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CESAR L. VILLANUEVA is currently the Dean of the Ateneo de Manila Law School, and a Professorial Lecturer in Corporation Law and Sales.

He is a Senior Partner in the Law Firm of Villanueva Gabionza & De Santos, 20/F 139 Corporate Center, 139 Valero Street, Salcedo Village, Makati City 1200. He is a member of the Boards of Directors of Makati Medical Center (MakatiMed) and the Clark Electric Distribution Corporation (CEDC); and a member of the Board of the Boards of Trustees of the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD) and the Kapampangan Development Foundation (KDF).

He is the Chairman of the Commercial Law Department of the Philippine Judicial Academy (PHILJA), and the Executive Director of its Consultants Group and a member of the Academic Council. He is a member of the Supreme Court’s Sub-Committee for RTC Commercial Courts.

He currently sits as a member of the Governing Board of the Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) of the Supreme Court, and is also a member of the Technical Panel for Legal Education of the Commission of Higher Education (CHED).

He is a Fellow of both the Australian Institute on Company Directors (AICD), and the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD-Makati).

Atty. Villanueva obtained his Accounting degree (B.S.C.) from Holy Angel University (magna cum laude) in 1977, and his Bachelor of Laws Degree (LL.B.) from Ateneo de Manila Law School (valedictorian, cum laude). He sat for the Philippine Bar Examinations in November, 1981 Bar Examinations (placing 2^nd), and the following May, 1982 took the CPA Board Examinations (placing 6^th). He proceeded to take his Master of Laws (LL.M.) from Harvard Law School at Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1989. In October 2005, he was conferred a Diplomate in Juridical Science (D.J.S.) by the San Beda College.

He was also Editor-in-Chief, Ateneo Law Journal (1980-81); Legal Consultant, Export Processing Zone Authority (1985-86); Member: Philippine Bar Association, Integrated Bar of the Philippines, Philippine Institute of Certified Public Accountants; Philippine Canine Club, Inc.; United Way, Philippines; Harvard Alumni Association; President, Rotary Club of Makati Ayala, RY 1996-1997; Honorary Member in the Association of Fellow and Legal Scholars of the Center for International Legal Studies; Member, Mimosa Golf and Country Club,  Fontana Resorts, Capitol Hills Golf Club, and the Tower Club.

He authored Philippine Corporate Law, Commercial Law Review, and Law on Sales. He also wrote Handbook on the Corporate Jurisdictions of the RTC and the SEC, Philippine Judicial Academy (PHILJA), in partnership with USAID and The Asia Foundation. He has published on-line the following legal books: The Law and Practice on: Agency and Business Trust; Partnership and Joint Ventures; Philippine Corporate Governance.

He published the following legal articles:

The Evolution of Philippine Commercial Law System, 50 Ateneo Law Journal  (No. 3, December 2005).

Defining the Gravamen: The Bar Reform Movement, XLVIII ATENEO LAW JOURNAL (No. 3, December 2003).

Judicial Activism in Commercial Laws, The Lawyers Review (December 2003).

Revisiting the Philosophical Underpinnings of Philippine Commercial Laws, XLVI ATENEO LAW JOURNAL (No. 3 December 2001).

Revisiting the Philippine Law on Corporate Rehabilitation, XLIII ATENEO LAW JOURNAL  (No. 2, May, 1999).

Unifying Philippine Laws on Business Names, THE LAWYERS REVIEW (No. 4, April 1999).

Philippine Law Governing Joint Ventures, 1997 Edition of the International Publication of the Center for International Legal Studies, Schwighmuhl Weg 6b, A-5020 Salzburg, Austria.

The Penal Provision Under Sec. 144 of the Corporation Code, X THE LAWYERS REVIEW (No. 2, February 1996).

Corporate Contract Law: Unifying Theme on Theories Relating to Promoter’s Contracts, De Facto Corporations, Corporation by Estoppel, Articles of Incorporation, By-Laws, and Ultra Vires Acts, XXXVIII ATENEO LAW JOURNAL (No. 2, June 1994).

Philippine Doctrine of Doing Business for Foreign Corporations, VII THE LAWYERS REVIEW, (Nos. 4 & 6), April & June 1993.

Restatement of the Doctrine of Piercing the Veil of Corporate Fiction, XXXVII ATENEO LAW JOURNAL (No. 2).

Jurisprudential Analyses of the Jurisdiction of the Securities and Exchange Commission in Intra-Corporate Disputes and Corporate Investment Devices and Schemes, VI THE LAWYERS REVIEW (No. 10, October 1992).

The Fiduciary Duties of Directors and Officers Representing the Creditor Pursuant to a Loan Workout Arrangement: Parameters Under Philippine Corporate Setting, XXXV ATENEO LAW JOURNAL (No. 1, February, 1991).

Comparative Study of the Judicial Role and Its Effect on the Theory on Judicial Precedents in the Philippine Hybrid Legal System, 65 PHIL. LAW JOURNAL (Nos. 1 & 2, March-June, 1990).

The Philippine Close Corporation, XXXII ATENEO LAW JOURNAL (No. 2, March, 1988).

The Trust Fund Doctrine Under Philippine Corporate Setting, XXXI ATENEO LAW JOURNAL (No. 1, February, 1987).

Non-Punishable: Issuance of a Check as a Guarantee for Payment of an Obligation, XXIX ATENEO LAW JOURNAL (No. 1, October, 1984).

Tax Inquiries, Surveillance, Warrantless Searches and Seizures: Their Constitutional Limitations, XXV ATENEO LAW JOURNAL (No. 3, March, 1981).

Ecclesiastics in Politics: The Teleron v. Pamil Case, XXV ATENEO LAW JOURNAL (Vol. XXV, No. 2, October, 1980, co-author).

The Conscientious Objector Under the New Labor Code, XXV ATENEO LAW JOURNAL (No. 1, March, 1980).