PROF. DR. DIANE A. DESIERTO
Assistant Professor of Law and Co-Director, ASEAN Law & Integration Center (ALIC),
University of Hawaii William S. Richardson School of Law,
Rm. 210, 2515 Dole Street Honolulu Hawaii 96822-2350 USA
Adjunct Fellow East-West Center
Rm. 3078, East-West Center, Burns Hall, 1601 East-West Center Road, Honolulu, Hawaii USA
[email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
https://www.law.hawaii.edu/person/diane-desierto
http://www.eastwestcenter.org/about-ewc/directory/diane.desierto
+1 808 285 5779 (US mobile), +1 808 956 0417 (office landline), +63 917 8012113 (intl mobile)
EDUCATION
Yale Law School
September 2009-June 2011
JSD (Doctor of the Science of Law)
(advance of 2014 deadline)
Dissertation: “Necessity and National Emergency Clauses: A Study of Sovereignty
in Modern Treaty Interpretation” (Supervisor: Prof. W. Michael Reisman,
Dissertation Readers: Prof. Susan Rose-Ackerman, Prof. Roberta Brilmayer)
Awarded Yale Law School’s 2010-2011 Ambrose Gherini Prize in International Law
for most outstanding work in international law, public or private
Honors and positions:
Howard M. Holtzmann Fellowship in International
Arbitration and Dispute Resolution; Lillian Goldman Perpetual Scholarship; 20102011 YLS Public Interest Fellowship for clerkship at the International Court of
Justice, Peace Palace, the Hague, Netherlands (Chambers of H.E. Judge Bruno
Simma and H.E. Judge Bernardo Sepulveda-Amor); Editor, Yale Journal of
International Law; Coordinator, Yale Forum on International Law
Yale Law School
September 2008-June 2009
LLM (Master of Laws)
Conferred “Honours” marks in all international law and comparative law courses
Honors and positions: Lillian Goldman Scholarship; Executive Board Member, Yale
Multidisciplinary Research Forum; Coordinator, Yale Forum on International Law
University of the Philippines
June 2000-April 2004
LLB (Bachelor of Laws/degree renamed to Juris Doctor)
Cum Laude, Class Salutatorian, Phi Kappa Phi International Honor Society
University Scholar and College Scholar
2004 Justice Irene P. Cortes Prize for Best Constitutional Law Paper (“Enemies of
the State: A Constitutional Decoding of the National Security Justification for Civil
Liberties Infringements in the Philippines”)
Chairman of the Editorial Board, Philippine Law Journal; Prime Minister of the UP
Law Debate Union; Chairman of the UP Law Student Government Academic Reforms
Committee; Outstanding Law Intern, Office of Legal Aid
University of the Philippines
June 1996-April 2000
BSc Economics (Bachelor of Science in Economics)
Summa Cum Laude, Class Valedictorian, University Scholar for all 8 semesters
1st place, Gerardo P. Sicat Award for Best Thesis (“The Myth of Legislation:
Determining the Real Barriers to Equity Investment in the Philippines”)
2000 Most Outstanding Social Science Student, Pi Gamma Mu International Social
Science Honor Society
1 President, University of the Philippines Debate Society; Head Delegate, Harvard
Project for Asian and International Relations (HPAIR); News and Opinion Editor,
SIDHI (Official Publication of the UP School of Economics)
Awarded International Law Fellowships
Research Fellowship (2008 and 2013), Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public
Law and International Law, Heidelberg, Germany
Grotius Fellowship (2012), University of Michigan Law School, Center for
Comparative and International Law, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Visiting Scholar (June-July 2013), Yale Law School
Specialized International Law Courses
International Academy for Arbitration Law/Academie du droit de l’arbitrage, Paris,
France (July 2011) – awarded the Runner Up Laureate of the Academy Prize and the
Shearman & Sterling Scholarship, (essay “Is Arbitration a Form of International
Justice?”
http://www.arbitrationacademy.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/DianeDesierto.pdf)
Xiamen Academy of International Law, Xiamen, China (July 2007) – awarded
Scholarship
International Moot and Debate Experience
Champion and Gilbert Apollis Finalist for Best Oralist, English Session, 2004 Jean
Pictet International Humanitarian Law Competition, ICRC, Mejannes-le-Clap, France
Champion, Grand Finals Best Speaker, 7th Overall Best Speaker, 2001 All-Asian
Intervarsity Debate Championships
Champion and Team Captain, 2000 Association of Southeast Asian Nations
(ASEAN) Intervarsity Debate Championships, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Overall National Best Debater and Best Public Speaker, 1999 Philippine National
Debate Championships
CLERKSHIP EXPERIENCE
Clerk, International Court of Justice, the Hague, Netherlands
2010-2011
Yale Fellow to H.E. Judge Bruno Simma and H.E. Judge Bernardo Sepulveda-Amor
•
Official Court Performance Appraisal: “Excellent”, perfect marks in all
criteria (professional competence, teamwork, ability to meet deadlines,
initiative, responsibility, punctuality), with specific comments from H.E.
Judge Simma: (“Diane’s legal writing and research skills are simply superb.
All memos and other products were of the finest quality. Diane is already an
accomplished author in public international law. I have invited her to copublish with me a substantive article for an international law journal. I hope
this indicates how I evaluate her respective skills.”)
