Professor Rangita de Silva de Alwis serves as Distinguished Faculty on Law and Global Leadership at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and Wharton Business School. She is a globally recognized scholar on international women's human rights, women peace and security and has published in leading law reviews, including in Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Penn, Chicago, Berkeley, Duke, Georgetown, Michigan, NYU, UCLA, UChicago, and Oxford and Cambridge. Her latest work is a Casebook on Global Gender justice, the first of its kind to focus on Global South jurisprudence to be published by Cambridge University Press.   
She is also visiting faculty at Harvard Kennedy School of Government and a Senior Fellow of the Harvard Law School Center for the Legal Profession.  She is the Hillary Rodham Clinton Distinguished Global Fellow on Gender Equity at Georgetown Institute for Women Peace and Security. She was a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University, Mansfield College for 2023- 2025. She is a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Law School Center for the Legal Profession and was a Leadership Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government’s Women in Public Policy Program.       
She is a member of the UN treaty body to the CEDAW – where she serves as the Chair of the individual complaints and Co- Chair of Women Peace and Security. To mark the 25th anniversary of UNSCR 1325, she drafted the new international normative framework for WPS which was adopted in February 2026 and is regarded as a landmark.     
She is the Vice Chair of the International Bar Association's Human Rights Council headed by Baroness Helena Kennedy.  She is also on the advisory council to the President of the UN General Assembly.  
She received her SJD from Harvard Law School where she was recognized in 2015 as a "Woman of Inspiration."