Perfecto V. Fernandez
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Perfecto V. Fernandez, popularly known as Pecto, or Atty. Fernandez is a Filipino
Filipino people
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 lawyer, professor and writer.

Perfecto V. Fernandez was born on May 31, 1931 in San Fabian, Pangasinan
San Fabian, Pangasinan
San Fabian is a 1st class municipality in the province of Pangasinan, Philippines. According to the latest census, it has a population of 74,005 people in 12,690 households....

 and obtained his law degree in 1957. Thereafter he took the bar, and was the 10th placer in the 1958 bar exams. He was married to the former Albina Peczon in 1959.

He was a law professor, a writer of law books, bar reviewer and lecturer and political commentator in the Philippines
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. Fernandez was an authority on constitutional law
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 and labor law, being part of the Philippine jurisprudence project (UP Law Center) and wrote a number of papers on labor law, constitutional law and libel Law. He was the former chief legal counsel of the University of the Philippines
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, a bar reviewer in UST, UE, FEU and UM.

Media

He appeared in the defunct television series Velez This Week with the late Jose Mari Velez and Debate with Oscar Orbos
Oscar Orbos
Oscar M. Orbos, popularly known as Ka Oca, is a Philippine TV personality and host of GMA Network's Debate with Mare at Pare.Orbos was a former cabinet secretary, provincial governor, and vice presidential candidate...

 and Solita Monsod
Solita Monsod
Solita Collas-Monsod, popularly known as Mareng Winnie, is a Filipino broadcaster, host, economist, professor, and writer.Professor Monsod is best remembered for her role as Socio-economic Planning Secretary during the term of President Corazon Aquino and as a co-host in the GMA Network show Debate...

 as well as a show emceed by Professor Randy David
Randy David
Randolf "Randy" S. David is a Filipino journalist, television host and a sociologist. He currently pens a weekly newspaper column for the Philippine Daily Inquirer...

.

Legacy

Fernandez died in 2000. He is survived by his wife and his children, three of whom are lawyers.

Dean Pacifico Agabin said of him "Prof. Fernandez is not only a deep thinker but he was also a great teacher and a true scholar. And when the history of the College of Law is written a hundred years from now, his will be an august and imperial name in legal history. His studies on custom law, his essays in jurisprudence
Jurisprudence
Jurisprudence is the theory and philosophy of law. Scholars of jurisprudence, or legal theorists , hope to obtain a deeper understanding of the nature of law, of legal reasoning, legal systems and of legal institutions...

, and his lectures in constitutional law will be taken as benchmarks in our legal literature" (Law Monitor: July 2000). Said one of his colleagues: "It was Pepe Fernandez who designed the financial facility that has sustained the UP Law Center throughout its existence. He embodied this in a legislative proposal that was to become the Charter of the UP Law Center."

Books and awards

Fernandez received many awards as UP Law Alumni with professorial chair on jurisprudence
Jurisprudence
Jurisprudence is the theory and philosophy of law. Scholars of jurisprudence, or legal theorists , hope to obtain a deeper understanding of the nature of law, of legal reasoning, legal systems and of legal institutions...

, he is listed as a United Nation's expert and is known as author of law books.
  • Criminal Procedure, Evidence and Law (1981)
  • Welfare and Social Legislation (1976)
  • Labor Standards and Welfare Legislation (with Camilo Quiason)

External links

  • http://berneguerrero.com/node/238
  • http://www.ibp.org.ph/index.php?p=43&sec=&aid=157&lf=60
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