User:Saul Hofileña Jr./sandbox

Saul Hofileña, Jr. was born in Cavite City on September 9, 1959. He graduated with a degree in law at the Ateneo College of Law in 1985. He passed the bar in 1986 and began practicing law. He has taught Introduction to Law, Insurance Law, Criminal Law I and II and International Law at the San Beda College of Law in Manila and Alabang. He also taught law at Centro Escolar University in Makati. He was also the Dean of the College of Law of the Asian Development Foundation College. In 2012, he was given the Patnubay Award for history by the City of Manila. He was a director of a college library, of the Philippine Numismatic and Antiquarian Society and the local integrated bar. He wrote for the “Bulletin of the American Historical Collection” and other publications. He is a member of P.E.N., an international organization of poets, playwrights, editors, essayists, and novelists. He is also a member of the Philippine Studies Association, the Manila Studies Association and the Philippine National Historical Society. He has written numerous articles on history and law in various specialized journals. He is the author of the best-selling Under the Stacks (2011), a book about Philippine history. He has also written a book about art entitled The Last Bohemian (2013), and a coffee table book entitled Vestments of the Golden Leaf (2014), which is about the history of tobacco and tobacco labels in the Philippines. He has also published an anthology of his father’s poems entitled Elegy (2016), and another book entitled HOCUS (2017), and Cartas Philippinensis (2017). His book on International Law has just been released. In April 2017, together with Guy Custodio, he exhibited HOCUS, the product of their joint collaboration, at the National Museum of the Philippines from April 18, 2017 to October 29, 2017. One of the paintings entitled "La Pesadilla", a gigantic 4 feet by 11 feet in size is now on permanent exhibit in the National Museum of the Philippines.