2 TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Hawaii Richardson School of Law
Aug 2013 to present
Assistant Professor of Law
• Teaching courses on International Law, International Economic Law,
Business Associations, International Arbitration and Dispute Settlement,
Philippine Law Seminar, ASEAN Law seminar
• Research interests in public international law, international economic law,
international human rights and international humanitarian law, ASEAN Law
• Co-Director, ASEAN Law & Integration Center (ALIC)
• Faculty Adviser, UH Richardson Jessup Team (2014 No. 1 overall team, Best
Memorials, Best Oralist awards), and Supporting Faculty, UH Richardson
International Environmental Moot Team (2014 Regional Finalists, qualified
for Stetson International Rounds)
Peking University School of Transnational Law
July 2012- Aug 2013
Assistant Professor of Law
• Taught JD (Juris Doctor) law students International Dispute Settlement,
Foreign Investment Dispute Resolution, International Human Rights Law,
International Humanitarian Law
• Supervised JD Graduate Theses on international investment law, international
human rights law, comparative constitutional law, and international criminal
law
• Member, PKUSTL Global Partnerships Committee
• Faculty Supervisor: PKUSTL Law Review (the first English language
student-edited law review in China); PKUSTL Jessup International Law Moot
Team (2012/2013 Chinese National Champions); PKUSTL VIS International
Commercial Arbitration Moot Team (Hong Kong 2012) and PKUSTL
International Criminal Court Moot Teams; the first mainland Chinese team to
compete in the Jean Pictet World International Humanitarian Law Competition
organized by the International Committee of the Red Cross; the first mainland
Chinese team to reach the world finals of the Frankfurt International
Investment Law Moot Championships
University of the Philippines College of Law
2007-2011
Professorial Lecturer and Law Reform Specialist (Institute of International Legal
Studies)
• Taught JD (Juris Doctor) law students (first to fourth year students) courses on
Public International Law, International Law Methodology (Lecture Series),
Legal History, Agency & Partnership Law.
Supervised around 200
independent student research papers on topics of international law, legal
theory, and administrative law. Participated in advising UP Law Jessup moot
teams to world semi-finals/quarterfinals, Alona Evans awards etc.
Participated in supervising Philippine Law Journal Editorial Board.
• Managed Institute staff and publications, organized local and international
regional conferences and roundtable discussions, spearheaded research areas
in public international law, international trade law, international investment
arbitration, international human rights and the laws of armed conflict
3 •
Trained government counsels from the Office of the President, Office of the
Solicitor General, Department of Justice, Department of Trade and Industry,
Department of Foreign Affairs in international dispute settlement (ICJ, ICSID,
WTO) and international economic law
Lyceum of the Philippines College of Law
2006-2007
Professorial Lecturer
• Taught second and third year JD students courses on Public International Law
and Administrative Law. Supervised over 80 independent student research
papers in these courses.
Foreign Service Institute, Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs
2006
Lecturer for Public International Law
• Taught Philippine consular officials with a specialized focus on international
immunities and privileges, jurisdictional assessment, international
responsibility
ADVISORY EXPERIENCE
Legal Adviser
2010-2012
Office of Senator Edgardo J. Angara, Vice-Chairman of the Philippine Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations, former Senate President of the Republic of the
Philippines, former Executive Secretary to the President of the Philippines
Legal Consultant
Office of the Chief Economist, Asian Development Bank
2010-2012
Legal Consultant
Philippine Constitutional Commission on Elections
2013-2014
Extended advisory opinions for the Office of the Solicitor-General of the Republic
of the Philippines; Office of the Presidential Legal Counsel; Philippine Department of
Foreign Affairs; Philippine Supreme Court; ASEAN Law Association; Singapore
Academy of Law.
Expert Resource Person
2012
American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative – Experts’ Note on the ASEAN
Human
Rights
Declaration
http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/directories/roli/asean/asia_aba_roli_exp
ert_note_asean_human_rights_declaration_05121.authcheckdam.pdf
Legal Expert and Rapporteur
2013
ASEAN-European High Level Dialogue on Maritime Security, Investment and
Development,
Jakarta,
Indonesia
http://habibiecenter.or.id/detilurl/en/272/news/Public.Forum.on.ASEANEU.High.Level.Dialogue:.Towards.an.Integrated.Maritime.Cooperation
4 ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Member (2013-2016), Scientific Advisory Board, European Journal of International
Law and Contributing Editor, EJIL:Talk!
Director of Studies for Public International Law (Summer 2017), English session,
Hague Academy of International Law
Associate Editor (2013 to present), Asian Yearbook of International Law
Member, International Jury, 2013 edition of the Jean Pictet International
Humanitarian Law Moot Competition/Concours Jean Pictet
Member, Selection Committee, Rechtskulturen 2013/2014 Global Postdoctoral
Fellowships, Berlin, Germany
Philippine Rapporteur, NUS Centre for International Law ASEAN Integration
through Law Project (2010 to 2013).
Rapporteur, Oxford International Law in Domestic Courts
Content Editor (2012 to 2013), International Board, Journal of Dispute Prevention
and Resolution (headed by Prof. Eric Bergsten, Editor-in-Chief)
Correspondent, Journal of East Asia and International Law
Fellowships Director (2012), Angara Centre for Law and Economics. Manila,
Philippines
Consultant, Office of the Chief Economist, Asian Development Bank
Peer Reviewer for the following journals: Asian Journal of International Law, Asian
Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics and Governance (Basel, Switzerland),
Asian Journal of International Law, Asian Yearbook of International Law, European
Journal of International Law
PUBLICATIONS
A. Books and monographs
1. DIANE A. DESIERTO, PUBLIC POLICY IN INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC TREATIES: THE
ICESCR IN TRADE, FINANCE, AND INVESTMENT (Oxford University Press, 2014)
2. DIANE A. DESIERTO, NECESSITY AND NATIONAL EMERGENCY CLAUSES:
SOVEREIGNTY IN MODERN TREATY INTERPRETATION (International Litigation in
Practice Series, Vol. 3, Martinus Nijhoff USA,/Brill Publishers, January 2012)
http://www.brill.nl/necessity-and-national-emergency-clauses
5 3. DIANE A. DESIERTO, ASEAN INTEGRATION THROUGH LAW: TREATIES IN THE
PHILIPPINE CONSTITUTIONAL SYSTEM (forthcoming monograph, Cambridge
University Press, 2014)
4. DIANE A. DESIERTO (ED.), INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION AND
PHILIPPINE LAW, VOL. I ON JURISDICTION AND ADMISSIBILITY (University of the
Philippines, Institute of International Legal Studies, forthcoming)
5. MYRNA FELICIANO, DIANE A. DESIERTO, VICTORIA LOANZON, & CONCEPCION
JARDALEZA, COMMENTARY ON THE CODE OF PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY
(USAID –ABA, 2007)
B. Forthcoming/Recently Published
1.
