Call for Presentations: Symposium on “Rules for Tomorrow’s Lawyers” The U.P. Law Center Institute for the Administration of Justice invites legal scholars and practitioners to submit presentations for “Rules for Tomorrow’s Lawyers”, a symposium which seeks to inspire discussion on making the Code of Professional Responsibility more adaptable for the future. Proposals for short presentations (15 to 30 minutes) are welcome from March 30 – May 31, 2022. Please submit your proposals through our online form: uplaw.ph/cprforum. The symposium will prioritize proposals for reforms responsive to trends in technology, internationalization, and economic developments. Accepted presentations may further develop their ideas…

UP Gender Law and Policy Program Partners with Legal Education Board, Delivers Gender Sensitivity Training to Law Students Nationwide To be able to provide its gender sensitivity training program to law students across the country, the Gender Law and Policy Program (GLPP) of the University of the Philippines College of Law sought the partnership and cooperation of the Legal Education Board (LEB) as the supervisory and regulatory agency of Philippine legal education. The webinar titled “Gender and Development 101: A Webinar on Gender Sensitivity” centers around gender 101, gender-fair language, gender advocacy, and anti-sexual harassment in work and educational/training institutions.…

Law Aptitude Exam 2022 Pre-Exam Info Bulletin The 2022 LAE Exam File can be downloaded from Examplify starting April 1, 2022 at 9 PM. Please download the exam before the start of the LAE. You will only be allowed to download the exam file once, so make sure that you download the exam file on the same device where you will take the LAE. Once you have downloaded the exam, do not click on “Remove Exam” unless instructed. The 2022 LAE is scheduled on April 3, 2022 at 9 AM. This is a timed and scheduled exam. All examinees are…

UP Gender Law and Policy Program Conducts Gender Sensitivity Training for UP Law Faculty On two separate occasions, on 23 September 2021 and on 17 February 2022, the University of the Philippines College of Law Gender Law and Policy Program (GLPP), with the assistance of the UP Law Information and Publication Division (IPD), conducted two webinars titled “Gender and Development 101: A Webinar on Gender Sensitivity” for the faculty members of the UP College of Law. Aimed towards creating, continuing, and expanding the spaces for dialogue regarding gender-related issues in the academe and the legal profession, the webinars provided participants…

UP Law Complex Women’s Month Commemoration Activities Last 08 March 2022, the UP Law Complex commenced its Women’s Month 2022 celebration with the theme “We Make CHANGE Work for Women: Agenda ng Kababaihan, Tungo sa Kaunlaran.” A fitting start to face-to-face activities in the workplace since the last event of this kind before the pandemic was also the Opening Ceremonies of Women’s Month 2020. Among the activities lined up are the webinars “Making Change Work for Women: Taking Stock of Contemporary Legislation for Women” by the Institute of Human Rights, “Psst… Hatid na kita!: A Webinar on the Role of…

UP GLPP Conducts Gender Sensitivity Training for UP Law Students To help engender a more inclusive environment in law schools and the legal profession as a whole, the Gender Law and Policy Program (GLPP) of the University of the Philippines College of Law has been conducting regular gender sensitivity training sessions for law students, graduates, and faculty members within and outside the university. Following the success of its first Gender and Development webinar last 9 April 2021, the UP GLPP has pushed to widen its reach this academic year and has now conducted six more iterations of the webinar titled…