Joan J Sarausos-Largo

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JOAN J.

SARAUSOS- LARGO
Suite 802, Ayala Life- FGU Center
Cebu Business Park, 6000 Cebu City
Tel. No. (063)(32) 238-7232

Ms. Largo is a graduate of Bachelor of Arts Major in Political


Science under full State scholarship andas Class Valedictorian
and Magna Cum Laude of Batch 1995 from University of San
Carlos (USC), Asias oldest educational institution in the heart of
Central Philippines. During her college days, she was
awardedBest Debater and Best Speaker in various debates in
and out of Cebu City. She was likewise named one of the
Outstanding Graduates of the said university and the Most
Outstanding Political Science Major in 1995. After college, Ms.
Largo took up her law studiesin the same university under full
scholarship from R. H. Goipeng Foundation. While a law
student, she worked full-time as legal researcher of Florido &
Associates Law Offices (later renamed Florido & Largo Law
Office). She graduated Cum Laude and Valedictorian of her Law
Class in 1999. She passed the Bar Examinations given in the
same yearwith a general weighted average grade of 84.95%
where the national passing percentage was only sixteen (16%),
the lowest in the history of Bar Examinations. At age 28, she
was appointed Assistant to the Dean of her Alma Maters
College of Law. In 2006, she was sent to Sweden as an
exchange professor at the Department of Law of Stockholm
University where she lectured on Powers and Structure of
Philippine Government.In May, 2007, Ms. Largo obtained her
second Master of Laws degree from San Beda College Graduate
School of Law, and graduated Cum Laude. For the said course,
she wrote her first law book, Laws and Jurisprudence on Torts and
Damages, now published by Rex Bookstore, Inc. In October
2007, she obtained training at Georgetown Law Center in
Washington, DC with her attendance at its Academy of WTO
Law and Policy. She is currently pursuing her Doctor of the Science
of Jurisprudence (SJD) degree. In June 2008, Ms. Largo joined the
U.S. Department of State- sponsored training on Civic
Participation in Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois.

In June 2012, she was named the 8th Dean of USC College of
Law, now known as USC School of Law and Governance.

Aside from her work in the academe both as administrator and


professor of Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Election
Law and Torts and Damages, Ms. Largo is also actively engaged
in trial and appellate practice with Florido & Largo Law Office
(formerly, Florido & Associates Law Offices), a 75-year- old law
firmbased in Cebu City. At the law office, Ms. Largo serves as
name partner, actively handling litigation but with special
interest in Public Interest cases.

Ms. Largo was born on November 24, 1974 to a public school


teacher and a farmer in Hinatuan, Surigao del Sur. She is
happily married to Atty. Daryl Bretch M. Largo. They have an
eight-year-old daughter, Marie Adrienne.

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