Diane A. Desierto, Rawlsian Fairness and International Arbitration,
International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) Congress 2014, Miami
Florida, for publication in ICCA Proceedings 2014 (Kluwer Law International).
2.
Diane A. Desierto, Sovereign Wealth Financing Paradigms in Natural
Resources: Regulatory Transparency Issues in the Norwegian Oil and Swensen
Endowment Models, 2013 Workshop on International Law, Natural Resources,
and Development, University of Warwick, United Kingdom, forthcoming with
International Journal of Law in Context (2014).
3.
Diane A. Desierto, Introduction: Investment as Development: Economic, Social
and Cultural Rights at the Foundations of Investment Law, forthcoming book
chapter in CHRISTIAN TAMS AND STEPHAN SCHILL (EDS.), INVESTMENT AND
DEVELOPMENT – FRIENDS OR FOES? (forthcoming, Oxford University Press
2014).
4.
Diane A. Desierto, Beyond Siege Mentality and Rejection of Inequality: Lessons
from ASEAN, book chapter in LUIS ESLAVA, MICHAEL FAKHRI, VASUKI NESIAH
(EDS.), BANDUNG AND THE GLOBAL SOUTH: 60 YEARS OF TRANSFORMATIVE
INTERNATIONAL LAW (forthcoming).
5.
Diane A. Desierto, Regulatory Freedom and Control in the New ASEAN
Investment Treaties, Journal of World Investment and Trade (special issue
forthcoming Spring 2014).
6.
Diane A. Desierto, Austerity Measures and Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights, book chapter for the American Society of International Law (ASIL) 2014
proceedings volume, EVAN CRIDDLE (ED.), HUMAN RIGHTS IN EMERGENCIES
(forthcoming).
7.
Diane A. Desierto, Separation of Powers in Global Investment and Trade Law
Rule-Making, for University of Amsterdam Faculty of Law and Amsterdam
Center for International Law March 2014 Workshop on Postnational RuleMaking, forthcoming chapter in book volume.
6 8.
Diane A. Desierto, Public Policy in International Trade and Investment Law:
Community Expectations and Functional Decision-Making, 27 Florida Journal of
International Law (April 2014 issue).
9.
Diane A. Desierto and Colin E. Gillespie, Evolutionary Interpretation and
Subsequent Practice in Treaty Application: New Interpretive Communities and
Processes in the Optional Protocol to the ICESCR, 73 Heidelberg Journal of
International Law (Fall 2013), pp. 1-42.
10. Diane A. Desierto and Colin E. Gillespie, A Modern Integrated Paradigm for
International Responsibility Arising from Violations of Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights, 3 Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law 1
(April 2014).
11. Diane A. Desierto and Desiree A. Desierto, Investment Pricing and Social
Protection: A Proposal for an ICESCR-Adjusted Capital Asset Pricing Model,
28 ICSID Review 2 (Fall 2013), at pp. 405-419.
12. Diane A. Desierto, Calibrating Human Rights and Investment during Economic
Emergencies: Prospects of Treaty and Valuation Defenses, 9 Manchester
Journal of International Economic Law (MJIEL) 2 (2012), pp. 162-183.
13. Diane A. Desierto, Conflict of Treaties, Interpretation, and Decision-Making on
Human Rights and Investment during Economic Crises, 10 Transnational Dispute
Management 1 (January 2013), special issue on Aligning Human Rights and
Investment
Protection
at
http://www.transnational-disputemanagement.com/article.asp?key=1930
14. Diane A. Desierto, ICESCR Minimum Core Obligations and Investment:
Recasting the Non-Expropriation Model during Financial Crises, 44 George
Washington International Law Review 3 (Fall 2012) pp. 473-520.
15. Diane A. Desierto, Sovereign Policy Flexibility for Social Protection: Managing
Uncertainty Risks in International Investment Agreements, December 2012
Mauritius International Arbitration Conference, Report forthcoming in book
volume of the 2012 MIAC PROCEEDINGS (PERMANENT COURT OF ARBITRATION,
THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS).
16. Diane A. Desierto, Targeted Killings Policies: Justifications under the Bush and
Obama Administrations, 7 Journal of East Asia and International Law 2
(forthcoming Spring 2014)
C. Book Chapters
1.
Bruno Simma and Diane A. Desierto, Bridging the Public Interest Divide:
Committee assistance for investor-host State Compliance with the ICESCR, pp.
49-65 in DIRK HANSCHEL, SEBASTIAN GRAF KIELMANSEGG, UWE KISCHEL,
CHRISTIAN KOENIG, AND RALPH ALEXANDER LORZ (EDS.), MENSCH UND RECHT,
FESTSCHRIFT FUR EIBE RIEDEL (Duncker & Humblot Berlin, 2013). Also
7 published in 10 Transnational Dispute Management 1 (January 2013),
http://www.transnational-dispute-management.com/article.asp?key=1931
2.
