In the academically challenging field of Law, a full-time, internal Law degree provides many benefits.
The quality assurance of internal degrees is not limited to final examinations; rather quality assurance takes place over the full duration of the course encompassing all aspects such as adequacy of learning resources, competence of lecturers, quality of teaching, level of student support and effectiveness of assessment strategies. Universities prescribe required standards for all these parameters and monitor the conduct of the programmes closely to ensure that the prescribed standards are maintained.

Susan Green, Programme Leader - Law BA LL.B (Hons) GradCertLaw LL.M	Marini de Livera, Senior Lecturer LL.M LL.B LTCL PgDHR, Attorney-at-Law

APIIT Law offers an internal British degree in Law, awarded by Staffordshire University. APIIT Law students therefore enjoy all the benefits of an internal degree, including the attention afforded by an accessible, full-time academic staff.

At APIIT Law School, teaching and learning takes place through interactive lectures, small group tutorials and workshops. While lectures cover the course content comprehensively, small group tutorial sessions give students the opportunity to learn and practise problem solving skills which are essential for both examinations in Law and in legal practice. This emphasis on skills development, focused on enhancing both academic performance and students' future employability, is central to APIIT Law School's teaching philosophy.

A unique feature of the internal LL.B (Hons) Law degree offered at APIIT Law School is the skills training programme that takes place throughout the first year. Skills training is conducted mostly through workshops and develops skills such as legal problem solving, legal writing and research, client intervening, and critical analysis. Students will therefore be equipped with not only subject knowledge but also a wide array of skills to become effective practitioners on graduation.

With a committed full-time staff, APIIT Law School is also able to provide additional academic and personal tutoring to students and run a programme of extra-curricular activities to enhance the students' learning experience and further develop their skills. These activities include mock trials, mooting in APIIT's purpose-built moot court room and visits to court and parliament guided by experts.

APIIT Law School's highly qualified academic staff has a diversity of Sri Lankan and international experience and qualifications, both academic and professional. With their connections with the legal profession in Sri Lanka and international experience, they are able to provide students with the advice and support required to take advantage of all the opportunities available to them as APIIT Law students and future Staffordshire University graduates.

In addition to its full-time staff, APIIT Law School also engages part-time and visiting lecturers. The panel's teaching is complemented by guest lectures by eminent practitioners and leading Sri Lankan academics on areas of their expertise. These guest lectures supplement the core curriculum, providing expert and practical insights into key topics in the core curriculum. This interaction with the legal profession and wider academia contributes to a vibrant learning environment. Since its inception in 2009, APIIT Law School has welcomed senior members of the judiciary and diplomatic service, and senior practitioners in both the public and private sectors to share their knowledge and experience with students on topics of relevance to their professional and personal development.

Susan Green, Programme Leader - Law
BA LL.B (Hons) GradCertLaw LL.M, Solicitor (Qld & NSW)

Susan Green is the Programme Leader - Law at APIIT Law School, also teaching Land Law, Constitutional and Administrative Law, Human Rights Foundation and SKILLs (Skills for Knowledge and Learning in Law). She has been with APIIT Law School since its inauguration in September 2009.
Graduating in Law from the University of Queensland in 1993, Susan Green has 15 years' experience in legal practice in Australia, holding senior positions as a solicitor in both private practice and government. She has practised in a number of different jurisdictions in land and commercial law at leading Australian law firms, as well as holding a position in knowledge management, keeping lawyers up-to-date with current developments in the law. She is a former consulting editor of a practitioner's manual of the law and practice relating to land transactions.

In addition to her commercial expertise, Susan also holds a Master's degree focused on public and international law from the University of Melbourne, with research interests in this field
Marini de Livera, Senior Lecturer
LL.M LL.B LTCL PgDHR, Attorney-at-Law

Marini de Livera is a Senior Lecturer specialising in public law who teaches English Legal System, Constitutional and Administrative Law, Human Rights Foundation and International Criminal Law. She also coordinates APIIT Law School's programme of extra-curricular activities, including court visits, parliament visits and moot training.

Marini has previously been a lecturer in Law and Communication Skills in the UK. In her early career, Marini was in practice at the Bar and has given opinions in cases relating to Public Law and Fundamental Rights.

