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This is a list of law schools in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka Law College; Faculty of Law, University of Colombo; Department of Law, Faculty of Arts, University of Jaffna; Open University Law School, Sri Lanka; Department of Law, Faculty of Arts, University of Peradeniya; Faculty of Law, General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University.
There are three primary Law schools in Sri Lanka. These are Sri Lanka Law College, Faculty of Law (University of Colombo) and the Open University of Sri Lanka.However to practice as an attorney one must pass Sri Lanka Law College law exams and be "admitted and enrolled as an Attorney-at-Law of the Supreme Court of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka".
The University of Ceylon was the only university in Sri Lanka (earlier Ceylon) from 1942 until 1972. It had several constituent campuses at various locations around Sri Lanka. The University of Ceylon Act No. 1 of 1972, replaced it with the University of Sri Lanka which existed from 1973 to 1978.
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Legal education in Sri Lanka is based on the constitution and the legal framework of Sri Lanka which is mainly based on Roman-Dutch law.. The modern legal education in Sri Lanka dates back to 1833 when the Supreme Court was allowed by Section 17 of the Charter of 1833, to "admit and enrol as Advocates and Proctors, persons of good repute and of competent knowledge and ability upon examination ...
Sri Lanka Law College (abbreviated as SLLC), formerly known as Ceylon Law College, is a law college, and the only legal institution where one can enrol as an Attorney-at-Law in Sri Lanka. [2] It was established in 1874, under the then Council of Legal Education, in order to impart a formal legal education to those who wished to become Advocates ...
The university is a state university, with most of its funding coming from the central government via the University Grants Commission (UGC). Therefore, as with all other state universities in Sri Lanka, the UGC recommends its vice-chancellor for appointment by the President of Sri Lanka and makes appointments of its administrative staff.
The university moved to the new site on 22 November 1961, under the direction of Sri Soratha Thero. The vice-chancellor invited the Department of Government Archives to establish its archives on the campus, near the university library, to encourage research. The Higher Education Act (No. 20 of 1966) [4] opened Sri Lanka's universities to women.