Diane A. Desierto, Deciding international investment agreement applicability:
The Development Argument in Investment, Chapter 11 in FREYA BAETENS (ED.),
INVESTMENT LAW WITHIN INTERNATIONAL LAW:
AN INTEGRATIONIST
PERSPECTIVE (Cambridge University Press, 2013).
3.
Diane A. Desierto, Investment Treaty Regulation under the new ASEAN Charter
Regime, Chapter 7 in ASIA RISING: GROWTH AND RESILIENCE IN AN UNCERTAIN
GLOBAL ECONOMY (Edward Elgar Publishers, 2012).
4.
Diane A. Desierto, Privacy Expectations in Passive RFID Tagging of Motor
Vehicles: Bayan Muna et al. v. Mendoza et al. in the Philippine Supreme Court,
in CHRISTINA AKRIVOPOULOU AND ATHANASIOS PSYGKAS (EDS.), PERSONAL
DATA PRIVACY AND PROTECTION IN A SURVEILLANCE ERA: TECHNOLOGIES AND
PRACTICES (Hersey, PA: Information Science Reference, 2010), also available at
http://www.igi-global.com/bookstore/chapter.aspx?TitleId=50415
5.
Diane A. Desierto, chapter on Overview of Jurisdictional Theories, in DIANE A.
DESIERTO (ED.), INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION FOR THE PHILIPPINE
LEGAL PROFESSION (University of the Philippines Press, Institute of International
Legal Studies, forthcoming)
6.
Diane A. Desierto, chapter on Arbitrability in European Systems, in DIANE A.
DESIERTO (ED.), INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION FOR THE PHILIPPINE
LEGAL PROFESSION (University of the Philippines Press, Institute for
International Legal Studies, forthcoming)
D. International Journal Articles, Book Reviews, Law Commentaries
1. Diane A. Desierto, Rewriting the New Great Game: China, the United States, and
their International Public Lawyers, Peking University School of Transnational
Law (PKUSTL) Law Review, Issue 2 (2013), pp. 351-374, at
http://www.pkusz.edu.cn/uploadfile/2013/1015/20131015091835626.pdf
2. Diane A. Desierto, The International Court of Justice in the Settlement of Foreign
Investment Disputes, International Journal of Dispute Prevention and Resolution
(inaugural issue, 2013)
3. Diane A. Desierto, The Right to Regulate for Public Morals Upheld (Somewhat):
The WTO Panel Report in EC-Seal Products, 27 January 2014, EJIL:Talk! at
http://www.ejiltalk.org/the-right-to-regulate-for-public-morals-upheld-somewhatthe-wto-panel-report-in-ec-seal-products/
4. Diane A. Desierto, Ripples in the East and South East China Seas: Aid, ADIZs,
Aircraft Carriers, and Arbitration, 1 December 2013, EJIL:Talk! at
8 http://www.ejiltalk.org/ripples-in-the-east-and-south-china-seas-aid-adizs-aircraftcarriers-and-arbitration/
5. Diane A. Desierto, Corruption, Climate and Congress: Preying on Philippine
Resilience and Faith, 9 November 2013, GMA News Online, at
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/334717/opinion/feedback/corruptionclimate-and-congress-preying-on-philippine-resilience-and-faith
6. Diane A. Desierto, The ‘other’ dialogue at the G20 Summit: International
Responsibilities of Institutional Investors, 2 September 2013, EJIL:Talk!
http://www.ejiltalk.org/author/ddesierto/
7. Diane A. Desierto, Joint Decisions by States Parties: Fair Control of Tribunal
Interpretations?,
Kluwer
Arbitration,
8
June
2012,
at
http://kluwerarbitrationblog.com/blog/2012/06/08/joint-decisions-by-state-partiesfair-control-of-tribunal-interpretations/
8. Diane A. Desierto, Our 1987 ‘Accountability’ Constitution, GMA News Online, 1
June 2012, http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/260253/opinion/our-1987accountability-constitution
9. Diane A. Desierto, ‘For Greater Certainty’: Balancing Economic Integration and
Investment Protection in the New ASEAN Investment Agreements, Transnational
Dispute Management, vol. 5 (2011), special issue on Resolving International
Business Disputes by ADR in Asia, accessible at http://www.transnationaldispute-management.com/about-author-a-z-profile.asp?key=2027
10. Diane A. Desierto, Development as an International Right: Investment in the New
Trade-Based IIAs, 3 Trade Law & Development 2 (November/December 2011) at
http://www.tradelawdevelopment.com/index.php/tld/article/view/3(2)%20TRADE
.%20L%20%26%20DEV.%20296%20(2011)
11. Diane A. Desierto, ASEAN’s Constitutionalization of International Law:
Challenges to Evolution under the new ASEAN Charter, 49 Columbia Journal of
Transnational Law 2 (2010) at http://journals.cdrs.columbia.edu/jtl/?p=1040
12. Diane A. Desierto, Leveraging International Economic Tools to Confront Child
Soldiering, 43 NYU Journal of International Law & Politics 2 (2010) at
http://www.law.nyu.edu/ecm_dlv4/groups/public/@nyu_law_website__journals_
_journal_of_international_law_and_politics/documents/documents/ecm_pro_0697
28.pdf
13. Susan Rose-Ackerman, Diane A. Desierto, and Natalia Volosin, HyperPresidentialism: Separation of Powers without Checks and Balances in
Argentina and the Philippines, 29 Berkeley Journal of International Law 1 (2010),
at
101,
available
at
http://www.boalt.org/bjil/documents/RoseAckerman_Article.pdf
9 14. Diane A. Desierto, (Book Review), Self-Enforcing Trade by Chad Bown, 36 Yale
Journal of International Law (2010), available at http://www.yjil.org/docs/pub/352-recent-publications.pdf
15. Diane A. Desierto, Necessity and Supplementary Means of Interpretation of NonPrecluded Measures in Bilateral Investment Treaties, 31 University of
Pennsylvania Journal of International Law 3, 827 (2010), available at
http://www.law.upenn.edu/journals/jil/articles/volume31/issue3/Desierto31U.Pa.J.
