Back in 2010, then-professor Marvic Leonen was the Dean of the University of the Philippines College of Law when its faculty got embroiled in a controversy over an allegation of plagiarism in the Supreme Court. Several lawyers had discovered that the decision penned by Justice Mariano del Castillo on the case of some 70 Filipino comfort women—repeatedly raped by the Japanese forces during the Second World War—known as Vinuya et al v Executive Secretary et al contained at least 83 plagiarized parts.
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