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Marvic Leonen was born on 29 December, 1962 in Baguio, Philippines, is a Philippine Senior Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Discover Marvic Leonen's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 61 years old?
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29 December 1962 |
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Baguio, Philippines |
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Philippines
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Marvic Leonen Height, Weight & Measurements
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Marvic Leonen Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Marvic Leonen worth at the age of 61 years old? Marvic Leonen’s income source is mostly from being a successful . He is from Philippines. We have estimated Marvic Leonen's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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Marvic Mario Victor Famorca Leonen (born December 29, 1962) is the Senior Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines since May 14, 2022 upon the retirement of Senior Associate Justice Estela Perlas-Bernabe.
Mario Victor Famorca Leonen was born on December 29, 1962, to lawyer Mauro Leonen (d. 1970) and Adrelina Famorca.
His parents got married in Vigan, Ilocos Sur but eventually settled their family home in Baguio City, Benguet, where he was born.
He is second-born to six children of their parents.
He is of Ilocano ethnicity.
His mother is a pharmacist and a devoted housewife.
His father was a human rights lawyer for indigenous Ibaloi people in land title disputes.
Before heading to his trip to Manila in 1970, he woke up the seven-year-old Marvic and told him, "Be good. Be strong. Help others."
Unfortunately, Mauro met a car accident that caused his death in San Manuel, Tarlac on 26 June 1970.
Leonen planned to pursue the legal profession since the second grade at St. Theresa's College Baguio.
After finishing at St. Theresa's College for elementary and 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 Diliman in 1983 and served as chairperson 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.
Leonen was in the top four of his class when he finished.
From his senior year, Leonen joined the Free Legal Assistance Group or FLAG and won his first case defending rebels captured without a search warrant.
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 that provides legal services to upland rural poor and indigenous people's communities.
He served as the center's executive director for 15 years.
He then left for Columbia University 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 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.
Legal Research and Writing,
Constitutional Law I, Constitutional Law II,
Contemporary Problems in Constitutional Law,
Contemporary Commercial Law Problems: Law and Economics,
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.
He became an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines on November 21, 2012 – the second youngest jurist to hold the said position and the youngest after Manuel V. Moran in 1938.
Prior to his stint in the country's highest court, he served as chief peace negotiator of the Republic of the Philippines in peace talks with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
Leonen has been called, "The Great Dissenter" of the Supreme Court, often standing close to liberal and human rights-oriented decisions against the conservative bench close to Rodrigo Duterte and related dictatorial beliefs.
