06/11/2024

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Joan De Venecia – Bar Topnotcher

Joan De Venecia – Bar Topnotcher

Joan de Venecia majored in Authorized Management at the Ateneo de Manila University where she graduated with honors in 2001. She then went on to review regulation at the University of the Philippines College or university of Legislation. She also graduated class valedictorian with a cum laude distinction. During her time in UP, she did lawful exploration entitled, “The Silent Witness Towards Torture: Creating the Scenario for Recorded Interrogations.”

She was an award-successful debater and adjudicator, taking part in a lot of tournaments in the Philippines and in other pieces of the entire world, defeating champion debaters from all above. She bagged the Greatest Oralist Award at the Asia Cup Global Regulation Moot Court Competitors 2004 in Japan and was a finalist best speaker at the Jean-Pictet IHL/Crimson Cross Competitiveness that was held in France in 2005. Through the Philippine Bar Exams of 2005, she rated first amid the 1,526 examinees that handed the stringent assessments.

Joan de Venecia is at present using her Masters in Law at New York University University of Law with focus on Global Authorized Scientific studies. She is on complete tuition scholarship from NYU underneath the Hugo Grotius Scholarship and a Senator J. William Fulbright grantee as perfectly. She is a Graduate Editor for the NYU Journal of Global Law and Politics.

*Job

Right after graduating from regulation faculty, Joan de Venecia joined the SyCip, Salazar, Hernandez and Gatmaitan, which is explained to be the major regulation firm in the Philippines. Aside from working towards law, Joan de Venecia also taught General public Global Legislation at the Lyceum of the Philippines College-College of Regulation in Makati Metropolis. She was also a typical lecturer for bar examinees, educating Procedural Regulation and Taxation. Joan de Venecia is presently a member of the Asian Society of Global Legislation. According to different interviews, she hopes to sign up for a non-authorities agency in the future in buy to even more the lead to of the weak and the oppressed. She is properly recognised to colleagues as any individual who hated those people who looked down on the underprivileged.

*Personalized

Joan de Venecia is the niece of Pangasinan congressman Jose de Venecia, Jr. Her father, Tony, now deceased, was de Venecia’s elder brother and a retired attorney and decide in Dagupan City. When she hails from a political relatives (her half-brother, Alex, is councilor in Dagupan), she has but to specific a motivation to be part of politics herself. Her interests lie on less difficult pleasures this kind of as exciting discussions, reading and viewing videos.

She has also been identified to express thoughts that are at odds with her spouse and children. For instance, in 2006, she didn’t share her uncle’s help for President Gloria Arroyo’s Proclamation 1017, superior recognised as the 2006 State of Emergency in the Philippines. At that time, Rep. Jose de Venecia was nevertheless a staunch ally of the administration. According to Joan, it was improper to declare a condition of unexpected emergency after an alleged coup d’état try in Camp Aguinaldo. The lawful local community questioned the constitutionality of the said proclamation and was a single of the most controversial steps by the country’s president.