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Maria Concepcion Sison Noche is a prominent legal educator and practitioner in the Philippines, currently serving as a Professorial Lecturer II and Vice-Chairperson at the Philippine Judicial Academy. She has authored several law books, achieved a 100% Bar exam passing rate during her deanship at UA&P, and has extensive experience in litigation and corporate law. Additionally, she is a staunch advocate for family and life, leading the Alliance for the Family Foundation Philippines, and has received multiple awards for her contributions to law and the Catholic Church.

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Maria Concepcion Sison Noche is a prominent legal educator and practitioner in the Philippines, currently serving as a Professorial Lecturer II and Vice-Chairperson at the Philippine Judicial Academy. She has authored several law books, achieved a 100% Bar exam passing rate during her deanship at UA&P, and has extensive experience in litigation and corporate law. Additionally, she is a staunch advocate for family and life, leading the Alliance for the Family Foundation Philippines, and has received multiple awards for her contributions to law and the Catholic Church.

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PROFILE

MARIA CONCEPCION SISON NOCHE is a Professorial Lecturer II, the Vice-


Chairperson of the Special Areas of Concern Department, and a Member of
the Remedial Law Department, at the Philippine Judicial Academy of the
Supreme Court.

She was a Bar Examiner in Remedial Law in the 2024 Bar examination.

She has taught various Remedial Law subjects at the Institute of Law of the
University of Asia and the Pacific and the Ateneo Law School. She is also a
Bar Reviewer in Remedial Law.

She is likewise an accredited mediator at the Singapore International


Mediation Institute.

An author of law books, one of her works, Civil Procedure Annotated, 2


volumes (2001 edition), which she co-authored with the late Associate Justice
of the Supreme Court Jose Y. Feria, was conferred by the Supreme Court with
the Centenary Book Award for being a "scholarly reference in the field of
law." Her more recent works include Civil Procedure Explained with 2019
Amendments and Up-to-date Jurisprudence (2021 edition) and Provisional
Remedies and Special Civil Actions (A Reviewer-Primer). She continues to
update and has written other law books and articles.

She was the immediate past Dean and Program Director of the Institute of
Law of the University of Asia and the Pacific (UA&P) which she helped
conceptualize and establish. Under her deanship from 2017 - March 2023,
the Institute of Law achieved a consistent 100% passing rate in the Bar
examinations from 2020 until 2022. All the graduates who took the Bar
successfully passed during her term and are now lawyers. For these
achievements, the UA&P Institute of Law was recognized by the Legal
Education Board as a top law school in the country in 2020-2021 and 2022.

She has been in the active practice of law for the past forty (40) years in the
fields of litigation and corporate law. She was a title partner in one of the
first and oldest law firms in the Philippines, Feria Feria Lugtu LaO Noche,
where she held the distinction of being the first woman law partner. She
worked very closely with the late Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Jose
Y. Feria who was also her mentor. At the start of her legal career, she worked
at the Office of the President of the Republic of the Philippines as a
presidential staff legal officer and later, as consultant at the Department of
Finance.

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She obtained her law degree with second honors from the Ateneo Law
School. She took further legal studies and training in international law,
international business transactions, and arbitration and negotiation at the
Harvard Law School and at the Academy of American and International Law
Center, and obtained her Master of Laws degree in Comparative and
International Law from the Southern Methodist University School of Law in
Dallas,Texas. While studying for her Master of Laws degree, she also worked
in Winstead, Sechrest, Minick, one of the biggest law firms then in Dallas,
Texas. For her undergraduate degree, she finished Bachelor of Science in
Biology from the Ateneo de Manila University, a degree that providentially
became an essential tool in her defense of the right to life before the
Supreme Court. She was the class valedictorian in elementary and high
school, the recipient of the Gerry Roxas Leadership Award, and a multi-
awarded orator and public speaker.

She is a staunch advocate for family and life, and has been the president for
the past twelve (12) years of Alliance for the Family Foundation Philippines,
Inc. (ALFI), a multi-sectoral organization that seeks and works to promote
family values and protect life. She was the principal legal counsel for the
petitioners in the landmark case of Imbong and ALFI v. Ochoa and argued
before the Supreme Court en banc in defense of the family, right to life, right
to health, and religious freedom. Under her leadership, ALFI spearheads
projects to promote and preserve family and life and participates in public
consultations and hearings before the Philippine Congress. She is also a
resource speaker before various local and international fora on reproductive
health, bioethics, and related topics.

She was the first woman and the fourth to have been conferred in 2017 by
the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) with its highest
award—the Bishop Jorge Barlin Golden Cross Award—for “genuine and
outstanding service” to the Catholic Church. She was also a recipient of the
Special Alumni Recognition Award given by the Ateneo de Manila Law Alumni
Association, Inc. in 2017, and the Outstanding Taaleno in the field of Law
award given by the Bayan Kong Taal Association in 2014.

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