Dr. Attorney Noel G. Ramiscal serves as a consultant on legal matters on information technology with emphasis on intellectual property rights, human rights, labor, human resource and evidentiary issues that implicate electronic data, as well matters involving indigenous peoples’ rights, creative and artistic communities and the environment. He lectures at Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) seminars for lawyers and is the first and current consultant of the Taskforce on Artists legal assistance Services (TALAS) of the National Commission on Culture and Arts (NCCA). He is connected with several non-government organizations including STET-VIP and the Philippine National Philosophical Research Society (PNPRS) and the Philippine Computer Society.
Dr. Ramiscal was raised under the humblest circumstance and obtained his Bachelor of Laws (Juris Doctor) and BA Philosophy (cum laude) degrees at the University of the Philippines through scholarships. He finished an Executive Certificate Course on “IT: Engaging and Influencing People” at the Asian Institute of Management under a Philippine Computer Society Scholarship and an Executive Course on “Accounting for Non-Accountants” given by the Graduate School of Business, De La Salle University Professional Schools, Inc. He received his Master of Laws (Advanced) degree at the University of Queensland, Australia under an AUSAID scholarship, where he graduated with High Distinction (Summa cum laude). He was awarded (November 2007) his Doctor of Philosophy in Law degree in the same university under the International Postgraduate Research Scholarships Programs of the Australian Government and the University of Queensland. He won a 2008 Freeman Foundation Fellowship and was a Fellow of the Salzburg Global Conference Session 451 held at Schloss Leopoldskron, Austria last April 13-18, 2008.
In Australia, Dr. Ramiscal worked as a legal consultant, conducted tutorials and taught part time, the “Law and Internet” classes at the T.C. Beirne Law School of the University of Queensland. In the Philippines, he has worked in the Philippine judiciary (Court of Appeals), the academe and the private sector (including Punongbayan and Araullo, when it was the affiliate of Ernst & Young International).
Currently, Dr. Ramiscal teaches Philosophy and Literature courses to undergraduates, the Law on Business Transactions for undergraduates and Business Law for the Master in Management course to graduate students, and team teaches “Human Behavior in Organization”, a Management course at the University of the Philippines, Los Baños College. As the University Prosecutor, he prosecutes cases stemming from the Anti-Hazing Law and other criminal laws that involve students, as well as administrative cases involving faculty and administrative employees.
In 2005, he received the “Year-Ender Excellence Young Professional Award for Law and Judiciary” from several Philippine organizations, for his professional and academic activities. He has written legal articles on information technologies and intellectual property rights that won international awards in Australia, Greece and the United Arab Emirates.
Dr. Ramiscal was awarded the 2008 “Most Outstanding Alumnus of the Year” by the Philippine Australian Alumni Association Inc. for his efforts and contributions in his field of expertise for the benefit of his countrymen.
Dr. Atty. Noel Guivani Ramiscal is also an award winning poet whose works have been published in several countries. His poems have been performed and included in world conventions of poetry in Spain and Australia. He is cited in the World List of Lawyer Poets, which include legal and poetic luminaries like Banjo Patterson, Vinicius De Moraes, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Claro M. Recto. “Noelses”, his first and best-selling book of poetry, in four languages, was published in 2005. The Ybanag portion he co-wrote with his mother, Ms. Juanita Ramiscal, received a commendation from the Philippine National Commission on Indigenous Peoples for preserving and enriching Ybanag, an indigenous language. He is also a former member of the University of Queensland Dance Society for several years.
LEGAL CONSULTANCIES/PUBLIC SERVICE
(2010 – 2012) Legal Officer of the Philippine National Philosophical Research Society of the Philippines
(2010 and ongoing) Legal Consultant and Program Director of STET-VIP
(2009 and ongoing) Legal Consultant of the National Commission for Culture and Arts (NCCA) Task Force on Artists Legal Assistance Services (TALAS) and Member of an Ad-Hoc Working Group (AHWG) at the NCCA
(May 2008 to February 2009) Consultant of the Technical Working Group (TWG) on the Cyberprivacy bills that are the subject of extensive study by the Commission of Information and Communications Technology headed by Commissioner Monchito Ibrahim
(July 2008) Consultant of Commission of Information and Communications Technology Deputy Commissioner Atty. Consuelo S. Perez on the 2005 Cybercrime bill
(July 2008 and ongoing) Legal and Project Consultant of LIFE Inc.
(November 2007 to January 2008) Organizer and Legal and Creative Consultant for “Right Protect: Protecting Creative Artistic Expression in the Digital Environment” Seminar (NCCA Auditorium, January 10 to 12, 2008)
(2005) Part time Legal Consultant (Queensland, Australia)
(May 2002 to February 2003) Consultant/Member of the Information Technology and Electronic Commerce Council (ITECC) of the Philippines, created pursuant to Executive Order No. 25 (s. 2000) (Office of the President, Malacañang, Manila)
(2001) Consultant and Convener of the Worldwide Advocates for the Rights of Migrants, an NGO concerned in protecting the rights of migrant workers
(2001) Legal Consultant of Migrante International (Quezon City)
CURRENT POSITION: (2007 to 2010)
University Prosecutor and Associate Professor, University of the Philippines Los Baños College
PAST POSITIONS:
Part time Lecturer and Tutor, Internet Law, LAWS 5128/7128, T. C. Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland (St. Lucia, Queensland)
Senior Director for Labor Relations, AMA Group of Companies (Quezon City)
Senior Director for International Linkages, AMA Educational System (Quezon City)
Research Associate (T.C. Beirne School of Law, Centre for Information Technology Law, University of Queensland)
Tax Senior at Punongbayan and Araullo (formerly Ernst & Young, Makati)
Executive Assistant IV, Court of Appeals, Manila
RECENT LEGAL PUBLICATIONS
BOOK: A Human Rights Approach to Academic Freedoms of Educators in Higher E-Learning (2008), (ISBN 971-15-0313-1), University of the Philippines Institute of International Legal Studies, UP Law Center, Diliman
ARTICLES:
“The 2005 Philippine Cybercrime Bill: A Fundamental Assessment of its Possible Deleterious Effects on the Legal Rights of Stakeholders” The Lawyers Review, vol. XXIII, No. 9, September 30, 2008
“The Legal and Judicial Restraints on the Australian Press” Jurnal Ipteks Terapan, Vol. 2, No. 1, April 2008, ISSN 1979 9292
BOOK CHAPTER: “Business Law” in the book “Cases in Agribusiness and Business Management”, the centennial book publication of the Department of Agribusiness Management, College of Economics and Management, launched last July 22, 2009
DRAFTED BILL: “Revised Draft of the 2005 Consolidated Philippine Cybercrime Bills” submitted to former Deputy Commissioner (now Commissioner) Consuelo Perez, Commission on Information Communications Technology, last July 17, 2008
SOLD OUT POETRY BOOK: “NOELSES: Selected Poems in English, Tagalog Spanish (1985-2005). Ybanag Verses co-written with Juanita Ramiscal (2005)” (ISBN 971-506-327-6), UST Publishing House, Manila
