Elizabeth Aguiling-Pangalangan

Professor, University of the Philippines, Philippines

Elizabeth Aguiling-Pangalangan is a professor at the University of the Philippines College of Law and serves as director of its Institute of Human Rights. She is the Philippine representative for children’s rights for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Women and Children. She earned her undergraduate and law degrees from the University of the Philippines and her LLM from Harvard Law School, where she was appointed as visiting scholar and, later, as a research fellow. She attended The Hague Academy of International Law and subsequently lectured in its extension program. Professor Aguiling-Pangalangan drafted the Philippine State Periodic Report to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child as well as the Senate and House Bills on Domestic Adoption Act. In addition, she was a consultant to the Department of Social Welfare and Development to assess all alternative childcare programs in the Philippines. Her work contributed to the passage of a new law on domestic administrative adoption and the Alternative Child Care Act of 2022. Professor Aguiling-Pangalangan is a member of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH) working group on parentage and has been Philippine expert to various other HCCH fora. She has authored several books and contributed chapters on family law, private international law, and children’s rights to various publications.