He qualified as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria and practiced law in Melbourne, Australia.
Weeramantry, who was then Chief Commissioner of an Inquiry established to examine the history of phosphate mining on the island of Nauru.
[8] In 2023 he received the Manley O. Hudson Medal of the American Society of International Law, its highest honor.
[10] In the course of making this argument, he develops his concept of the 'dynamic of difference' and argues that it is central to the civilizing mission of imperial projects.
For example, through this concept, development science, policy and discourse may be viewed as justified on the basis of a posited difference between 'developed' and 'developing' states along with the supposed superiority of the condition of being 'developed'.