29/11/2023

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Joan De Venecia – Bar Topnotcher

Joan de Venecia majored in Authorized Management at the Ateneo de Manila University in which she graduated with honors in 2001. She then went on to research legislation at the College of the Philippines School of Legislation. She also graduated course valedictorian with a cum laude difference. During her time in UP, she did lawful exploration entitled, “The Silent Witness In opposition to Torture: Earning the Scenario for Recorded Interrogations.”

She was an award-winning debater and adjudicator, participating in quite a few tournaments in the Philippines and in other pieces of the entire world, defeating champion debaters from all above. She bagged the Very best Oralist Award at the Asia Cup Global Law Moot Courtroom Opposition 2004 in Japan and was a finalist finest speaker at the Jean-Pictet IHL/Crimson Cross Levels of competition that was held in France in 2005. Through the Philippine Bar Exams of 2005, she ranked initial among the 1,526 examinees that handed the stringent tests.

Joan de Venecia is now getting her Masters in Law at New York College University of Legislation with focus on Worldwide Legal Reports. She is on entire tuition scholarship from NYU underneath the Hugo Grotius Scholarship and a Senator J. William Fulbright grantee as nicely. She is a Graduate Editor for the NYU Journal of Intercontinental Regulation and Politics.

*Occupation

Immediately after graduating from legislation school, Joan de Venecia joined the SyCip, Salazar, Hernandez and Gatmaitan, which is reported to be the largest law company in the Philippines. Apart from practicing legislation, Joan de Venecia also taught Public International Law at the Lyceum of the Philippines College-College of Law in Makati Metropolis. She was also a typical lecturer for bar examinees, training Procedural Regulation and Taxation. Joan de Venecia is currently a member of the Asian Modern society of Global Regulation. In accordance to a variety of interviews, she hopes to join a non-government company in the upcoming in get to more the lead to of the lousy and the oppressed. She is effectively recognized to colleagues as any person who hated people who appeared down on the underprivileged.

*Individual

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 law firm and choose in Dagupan City. When she hails from a political spouse and children (her 50 percent-brother, Alex, is councilor in Dagupan), she has nonetheless to categorical a wish to be a part of politics herself. Her pursuits lie on easier pleasures this kind of as exciting conversations, examining and watching motion pictures.

She has also been acknowledged to categorical opinions that are at odds with her family members. For occasion, in 2006, she didn’t share her uncle’s guidance for President Gloria Arroyo’s Proclamation 1017, much better recognised as the 2006 Condition of Crisis in the Philippines. At that time, Rep. Jose de Venecia was however a staunch ally of the administration. According to Joan, it was improper to declare a condition of emergency immediately after an alleged coup d’état endeavor in Camp Aguinaldo. The legal group questioned the constitutionality of the stated proclamation and was 1 of the most controversial actions by the country’s president.