TY  - ADVS
TI  - Rafael del Pan
KW  - Men and women in law and jurisprudence
KW  - 1915
KW  - codification of laws
KW  - correctional system
KW  - criminologists
KW  - excelsior
KW  - friar estate titles
KW  - government examiners
KW  - jurist
KW  - lawyers
KW  - penal system
KW  - penologidt
N1  - Del Pan, the first Filipino criminologist, was the government examiner of friar estate titles and a member of the committee for the codification of laws in 1909. Photoengraving of lawyer and first Philippine criminologist. First Filipino criminologist, educated the Universidad Central del Madrid where he received his doctorate''s degree in civil law, he returned to the country in 1887 and served as justice of the peace and the solicitor-general . He returned to Spain in 1897 when he was suspected of subversion and threatened with imprisonment, and there headed the Comite Filipino  de Madrid, campaigning for political reforms. He is distinguished as the sole author of the Correctional (Criminal) Code, which he had written when he was a member of the Code Committee which compiled and codified the penal laws of the country. He was likewise a moving spirit in the establishment of the Colegio de Abogados. Born in Intramuros, Manila on June 17, 1863, he died of cancer on May 12, 1915; With prints
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