His Excellency Judge Raul Pangalangan currently serves as a judge of the International Criminal Court – the first Filipino national to hold that position. Judge Pangalangan is a Professor of Law and former Dean of the University of the Philippines Law School and he specialises in Constitutional Law and Public International Law. He was educated at the University of the Philippines (AB cum laude and LLB) and at Harvard University (LLM and SJD). He has taught at the Hague Academy of International Law and as Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School, Melbourne Law School and Hong Kong University, and has lectured at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, Japanese Society of International Law, Thessaloniki Institute of International Public Law and the International Committee of the Red Cross. Judge Pangalangan was a member of the Philippine delegation to the Diplomatic Conference to negotiate the Rome Statute to establish the International Criminal Court.