Adjunct Associate Professor Jayson Lamchek

Biography

Jayson's research studies the advancement of human rights in extremely challenging settings. These settings have included counterterrorism, undocumented migration, the War on Drugs, mining in the Philippines, and criminal procedure reform. Jayson engages critical perspectives on human rights and international law (including Third World Approaches to International Law), and his methodology is interdisciplinary, particularly looking at human rights in political and historical contexts. Jayson has a background as a practitioner, having been a lawyer and advocate for non-government organizations in the Philippines, including the Public Interest Law Center (PILC) and Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center (LRC), for more than seven years.

His first monograph Human Rights Compliant-Counterterrorism: Myth-making and Reality in the Philippines and Indonesia (Cambridge University Press, 2019) critically assesses the intersection of human rights law with counterterrorism. It contributes case studies of state violence, social movement activism and law reform in the Philippines and Indonesia to examine the impact of the language of international human rights on counterterrorism practice on the ground. He has also published in the Australian Journal of Human Rights, and contributed chapters to Criminal Legalities in the Global South (Routledge, 2020) and the Duterte Reader (Cornell University Press, 2017)

Jayson was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore from 2017-2019. He completed his PhD at the ANU as an Endeavour scholar. He was also a recepient of the Erasmus Mundus scholarship (European Commission) and the Monbukagakusho scholarship (Japan).

At the ANU College of Law, he is developing a project on revitalizing Third World movement-inspired elements of international law, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (particularly the right to benefit from scientific advancement) and the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (particularly the principle of sea bed resources as the common heritage of mankind) for the present era of technological upheaval. He has continuing research in the Philippines and Indonesia which will be published by Oxford University Press, the International Criminal Law Review, among other venues.

Honorary Fellow
Australian National University
College of Law
Profile: https://law.anu.edu.au/people/jayson-lamchek

Senior Research Fellow
Access to Sustainable Energy Programme-Clean Energy Living Laboratories
(ASEP-CELLs) Project
European Union/Ateneo de Manila University

LAST FULL-TIME APPOINTMENT

Post-Doctoral Fellow, Faculty of Law
National University of Singapore
August 2017 – July 2019

Qualifications

Education

Ph.D.
Coral Bell School of Asia-Pacific Affairs
College of Asia and the Pacific

Australian National University
2012-2016

Entitled “Myth-making and reality: A critical examination of human rights-compliant counterterrorism in the Philippines and Indonesia”, my PhD thesis examines the relationship between the law and the practice of counterterrorism in the Philippines and Indonesia after 9/11. It looks at the impact of human rights discourses of governments and campaigning organisations on the practice of counterterrorism, and vice versa. Based on fieldwork interviews carried out in 2013 and 2014 in Jakarta, Manila and Mindanao, I ascertain the transformative and conservative effects of the attachment of a language of human rights to counterterrorism. (available online)

M.A. in Human Rights Practice (Erasmus Mundus) (Distinction)
University of Roehampton (UK)
2009-2011

Thesis: “Clandestine Activists: Human Rights Activism for Undocumented Migrants (A Case Study of a Campaign by Domestic Workers in the Netherlands)” (supervised by Prof. Elizabeth Abiri, Gothenburg University) (available online)

M.A. in Public Administration (Peace and Conflict Studies concentration)
Graduated with the perfect grade 4.0/4.0 GPA
International Christian University Tokyo, Japan
2006-2008

Bachelor of Laws (Ll.B.)
College of Law
University of the Philippines Diliman
Quezon City, Philippines
1993-1998

Bachelor of Arts in Philosopy (magna cum laude)
College of Social Sciences and Philosophy
University of the Philippines Diliman
Quezon City, Philippines
1989-1993

Awards

Small Grant, Access to Sustainable Energy Program-Clean Energy Living Laboratories (ASEP-CELLs) project, European Union and Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines, January 2021-present

Post-doctoral Fellowship, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore, August 2017 to July 2019

Scholarship, 2020 Institute of Global Law and Policy (IGLP) Scholars’ Workshop, Harvard Law School, August 2020, Bangkok, Thailand

Scholarship, 2018 Institute of Global Law and Policy (IGLP) Scholars’ Workshop, Harvard Law School, January 7-11, 2018, Bangkok, Thailand

Asian Regional Workshop scholarship, Institute of Global Law and Policy (IGLP), Harvard Law School, January 5-11, 2017, Bangkok, Thailand

Scholarship, Transnational Law Summer Institute (TLSI), December 3-8 2017, King’s College London and University of New South Wales, Sydney

Endeavour Postgraduate Award funded by the Australian Government March 2012-February 2016

Erasmus Mundus Scholarship funded by the European Commission August 2009 – June 2011

Monbukagakusho Scholarship (Research Category) funded by the Japanese Ministry of Education
April 2006 - July 2008

Fellowship, Salzburg Global Seminar
Session 443: “An International Rule of Law: Balancing Security, Democracy and Human Rights in an Age of Terrorism”
Salzburg, Austria September 2007

University Scholarship, University of the Philippines 1989-1993

Teaching Areas

Teaching Experience at Tertiary Level:

Senior Lecturer
June 1999-March 2006
University of the Philippines Manila
Courses taught: Public International Law; Private International Law; The Philippine Judiciary; International Politics.

