IHL and Child Rights Competition

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Balakista Reddy - Registrar, NALSAR University of Law

Since the beginning of his legal education, Prof. Dr. V. Balakista Reddy has always been keen on acquiring knowledge in the field of international law. His graduation and post-gradation studies continued in the evening colleges, given the fact that he had to sustain himself financially by working during day time in various private organizations. After graduating in law, he pursued post-graduate studies in International law. Through perseverance and determination to excel in this field of law, not only did he concentrate on his research to understand the principles, but also always tried to keep abreast with the developments in the field through active participation in Seminars and Workshops and presenting papers.
Today’s academic education is not only restricted to giving lectures but he believes in organizing different International and national level extracurricular legal activities in university. He has always focused on organizing International/National Moot Courts Competition, Conferences, Workshops, Debate, Literary & Cultural Fest, Penal Discussion, Guest Lectures, Parliamentary Recommendation on bills, Parliamentary debate, Zest etc. He recently had the privilege of organizing the 78th Session of the Institute of International Law (Institut de droit international), an institute which has won Nobel Peace Prize in 1904 for its contribution to the field of International Law and peaceful settlement of disputes. It has as its members many scholars of international law including sitting and retired judges of International Court of Justice and many other international tribunals, professors from Harvard, Oxford and Yale.
His hobbies include reading newspapers, mentoring, farming, swimming and travelling and interacting with people from different walks of life.

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Danushka S. Medawatte is a lecturer attached to the Faculty of Law, University of Colombo where she teaches Constitutional Law, and International Humanitarian Law. Her research interests lie in enforced disappearances and missing persons, power-sharing mechanisms and critical legal approaches to international law. Danushka Medawatte graduated from the Faculty of Law with a second class upper division and subsequently completed her Master of Laws degree at Harvard Law School specializing in Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, and International Criminal Law.

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Nayantara graduated from University Law College, Bangalore in 2013, and completed her LL.M in Human Rights, Conflict and Justice from SOAS, University of London in 2016. She has previously worked as a researcher on the rights of children with disabilities at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore. Nayantara currently works for the Migration and Asylum Project where she provides legal assistance to clients who are survivors of torture and other forms of persecution. She undertakes casework and accompanies clients to the UNHCR for their asylum interviews. She also manages the organization’s media presence.