Professional Affiliation

Professor of Law, University of the Philippines

Expert Bio

Raul C. Pangalangan was a Judge at the International Criminal Court at The Hague (2015-21), where he tried cases of war crimes involving child soldiers, forced marriages and attacks by religious police against cultural heritage. 

He has since resumed his work as Professor of Law at the University of the Philippines where he had earlier served as Law Dean. He is currently a Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (The Hague) and has been elected to the Institut de Droit International. 

 In 2023, he chaired the ILO Commission of Inquiry on Myanmar. He was also a Senior Fellow at the Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe (The International Rule of Law - Rise or Decline?), jointly organized by the Freie Universität Berlin, Potsdam University, and Humboldt University. He has served as Asian Public Intellectual Fellow of the Nippon Foundation. 

He received his LL.M. and S.J.D. from Harvard University. He holds the Diploma of The Hague Academy of International Law. 

He recently published International Law Responses in Ukraine: Robust But Not Universal in Global Impact of the Ukraine Conflict: Perspectives from International Law (Furuya, Takemura, Ozaki, eds.) (Springer, 2023). He authored Philippine Materials in International Law (BRILL Nijhoff, 2021), which “re-tells Philippine history using international law, and re-examines international law using the Philippine experience.” 

Wilson Center Project

Judging History in the Courts: Atrocity Crimes and the Limits of International Criminal Justice