He is only 18 but he has already earned a law degree in Australia, making him the youngest lawyer in Australian history.<\/p>\n
<\/strong><\/p>\n Jozef Maynard Erece<\/strong>, who immigrated to Australia from New Zealand in 2012, has just been recently awarded a law degree by the University of Southern Queensland (USQ).<\/p>\n While many 18-year-olds are sweating over ATAR results while working at a local fast food outlet, the Australian Scholarships Group hailed Mr Erece as the “the youngest lawyer to graduate at age 18 in the Southern Hemisphere.”<\/p>\n Born and raised in New Zealand in 1996 to Filipino parents, Mr Erece was considered a gifted child.<\/p>\n Only three-years-old, he started reading and by age 11 he was already a high school senior.<\/p>\n Erece graduated Valedictorian at St. Peter\u2019s Catholic School in Cambridge, New Zealand in 2011.<\/p>\n He was invited by the prestigious Stanford University in the United Sates to study under its Institutes\u2019 Program, a special course for gifted youth where they can take university subjects, but he and his family turned it down.<\/p>\n Mr Erece then entered USQ in 2012 for his bachelor’s degree in Law and completed it in just three years.<\/p>\n As for his future plans, Mr Erece said he planned to be admitted to the Bar Association of Queensland and to take further post-graduate studies.<\/p>\n He said he became interested in law in order to have a positive impact on the world.<\/p>\n “I initially sought this degree in law partly due to the versatility that it offers in terms of societal navigation,” the young Erece said.<\/p>\n “Whether through law, commerce, politics, the academia or otherwise, my humanist aspiration to precipitate empirically positive change will remain \u00a0constant.\u00a0 (9news.com.au)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" He is only 18 but he has already earned a law degree in Australia, making him the youngest lawyer in Australian history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}