About Pedro Yap
Pedro López Yap (July 1, 1918 – November 20, 2003) was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines in 1988. He briefly served for two and a half months from April 19, 1988, to June 30, 1988, the shortest in history until Chief Justice Teresita de Castro surpassed that record. He worked in the notable Salonga, Ordoñez, Yap & Associates Law Offices, named after Jovito Salonga and Justice Secretary Sedfrey Ordoñez. He served as a delegate to the 1971 Constitutional Convention, where he proposed the inclusion of an Article on Socio-economic Rights. On February 14, 1976, his 24-year-old son Manny was taken by military authorities in Quezon City during martial law and disappeared. Yap also taught law at the University of San Carlos in Cebu from 1949 until 1985 and became one of its trustees.
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