Ric Bastasa

Ric S. Bastasa (born in 1961) is a Filipino, serving as judge in the Philippine Judiciary for 25 years already. He finished his BS Chemistry degree in Ateneo de Davao in 1981, then his law degree in 1987. He also took philosophy in Ateneo de Manila as a Jesuit Pre-novice, but he left after one year, to serve as a science teacher in his town for a while, while studying for his law degree. He is also a law professor teaching political and constitutional law. He writes poems as a form of a hobby. He lives in a peaceful town along the Zamboanga Peninsula in the Island of MIndanao.