About Mickey

Ignatius Michael “Mickey” Ingles

A student-athlete-turned-lawyer-and-novelist.

He splits his time between working in the Law Firm of Ingles Laurel & Calderon where he practices taxation, corporate, and sports law, teaching as a full-time professor at the Ateneo de Manila University School of Law, where he teaches Constitutional Law, Taxation Law, Emerging Issues in Sports Law, and Robots, Artificial Intelligence, and the Law, and writing stories based in Alinam. 

Mickey is the author of Laws for Sports and the Sporty, the definitive guide on Philippine sports law. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of Batas Sportiva, the first and only law blog dedicated to Philippine sports law, and sits as the only Filipino member of the LawInSport Editorial Board. He also writes for Spin.ph and Rappler.com. As the author of the Philippine chapter on sports law in the International Encyclopedia of Laws, he is considered an internationally renowned expert in sports law.

Mickey also authored Tax Made Less Taxing, a best-selling textbook on Philippine taxation. He has also written various law journal articles on sports law, the law of religion, the law of robots, and the constitutional aspects of student social media use, which have been published both in the Philippines and the United States. 

He graduated salutatorian from the Ateneo Law School in 2012, where he was also given the St. Thomas More Award for Most Distinguished Graduate. He ranked first in the 2012 Philippine Bar Exams. He obtained his LL.M. from the Georgetown University Law Center in 2016. He is a licensed attorney in the Philippines and the State of New York.

When not busy lawyering and writing, Mickey can be found in the soccer field.  He was the starting right winger of the Ateneo Men’s Football team that won a record three straight University Athletics Association of the Philippines (UAAP) championships. He was the team captain and was named 2006 UAAP Athlete-Scholar of the Year. 

He is a proud member of the BTS ARMY, absolutely adores IU, and considers Michael Jordan and Tom Brady as his heroes.

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