Mrs Kumari Lane

Overview

Biography

After obtaining the LLB and Attorney-at-Law qualifications in Sri Lanka, I came to England in 1971. I obtained three postgraduate qualifications in England. Since 1980 I have been teaching in higher education. Currently in addition to teaching at Birkbeck, I am the module convenor in Advanced Contract Law for the University of London online LLM and an examiner for the law of contract and the law of tort for the University of London International undergraduate programmes.

Highlights

• Birkbeck Big Ideas presentation on 'Links Between Colonialism, Industrialisation, Climate Change and Forced Migration'

  
  

Qualifications

• LLB (Sri Lanka)
• LLM (London)
• LLB/LLM (Cantab.)
• MPhil (London)
• Attorney-at-Law (Sri Lanka)
• FHEA

Research

Research interests

• Climate Change Refugees and Refugee Law: Viewed Through a Postcolonial Lens

Supervision and teaching

Teaching

Teaching modules

• Tort Law (LADD037S5)