Florenz Regalado (October 13, 1928 – July 24, 2015) was the 14th appointment by President

Corazon Aquino Maria Corazon "Cory" Sumulong Cojuangco-Aquino (; ; January 25, 1933 – August 1, 2009) was a Filipina politician who served as the 11th president of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992. She was the most prominent figure of the 1986 People P ...

to be an associate justice of the

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from July 29, 1988 to October 13, 1998. Regalado is considered the most influential jurist and writer on Remedial Law by far, writing the most complete compendium in one volume as early as 1972.

Biography

He was born on October 13, 1928 in Concepcion,

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. He graduated

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with an Associate in Arts degree in 1949. A year later he entered

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and finished

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in 1954 at San Beda College of Law, and received his

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degree from the

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in 1963. He remains the record holder for the highest average in the

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, with his 1954 mark of 96.7%, where he was awarded the Memorial of Recognition. The Florenz D. Regalado Memorial Award for the top students was created in his honor. He was a member of the

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as vice-chairman for the Executive Branch committee which drafted the present

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. Before becoming Associate Justice, he served as the Dean of

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. His jottings on the stages of theft are considered the principal source in current jurisprudence in criminal law. He died on July 24, 2015.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Regalado, Florenz D. 1928 births 2015 deaths People from Iloilo 20th-century Filipino judges Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the Philippines University of Michigan Law School alumni San Beda University alumni Visayan people Members of the Philippine Constitutional Commission of 1986