Kumar Percy Jayasuriya
Associate Law Librarian for Patron Services, Georgetown Law Library, Adjunct Professor of Law
B.A., J.D., Tulane; M.L.I.S., San Jose State
Kumar Percy Jayasuriya is the Associate Director of Patron Services at the Georgetown University Law Library. Prior to coming to Georgetown, Professor Jayasuriya taught advanced...
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Kumar Percy Jayasuriya is the Associate Director of Patron Services at the Georgetown University Law Library. Prior to coming to Georgetown, Professor Jayasuriya taught advanced legal research for over seven years at the University of Texas and before that he taught Legal Research and Writing at Boston University. Professor Jayasuriya received a J.D. with honors from Tulane Law School and an M.L.I.S. from the School of Library and Information Science at San Jose State University. He has published several works regarding maritime law, abortion law, affirmative action and issues related to legal information policy. Before deciding on a career in law librarianship he practiced maritime law in San Francisco, CA.
Recent Scholarship
Forthcoming Works and Works in Progress
- Kumar Percy Jayasuriya & Stephanie Davidson, Social Networking and Research Practices: Legal, Ethical and Practical Considerations for Legal Research Educators, in Boulder Statements on Legal Research Education: The Intersection of Intellectual and Practical Skills (Susan Nevelow Mart ed., William S. Hein & Co. forthcoming).
Books
- Memorials of the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States (H. Kumar Percy Jayasuriya ed., Buffalo, N.Y.: William S. Hein & Co. 2d series 2009).
Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals
- H. Kumar Percy Jayasuriya & Melanie Oberlin, Admiralty and Maritime Law Articles Published in Non-Maritime Law Journals (2009), 41 J. Mar. L. & Com. 167-195 (2010). [L] [W]
- H. Kumar Percy Jayasuriya & Melanie Oberlin, Admiralty and Maritime Law Articles Published in Non-Maritime Law Journals (2008), 40 J. Mar. L. & Com. 149-184 (2009). [L] [W]
Book Chapters and Collected Works
- H. Kumar Percy Jayasuriya & Frances M. Brillantine, Student Services in the 21st Century: Evolution and Innovation in Discovering Student Needs, Teaching Information Literacy, and Designing Library 2.0-Based Student Services, in Public Services in Law Libraries: Evolution and Innovation in the 21st Century (Barbara Bintliff & Lee F. Peoples eds., Binghamton, N.Y.: Haworth Information Press 2008).
All Scholarship 2000 - Present
Forthcoming Works and Works in Progress
- Kumar Percy Jayasuriya & Stephanie Davidson, Social Networking and Research Practices: Legal, Ethical and Practical Considerations for Legal Research Educators, in Boulder Statements on Legal Research Education: The Intersection of Intellectual and Practical Skills (Susan Nevelow Mart ed., William S. Hein & Co. forthcoming).
Books
- Memorials of the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States (H. Kumar Percy Jayasuriya ed., Buffalo, N.Y.: William S. Hein & Co. 2d series 2009).
- Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger Litigation Documents: A Documentary History of Affirmative Action (H. Kumar Percy Jayasuriya & Roy Mersky eds., Buffalo, N.Y.: William S. Hein & Co. 2007).
- A Documentary History of the Legal Aspects of Abortion: City of Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health (Kumar Percy Jayasuriya ed., Buffalo, N.Y.: William S. Hein & Co. 2007).
- Hopwood v. Texas Litigation Documents Part 3: Second Trial in the Federal District Court for the Western District of Texas (1996-1998) (H. Kumar Percy Jayasuriya comp., Buffalo, N.Y.: William S. Hein & Co. 2006). [BOOK]
- Hopwood v. Texas Litigation Documents Part 4: Second Appeal to the Fifth Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court (1998-2001) (H. Kumar Percy Jayasuriya comp., Buffalo, N.Y.: William S. Hein & Co. 2006). [BOOK]
- Hopwood v. Texas Litigation Documents Part 2: Attorneys’ Fees in District Court and First Appeal to the Fifth Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court (1994-1996) (Kumar Percy comp., Buffalo, N.Y.: William S. Hein & Co. 2003). [BOOK]
- Hopwood v. Texas Litigation Documents Part 1: Trial in the Federal District Court for the Western District of Texas (1992-1994) (Kumar Percy comp., Buffalo, N.Y.: William S. Hein & Co. 2002). [BOOK]
Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals
- H. Kumar Percy Jayasuriya & Melanie Oberlin, Admiralty and Maritime Law Articles Published in Non-Maritime Law Journals (2009), 41 J. Mar. L. & Com. 167-195 (2010). [L] [W]
- H. Kumar Percy Jayasuriya & Melanie Oberlin, Admiralty and Maritime Law Articles Published in Non-Maritime Law Journals (2008), 40 J. Mar. L. & Com. 149-184 (2009). [L] [W]
- H. Kumar Percy Jayasuriya & Melanie Oberlin, Admiralty and Maritime Law Articles Published in Non-Maritime Law Journals (2007), 39 J. Mar. L. & Com. 229-273 (2008). [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN]
- H. Kumar Percy Jayasuriya, Remembering Bob Oakley, 100 Law Libr. J. 237-238 (2008). [HEIN] [L] [W]
- Robert L. Oakley: In Memoriam, 100 Law Libr. J. 215-250 (2008) (Kumar Percy Jayasuriya, Laura A. Bédard, Barbara R. Monroe & Marylin Raisch, compilers). [HEIN] [W]
- H. Kumar Percy Jayasuriya & Melanie Oberlin, Admiralty and Maritime Law Articles Published in Non-Maritime Law Journals (2006), 38 J. Mar. L. & Com. 229-258 (2007). [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN]
- H. Kumar Percy Jayasuriya & Frances M. Brillantine, Student Services in the 21st Century: Evolution and Innovation in Discovering Student Needs, Teaching Information Literacy, and Designing Library 2.0-Based Services, 26 Legal Reference Services Q. 135-170 (2007). [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
- H. Kumar Percy Jayasuriya & Melanie Oberlin, Admiralty and Maritime Law Articles Published in Non-Maritime Law Journals (2005), 37 J. Mar. L. & Com. 589-614 (2006). [HEIN] [L] [W]
- H. Kumar Percy Jayasuriya & Karen Engle, Bibliography for Representing Culture, Translating Human Rights, 41 Tex. Int'l L.J. 529-532 (2006). [HEIN] [L] [W]
- H. Kumar Percy Jayasuriya, Admiralty and Maritime Law Articles Published in Non-Maritime Law Journals (2004), 36 J. Mar. L. & Com. 405-423 (2005). [HEIN] [L] [W]
- H. Kumar Percy Jayasuriya, Admiralty and Maritime Law Articles Published in Non-Maritime Law Journals (2003), 35 J. Mar. L. & Com. 405-429 (2004). [HEIN] [L] [W]
- H. Kumar Percy Jayasuriya, Admiralty and Maritime Law Articles Published in Non-Maritime Law Journals (2002), 34 J. Mar. L. & Com. 511-526 (2003). [HEIN] [W]
Book Chapters and Collected Works
- H. Kumar Percy Jayasuriya & Frances M. Brillantine, Student Services in the 21st Century: Evolution and Innovation in Discovering Student Needs, Teaching Information Literacy, and Designing Library 2.0-Based Student Services, in Public Services in Law Libraries: Evolution and Innovation in the 21st Century (Barbara Bintliff & Lee F. Peoples eds., Binghamton, N.Y.: Haworth Information Press 2008).
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