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Ibarra "Barry" Gutierrez III (born February 2, 1974) is a Filipino legislator, law professor and a public interest and human rights lawyer〔http://issuu.com/nyulaw/docs/2004/132〕 who currently serves in the Philippine House of Representatives. On July 2013, Gutierrez was sworn into office as a representative of Akbayan Partylist to the House of Representatives for the 16th Congress.〔https://akbayan.org.ph/our-representatives/355-barry-gutierrez-abogado-ng-masa-the-booming-voice-of-change〕 He serves as a member of 10 House Committees, namely: Human Rights, Ethics, Local Government, Suffrage and Electoral Reforms, Justice, Health, Women, Government Enterprises and Privatization, Revision of Laws and Housing.〔congress.gov.ph〕 Gutierrez received his undergraduate degree in Economics (cum laude) at the University of the Philippines in 1994 and a Law degree from the UP College of Law in 1998. Upon completion of his law course, Gutierrez worked with SALIGAN in Quezon City, a legal resource NGO doing developmental legal work on women’s health issues, agrarian reform, and with the urban poor, his area of primary interest.〔http://www.saligan.org/〕 This spurred his long-standing involvement and commitment in the human rights advocacy and the urban poor community. In 2001, Gutierrez joined the UP College of Law faculty as an assistant professor, where he taught courses on Human Rights, Criminal Law, Local Governments, Public Officers and Election Law, and Property Law.〔http://law.upd.edu.ph/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=105&Itemid=381〕 Concurrent with his appointment as a member of the full-time faculty, he also held the position of director of the Institute of Human Rights at the UP Law Center. He is the youngest ever to be appointed to the position.〔http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/columns/view/20091210-241245/A-bizarre-Human-Rights-Day?ModPagespeed=off〕 In 2004, Gutierrez obtained his LLM in Public Service Law, specializing in International Law and Economic and Social Rights, from New York University (NYU), where he studied under a joint scholarship grant from the Fulbright Foundation and the NYU Global Public Service Law Project. While studying, he interned with the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights in Washington, D.C., focusing on issues involving economic and social rights. Upon graduation from NYU, Gutierrez was granted a fellowship by the Global Public Service Law Project to pursue housing rights advocacy and litigation in the Philippines. In 2004, he was granted an appointment as a Visiting Fellow of the Asian Law Institute at the National University of Singapore. His research and teaching interests were International Human Rights Law, International Criminal Law, Property and Housing Law, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, Economics of Law.〔https://law.nus.edu.sg/asli/fellows/bio/IM_Gutierrez.html〕 Gutierrez has acted as a technical consultant and adviser on numerous initiatives undertaken by government agencies and legislative offices, principally in relation to human rights concerns. He also served as the chief legal counsel for Akbayan since 2004. In 2011, Gutierrez served as undersecretary in the Office of the Presidential Adviser on Political Affairs (OPA).〔http://www.congress.gov.ph/members/search.php?id=gutierrez-i〕 He resigned a year later after his successful nomination bid within Akbayan, as a nominee for the May 2013 partylist election. ==References== 〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Barry Gutierrez」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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