1. Florin "Pilo" Ternal Hilbay was born on March 19,1974 and is a Filipino lawyer who served as the Solicitor General of the Philippines from 2014 to 2016.
24 Facts About Florin Hilbay
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Florin Hilbay 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.
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Florin Hilbay ranked first place in the 1999 Philippine Bar Examination.
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Florin Hilbay 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.
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Florin Hilbay 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.
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Florin Hilbay earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of Santo Tomas in 1995.
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Florin Hilbay 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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In 2005, Florin Hilbay obtained his Masters of Law degree from Yale Law School.
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Florin Hilbay was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Boston College in 2001.
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Florin Hilbay has held fellowships at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany, and at the Asian Law Institute for Comparative Public Law in the National University of Singapore, and in Silliman University.
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Florin Hilbay served as the Director of the Institute of Government and Law Reform of the University of the Philippines Law Center; a consultant to the Commission on Elections; and as the vice-chair of Bantay Katarungan, a civic organization formed by former Senator Jovito Salonga, purposefully created to advocate and strengthen the rule of law, to address issues of public injustice and to oversee the appointments process in the judiciary.
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Florin Hilbay served as the editor-in-chief of the Philippine Law and Society Review and an editor of the IBP Law Journal.
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Florin Hilbay took over as acting Solicitor General on August 20,2014, replacing Francis Jardeleza who was appointed as a Supreme Court Associate Justice.
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Florin Hilbay was the principal lawyer for the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement and the Bangsamoro.
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Florin Hilbay started working as a constitutional law professor at University of the Philippines after his term as Solicitor General in 2016.
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Florin Hilbay has expressed his staunch dissent over the Philippine Drug War, the extension of martial law in Mindanao, the House attempts to re-impose the death penalty, and the position of the Duterte administration on issues concerning China.
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Florin Hilbay has been handling the case of detained senator Leila de Lima since February 2018.
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Florin Hilbay is part of Senator Antonio Trillanes' legal team in opposing the government's nullification of the former soldier's amnesty.
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Florin Hilbay now serves as Dean of the Silliman University College of Law where he launched his book on bitcoin.
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In October 2018, Florin Hilbay filed his senatorial candidacy for the 2019 Philippine Senate election.
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Florin Hilbay's platform focuses on the government budget, social services, and sovereign rights of the Philippines in the South China Sea and Benham Rise.
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Florin Hilbay was an official member and the official candidate of Aksyon Demokratiko, a progressive political party founded by senator Raul Roco.
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On October 18,2021, Florin Hilbay left Aksyon Demokratiko to support the presidential campaign of Vice President Leni Robredo.
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Florin Hilbay authored a collection of essays entitled "Unplugging the Constitution" published and distributed by the University of the Philippines Press in 2009.