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= FLORIN HILBAY = Born on March 19, 1974, Filipino lawyer Florin "Pilo" Ternal Hilbay was the Philippines' Solicitor General of the Philippines from 2014-2016, serving the country at the Hague that resulted in nullifying China's historical claims in the West Philippine Sea.

Before involving himself as part of the faculty of the University of the Philippines College of Law, he topped the 1999 Philippine Bar Examination alongside Edwin R. Enrile of the Ateneo de Manila University. In his alma mater, he teaches Advanced Constitutional Litigation, Constitutional Law, and Philosophy of Law with emphasis on issues relating to Church and State, post-colonial constitutionalism, and the relationship between the information environment and legal consciousness. He also taught Obligations & Contracts and Public Officers & Election Law

Birth and Education
Hilbay topped the 1999 bar examination with a score of 88.5%, sharing the first place distinction with Edwin Enrile of the Ateneo de Manila University. That year, only 16% or 660 of the 3,978 examinees passed the bar.

When the results came out on the same day as his birthday in March 2000, Hilbay was then working as an underbar clerk to Supreme Court Justice Vicente Mendoza, a noted constitutionalist who was a former solicitor from 1971 to 1973 and assistant solicitor general from 1973 to 1980.

Hilbay also previously joined the OSG as an associate solicitor under Solicitor General Simeon Marcelo in 2002. He also served as the Director of the Institute of Government and Law Reform of the University of the Philippines Law Center; a consultant to the Commission on Elections; and as the vice-chair of Bantay Katarungan (Sentinels of Justice), a civic organization formed by former Senator Jovito Salonga, purposefully created to advocate and strengthen the rule of law, to address issues of public injustice and to oversee the appointments process in the judiciary.

He also served as the editor-in-chief of the Philippine Law and Society Review and an editor of the IBP Law Journal

Early Career
Hilbay topped the 1999 bar examination with a score of 88.5%, sharing the first place distinction with Edwin Enrile of the Ateneo de Manila University. That year, only 16% or 660 of the 3,978 examinees passed the bar.

When the results came out on the same day as his birthday in March 2000, Hilbay was then working as an underbar clerk to Supreme Court Justice Vicente Mendoza, a noted constitutionalist who was a former solicitor from 1971 to 1973 and assistant solicitor general from 1973 to 1980.

Hilbay also previously joined the OSG as an associate solicitor under Solicitor General Simeon Marcelo in 2002. He also served as the Director of the Institute of Government and Law Reform of the University of the Philippines Law Center; a consultant to the Commission on Elections; and as the vice-chair of Bantay Katarungan (Sentinels of Justice), a civic organization formed by former Senator Jovito Salonga, purposefully created to advocate and strengthen the rule of law, to address issues of public injustice and to oversee the appointments process in the judiciary.

He also served as the editor-in-chief of the Philippine Law and Society Review and an editor of the IBP Law Journal.

Solicitor General
The then president, Benigno Aquino III appointed Hilbay as the Solicitor General starting from June 16, 2015; replacing Francis Jardeleza.

Prior inducted as the solicitor general, Florin Hilbay was Jardeleza’s senior state solicitor. He defended the Reproductive Health Law before the Supreme Court in 2014. After his introduction as the newest Solicitor General, his first representation was acting as the principal lawyer for the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) and the Bangsamoro.

During the tribulations against China in respect to their claim unto the West Philippine Sea, also known as ‘Philippines v China’, he served the Philippines as its agent during the tribunal at the Hague in Netherlands. At the end of the hearings, the court nullifies all of China’s historical claims on the West Philippines Sea via the nine-dash line.

Constitutional Law Professor
After his term as the Solicitor General, Hilbay started working as a constitutional law professor at the University of the Philippines - Diliman. Listed are some topics that he has shown great dissent in:


 * Philippines Drug War
 * Extension of Martial Law in Mindanao
 * Under-Budgeting of the Commission on Human Rights
 * House attempts to re-impose the death penalty
 * President’s misogyny
 * Inadequacy of Duterte’s administration
 * Lowering of the Philippines’ minimum age of criminal responsibility (MACR) to 9 years of age
 * Spread of fake news
 * Position of the Duterte administration on issues concerning China

In part of his profession, he handles the case of detained senator Leila de Lima against the allegations with the drugs that she supposedly allowed to be trafficked within the new bilibid prison when she was acting as the secretary of Justice.

Aside from de Lima’s case, Hilbay voluntarily joined forces with Pacifico Agabin and Joselito Chan on top Reynaldo Robles to aid Trillanes with his amnesty battle.

2019 Senatorial Bid
“I’m seriously considering the matter” were Hilbay’s words when he was asked about his senatorial bid last September 2018. More confident a month later, he discloses that he’ll running for a senatorial seat - “I think this is the time to do it”. Alongside Romulo Macalintal and on top of Gary Alejano, Bam Aquino, Chel Diokno, Samira Gutoc Tomawis, Mar Roxas, and Erin Tañada, Hilbay will be completing the 8-person roster for the opposition coalition for the 2019 senatorial election. Using his vocality towards the unjust doings of the Duterte administration, he seeks a seat in order to serve the public and fight for the democracy that they deserve with specificity towards the country’s economy and sovereignty. Using his experiences gained from living in Tondo for 30 years, Hilbay combines his gained knowledge from being the country’s former solicitor general and profound comprehension of the streets of Manila to hopefully shape and model the government to what it’s supposed to hold and safeguard.

Ranking 57-66 from the September 2018 pulse asia survey and last in the list of opposition running for a seat, Hilbay knows that he has ground to cover, but he believes that he can be the “new voice” that the Filipino people are looking for.