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Asst. Prof. Tiu serves as resource person on Business and Human Rights

Asst. Prof. Tiu serves as resource person on Business and Human Rights As part of the Commission on Human Rights Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ESCR) Center’s training of stakeholders on business and human rights, Assistant Professor Michael T. Tiu, Jr. served as resource person and delivered a presentation on the role of the State in the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGP) Framework. Prof. Tiu discussed the state’s duty to protect human rights as one of the three pillars of the UNGP, and elaborated on the foundational and operational principles that stress the State’s duties…

UP Law Hosts CALESA Project

UP Law Hosts CALESA Project The UP College of Law hosted the Sixth Spanish-Filipino Congress in Malcolm Hall, June 10-11, 2022. With the theme of “Modernizing Criminal Law and Private Law,” delegates from the University of Malaga, Spain, and from local Universities gathered to share their discourse on the subject. The Congress was an activity of the CALESA (Capacity building for Legal and Social Advancement) Project of the European Commission, coordinated by the University of Malaga with other international partner institutions in higher education. In the Philippines, this cooperation focuses on the development of law and legal education and the…

Geneva-based NGO taps UP IHR Director Prof Aguiling-Pangalangan

Geneva-based NGO taps UP IHR Director Professor Elizabeth Aguiling-Pangalangan as Expert UP IHR Director Professor Elizabeth Aguiling-Pangalangan’s contribution on the rights of children to have an identity earned recognition from Child Identity Protection (CHIP), a Geneva-based International Non-Governmental Organization (INGO). Professor Aguiling-Pangalangan’s work was cited by CHIP in its 2022 signature publication entitled “Preserving ‘family relations’: an essential feature of the child's right to identity”. The said publication argues for the recognition of the right of the child to identity as a stand-alone right. It frames identity rights as the right to be registered at birth, have proof of one’s registration, have…

Labor Code Revision Project Culminating Activity

Labor Code Revision Project Culminating Activity Last June 21, 2022, the Labor Code Revision Project, chaired by Prof. Patricia R.P. Salvador Daway in partnership with the UP Institute of Government and Law Reform (UP IGLR), culminated in the formal presentation of the proposed Revised Labor Code of the Philippines, to the UP College of Law Dean Edgardo Carlo L. Vistan II. Dean Vistan commended the completion of the project. He saluted the members of the committee who toiled hours for the past several years. Hon. Rufus B. Rodriguez of the House of Representatives also attended the event and shared his…

Qualified for Admission for Academic Year 2022-2023

Final List Qualified for Admission for Academic Year 2022-2023 The Admissions Committee of the UP College of Law is pleased to announce that a total of 402 applicants have qualified for admission to the College’s Juris Doctor program in Diliman, BGC and Iloilo for the Academic Year 2022-2023. Please be advised that the Admissions Committee will not entertain any request for reconsideration for admission. Click here to download the list.

DTI Acknowledges Crucial Support from the U.P. Law Center

The Philippines Accedes to the UNECC; DTI Acknowledges Crucial Support from the U.P. Law Center Cross-border electronic communications and contracts involving Philippine parties are now subject to the United Nations Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts (UNECC), following the adoption in June 2022 by President Rodrigo Duterte of the instrument of ratification for the Convention, which the Philippines had originally signed in September 2007. The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), led by Secretary Ramon Lopez had spearheaded the efforts towards the country’s accession to the Convention. The UNECC facilitates the use of electronic communications in…

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