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Artificial Neural Network Based Grey Exponential Smoothing Approach for Forecasting Electricity Demand in Sri Lanka
(2024-07)The electricity supply of the country has greatly impacted the economy and the nation’s standard of living; an accurate forecast of electricity demand is essential for any country to enhance industrialization, farming, ... -
Empowering the Captioning of Fashion Attributes from Asian Fashion Images
(2024-07)Fashion image captioning, an evolving field in AI and computer vision, generates descriptive captions for fashion images. This paper addresses the prevalent bias in existing studies, which focus predominantly on Western ... -
Examining the Adequacy of Laws to Ensure the Protection of Human Rights in Business Corporations: Sri Lankan Perspective
(2024-03)This article explores the State’s responsibility in monitoring businesses that violate human rights, with a focus on Sri Lanka’s legal framework. States are obligated to uphold human rights nationally and internationally, ... -
Rethinking the Compatibility of Sri Lanka’s Trust Law with Modern Needs: Three Essential Recommendations to the Trusts Ordinance
(2024-03)The Trust law evolves over time, adapting to contemporary needs. In the pursuit of equitable development, many countries make use of trust concepts. In contrast, Sri Lanka’s Trusts Ordinance No.9 of 1917 remains entrenched ... -
The Role of Environmental Impact Assessment Report in Ensuring the Sustainable Development in Sri Lanka
(2024-03)National Environment Act evolved in order to ensure and guarantee that the development projects are carried out in compliance with the notion of sustainable development. The Amendments to the National Environment Act, ... -
An Appraisal of the Right to Erasure as a Part of the Right to Privacy with Special Reference to Data Protection in India and Sri Lanka
(2024-03)Privacy is a concept with different dimensions. The traditional approach to privacy has considerably changed due to the advancement in science and technology. In this digital world, a vast amount of data is collected, ... -
A Critical View on the Sri Lankan Juvenile Legislation Rehabilitation and Re-integration Procedures Available towards Juvenile Delinquents
(2024-03)The purpose of this paper is to analyze the available national laws relating to juvenile delinquency, to discuss the contributory factors for the occurrence of juvenile delinquency in Sri Lanka, to discuss the rehabilitation ... -
Minority Opinion of the Court and its Significant Contribution to the Subsequent Legal Developments
(2024-03)It is a well-accepted fact that the majority opinion represents the prevailing opinion of a court. However, judges are free to have an opinion that differs from the rationale presented in the majority opinion, and, as a ... -
Examining the Influence of Stoicism in Carving Cicero’s Notion of Natural Law: A Legal Philosophical Perspective
(2024-03)This article seeks to examine the roots of Cicero’s jurisprudential thinking, which impacted upon the early development of the natural law philosophy. Cicero has been revered among the legal thinkers as a premium jurist ... -
The Hart-Devlin Debate Revisited
(2024-03)The inextricable link between law and morality has long been a subject of intense examination within legal scholarship. These inquiries delve into the ethical foundations that confer legitimacy and effectiveness upon legal ... -
A Balancing Approach on ‘Right to Patent’ and ‘Right to Health’ during the COVID-19 Pandemic
(2024-09)This paper examines the global COVID-19 Pandemic, and the health sector’s response to it, with challenges to uphold Human Rights in a Crisis. There are difficulties for the people in accessing to medicines due to the ... -
A Study on the Sex Workers’ Movement: Looking beyond Indian Legislation
(2024-09)Sex work, involving the provision of sexual services in exchange for payment, is a prevalent practice in India. Despite being a signatory to numerous global agreements on women’s rights and having legislation prohibiting ... -
Examining the Consequences of Corporal Punishment on Children in Sri Lanka: A Study of Child Rights and Legal Frameworks
(2024-09)Corporal Punishment is a controversial issue globally, and Sri Lanka is not an exception. Although the government of Sri Lanka has introduced various legislative measures to prohibit Corporal Punishment, it is still widely ... -
A Study of the Allegation of Denial of Humanitarian Assistance - An Analysis of the Charge against Sri Lanka in the OISL Report
(2024-09)In 2009, Government of Sri Lanka militarily defeated the three decades old separatist armed conflict spearheaded by Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. In 2015, Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights conducted an ... -
Unveiling the Dynamics of Nepal’s Contribution-Based Social Security: A Legal Perspective
(2024-09)A contribution-based social security system is one of the forms of social security measures where an employer, employee, or individual (selfemployee) contributes financially to fund social security benefits. Nepal’s social ... -
Analysis of International Refugee Laws and Refugee Protection Framework in Sri Lanka: Challenges and Opportunities
(2024-09)This paper offers a unique and elaborate epistemological understanding of the international refugee law structure as well as the status quo of Sri Lanka on refugee related aspects. Paper examines the historical background ... -
Evaluating the Use of Artificial Intelligence for an Effective Justice System in Sri Lanka
(2024-09)Introducing an artificial intelligence (AI) legal system in Sri Lanka can be a complex but potentially transformative endeavor. In such a context the objective of this research is to evaluate the use of Artificial intelligence ... -
Privacy Considerations in the Age of Digital Transformation in Emerging Bharat
(2024-09)In today’s technologically advanced world, the concept of privacy has become more critical than ever before. With the digital transformation sweeping across the globe, individuals’ privacy has come under intense scrutiny. ... -
Book Review: Humanities and Social Sciences Education in Sri Lankan Universities: Past, Present and Future
(2023-11)This is an essay about the book “Humanities and Social Sciences Education in Sri Lankan Universities: Past, Present, and Future, Volume III: Premakumara de Silva... [et al.]— University Grants Commission, Government ...