ANTONIO G.M.

LA VIÑA
Dean, School of Government, Ateneo de Manila University
Professorial Lecturer II, Philippine Judicial Academy

Dr. Tony La Viña is a teacher, thinker, and lawyer. He

is currently Dean of the Ateneo School of Government,
taking this position in 2006 when he returned to the
Philippines after an eight year stint in a Washington DC
environmental think tank, the World Resources Institute
(WRI). From 1996-1998, Dean Tony was an
Undersecretary at the Department of Environment and
Natural Resources. Before that, he co-founded the
Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center, a leading
human rights and environmental organization. Dean Tony obtained his Masters
(LLM) and Doctorate in Law (JSD) from Yale Law School and his first degrees
from the University of the Philippines (in law) and the Ateneo de Manila
University (in philosophy). He placed third in the 1989 bar examinations.

Dean Tony is a professor of the Philippine Judicial Academy, a member of

its Constitutional Law department. He teaches Constitutional law, Administrative
Law, Local Government and Environmental Law in the University of the
Philippines College of Law and Theory of Law and International Environmental
Litigation at the Ateneo Law School. He also teaches courses in the
Environmental Science, Political Science and Philosophy Departments in the
Loyola Schools of the Ateneo de Manila University. He has authored many
books, research monographs and journal articles and these have been published
widely in the Philippines and internationally.