Int'lL.827(2010).pdf
16. Diane A. Desierto, International Law: Regional Developments in South and South
East Asia, keyword article contribution to the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public
International
Law,
available
at
http://www.mpepil.com/subscriber_article?script=yes&id=/epil/entries/law9780199231690e713&recno=73&subject=Regional%20organizations,%20institutions%20and%2
0developments
17. Diane A. Desierto, The Presidential Veil of ‘Administrative Authority’ over
Foreign-Financed Public Contracts in the Philippines, 27 UCLA Pacific Basin
Law
Journal
71
(2009),
at
https://litigationessentials.lexisnexis.com/webcd/app?action=DocumentDisplay&crawlid=1&doct
ype=cite&docid=27+UCLA+PAC.+BASIN+L.J.+71&srctype=smi&srcid=3B15
&key=644dc0ac57f773da730c9acd1ae81af6
18. Diane A. Desierto, Justiciability of Socio-Economic Rights: Comparative Powers,
Roles, and Practices in the Philippines and South Africa, 11 Asia-Pacific Law &
Policy
Journal
114
(2009),
available
at
http://blog.hawaii.edu/aplpj/files/2011/11/APLPJ_11.1_desierto.pdf
19. Diane A. Desierto, A Universalist History of the 1987 Philippine Constitution (II),
11 Historia Constitucional/Electronic Journal of Constitutional History (2010), at
427,
available
at
http://www.seminariomartinezmarina.com/ojs/index.php/historiaconstitucional/art
icle/viewArticle/277
20. Diane A. Desierto, A Universalist History of the 1987 Philippine Constitution (I),
10 Historia Constitucional/Electronic Journal of Constitutional History (2009), at
384,
at
http://www.historiaconstitucional.com/index.php/historiaconstitucional/article/vie
wArticle/236
21. Diane A. Desierto, Restriction and Rhetoric: A Critique of the Constitutional
Prohibition Against Foreign Ownership in Philippine Mass Media, 2 Journal of
Applied
Economy
77
(2010),
available
at
http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1010&context=karl_muth
22. Diane A. Desierto, Postcolonial International Law Discourses on Regional
Developments in South and Southeast Asia, 36 International Journal of Legal
10 Information
3
(2009),
at
387,
available
at
http://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1151&context=ijli
23. Diane A. Desierto, Universalizing Core Human Rights in the ‘New’ ASEAN: A
Reassessment of Culture and Development Justifications against the Global
Rejection of Impunity, 1 Goettingen Journal of International Law 1 (2009) 77-114
at http://www.gojil.eu/
24. Diane A. Desierto, Universalist Constitutionalism in the Philippines: Restricting
Executive Particularism in the Form of Executive Privilege, Verfassung und
Recht in in Übersee/Journal of Law and Politics in Africa, Asia and Latin
America, vol. 42, no.1, 2009, at pp. 80-105.
25. Harry L. Roque and Diane A. Desierto, Redress for Victims of War Crimes: The
Filipino Comfort Women’s Continuing Search for Legal Remedies, 19 Journal of
International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict 3 (2006), pp. 241-249, at
http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/ifhv/documents/huvi/huv_2006/3_2006.pdf
26. Diane A. Desierto, New Surveillance Technologies and Interpretive Nuances in
Contemporary Jus Ad Bellum and Jus in Bello, 3 Asia-Pacific Yearbook of
International Humanitarian Law (2009).
27. Diane A. Desierto, The Contours of Command Responsibility: Philippine
Incorporation and Customary Evolution, 2 Asia-Pacific Yearbook of International
Humanitarian
Law
(2006/2007),
at
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1485557&http://scholar.googl
e.co.uk/scholar?start=10&q=diane+a.+desierto&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5 This article
has been repeatedly cited in the Human Rights Watch Reports (“No Justice Adds
to the Pain: Killings, Disappearances, and Impunity in the Philippines”
http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/philippines0711WebRevised.pdf
and “They Own the People: The Ampatuans, State-Backed Militias, and Killings
in
the
Philippines”
http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/philippines1110.pdf ).
