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Professor Rangita de Silva de Alwis

Visiting Policy Fellow
Rangita de Silva de Alwis

Professor Rangita de Silva de Alwis

Visiting Policy Fellow

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About

Prof. Rangita de Silva de Alwis is a globally recognized international women’s human rights scholar and faculty at Penn Law and Wharton School. She is also a member of the treaty body to the UN Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and Chair of its Working Group on Individual Petitions and Co- Chair of the Women Peace and Security Agenda. She is on the Board of Advisors to the President of the UN General Assembly and Vice Chair of the International Bar Associations Human Rights Institute. She is the Hillary Rodham Clinton Global Fellow at the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security.

She graduated from Harvard Law School with a doctorate in law and is a Senior Fellow at the Centre on the Legal Profession, Harvard Law School. Last year, she was a Visiting Fellow at Oxford’s Mansfield College. While at OII, she will be writing on human rights guardrails to AI- facilitated Lethal Autonomous Weapons System (LAWS) and collecting data on the impact of technology facilitating gender-based violence on women’s political participation and deliberative democracy.  She has published widely in leading law review journals in the US and UK and is a Visiting Faculty at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

Research Interests

human rights and autonomous weapons systems, technology facilitating gender-based violence, women’s political participation and deliberative democracy

Positions at the OII

  • Visiting Policy Fellow, April 2025 -

Contact

@rangitadesilva

Research