He defended his PhD The Anti-Conversion Bill: Political Buddhism, ‘Unethical Conversions’ and Religious Freedom in Sri Lanka in 2016. He has published articles on law, religion and rhetoric, and his latest piece is “The Audience and the Spectacle: Bodu Bala Sena and the Controversy of Buddhist Political Activism in Sri Lanka” in Jens Kjeldsen (ed.) Rhetorical Audience Studies and Reception of Rhetoric: Exploring Audiences Empirically (2018). All views expressed are that of the author, not of the CRGA.