Awarded for his PhD thesis "Damages for Breaches of Human Rights: A Tort-Based Approach", the Yorke Prize is awarded annually by the Faculty Board for a thesis "of exceptional quality, which makes a substantial contribution to its relevant field of legal knowledge. The Prize has been awarded since the 1870s.

Jason (a Junior Research Fellow at Christ's) is currently working on a monograph based on this Ph.D. thesis, which is to be published by Hart Publishing, Oxford, in 2013. He has previously published aspects of his doctoral research in scholarly journals and edited collections: e.g. J.N.E. Varuhas, "A Tort-Based Approach to Damages under the Human Rights Act 1998" (2009) 72 Modern Law Review 750-782; J.N.E Varuhas, "Damages: private law and the HRA - never the twain shall meet?" in Hoffman (ed), The Impact of the UK Human Rights Act on Private Law (Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp. 223-248.