Visuvanathan Rudrakumaran is a practising attorney in New York, USA. He holds an LLM in International Law/Comparative Law and is a former co-chair of the Committee on International Law and Comparative Law, New York County Bar Association. He has written extensively on the conflict in the island of Sri Lanka and participated in the Norwegian sponsored Peace Process as Legal Adviser to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam delegation. His published writings include “Secession in Åland, Tamil Separatism, and International Law.” Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism XXI, no.1-2 (1994): 11-23