Verité Research appoints Yanitra as Head of Legal Research

On April 23 Kumaraguru led a public seminar at Verité Research’s VThink! on the ethics of autonomous weapons in warfare

Her appointment comes at a time when Verité Research is expanding its legal research portfolio

Under her leadership, the Legal Research Division will focus on a wide range of areas through a robust intersectional lens

Verité Research has appointed Attorney-at-Law Ms.Yanitra Kumaraguru as the Team Lead of its Legal Research Division, which is dedicated to examining, analysing, and strengthening Sri Lanka’s legal frameworks and their enforcement. 

On April 23 Kumaraguru led a public seminar at Verité Research’s VThink! on the ethics of autonomous weapons in warfare. 

Kumaraguru is an Attorney-at-Law of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka and holds an LL.M. from Harvard University. She has previously served seven years as a Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Colombo, and has consulted and published widely on topics including gender, technology and the law, human rights and humanitarian law.

Her appointment comes at a time when Verité Research is expanding its legal research portfolio amid renewed opportunity for constitutional and institutional reform in Sri Lanka. Under her leadership, the Legal Research Division will focus on areas such as technology and the law, access to justice, climate and the law, business and human rights, and civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights—approached through a robust intersectional lens.

Verité Research is Sri Lanka’s largest independent think tank, providing interdisciplinary strategic analysis and advisory services to governments, international organisations, and the private sector in and beyond Sri Lanka. It conducts research across three core fields: Economics, Media & Politics, and Law & Governance. The Legal Research Team is part of the Law & Governance Division, which is headed by Attorney-at-Law and Deputy Director Sankhitha Gunaratne.