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A Question of Academic Freedom in Legal Education

Does LEB encroach on Supreme Court’s power to regulate and supervise the legal profession: a question of academic freedom in legal education: Law class discussion could well be enriched hereon with the recent Supreme Court decision on Oscar Pimentel et al. vs. Salvador Medialdea and the Legal Education Board (LEB). Petitioners in this case questioned the power of the LEB to institute PhilSat, a nationwide uniform law school admission test, for applicants to all law schools. In its decision, the Court upheld the LEB as an institution but “severely constricted” its regulatory powers “by the Court’s sweeping and strong endorsement…

UP Law is in the Finals of the 2020 SEARR

UP LAW FINISHES IN THE FINALS OF THE 2020 STETSON MOOT SOUTHEAST ASIAN REGIONAL ROUNDS The UP Law Stetson Team finished as finalists at the Southeast Asian Regional Rounds (SEARR) of the 24th Stetson International Environmental Moot Court Competition. This is the 8th consecutive year that UP Law has reached the championship rounds in Stetson SEARR. The contingent argued as respondent in the finals against the National University of Singapore. The team will be one of Southeast Asia's representatives in the International Rounds in Florida, USA. Urania Lindo was awarded Best Overall Oralist of the competition, while Beatriz Anna Balbacal…

Global Magnitsky Act: As International Law

Global Magnitsky Act: As International Law Leading human rights advocate and public international law teacher Antonio La Viña elucidates the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act, which sanctions specific violators of human rights, globally. It bans them from entry into the USA along with freezing of their assets. In his column “Eagle Eyes” in the Manila Standard of 30 December 2019, Professor La Viña explains that “human rights atrocities violate jus cogens norms”. He then discusses how the US enacted Magnitsky Act of 2012 is now being implemented through the US 2020 budget by inserting a provision on Senator Leila…

Justice 101

“Not the end but rather the start of another stage in the judicial process” “The long wait is almost over for the families of 58 people killed [in the now infamous Maguindanao massacre] on November 23, 2009,” as media reports it. Not so, offers human rioghts advocate and former Supreme Court spokesperson, Professor Theodore Te. Interviewed on ANC’s program Headstart, a day before the issuance of the decision on the infamous Maguindanao massacre case, Professor Te said that “Thursday’s verdict [was] not the end of the entire case but rather the start of another stage in the judicial process.” He…

The Price of Silence : A Legal Lesson

The Price of Silence : A Legal Lesson Law Professor Jay Batongbacal counseled on the implications of staying silent in international intercourse. He explained that in the face of continuing provocations carried out in Scarborough Shoal by China, lack of action or protest on the part of the Philippines implies that “. . . every time China asserts jurisdiction and ownership of the area it means we have given up” any claim to it. In “The Chiefs” on One News Channel the widely recognized marine law expert expressed this concern, saying “We will not be able to recover Scarborough Shoal…

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The Struggles of Indigenous Peoples in the Philippines

The Struggles of Indigenous Peoples in the Philippines: UP IHR Lawyer Presents Research In Australia Surfacing the plight of Indigenous Peoples, IHR Senior Legal Associate Atty. Raymond Marvic C. Baguilat presented his research entitled, “Persistent and Continuing Struggles: The Status of Indigenous Peoples in the Philippines” in the International Research Forum on the Philippines 2019 that was held at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia on the 11th and 12th of November 2019. In his presentation, Atty. Baguilat discussed the modernity brought about by the shift in the recognition of Indigenous Peoples in the Philippines through the 1987 Constitution and…

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