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Justice Magdangal M. de Leon is a retired Justice of the Court of Appeals. He is also a remedial law professor and bar reviewer at the Ateneo Law School, University of Sto. Tomas, De La Salle University, and six other law schools and review centers. He is the Chairperson of the Philippine Judicial Academy Remedial Law Department as well as the PHILJA Committee on the new Bench book for Philippine Trial Courts. Also, he was a member of the Supreme Court Sub-Committee on the Revision of the Rules on Civil Procedure (2013) and Special Committee for Continuous Trial of Criminal Cases (2017). More recently, he was a member of the Supreme Court Sub-Committee on the Amendments to the 1997 Rules of Civil Procedure (2019), and the Technical Working Group for Judicial Forms, a project of the Supreme Court and the UP Law Center (2019). Presently, he is a member of the new Supreme Court Sub-Committees to revise the rest of the Rules of Civil Procedure as well as the Rules of Special Proceedings.

In the international scene, he was a member of the International Consultants Group, Rules and Principles of Transnational Civil Procedure, sponsored by the American Law Institute. An active Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) lecturer, he has travelled to San Francisco and Los Angeles, California for that purpose. He was a bar examiner for Labor Law in 2016 and Remedial Law in 2009, and is the author of three lawbooks, Appellate Remedies, Special Proceedings, Essentials for Bench and Bar, and Remedial Law Reviewer-Primer.

Among other distinctions, he is a recipient of the 2019 and 2017 Justice Jose Colayco Professorial Chair for Remedial Law; 2016 Metrobank Foundation Professorial Chair for Remedial Law; 2015 Rotary Club of Makati Paseo de Roxas Award for exemplary government service; 2011 and 2007 Court of Appeals Awards of Recognition for outstanding performance; 2008 University of the Philippines Centennial Distinguished Alumnus Award for championing justice and the judiciary; 2008 Ulirang Ama Award for Law and Judiciary; and 2007 Outstanding Jurist Award from the Consumers Union of the Philippines.