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The legal profession lost one of its Filipino luminaries in the field of international law, as former UP College of Law Dean Merlin Magallona passed away in his sleep on the evening of New Year’s Day, January 1, 2022. He was 87. Although I was not one of his students, he had…

PROF. MERLIN MAGALLONA, one of the Philippines’s leading experts in international law who led numerous studies on maritime issues pre-Unclos and later became a UP Law dean and Foreign Affairs undersecretary, has died. The highly respected intellectual died peacefully in his sleep on New Year’s Day at the age of…