Florin Hilbay
Filipino academic
Florin "Pilo" Ternal Hilbay (born March 19, 1974) is a Filipino lawyer who served as the Solicitor General of the Philippines from 2014 to 2016. He acted as the Philippine agent in the international case, Philippines v. China, which nullified all historical claims of China in relation to the South China Sea dispute. He ranked first place in the 1999 Philippine Bar Examination.
He is a member of the faculty of the University of the Philippines College of Law since 2000, where he teaches Advanced Constitutional Litigation, Constitutional Law, and Philosophy of Law, with emphasis on issues relating to Church and State, post-colonial constitutionalism, and the relationship between the information environment and legal consciousness. He also taught Obligations & Contracts and Public Officers & Election Law.
Early life and education
Hilbay was born in Tondo, Manila to mother Lydia Hilbay, a former househelp and elementary graduate, and Rodrigo Hilbay, a messenger and high school graduate. He finished his elementary education at the Holy Child Catholic School in Tondo, and his secondary education at the University of Santo Tomas Education High school. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of Santo Tomas in 1995. He earned his law degree from the University of the Philippines College of Law and was admitted to the bar in 1999, placing first in the bar examinations.
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