{"id":153275,"date":"2025-11-25T16:29:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T23:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=153275"},"modified":"2025-11-25T16:29:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T23:29:43","slug":"the-proposed-foreign-investment-authority-law-of-sri-lanka-1976-a-critical-analysis-by-senaka-kumar-weeraratna-colombo-sri-lanka-lake-house-investments-ltd-1982-pp-xx-155","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/11\/25\/the-proposed-foreign-investment-authority-law-of-sri-lanka-1976-a-critical-analysis-by-senaka-kumar-weeraratna-colombo-sri-lanka-lake-house-investments-ltd-1982-pp-xx-155\/","title":{"rendered":"The Proposed Foreign Investment Authority Law of Sri Lanka (1976): A Critical Analysis, by Senaka Kumar Weeraratna. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Lake House Investments Ltd., 1982. Pp. xx, 155."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/search?filters%5BauthorTerms%5D=S.%20Prakash%20Sinha&amp;eventCode=SE-AU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">S. Prakash Sinha<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Review products<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Proposed Foreign Investment Authority Law of Sri Lanka (1976): A Critical Analysis, by Senaka Kumar Weeraratna. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Lake House Investments Ltd., 1982. Pp. xx, 155.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Published online by Cambridge University Press:&nbsp; <strong>28 February 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/search?filters%5BauthorTerms%5D=S.%20Prakash%20Sinha&amp;eventCode=SE-AU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">S. Prakash Sinha<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/international-journal-of-legal-information\/article\/abs\/proposed-foreign-investment-authority-law-of-sri-lanka-1976-a-critical-analysis-by-senaka-kumar-weeraratna-colombo-sri-lanka-lake-house-investments-ltd-1982-pp-xx-155\/D05B62FB9B59262E03721860FD464710\">https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/international-journal-of-legal-information\/article\/abs\/proposed-foreign-investment-authority-law-of-sri-lanka-1976-a-critical-analysis-by-senaka-kumar-weeraratna-colombo-sri-lanka-lake-house-investments-ltd-1982-pp-xx-155\/D05B62FB9B59262E03721860FD464710<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AI Overview<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The claim is correct: Senaka Kumar Weeraratna&#8217;s dissertation, &#8220;The Proposed Foreign Investment Authority Law of Sri Lanka (1976): A Critical Analysis,&#8221; published in 1982 as a book, was a groundbreaking work because it was the first on foreign investment law in Sri Lanka<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>. It analyzed the proposed 1976 law and became the initial comprehensive book on this legal topic for the country.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Author:<\/strong> Senaka Kumar Weeraratna<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> &#8220;The Proposed Foreign Investment Authority Law of Sri Lanka (1976): A Critical Analysis&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Publication Year:<\/strong> 1982<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Significance:<\/strong> It is considered the first book to provide a critical analysis of foreign investment law in Sri Lanka.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Details:<\/strong> Published by Lake House Investment Ltd. in Colombo, the work is 155 pages long.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>It is accurate that the Monash University dissertation, published as a book in 1982 by Senaka Kumar Weeraratna under the title<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Proposed Foreign Investment Authority Law of Sri Lanka (1976): A Critical Analysis<\/em>, broke new ground as the first book on foreign investment law in Sri Lanka.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More details about the book:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Source<\/strong>: The book was originally written as a Master of Laws thesis at Monash University.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Publisher<\/strong>: It was published by Lake House Investments Ltd. in Colombo, Sri Lanka.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Subject Matter<\/strong>: It provides an analysis of the proposed Foreign Investment Authority Law of 1976, which was subsequently overtaken by new legislation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Enduring Value<\/strong>: Despite the law it analyzed becoming outdated, the book&#8217;s value lies in its analytical framework for understanding foreign investment in Sri Lanka.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S. Prakash Sinha Review products The Proposed Foreign Investment Authority Law of Sri Lanka (1976): A Critical Analysis, by Senaka Kumar Weeraratna. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Lake House Investments Ltd., 1982. Pp. xx, 155. Published online by Cambridge University Press:&nbsp; 28 February 2019 S. Prakash Sinha https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/international-journal-of-legal-information\/article\/abs\/proposed-foreign-investment-authority-law-of-sri-lanka-1976-a-critical-analysis-by-senaka-kumar-weeraratna-colombo-sri-lanka-lake-house-investments-ltd-1982-pp-xx-155\/D05B62FB9B59262E03721860FD464710 AI Overview The claim is correct: Senaka Kumar Weeraratna&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-senaka-weeraratna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153276,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153275\/revisions\/153276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}