UP IHR co-organizes human rights conference The University of the Philippines Institute of Human Rights (UP IHR) co-organized on 6 September 2018, “HUMAN RIGHTS: Contemporaneous Strategies and Future Pathways International Academic Conference on Human Rights Accountability” at the Seda Vertis North Hotel, Quezon City. The conference, co-organized by the UP IHR, Commission on Human Rights (CHR) and Center for International Law (CENTERLAW), aimed to advance the discourse on human rights in the country by presenting different avenues, mechanisms, and approaches to address large-scale human rights violations. Senior academics, practitioners, and experts in the fields of rule of law, international human…

Weather stations on military bases also serve the purpose of the military base Maritime Law scholar Dr. Jay Batongbacal who is Director of UP Law Center’s IMLOS, expressed concern over China’s installation of weather observation stations in the Spratleys. Reacting to a report in the South China Morning Post, Professor Batongbacal told the Philippine Daily Inquirer when interviewed, that the government should “question” this development considering that it has taken place in the territorial waters of the West Philippine Sea (as ruled upon by the Court of Arbitration in The Hague). Link to the full report : https://www.pressreader.com/philippines/philippine-daily-inquirer/20181106/281543701935237  

The footprint of Mrs. S in UP Law annals At an intimate gathering in the Ambion Room on Friday, 26 October 2018, UP Law alumni and faculty paid tribute to Mrs. Celia Sebastian – of ‘Mommy’ fame.  Atty. Arnel Cassanova and Professor Gaby Concepcion delivered remarks on behalf of the two constituencies. Mrs. S. belongs in the annals of the UP College of Law, through her canteen where lawyers-in-the-making have dined over the years. The tribute gave recognition to her for running an enterprise where the bottom line was never profit but Service to the iskolar ng bayan. For oral…

A call on Law Faculty to help generate a better informed public In a media conversation moderated by Maritess Vitug on the topic “Inside the Supreme Court,” with Professor Teodoro Te and  reporter Lian Buan, Justice Leonen called on legal academics to “assist the public in the interpretation of certain decisions.”  A good part of the exchange dealt with how the public needs to understand the workings of the SC and how the Court arrives at its decisions. Justice Leonen advocated that it is the role of law academia to “explain the decision” in a manner that imbues public understanding…

UP Law Complex, UP OUTLaws partner for Forum on Gender Discrimination and SOGIE Equality Bill The UP Law Complex Gender and Development Committee, UP OUTLaws, with the UP Diliman Gender Office cordially invites the public to  the "Forum on So G! The SOGIE Equality Bill and Gender Discrimination in the Philippines." The event will be held on October 25, 2018, at the Malcolm Theater, UP College of Law, from 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM. The forum coincides with the UP Diliman Pride Month 2018, themed "Pride is a Protest: UP Para sa Paninindigan, Pagkakaisa at Pagkakapantay-pantay."  

Dean Agabin, Prof. Hilbay: Effect of voiding amnesty on the rule of law Legal lesson 2: Effect of voiding amnesty on the  rule of law and teaching of the Constitution Heavyweights in  Constitutional Law, Dean Pacifico Agabin and Professor Florin Hilbay, express alarm with the reasoning of a Makati Trial Court judge in upholding Presidential Proclamation 572. The proclamation voids an amnesty granted seven years ago to Senator Antonio Trillanes. In an in-depth interview on ANC’s Early Edition program, Dr. Agabin explains in clear terms the object of amnesty, the principle of res judicata, the need to “first thresh out” if the proclamation was…