Ermiza Tegal leads a chamber in public and constitutional law, human rights and family law in Colombo. Her work involves law reform and human rights advocacy, including protection for victims of torture, family law reform, gender-based violence, plantation workers’ rights, land rights, and a feminist perspective on economic justice for Sri Lanka in the context of the economic crisis.She is a co-founder of the Muslim Personal Law Reform Action Group and a founding member of the Feminist Collective of Economic Justice. She also serve on the Boards of the Women’s Resource Centre, Kurunegala and Muslim Women’s Research and Action Forum, Colombo.She holds an LLM from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London and was a fellow of the Harvard Law School’s Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World.