ALC's Associate Neri Colmenares Awarded Honorary Doctorate
Melbourne Law School has conferred a Doctor of Laws honoris causa on renowned Filipino human-rights lawyer and former political prisoner of the Ferdinand Marcos regime, Neri Javier Colmenares.
Please join us in congratulating Dr Neri Javier Colmenares, a long-standing associate of the Asian Law Centre (ALC), on this important milestone!
Neri is one of the Philippines’ most distinguished human rights lawyers and law reformers, a lifelong advocate for justice, democracy, and the rule of law. A survivor of imprisonment and torture under the Marcos dictatorship, he transformed personal adversity into a career of extraordinary public service and legal innovation - Prof. Tim Lindsey