Professor CARLOS P. MEDINA, JR.

Prof. Carlos P. Medina, Jr. is from Davao City. He is the National Co-Convenor of the Legal Network for Truthful Elections (LENTE). He is a graduate of the Ateneo de Manila University School of Law (1984), the London School of Economics and Political Science of the University of London (1986), and the Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University (2002).

He began his career as a lawyer as a defense counsel of inmates of the Manila City Jail in 1985 and has since then participated in various national and international peace, human rights and legal reform advocacy campaigns. He has been engaged as counsel in a number of landmark cases, including those concerning impeachment, people’s initiative and executive privilege. He is the former Chairperson of the GRP Monitoring Committee (GRP-MC, under OPAPP) for the Joint Monitoring Committee of the Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law (CARHRIHL) entered into between the Government and CPP-NPA-NDF, the former Secretary of the Law Association for Asia and the Pacific (LAWASIA) Human Rights Committee, and a former Convenor of the Alternative Law Groups. 

He teaches Constitutional Law and International Humanitarian Law at the Ateneo Law School, where he has held the Chief Justice Claudio Teehankee Professorial Chair in Constitutional Law and Human Rights for many years. He is also the Executive Director of the Ateneo Human Rights Center, the Chairperson of the Philippine Human Rights Information Center (PhilRights), the Secretary-General of the Working Group for an ASEAN Human Rights Mechanism, the Vice-Chairperson of the International and Human Rights Law Department of the Philippine Judicial Academy (PHILJA).