Tutor
July-October 2016
Australian National University
Course taught: POLS1006 Introduction to International Relations: Contemporary Global Issues (Lecturer: Prof. John Minns)

Guest Lecturer and Tutor
July-October 2019
Australian National University, Department of Pacific Affairs
Course taught: ASIA2093 Natural Resource Conflicts in the Asia Pacific (Course Convenor: Prof. Paul D’Arcy)

Guest Lecturer
July-October 2020
Australian National University, Department of Pacific Affairs
Course taught: ASIA2093 Natural Resource Conflicts in the Asia Pacific (Course Convenor: Prof. Paul D’Arcy)

Sessional (Marking)
July 2019 - present
Australian National University, College of Law

Courses:

LAWS4223 International Dispute Resolution (Course Convenor: Prof. Jeremy Farrall); LAWS4309

Colonialism and the Rule of Law (Course Convenor: Prof. Desmond Manderson);

LAWS8567 LLM International Dispute Resolution - Autumn 2020 (Course Convenor: Prof. Jeremy Farrall)

Publications

Book

2019. Human Rights-Compliant Counterterrorism: Myth-making and Reality in the Philippines and Indonesia (Cambridge University Press).
ISBN: 9781108588836

Refereed Journal Articles

2020. “Friends and Foes: Human Rights, the Philippine Left and Duterte, 2016-2017,” Asian Studies Review (with Emerson Sanchez). DOI: 10.1080/10357823.2020.1828273

2013. “Exercising rights into existence: new human rights strategies by Third World peoples”, Australian Journal of Human Rights, vol. 19(1), pp. 175-196.
DOI: 10.1080/1323-238x.2013.11882122

Book Chapters

2019. “Arresting a Due Process Revolution: The Reform of Indonesia’s Code of Criminal Procedure and the Persistence of History,” in Pablo Ciocchini and George Radics, eds., Criminal Legalities in the Global South, Routledge U.K.
DOI: 10.4324/9780429459764

2017. “A Mandate for Mass Killings? Public Support for Duterte’s War on Drugs,” in Nicole Curato, ed., A Duterte Reader: Critical Essays on Rodrigo Duterte’s Early Presidency, Manila and New York: Ateneo de Manila University Press and Cornell University Press.
ISBN (paperback): 978-1-5017-2473-2

Other Publications

October 12, 2020. “Why the Philippines Needs to Establish a Sovereign Wealth Fund,” The Diplomat (with Emerson Sanchez and Mark Manantan),  https://thediplomat.com/2020/10/why-the-philippines-needs-to-establish-a-sovereign-wealth-fund/

June 8, 2020. “The right to benefit from Big Data progress: another argument for Universal Basic Income,” Voelkerrechtsblog.org, https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/the-right-to-benefit-from-big-data-progress/

June 8, 2020. “The Anti-Terrorism Act: Duterte will have all dissenters’ necks,” Rappler.com, https://r3.rappler.com/views/imho/262999-analysis-anti-terrorism-bill-duterte-dissenters-necks

August 16, 2016. “A storm of bullets, a wave of apathy rocks the Philippines,” East Asia Forum, https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2016/08/20/a-storm-of-bullets-a-wave-of-apathy-rocks-the-philippines/

February 26, 2016. “The Marwan Affair: ‘War on Terror’ Resurgent,” Regarding Rights: Academic and Activist Perspectives on Human Rights, ANU RegNet Centre for International Governance and Justice, https://liveencounters.net/2015-2/03-march-2015/jayson-s-lamchek-the-marwan-affair-war-on-terror-resurgent/

February 4 2014. “Palestinian Holocaust on a Silent Screen: Anger, Rage, and Despondency in the Poem ‘We Teach Life, Sir’,” The Manila Review, Issue No. 4, http://themanilareview.com/issues/view/palestinian-holocaust-on-a-silent-screen-anger-rage-and-despondency-in-the-poem-we-teach-life-sir

2013. “Philippines”, in Revenue Watch Institute, The 2013 Revenue Governance Index: A Measure of Transparency and Accountability in the Oil, Gas and Mining Sectors, New York: Revenue Watch Institute and Transparency International.

2009. Asserting Autonomy: LGUs’ Right to Veto Mining, Quezon City: Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center.

2005. Streamlining environmental impact assessment in the Philippines: implications for human rights, Quezon City: Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center. (Co-authored with Ingrid Rosalie L. Gorre)