Dr. Joseph Anthony Leopold Cooray (known as J. A. L. Cooray) was a foremost jurist in Constitutional Law and Human Rights in Sri Lanka. Cooray was a member of the Constitutional Drafting Committees of both the Sri Lankan Constitution of 1972 and the 1978 Constitution of Sri Lanka. Cooray was also a Co-Secretary of the Ceylon National Congress and an influential member of "the Young Turks" of Sri Lanka. Cooray served as a Judge of the Constitutional Court of Sri Lanka. He also served as the Vice-Chairman of the UN Human Rights Committee from 1987 to 1990. Cooray was influential in including a chapter on Fundamental Human Rights (a new trend in Constitution-making at the time) in the Sri Lankan Constitution of 1972. Cooray is the author of Constitutional and Administrative Law of Sri Lanka
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