Alexander Gesmudo

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**Alexander Gesmudo** is a Justice of the Supreme Court.

## Notes

Justice Alexander G. Gesmundo was appointed to the
Supreme Court as Associate Justice on August 14, 2017.  Previously, he was Associate Justice of the
Sandiganbayan, appointed on October 15, 2005, where he served as Chairperson of
its 7th Division and as co-Chairperson of the Sandiganbayan Committee on Rules.

Justice Gesmundo obtained his law degree
from the Ateneo de Manila University in 1984 and passed the Bar in April 1985.
He entered government service in August 1985 as Trial Attorney in the Office of
the Solicitor General. He was awarded Most Outstanding Solicitor in 1998.  In August 2002, he was promoted to Assistant
Solicitor General. He was on Seconded Appointment as Commissioner of the
Presidential Commission on Good Government from July 17, 1998 to February 15,

At the Supreme Court, Justice Gesmundo is
Chairperson of the Technical Working Group for the Revision of the Law Student
Practice Rule, and   the Organizing
Committee for the 2019 Legal Education Summit. He is Vice Chairperson of the Special
Committee for the Rules of Procedure for Admiralty Cases, Special Committee for
the Rules on Inspection (under the Philippine Competition Act), the
Sub-Committee for the Revision of the 1997 Rules of Civil Procedure, the
Special Committee on the Rules of Procedure in Election Contests before the
First Level Courts.

He is also a Member of the Supreme Court
Committees on Computerization and Library, on the Revision of the Rules of
Court and   the Special Committee on Speedy Trial.

Justice Gesmundo was a member of the Corps
of Professors and a Professorial Lecturer of the Philippine Judicial Academy
(PHILJA), particularly in remedial law. He was the Vice-Chairperson of the
PHILJA’s Department of Remedial Law. He was the Examiner in Remedial Law in the
2009 and 2015 Bar examinations. He has taught various remedial law subjects at
the Ateneo de Manila University, the Lyceum of the Philippines University, and
the University of Perpetual Help, Las Piñas City.

Justice Gesmundo was a member of the core committee
of the National Conference for the Revision of the Rules of Civil Procedure, a
joint project of the Supreme Court, the UP Law Center, the PHILJA, and the
Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP). He is a member of the Committee on the
*Updating* of the *Benchbook for Philippine Trial Courts (Revised and Expanded)* and of
the Court of Tax Appeals 2004 Committee on Revision of the Rules of the Court
of Tax Appeals.

Justice Gesmundo participated in various
international events and took part in study visits abroad. He recently attended
the 2019 American Association of Law Schools (AALS) Conference on Clinical
Education held on May 4-7, 2019, in San Francisco, California, U.S.A.,
sponsored by The Asia Foundation.

On October 1-11, 2018, he joined a learning
visit to observe the Legal Aid Services of Harvard Law School, Georgetown
University Law Center, and Suffolk University School of Law in the U.S.A.,
sponsored by the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs
(INL), under the U.S. Department of State. The year before, he attended the
study tour on speedy disposition of cases, likewise organized by the INL, at
the U.S. State Department at Washington, D.C. and Virginia, U.S.A., from May 6-11,

He also participated in the study visit on
Competition Law and Economics held in London, United Kingdom, on February 14-16,
2018.  He also attended the Regional
Colloquium on the Enforcement of Intellectual Property for Judges in Higher
Courts on October 17-18, 2017, held in Tokyo, Japan, organized by the World
Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), in cooperation with the Japan Patent
Office (JPO).  He participated in the
ASEAN-USPTO Colloquium for the Judiciary on Management of Civil and Criminal IP
Appellate Cases, held on September 20-22, 2017, in Bangkok, Thailand, organized
by the ASEAN/United States Patent and Trademark Office.

On November 15-16, 2016, he was a
participant in the Regional Preparatory Meeting for the Launch of a Global
Judicial Integrity Network in Bangkok, Thailand, conducted by the United
Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). On November 24-28, 2014, he attended
the program “Corruption:  Detection,
Prevention and Suppression” held by the *Ecole
Nationale De La Magistrature* (French National School for the Judiciary) in
Paris, France.  He also joined the
Competition Workshop for Judges, held on October 22-24, 2013, at Gyeongju,
Korea, organized by the OECD/Korea Policy Centre.  He also completed a summer course on European
Criminal Justice at the Academy of European Law (ERA) at Trier, Germany, held
on June 27- July 1, 2011.

On April 16-20, 2012, he attended the 17th Executive Course on
National Security held at the National Defense College of the
Philippines. Under the sponsorship of the PHILJA, he participated in the
 Partnership Forum on Transnational Organized Crime conducted by the
UNODC held on January 27-29, 2010, in Bangkok, Thailand. Also under
PHILJA’s sponsorship, he joined the seminar on Improvement of Judicial
Fairness and Efficient Judicial Administration organized by the Supreme
Court of Korea and the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA)
held on April 14-30, 2008, in Seoul, Korea.

Prior to joining the government, Justice Gesmundo worked as Research
Analyst from 1977 to 1979, with Business Day Corporation, publisher of
the business newspaper *Business Day* and *Top 1000 Corporations of the Philippines*
 wherein a few of his articles were published.  In 1979-1980, he worked
as Market Research Officer at the Office of the Australian Trade
Commissioner, Australian Embassy, Manila, and continued as its Marketing
 Officer in 1980-1985.

## Controversy

* All three justices of the Sandiganbayan Fifth Division withdraw

## Trivia

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http://sc.judiciary.gov.ph/375/