Raul 

C. Pangalangan

Raul Pangalangan is a former Judge at the International Criminal Court at The Hague, where he tried cases of war crimes involving child soldiers, forced marriages and attacks by religious police against religious and cultural heritage. He is currently Professor Emeritus of Law at the University of the Philippines where he served as Law Dean from 1999-2005.

He is a Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (The Hague) and of the Institut de Droit International. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Philippine Yearbook of International Law and sits in the Editorial Board of the Asian Journal of International Law.

In 2024, he was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. In 2023, he chaired the ILO Commission of Inquiry on Myanmar. In 2022, he was a Senior Fellow at the Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe (The International Rule of Law – Rise or Decline?) in Berlin.

He has held visiting appointments, inter alia, at Harvard, Melbourne and Hong Kong Universities. He has lectured at The Hague Academy of International Law, where he had earlier served as Director of Studies, and at the International Nuremberg Principles Academy.

At Harvard, he received his LL.M. in 1986 (winning the Laylin Prize for best paper in International Law) and S.J.D. in 1990 (winning the Charles Sumner Prize for best dissertation relating to international peace) degrees. He holds the Diploma of The Hague Academy of International Law.