28. Diane A. Desierto, When Equality is NOT Equity: A Comparative Legal and
Economic Perspective for Judicial Review of the Status of Secured Creditors in
Philippine Corporate Rehabilitation Proceedings, 82 Philippine Law Journal 1
(2007),
available
at
http://law.upd.edu.ph/plj/images/files/PLJ%20volume%2082/PLJ%20volume%20
82%20number%202%20-05-%20Diane%20A.%20Desierto%20%20When%20EQUALITY%20is%20not%20Equity...pdf
29. Diane A. Desierto, Ubi Jus Non Remedium: How Insufficient Secondary Rules
Diminish the Coercive Force of International Human Rights’ Primary Rules, 78
Philippine
Law
Journal
3
(2004)
available
at
http://law.upd.edu.ph/plj/images/files/PLJ%20volume%2078/PLJ%20volume%20
78%20number%203%20-03-%20Diane%20A.%20Desierto%20%20How%20Insufficient%20Secondary%20Rules%20Diminish...pdf
11 30. Victor P. Lazatin, Teodoro D. Regala Sr., Diane A. Desierto, Ethical Aspects of
China Walls, 33 Journal of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines 1 (2007)
31. Diane A. Desierto, Internationalizing Philippine Legal Education:
Research, and Advocacy, Ateneo Law Journal 2012
Practice,
32. Diane A. Desierto, Economic Activism: Constitutional Text and the Judicial
Review of Administrative Actions in the Philippines, Ateneo Journal of
International Law, inaugural issue
33. Diane A. Desierto, Growth versus Austerity: Protecting, Respecting, and
Fulfilling International Economic and Social Rights during Economic Crises, 57
Ateneo
Law
Journal
(2012),
available
at
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PUBLIC LECTURES AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
1.
Speaker, Investment Law at the Crossroads of Public and Private International
Law, European Society of International Law Conference, Vienna, Austria,
September 4-6, 2014.
2.
Speaker, Bandung Principles in the Charter-Based ASEAN, IGLP Conference,
Harvard Law School, June 5-6, 2014.
3.
Speaker, Austerity Measures and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,
American Society of International Law, Symposium on Human Rights and
Emergencies, Tillar House, Washington DC, May 16, 2014.
4.
Lecture, Global Crises, Responses, and International Law, Harvard Club
Luncheon, 15 April 2014, Makai Tower, Honolulu.
5.
Lecture, AEC Integration through Philippine Administrative Compliance,
ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) Roundtable, University of the
Philippines School of Economics, 25 March 2014.
6.
Speaker, Investment Implications of the Bangsamoro Agreement and its
Annexes, UP Institute for Maritime Affairs and Law of the Sea (UP-IMLOS)
Symposium on Legal Implications of the New Bangsamoro Waters and Zones
of Cooperation, University of the Philippines, 18 March 2014.
7.
Featured Speaker, Runnymede Lecture Series on International Law, Amsterdam
Centre for International Law, (rescheduled to Fall 2014), Amsterdam, the
Netherlands.
8.
Speaker, Separation of Powers and Postnational Rulemaking in International
Trade and Investment Law, University of Amsterdam Faculty of Law, March
20-21, 2014, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
12 9.
Lecture, ASEAN Integration and Implications for US Geopolitics, University of
Oregon Law School, 24 February 2014.
10. Creating Asia’s Single Market: Legal, Institutional, and Policy Discourses on
ASEAN Integration in 2015, (with Professor David Cohen), Faculty Professional
Development Series, 19 February 2014.
11. Dialogue on Trade, Investment, and Environment with former WTO Member
and Chair Yasuhei Taniguchi, Asia Law Talk, University of Hawaii William S.
Richardson School of Law, 21 February 2014.
12. Featured Speaker, Restoring Separation of Powers and Constitutional
Accountability: Dismantling the Pork Barrel System through the Philippine
Supreme Court, Center for Philippine Studies Spring Colloquium, University of
Hawaii, 5 February 2014.
13. Speaker, Regulatory Freedom and Control in the New ASEAN Investment
Treaties, Fourth Biennial Conference of the Asian Society of International Law,
Panel on International Investment Law in Asia, 14-16 November 2014, India
Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India.
14. Expert Speaker (for the German Foreign Office and the EU External Action
Service), ASEAN-EU High Level Dialogue on Maritime Cooperation, 18-19
November
2014,
Le
Meridien
Hotel,
Jakarta,
Indonesia,
at
http://habibiecenter.or.id/detilurl/en/270/news/ASEANEU.High.Level.Dialogue.on.Maritime.Cooperation
15. Lecture, The US and International Human Rights Law: Contribution,
Engagement, Justification, Lecture for the Graduate Program, University of
Hawaii Richardson School of Law, 31 October 2013.
16. Speaker, Evolutionary Interpretation and Subsequent Practice in Treaty
Application: New Interpretive Communities and Processes in the Optional
Protocol to the ICESCR, Cambridge Conference on International Law
Interpretation, 27 August 2013, United Kingdom.
17. Speaker, Intellectual Property Rights in Chinese BITs, 8th Annual LexisNexis IP
and Arbitration Conference, Sheraton Four Points, Shenzhen, China, 30 May
2013.
18. Main Speaker for Investment and Trade Law Panel, Public Policy Design in
International Trade and Investment Law: Community Expectations and
Functional Decision-Making, 2013 New York Law School Conference on the
New Haven School, 13 April 2013.
19. Speaker/Rapporteur, Sovereign Policy Flexibility for Social Protection:
Managing Uncertainty Risks in International Investment Agreements, 2012
Mauritius
International
Arbitration
Conference,
sponsored
by
ICSID/PCA/LCIA/SCC/ICC, 9-11 December 2012, Mauritius.
13 20. Chair, Transnational Law and Human Rights, 9th International Workshop for
Young Scholars (WISH), 29 November to 1 December, 2012, Peking University
School of Transnational Law, China.
21. Lecture, International Commercial Arbitration and International Investment
Arbitration: Substance, Procedure, Institutions, International Conference on
Alternative Dispute Resolution, November 8-9, 2012, Makati City, Philippines,
also delivered as Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) Lecture at
the ACCRA Law Firm, Philippines, on 1 September 2012.
22. Speaker, Human Rights and Investment during Economic Emergencies:
Conflict of Treaties, Interpretation, Valuation Decisions, International
Investment Law Network session, Global Conference of the Society of
International Economic Law, 12-14 July 2012.
