Subido Pagente Certeza Mendoza & Binay (SPCMB Law Offices)

PROF.  RUBEN  F.  BALANE  holds  a  Bachelor  of  Arts  degree  from  the  Ateneo  de  Manila University and a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of the Philippines  College of Law, graduating cum laude and Salutatorian in 1966. He placed 2nd in the 1966  Philippine Bar Examinations.

Prof. Balane is a Professor of Law at the Ateneo de Manila University School of Law  and the U.P. College of Law, where he holds professorial chairs in both institutions, i.e., the  Justice J.B.L. Reyes Professorial Chair in Civil Law at the U.P. College of Law from 1977 to  1984,  the  Chief  Justice  Ramon  Avanceña  Chair  in  Civil  Law  at  the  Ateneo  de  Manila  University School of Law from 1999 to 2003, and the Justice J.B.L. Reyes Professorial Chair in  Civil Law at the Ateneo de Manila University School of Law from 2003 up to the present. He  is also a Member of the Corps of Professors, Department of Civil Law, serving as its Chair, at  the Philippine Judicial Academy. He is likewise a lecturer at the U.P. Law Center, the Center  for Continuing Legal Education and Research of the Ateneo Law School, and various other  providers  of  the  Mandatory  Continuing  Legal  Education  (MCLE).  He  also  serves  as  a  Member  of  the  Board  of  Editorial  Consultants,  Journal  of  the  Integrated  Bar  of  the  Philippines.

Prof. Balane was an Examiner in Civil Law during the 1986 Bar Examinations. He was  also  a  Member  and  Coordinator  of  the  Civil  Code  Revision  Project,  University  of  the  Philippines Law Center as well as the Faculty Editor of the Philippine Law Journal from 1973- 1976.

Prof.  Balane  is  the  author  of  Jottings  and  Jurisprudence  in  Civil  Law:  Succession,  (1998, Rev. Ed. 2002), which was a recipient of the Centenary Book Awards of the Supreme  Court  of  the  Philippines  in  June  2001,  and  Jottings  and  Jurisprudence  in  Civil  Law:  Obligations and Contracts (2018), published by Central Professional Books. He also edited  J.B.L.: Ipse Loquitur: A Collection of Essays and Lectures by Justice Jose B.L. Reyes. Prof.  Balane speaks English, Tagalog, Bicolano, Spanish, French, Italian, German and Latin.

In 2011, Prof. Balane joined SPCMB as of Counsel.

English, Tagalog, Bicolano, Spanish, French, Italian, German and Latin