MANUEL ABUYO RODRIGUEZ II

MANUEL RODRIGUEZ II

MANUEL ABUYO RODRIGUEZ II  (b. 13 July 1988) is currently a law student at the Institute of Law of the Far Eastern University (FEU). He is also a faculty member at the Lyceum of the Philippines University, College of Arts and Sciences (LPU).

Born and raised as an only child in the City of Manila. His father is the late Manuel P. Rodriguez, a movie writer, actor, and director and was a part of the electoral college of the Film Academy of the Philippines (FAP) and his mother is Helionida Abuyo-Rodriguez who was an accountant and is currently working fulltime in Christian ministry as a Bible discipler and a Church Elder at the Cosmopolitan Church in Manila.

Rodriguez obtained his Bachelor of Arts (AB) in Legal Management in 2009 at the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas (UST), Faculty of Arts and Letters.

As a college student, Rodriguez excelled in both academic and extra-curricular activities; he was the Internal Vice President of the Community Achievers Association, Faculty of Arts and Letters (2006-2007), UST Arts and Letters Student Council Public Relations Officer (2007-2008), Internal Vice President of UST UNESCO (2008-2009), and the Chairperson of the Students' Democratic Party (2008-2009), the oldest "student" political party in the Philippines. He too was a football varsity standout.

Outside the University, he also held the position of Treasurer (2004-2005), and Secretary (2005-2006) of the Youth Coordinating Council (YCC) and Vice President (2005-2006) of the English Congregation of the Christian Youth Fellowship (CYF) and Treasurer of the Christian Young Adults Fellowship (CYAF).

Upon entry as law school neophyte at UST Law, he was appointed as the Internal Vice President of the Batas Tomasino and the Auditor of the UST Chapter of the Legal Network for Truthful Elections (LENTE) where he also served as its President (1st Sem, 10-11) in a semester prior to his transfer to FEU.

At age 21, he was admitted to be a faculty member of the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) of the Lyceum of the Philippines University.

In FEU Law, he currently serves as a member of the editorial board of the prestigious Far Eastern Law Review (FELR) and the Chairperson for Litigation of the Legal Aid Bureau (LAB). He also helped found a political party, the Sulong Party.

He is currently living with family relatives at Pandacan, Manila.