23. Speaker, Formal Treaties, Executive Agreements, and ‘Generally Accepted
Principles of International Law’ in Philippine Constitutional Law and
Jurisprudence, NUS CIL Panel on International Treaty Practices in Southeast
Asia, Asian Law Institute, May 31-June 2, 2012, Singapore.
24. Commentator, Conference on Law and Development in Middle-Income
Countries, University of Chicago Law School, April 20-21, 2012.
25. Lecture, Human Rights and Investment in Economic Emergencies: Conflict of
Treaties, Interpretation, and Valuation Decisions, University of Michigan Law
School, April 9, 2012; also delivered at the University of Chicago Law School,
April 23-24, 2012; and the Investment Law Network Session, Society for
International Economic Law Global Conference, Singapore, July 12-14, 2012.
26. Speaker, Philippine Treaty Practices and Implementation of ASEAN Law, NYU
Jean Monnet Center for International Law, April 4-7, 2012.
27. Lecture, Human Rights, Trade, and Investment Governance in the ASEAN
Charter System, Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS), University of
Michigan 22 March 2012.
28. Lecture, Vinuya and International Human Rights Remedies for Comfort Women,
University of Michigan Law School, course on Law and Development, 7 March
2012.
29. Lecture, Development in International Investment Law, Peking University
School of Transnational Law, 11 February 2012.
30. Panelist/Speaker on the Rule of Law in ASEAN, 2012 Rule of Law Symposium,
Singapore Supreme Court, 14-15 February 2012.
31. Resource person, Workshop on Strengthening ASEAN Human Rights
Mechanisms, American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative, ASEAN
Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights, Bali, Indonesia, 4-5
December 2011.
14 32. Resource person on Law and Religion, Federalism, International Law and Use
of Foreign Sources by Courts, Roundtable on Comparative Constitutional Law
in Asia, University of Chicago Law School and Hong Kong University Law
School, Hong Kong, 17-20 December 2011.
33. Lecture, Salient Provisions of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal
Court, LAWASIA Regional Forum on the Rome Statute of the ICC, 1
December 2011, Hotel Intercontinental Ballroom, Makati City, Philippines.
34. Program Director and Lecturer, Workshop Training Series (Representing States
in International Disputes: Substantive Law and Procedural Rules at the ICJ,
WTO, and ICSID) for all Philippine government lawyers from the Office of the
President, the Office of the Solicitor General, the Department of Justice, the
Department of Foreign Affairs, the Department of Trade and Industry, the
Department of Transportation and Communications. Conducted lectures and
workshops on Identification and Assessment of International Legal Claims: The
Role of Administrative Agency Review, 10 October 2011; Necessity and
National Emergency Clauses in International Investment Law and International
Trade Law, 11 October 2011; Provisional Measures at the International Court
of Justice, 12 October 2011; International Legal Ethics: Conflicts of Interest in
International Arbitration, 14 October 2011.
35. Featured Lecture, For Greater Certainty: Balancing Economic Integration and
Investor Protection in the New ASEAN Investment Agreements, Peking
University School of Transnational Law, China, 26-27 September 2011.
36. Lecture, Victim Protection under International Law, International Committee of
the Red Cross/Crescent (ICRC) Seminar, Philippine National Police Academy,
3 September 2011
37. Lecture, Internationalizing Philippine Legal Education: Practice, Research,
and Advocacy, National Convocation on Legal Education, 5 August 2011,
Philippine Supreme Court and Ateneo Law School, Philippines
38. Lecture, Joint Marine Seismic Undertakings: Pragmatic Solutions or a Sell-out
of Sovereignty?, National Summit on the Kalayaan Island Group (KIG) and the
West Philippine Sea, 1 August 2011, Malcolm Theater, UP College of Law,
Philippines
39. Discussant Presentation, “Approaching BIT Applicability: Treaty Design or
Arbitral Discretion?”, Panel on International Investment Law and Sustainable
Development, Conference on The Interaction of Investment Law with Other
Fields of Public International Law, Grotius Centre for Legal Studies, Leiden
University, 8-9 April 2011
40. Featured Lecturer, “Interim Measures in International Commercial
Arbitration”, 7 July 2009 at the Philippine Dispute Resolution Centre Inc.
(PDRCI) General Membership Meeting, Security Bank Building, Ayala
Avenue, Makati City
15 41. Featured Lecturer, Dispute Resolution Mechanisms in Cross-Border
Transactions, Hongyik University’s and Soomkyung University’s International
Conference on “Globalization and Law”, September 24-26, 2009, Seoul, Korea.
42. Speaker, “Postcolonial International Law Discourses on Regional
Developments in South and Southeast Asia”, paper presented in the Agora
session (A3) of the Asian Society of International Law, 2nd conference,
University of Tokyo, August 1-2, 2009, Tokyo, Japan.
