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Worachet Pakeerut
Worachet Pakeerut (วรเจตน์ ภาคีรัตน์, rtgs: Worachet Phakhirat, [wɔː.rá.t͡ɕèːt pʰaː.kʰiː.rát]; born 8 August 1969) is a Thai legal scholar specialising in constitutional and administrative law and a professor at the Faculty of Law, Thammasat University. Worachet was born in Ayutthaya Province, where his father was a railway station master. He completed highschool at the prestigious Triam Udom Suksa School in Bangkok before studying law at Thammasat University from which he graduated with an honours degree. In 1988, he served as deputy president of his university's student council. The Thai Bar Association admitted him to the bar in 1992. He continued his studies at the University of Göttingen in Germany, completing the Magister Juris programme in 1994 with a thesis about the clausula rebus sic stantibus in administrative contract law. He started teaching as a lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Thammasat University, but returned to Göttingen to complete his doctoral studies. Worachet was conferred a Doctor of Laws title in 1999. His thesis about the development of legal doctrine of the "administrative law contract" (verwaltungsrechtlicher Vertrag) was graded summa cum laude. Once again, he returned to Bangkok to be appointed associate professor at the Thammasat University. Worachet has published a number of textbooks about administrative and constitutional law. Since September 2010, he has made public appearances as the most prominent spokesman of the Nitirat (นิติราษฏร์; literally "Law for the People") group—also known as "Enlightened Jurists"—an association of law lecturers who campaign for constitutional reform and a change of Thailand's lèse majesté law (article 112 of the Thai criminal code), proposing to reduce the maximum penalty of currently 15 years, limiting the right to press charges to the office of the King's private secretary (instead of everyone) and excluding constructive criticism from the offence's definition. In late February 2012, Worachet was assaulted by two men on the parking lot of Thammasat University's downtown campus, who later declared they disagreed with his campaign for a change of article 112. Worachet and his group have repeatedly criticised Thailand's Constitutional Court, accusing it of political interventions and exceeding its authority. They have even demanded to replace the tribunal completely. After the Thai coup d'état of 22 May 2014, Worachet was summoned to report to the military junta (NCPO), but failed to do so within the limit of time, as he was on a stay abroad. Upon his return to Thailand, he was taken into custody for defying the junta's orders, but released on bail terms on the same day. In July 2014, the Thammasat University council decided to promote Worachet from associate professor to a full professorship. Worachet is a member of the supervisory board of the German-Southeast Asian Center of Excellence for Public Policy and Good Governance (CPG).