deakin University, Australia, 2007

• Attorneys-at-Law Examinations, Sri Lanka Law College, Sri Lanka, 2001-2003

• Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in English Literature, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2005