Florin Hilbay
| Florin T. Hilbay | |
|---|---|
| Solicitor General of the Philippines | |
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In office August 20, 2014 – June 30, 2016 |
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| President | Benigno Aquino III |
| Preceded by | Francis Jardeleza |
| Succeeded by | Jose Calida |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
March 19, 1974 Philippines |
| Nationality | Filipino |
| Alma mater |
University of Santo Tomas University of the Philippines College of Law Yale Law School |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
| Religion | Atheist |
| Website |
http://www.osg.gov.ph/about/ http://law.upd.edu.ph/florin-hilbay/ |
Florin Ternal Hilbay (born March 19, 1974) is a Filipino lawyer who served as the Solicitor General of the Philippines from 2014 to 2016. He ranked first in the 1999 Philippine Bar Examination.
He is a member of the faculty of the University of the Philippines College of Law since 2000, where he teaches Advanced Constitutional Litigation, Constitutional Law, and Philosophy of Law, with emphasis on issues relating to Church and State, post-colonial constitutionalism, and the relationship between the information environment and legal consciousness. He also taught Obligations & Contracts and Public Officers & Election Law.
Hilbay finished his elementary and secondary education at the Holy Child Catholic School in Tondo Manila. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of Santo Tomas in 1995. He earned his law degree from the University of the Philippines College of Law at UP Diliman and was admitted to the bar in 1999, placing first in the bar examinations. In 2005, Hilbay obtained his Masters of Law degree from Yale Law School.
He was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Boston College in 2001. He has also held fellowships at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law & International Law in Heidelberg, Germany, and at the Asian Law Institute for Comparative Public Law in the National University of Singapore, and in Silliman University.
Hilbay topped the 1999 bar examination with a score of 88.5%, sharing the first place distinction with Edwin Enrile of the Ateneo de Manila University. That year, only 16% or 660 of the 3,978 examinees passed the bar.
When the results came out on the same day as his birthday in March 2000, Hilbay was then working as an underbar clerk to Supreme Court Justice Vicente Mendoza, a noted constitutionalist who was a former solicitor from 1971 to 1973 and assistant solicitor general from 1973 to 1980.
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