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.
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