Raul Pangalangan, former dean of the University of the Philippines College of Law, was elected as judge of the International Criminal Court (ICC) that prosecutes genocide and war crimes.

Pangalangan, the second Filipino elected to the post after Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago, will serve as judge for the Netherlands-based court for six years or until 2021, an ICC statement said.

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