page_title: Marvic Leonen
section_title: At the UP College of Law
hierarchical_section_title: Marvic Leonen / At the UP College of Law
caption_attribution_description: English: University of the Philippines College of Law[1]University of the Philippines College of Law or UP Law is the law school of the University of the Philippines. Since 1948, it has been located at the University of the Philippines Diliman [2]in Quezon City, the flagship campus of UP's seven constituent universities. Until the 1970s, night classes of the College of Law were conducted at the U.P. Manila campus along Padre Faura St.[3]George A. Malcolm [4] Malcolm Hall also houses the University of the Philippines Law Library[5], formally known as Espiritu Hall. It the largest academic law library in the country. It contains the largest and most up-to-date collection of Philippine legal materials as well as foreign statute and case books and various law journals. The library is open to U.P. law students and professors. It is also available to non-UP law students subject to proper identification and payment of library service fees. There is also an airconditioned moot court resembling the trial courts in the Philippines, a student lounge and an auditorium. Fronting the auditorium is the main lobby of Malcolm Hall. On its walls are inscribed a quotation from the American Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.[6] - Adjacent to Malcolm Hall is Bocobo Hall, which houses the University of the Philippines Law Center[7]. The Law Center was established in 1964 as an agency attached to the College of Law, for the purpose of conducting continuing legal education programs, as well as legal research and publications. The Law Center is the university center for legal publishing, legal research, and law conferences. It is composed of 4 Institutes, namely, the Institute of Government and Law Reform, the Institute of Human Rights, the Institute of International Legal Studies, and the Institute of Judicial Administration. The Law Center also hosts the offices of the Office of the National Administrative Registrar, an agency of the Philippine government which registers all national government statutes and issuances. To "popularize" the law, the Law Center conducts programs in legal literacy and street law ("practical law") in cooperation with non-governmental organizations (NGOs), student organizations, and the local barangays. Extension programs happen in the form of barangay legal education seminars to reach the grassroots level. The Philippine Law Journal[8], first published in 1914, is the official law review of the College. The Law Student Government is the official student government of the College. Under its auspices is the Academic Reforms Commission, an independent body that represents the students in the formulation and implementation of academic and administrative policies and regulations.[9] The Bar Operations Commission is an independent constitutional body created in Feb 2009 that handles the holistic support system the college provides its bar candidates during the bar season.
context_page_description: Marvic Mario Victor Famorca Leonen 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 at Diliman from 2008 to 2011. He is well known in the fields of environmental activism and community organizing.
context_section_description: 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 University of the Philippines System administration as University General Counsel. In March 2005, he became the first Vice President for Legal Affairs of the UP System. 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.
  In 2008, he was selected as the Dean of the University of the Philippines College of Law at UP Diliman by the Board of Regents of the UP System. He served as Dean until the appointment of Danilo L. Concepcion in June 2011.
  Leonen has also provided legal commentary for television networks such as ABS-CBN and GMA Network during the coverage of such events as the 2001 impeachment trial of President Joseph Estrada.
caption: UP Dean Marvic MVF Leonen's office at Room 201 in Malcolm Hall (University of the Philippines College of Law, shared with fellow professor (later on Supreme Court Spokesperson) Atty. Theodore Te
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