Somyot Chueathai

Who is Somyot Chueathai?

Somyot Chueathai is a Thai academician, constitutional law and public law professor and 15th dean of the Faculty of Law, Thammasat University, the oldest faculty of law in the country.

Chueathai has graduated from the Faculty of Law, Thammasat University as a Bachelor of Laws and become a member of the Thai Bar Association. Following that, he has studied abroard in Germany, where he has been conferred a public law certificate by the University of Bonn.

After having completed education, he has been instated as a civil servant of Thammasat University, where he serve as a public law lecturer until the present. Chueathai has also been appointed the Deputy President of Thammasat University for Student Affairs, the President of the Society of Thammasat University's Faculty of law, the Director-General of the Legal Centre, a member of the Council of State, and so on and so forth.

During his tenure as the President of the Society of Thammasat University's Faculty of law, Chueathai has for many times launched public campaigns against Thaksin Shinawatra, the Prime Minister at the time being, in order to have Thaksin removed from the premiership on account of his series of corruption and conflict of interest scandals. In 2006, following Thaksin's decreeing the dissolution of the House of Representatives, Chueathai addressed to the public that: