THEODORE O.

TE
_____________________________________________________________________ PROFESSIONAL _____________________________________________________________________ January 7, Assistant Court Administrator, Supreme Court of the Philippines 2013-present and Chief of the Public Information Office May 2013 1996-2012 Lecturer, De La Salle University College of Law Full-time, regular faculty member (with current academic rank of Assistant Professor 7; granted tenure in 2000), University of the Philippines College of Law, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines AREAS OF TEACHING EXPERIENCE Criminal Law, Human Rights, Civil and Criminal Procedure, Evidence, Trial Technique SELECTED RELATED PROFESSIONAL ENGAGEMENTS April 2011-June 2011 Director, Institute of Human Rights University of the Philippines Law Center June 2008-February Vice President for Legal Affairs and 2011 General Counsel, University of the Philippines System 2005-2008 Member, Deans Executive Committee UP College of Law 2007-2008 Member, Admissions Committee UP College of Law 2005-2008 Director, UP Office of Legal Aid 2003-2005 Member, Scholarship Committee UP College of Law 1997-2000 Supervising Attorney, UP Office of Legal Aid 1996-2000 1995-1997 2001-2011 Senior Lecturer, University of the Philippines College of Law Lecturer on Family Law, Ateneo de Manila University, Department of Management

National Executive Board Member and Regional Coordinator for Metro Manila, Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG)

- Page 2 1990-present Member, Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG); on leave effective

January 2013 (concurrent with appointment as Assistant Court Administrator of the Supreme Court and Chief of the Public Information Office)
SELECTED RELATED PROFESSIONAL ENGAGEMENTS 1994-2006 1996, 2001, 2003 Convenor and Task Force Director, FLAG Anti-Death Penalty Task Force Coordinator, FLAG Summer Internship Program

1997February 2011 1996 1992-1996 1990-1992

Partner, Sanidad Abaya Te Viterbo Enriquez & Tan Law Firm Managing partner, 2003-2005 Administrative partner, 2002-2003 Partner, Sanchez Rosales Sanidad Abaya Cortez & Te Law Firm Senior Associate, Sanchez Rosales Sanidad & Mercado Law Firm Associate, Carag Caballes Jamora & Somera Law Offices

OTHER SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ENGAGEMENTS February-March 2011 2007-2008, 2011 2006-2008 2003-present Visiting Fellow, Asian Law Institute (ASLI), National University of Singapore, Singapore; Consultant on Anti-Impunity Programs, The Asia Foundation Lecturer, Philippine Judicial Academy-Commission on Human Rights Capacity-Building Workshop on Remedies against Extrajudicial Killings and Enforced Disappearances Lecturer, Mandatory Continuing Legal Education Program for Lawyers, UP Law Center

_____________________________________________________________________ EDUCATION _____________________________________________________________________ 1982-1986 1986-1990 B.A. Psychology University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines Bachelor of Laws University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines Admitted to Philippine Bar: 1991

- Page 3 2011-2012 Master of Laws Columbia University in The City of New York New York City, New York, USA

_____________________________________________________________________ SELECTED AWARDS, ACHIEVEMENTS AND DISTINCTIONS _____________________________________________________________________ PROFESSIONAL 2002 Awardee, Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Philippines (TOYM) (for Legal Aid and Human Rights) 1994-2006 Member, Board of Trustees, TOYM Foundation, 2010present Chair, Screening Panel for TOYM Search, 2010; Member, Screening Panel for TOYM Search, 2009;

Lead Counsel before Supreme Court of the Philippines, presenting oral arguments in petitions challenging the constitutionality of the following matters: The Death Penalty in the Philippines; The Death Penalty by Lethal Injection; The Visiting Forces Agreement between the United States of America and the Republic of the Philippines; The Deregulation of the downstream oil industry in the Philippines; The government policy of Calibrated Pre-emptive Response as a measure against Freedom of Expression, Assembly, Organization and Petition for Redress of Grievance;

1998, 2003

Author, on behalf of death row convict Rolando Pagdayawon (1998) and Alfredo Baroy (2003), of Individual Communications to the Human Rights Committee under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which resulted in Views expressed by the Committee in the the 1998 Communication; Co-counsel for petitioners in the first petition to seek the Writ of Amparo in connection with an enforced disappearance before the Supreme Court resulting in the favorable judgment in The Manalo Brothers v. Secretary of Defense;

2008

- Page 4 2004 Philippine delegate and paper presentor for the Asia-Pacific region, 2nd Word Congress Against the Death Penalty, Montreal, Canada

ACADEMIC 1990 1988-1989 1988-1989

Most Outstanding Law Intern, UP Office of Legal Aid Vice Chairperson, Student Editorial Board, Philippine Law Journal Human Rights Desk Coordinator, UP Paralegal Volunteer Organization

_____________________________________________________________________ SELECTED PUBLISHED WORK _____________________________________________________________________ 2013 Author

Hints and Hues of Transitional Justice in the Philippines in the Last Twenty Five Years
(forthcoming) in the South East Asian Human Rights Network (SEAHRN) Peace and Human Rights Series

2013 2011present 2011

Author Contributor Author

Turning Miranda Right Side Up, 87 Phil. L. J. __ (February 2013; forthcoming) Thought Leaders Rappler.com) (online column over

Stare Indecisis: Some Reflections On Judicial

Flip-Flopping In League Of Cities v. Comelec and Navarro v. Executive Secretary, 85 Phil. L. J. 785 (2011)

2008

Project Coordinator

Not in our Name: The Story of the Abolition of the Death Penalty in the Philippines (published by the Free Legal Assistance Group with funding support from the New Zealand Embassy in the Philippines; written by Joan Z. Orendain, upon a grant extended by the Free Legal Assistance Group) Legal and Judicial Forms (digital book, published by CDAsia)

2008

Author

- Page 5 2004 Volume Author Volume 1 (of 4 Volumes), Legal Reference in Capital Cases (Rape) (published by the Free Legal Assistance Group, with funding support from the Embassy of Australia in the Philippines) Torture Philippines (Law and Practice); published jointly by the UP Foundation for Integrative and Development Studies and the Free Legal Assistance Group; The Death Penalty in Comparative and International Law (World Bulletin; Institute of International Legal Studies, University of the Philippines); State-Sponsored Orphaning and Widowing: Constitutional Arguments against the Death Penalty for Parricide, 71 Phil. L. J. No. 1, 1996);

2003

Editorial Board Member (for the Free Legal Assistance Group) Author

2001

1996

Author

Legal Education in the Philippines: Confronting the Issues of Relevance and Responsiveness, 63 Phil. L. J. (June 1988); _____________________________________________________________________ PERSONAL _____________________________________________________________________ Address: 26 J. Ortega Street, BF Homes Quezon City, Barangay Holy Spirit, Quezon City, 1120 Philippines Telephone: (632) 9325907 Mobile: +63 917-520-2295 FaceTime: Theodore.te@law.columbia.edu Twitter: @tedte Email: theodore.te@gmail.com

1988

Author

As of May2013