Before she joined APIIT in August 2010, Marini worked as UNFPA's National Project Professional Personnel and was based at the Ministry of Child Development and Women's Empowerment. She was also UNDP's National Project Coordinator in its Parliament Modernisation Project for Democracy and Development. Here she also worked as the Coordinator of the Parliamentary Women's Caucus. As Gender Expert she accompanied parliamentarians and policy makers on study tours to South Africa and Aceh to study post-conflict constitution-making and participatory post-conflict rehabilitation and reconstruction.

Marini has functioned as a Human Rights Trainer for the Armed Forces, university students, politicians, Ministry officials and schoolchildren. She has also worked closely with the Ministry of Rehabilitation as Member of the Steering Committee on Prison Reforms and was also a Member of the Steering Committee on the Rehabilitation of Child Soldiers.

She has been a part of the research team in the publication of the legal textbook, Constitutional and Administrative Law in Sri Lanka by Dr J.A.L. Cooray, former Vice Chairman of the UN Human Rights Committee. She was commissioned by the National Democratic Institute to present the Sri Lankan Constitution in a reader-friendly format so that it could be translated into all three languages and used in forums on Constitution and Peaceful Coexistence at District, Provincial and Local Government level.
Marini has presented papers at a number of regional and international conferences. She was invited to the University of Harvard for the Colloquium on Inclusive Security and Sustainable Peace where she was also a speaker at the John F. Kennedy Forum at the Kennedy School of Governance in Boston.

Upeka Perera, Lecturer
LL.B (Hons) LL.M, Attorney-at-Law

Upeka Perera obtained her Bachelor's degree in Law with Honours from the University of Colombo. She then completed her Attorney at Law from the Sri Lanka Law College and was admitted as an Attorney of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka in 2006.

She completed her LL.M in International Commercial Law with Distinction from the University of Leicester in the UK, where her final dissertation was on "Agricultural Subsidies in Developing Countries and the WTO". During her time at the University of Leicester she was fortunate to work as one of four research assistants on a research project undertaken by Prof. Robin White for the European Court of Human Rights.

On her return to Sri Lanka she practised in the commercial law field before joining APIIT as a lecturer in Law for APIIT Business School. She has been lecturing at the APIIT Law School since its inception and teaches Contract Law, Commercial Law and Equity and Trusts.

Kavitha Ganesan, Lecturer
LL.B (Hons) Bar-at-Law (Commonwealth and England and Wales)

Kavitha received her LL.B (Hons) from South Bank University London, after which she completed her Bar-at-Law for non intending practitioners, and was called to Lincoln's Inn in September 1995.

She subsequently worked as a Research Analyst for the Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka for a period of 2 years, before returning to the UK where she worked as a court clerk and Junior Counsel for various sets of Chambers, including Lewes Chambers and Sussex Chambers. She went on to complete the Bar Vocational Conversion Course for Barristers wishing to practise in England and Wales in 1999, after which she worked as a Regulatory Officer and Legal Advisor to the Occupational Pensions Regulatory Authority for 3½ years.

She returned to Sri Lanka in 2002, joining the Corporate Services Department of FJ & G De Sarams for two years, followed by roles as the Supervisor for the Women and Islam Project under the Asia Foundation Rule of Law Programme and the Communications Officer and Fundraiser for the Sunera Foundation.

Kavitha joined the APIIT Law School in August 2010 and teaches Criminal Law, English Legal System, Constitutional Law and SKILLs (Skills for Knowledge and Learning in Law).

Tilini Wickramadara, Lecturer
LL.B (Hons), Attorney-at-Law

Tilini Wickramadara obtained her Bachelor's degree in Law with Honours from the University of Colombo in 2006. She then completed her Attorneys at Law from the Sri Lanka Law College and was admitted as an Attorney of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka in 2008. She is currently studying for a Master's degree in Law.

After graduation, she worked in the French Trade Commission (the trade arm of the French Embassy) where her work involved the preparation of market studies on various economic sectors and advising French investors on the legal and commercial framework within which they would be required to work in Sri Lanka.

Thereafter she was employed at MAS Active (Trading) Pvt. Ltd. as a Senior Executive in Compliance & Corporate Social Responsibility, involved with ensuring that the manufacturing and management systems within garment manufacturing units in MAS Active complied with Sri Lankan legal requirements and applicable international requirements on the areas of labour law and environmental law.

She joined APIIT Law School as a Lecturer in Law in January 2010 and teaches Criminal Law, Tort Law and in the forthcoming academic year, Labour Law.