Marvic Leonen

Marvic M.V.F. Leonen
Leonen in December 2022
33rd Senior Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines
Assumed office
May 14, 2022
Preceded byEstela Perlas-Bernabe
172nd Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines
Assumed office
November 21, 2012
Appointed byBenigno Aquino III
Preceded byMaria Lourdes Sereno
Chief Peace Negotiator for the Republic of the Philippines
In office
July 2010 – November 2012
Appointed byBenigno Aquino III
Succeeded byMiriam Coronel-Ferrer
13th Dean of the University of the Philippines College of Law
In office
2008–2011
Preceded bySalvador T. Carlota
Succeeded byDanilo Concepcion
Personal details
Born (1962-12-29) December 29, 1962 (age 61)
Baguio, Philippines
Children1
Alma materUniversity of the Philippines Diliman (BA, LLB)
Columbia University (LLM)
NicknameLabGuru[1]

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. 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.[2]

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.

  1. ^ "Justice is Blind: And so is Love".
  2. ^ De Castro, Marvon Doods (2021-01-28). "Will Justice Leonen, the "Great Dissenter", be the next chief justice?".