Ateneo de Manila University Law School

The Ateneo de Manila University Law School (often referred to as Ateneo Law School) is the law school of the Ateneo de Manila University, a private Jesuit university in the Philippines. It was founded in 1936, in the Padre Faura St., Ermita, Manila campus of the Ateneo, where it remained even after the college, graduate school, and basic education units moved to Loyola Heights, Quezon City in the 1950s. In 1977, it moved to Salcedo Village in Makati, and in 1998, transferred to its present location in Makati's Rockwell Center. Its current Dean is alumnus Sedfrey Candelaria who succeeded Cesar L. Villanueva. Its patron saint is Thomas More.