Marvic Leonen
| Marvic M.V.F. Leonen | |
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| 172nd Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines | |
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Assumed office November 21, 2012 |
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| Appointed by | Benigno Aquino III |
| Preceded by | Maria Lourdes Sereno |
| Chief Peace Negotiator for the Republic of the Philippines | |
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In office July 2010 – November 2012 |
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| Appointed by | Benigno Aquino III |
| Succeeded by | Miriam Coronel-Ferrer |
| Dean of the University of the Philippines College of Law | |
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In office 2008–2011 |
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| Preceded by | Salvador T. Carlota, LL.M. |
| Succeeded by | Danilo M. Concepcion, LL.M. |
| Personal details | |
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December 29, 1962 Baguio, Philippines |
| Alma mater |
University of the Philippines Diliman Columbia University |
Marvic Mario Victor F. Leonen (born December 29, 1962) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. He is the second youngest to hold the said position since Manuel V. Moran in 1938. Prior to his stint in the country's highest court, he had served as chief peace negotiator of the Republic of the Philippines in the talks with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
Leonen was dean of the University of the Philippines College of Law from 2008 to 2011. He is well known in the fields of environmental activism and community organizing.
After finishing high school at Saint Louis University-Boys' High School as valedictorian, Leonen graduated magna cum laude with a degree in economics from the University of the Philippines in 1983 and served as chairman of the organization Economics Toward Consciousness, a student organization based in the University of the Philippines School of Economics, in A.Y. 1982-1983. He obtained his law degree from the university's College of Law in 1987. Later that year, he co-founded the Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center, Inc.-Kasama sa Kalikasan, a legal and policy research and advocacy institution which focused on providing legal services for upland rural poor and indigenous people's communities. He served as the Center's executive director for fifteen years. He then left for Columbia University in New York, USA for his Master of Laws degree.
Leonen joined the law faculty in 1989 as professorial lecturer in Philippine Indigenous Law. He became assistant professor during the term of Dean Pacifico Agabin and started to do work as an academic administrator under the term of Dean Merlin M. Magallona. In 2000, he joined the UP System administration as University General Counsel. In March 2005, he became the first Vice President for Legal Affairs of the University of the Philippines. Leonen has taught 20 different subjects in the law school. He also served as director of the clinical legal education program of the college. His teaching competence is not only acknowledged in the CL but also in other institutions like Miriam College and the Philippine Judicial Academy, to cite a few. He has extensively lectured and acted as resource speaker in other national and international fora such as those conducted in Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, Spain, Netherlands, Australia, Estonia and the United Kingdom.
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