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41 years old
Married
19 January 1970
Height: 5 11
Filipino
Weight: 170 lbs.
EDUCATION
JUSTICE EDUCATOR
Marlon J. Manuel has deep involvement in justice education, not only as a law
school professor, and lecturer in bar review courses and in Mandatory Continuing
Legal Education (MCLE) programs for lawyers, but also, and more extensively,
as a grassroots community educator, continuously practicing and advocating the
principles of education for people empowerment as he works with farmers,
workers, informal settlers and other vulnerable groups. He has ably combined
his strategic litigation work with education activities on human rights and public
interest issues.
In his grassroots education work, he has significantly contributed to bringing the
law and the justice system closer to the people, and in enhancing the capacity of
the people to assert their rights and to use available legal remedies within the
justice system. From 1996 until the present, he has not only acted as resource
person in many legal literacy activities, he has also designed training programs,
prepared training materials, and acted as a trainer and mentor for trainers.
In 1998, he participated in the conceptualization and module writing of the Basic
Orientation Course in Local Governance for the Barangay-Bayan Consortium, a
consortium of more than 100 organizations that worked on local governance
issues. In 1999, he prepared a Training Module on Local Legislation for the
Philippine Partnership for the Development of Human Resources in Rural Areas
(PhilDHRRA) under the Governance and Local Democracy (GOLD) project
supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
In the years 1998 and 1999, he assisted the Education for Life Foundation (ELF)
in the conceptualization and preparation of an innovative education program, a
manual on local governance for the organizations Distance Learning Program.
From 1999 to 2000, Marlon J. Manuel assisted the Antique Federation of NonGovernment Organizations (AFON) in the implementation of the Barangay
Justice Service System (BJSS), a project supported by the Gerry Roxas
Foundation. He designed the training module and acted as resource person.
In the years 2000 and 2001, Marlon J. Manuel acted as one of the consultants of
the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) in its project,
Gender Mainstreaming in Local Legislation and Policy Formulation. He helped
design the training module and acted as resource person in the training of
trainers. In 2002, he participated in the design and implementation of the
project, Local Government Support Program (LGSP) in selected areas in
Northern Mindanaw, focusing on local legislation and Executive-Legislative
Agenda Formulation. Again, in 2005, he was part of a training team of the LGSP
for the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanaw (LGSP-ARMM), for an
education program on local legislation for officials of ARMM municipalities.
In 2007, Marlon J. Manuel acted as a resource person in a Trainers Training
Workshop organized by the Ateneo Human Rights Center and the Alternative
Law Groups for law professors who would handle Human Rights subjects in their
respective law schools.
In 2009, he was one of the lead trainers in a Gender Sensitivity and
Mainstreaming Trainers Training Workshop for the Men Opposed to Violence
Against Women Everywhere (MOVE), an organization of men, mostly from
government offices, who committed themselves to be actively involved in the
elimination of violence against women (VAW).
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AUTHOR
Marlon J. Manuel has written a number of papers and articles, both as part
of his academic life and as a component of his advocacy work.
Among his notable written works are the following:
Lawyering with the Poor, From the Grassroots: The Justice Reform
Agenda of the Poor and Marginalized, Alternative Law Groups, February
2004.
Politics & Governance, Theory & Practice in the Philippine Context,
1999, a book published by the Department of Political Science, Ateneo de
Manila University; Co-author.
Katarungang Pambarangay: A Handbook, published in four (4)
languages (English, Tagalog, Cebuano and Ilonggo) in 2004 by the
Canada-Philippines Local Government Support Program.
The Alternative Law Groups Institutional Framework for Judicial
Reform, (co-author of Carolina S. Ruiz-Austria and Magistrado A.
Mendoza, Jr.), From the Grassroots: The Justice Reform Agenda of the
Poor and Marginalized, Alternative Law Groups, February 2004.
The Revised Rules on the Right to Self-Organization: A Critique of
Department Order No. 40 Series of 2003, Ateneo Law Journal, Volume
XLIX, 2004.
Local Representation by 2004: The Local Governance Policy
Forums Position on the Pending Bills Providing for the Manner of Election
of the Local Sectoral Representatives. (Issue 4 of Popular Governance
Notes) October 2002, an occasional paper of the Local Governance Unit of
Sentro ng Alternatibong Lingap Panligal (SALIGAN).
Restraining Free Trade Unionism: A Critique of Supreme Court
Decisions that Unduly Restrict Labors Exercise of the Right to SelfOrganization, Ateneo Law Journal, Volume XLVI (50th Anniversary Issue),
November 2001.
Pamamahala at Pakikilahok (Governance and Participation),
September 2000, a primer on local governance published by the Sentro ng
Alternatibong Lingap Panligal (SALIGAN); Co-author.
Requiem to Speedy Labor Justice, An Analysis of the Effects and
Underpinnings of the Supreme Courts Ruling in St. Martin Funeral Home
v. NLRC, Ateneo Law Journal, Volume XLIV, No. 2, June 2000.
The IRA Cut: Threat to Local Governance and Democracy, (Issue 1
of Popular Governance Notes) 16 February 2000, an occasional paper of
the Local Governance Unit of Sentro ng Alternatibong Lingap Panligal
(SALIGAN); Co-author.
Popular Sovereignty, A Digest of Legal Provisions and Judicial
Decisions on the Peoples Participation in Local Governance, March 1999.
Marlon J. Manuel is a member of the Editorial Board of the Hague Journal
on the Rule of Law, a new cross-disciplinary journal devoted to academic
and practitioner analysis of rule of law promotion.