Dr. W. D. Rodrigo, President’s Counsel who was the Principal of Sri Lanka Law College from November 2005 to December 2013, was ex officio the President of the Sri Lanka Chapter of the Commonwealth Legal Education Association (CLEA). He received his B. A. Degree from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka, LLB and LLM from the Faculty of Law, University of Colombo and his PhD in intellectual property law from the University of Queensland, Australia. His Doctoral research and Thesis was sponsored by the ‘Legal and Judicial Reforms Project’ funded by the World Bank and it was on copyright law in the digital era which was a comparative study of the law in Sri Lanka, Australia and the United States.

In addition, he received pedagogical training in methods of teaching law at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom on a fellowship awarded by the UNDP and obtained a Postgraduate Diploma in Further Education. He was also awarded a fellowship in 1984 by the Colombo Plan to attend a ‘module writers’ workshop at the Colombo Plan Staff College in Singapore where he developed a module on evaluation of students’ performance. He has also developed curricula and improved the quality of practical training at Sri Lanka Law College. He has made a substantial contribution to the legal literature.