MYRNA S.

FELICIANO
Chair, Department of Legal Method and Research, PHILJA

Professor Myrna S. Feliciano is a consultant to the

Supreme Court of the Philippines, designated as the
Executive Director of the Mandatory Continuing Legal
Education Office (MCLEO). Currently, she chairs the Legal
Method and Research Department and holds the rank of
Professor at the Philippine Judicial Academy. She is also
a professorial lecturer at the University of the Philippines
College of Law and sits as member of the Supreme Court
Revision of the Rules Sub-Committee on Family Courts.

Professor Feliciano received her B.S.L.S. and LL.B.

degrees from the University of the Philippines in 1957 and 1973, respectively.
She completed her Master of Law Librarianship from the University of
Washington in 1965 and a Master of Laws degree from Harvard University in
1980.

As a former Commissioner of the National Commission on the Role of

Filipino Women, she participated in the U.N. Preparatory Conference in New
York in March 1995, the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, China,
September 4-15, 1995 and part of the delegation that drafted the Optional
Protocol to the U.N. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
Against Women, New York, 1999-2000.

She is a consultant to many government and international agencies

among which include the Asian Development Bank, World Bank, European
Commission, UNICEF, U.N.D.P., I.L.O, U.S.A.I.D., Asia Foundation, ABA-ROLI
and AusAid.

She authored and co-authored numerous publications such as Gender

Sensitivity in the Court System (2002); Gender Sensitivity and the Family Courts
(2005); Environmental Law in the Philippines (1993); The Legal System of the
Philippines (1995); Environmental Law – Philippines (2005); Human Rights and
Women With Emphasis on International Conventions and Philippine Law (1998);
Judicial Systems of Asian Countries As Applied To Children, Strengthening
Judicial Protection of Children (2002); Overview of International Instruments
Affecting the Environment (1994) and Ethics, Integrity and Judicial Accountability:
the Philippine Experience (2009).