43. Speaker, “South East Asia Under the New ASEAN Charter: Towards a Model
of Regional Coordinative Sovereignty”, International Boundaries Research Unit
(IBRU), Durham University, United Kingdom, 20th Anniversary Conference,
“The State of Sovereignty”, 1-3 April 2009
44. Speaker, “Freedom and Constraint:
Universalism in the Philippine
Constitutional System and the Limits to Executive Particularist Power”,
presented on 12 August 2008 at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative
Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, Germany. Also presented at the
‘Progressive Constitutionalism’ seminar of the Second Annual Graduate Student
Conference of the Toronto Group for the Study of International, Comparative,
and Transnational Law, January 9-11, 2009, University of Toronto, Canada; and
at the ‘Asia, Constitutionalism, and Public Policy’ panel of the ‘Aspiring
Scholars Symposium’, Yale Law School, April 18, 2009
45. Speaker, “ASEAN Charter: Prospects in Formal Integration”, presented during
the 2 June 2008 English-session seminar/meeting at the Max Planck Institute for
Comparative Public Law and International Law
46. Lecture, “International Law Research and Methodology”, Institute of
International Legal Studies (IILS), University of the Philippines, 2009
47. Lecture, “The Presidential Veil of Administrative Authority over ForeignFinanced Public Contracts in the Philippines”, 10 August 2009 at the New
Institutional Economics series of the University of the Philippines School of
Economics
48. Featured Speaker, “Emergency Rule and Charter Change”, televised interview
at “Strictly Politics”, a political news commentary program at ANC News
Channel 27, July 2009
49. Country Representative and Speaker, “Arbitration in the Philippines”, ASEAN
Law Association General Assembly Meeting, Bangkok, Thailand, November
2006
50. Rapporteur, “Cross-Border Disputes and Money Laundering”, ASEAN Law
Association Assembly workshop, Manila, 2005
51. Delegate, Asia-Pacific Dispute Resolution Summit, Singapore, June 2006
16 52. Lecturer, “Enforcement Mechanisms for Individual Human Rights Victims, and
Universal Jurisdiction over Human Rights Violators”, 15 November 2007 at the
“Training on International Humanitarian Law for Mindanao Lawyers”, Grand
Regal Hotel, Davao City, Philippines
53. Featured Speaker/Guest of Honor, “Security Legislation and Judicial Remedies:
An Analysis of the 2007 Human Security Act and the SC Rules on the Writs of
Amparo and Habeas Data”, 15 February 2008 Lyceum Legal Studies Congress,
Lyceum of the Philippines, Intramuros, Manila
54. Lecturer, “Philippine International Environmental Legal Obligations: An
Overview of Conventional and Customary Principles”, Roundtable Discussion
on Environmental Management and the Kyoto Protocol, sponsored by Center
for Integrative and Development Studies (CIDS) and the Institute of
International Legal Studies, University of the Philippines, 20 November 2007
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND PROFICIENCIES
Professional Memberships:
1. Integrated Bar of the Philippines (since 2005)
2. Asian Society of International Law
3. European Society of International Law
4. ASEAN Law Association
5. American Society of International Law
6. Society of International Economic Law
7. Development of International Law in Asia (DILA) Foundation
Litigation Experience:
1. Partner and Regional Consultant, DAPD Law (Desierto Ammuyutan
Purisima & Desierto Law) 2008- present, Ortigas, Metro Manila, Philippines
A full-service law firm established in 2002. The firm provides legal services in
the areas of labor, corporate, tax, banking, intellectual property, civil, criminal,
and administrative law. I engage in appellate litigation on commercial law
(disputes involving intra-corporate controversies, corporate rehabilitations,
insolvency proceedings, banking and securities regulation); public law
(administrative, constitutional, or international law disputes); and arbitration
(international commercial arbitration and domestic arbitration). I issue legal
opinions, usually upon the request of foreign-based businesses and non-profit
entities, on regulatory requirements in the Philippines and ASEAN. Suite
2505, 25th Flr, The Orient Square Building F.Ortigas Jr. Rd., Ortigas Center,
Pasig City Philippines 1605 +6324702974 (telefax); +6324702036
2. Associate, ACCRA Law (Angara Abello Concepcion Regala & Cruz Law)
2005-2007, Makati City, Philippines
Civic/Public Interest Memberships:
1. UP Women in Law
2. Philippine Constitution Association (PHILCONSA)
17 Languages and other proficiencies: English (first language proficiency), Tagalog
(first language proficiency), Cebuano (first language proficiency), Espanol (basic
reading proficiency), Francaise (basic reading proficiency). Also proficient in
applied econometrics, mathematical and statistical programs, and all Mac
OS/PC applications
Other activities: tennis, badminton, table tennis, running, hiking, swimming,
football, history, philosophy, world literature, modern art
REFERENCES
Academic References
Professional References
Professor W. Michael Reisman
Yale Law School
P.O. Box 208215
New Haven, CT 06520
203-432-4962
[email protected]
Professor (former ICJ Judge) Bruno Simma
University of Michigan Law School
437 Hutchins Hall
734 763 3806
[email protected]
Professor Susan Rose-Ackerman
Yale Law School
P.O. Box 208215
New Haven, CT 06520
203-432-4891
[email protected]
H.E. Judge Bernardo Sepulveda-Amor
Office of the Vice-President
International Court of Justice
Peace Palace
Carnegieplein 2
2517 KJ The Hague
Netherlands
+31 70 302 23 23
[email protected]
Professor Lea Brilmayer
Yale Law School
P.O. Box 208215
New Haven, CT 06520
203-432-0194
[email protected]
Professor Joseph H.H. Weiler
New York University Law School
40 Washington Square South, 109
New York, NY 10012
212-992-8912
[email protected]
Professor Guillermo Aguilar-Alvarez
Visiting Lecturer in Law, Yale Law School
Partner, King and Spalding
1185 Avenue of the Americas
10036 New York
212 556 2145
[email protected]
[email protected]
Professor Armin von Bogdandy
Managing Director
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law
and International Law
Im Neueunheimer Feld 535
D-69120, Heidelberg, Germany
+49 6221 482 1
[email protected]
Professor Tom Ginsburg
University of Chicago Law School
1111 East 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637
773 702 9494
217 776 65864
[email protected]
Chairman Teresita J. Herbosa
Securities and Exchange Commission
Republic of the Philippines
+ 63 917 8113736
[email protected]
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