UP Law Professors Elizabeth Aguiling-Pangalangan and Michael Tiu, Jr spoke at the 2022 HCCH Asia Pacific Conference UP IHR Director Professor Elizabeth Aguiling-Pangalangan and Assistant Professor Michael Tiu, Jr. served as session chairpersons at the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH) Asia Pacific Week held on 18-20 October 2022. The three-day event was an international meeting where private international law practitioners, academics, and scholars had the opportunity to exchange views on and share best practices in the implementation of key HCCH conventions. This year’s forum centered on the theme “Enabling Cross-border Cooperation in the Region and Beyond” and was…

Announcement: Applications for Young Leaders’ Program 2023 will be accepted until 04 November 2022, 12:00 noon. The UP College of Law, in cooperation with the Embassy of Japan, is now accepting applications for the 2023 Young Leaders’ Program. Interested applicants are required to submit the following documents (both hard and soft copies) for screening: Application for Admission (prescribed form) Official Transcript or Certified Academic Record of the university the applicant attended Recommendation Letter from the Recommending authority Two Recommendation Letters from the Employer or from the supervising Professor of the university the applicant last attended (prescribed form) Certificate of Health…

UP Law WEP wraps up first training series on labor standards The Workers and Employees Program (WEP) of the University of the Philippines College of Law/Law Center ended on 8 October 2022, its first five Saturday training series on Workers’ Rights and Benefits Under Labor Standards Laws through a six-hour session of benefits, with the topic WELFARE LEGISLATION OR SPECIAL LAWS (versus the general law: the Labor Code). A total of 55 workers and employees from labor organizations, associations, and unions, unaffiliated workers and employees, paralegals, law and labor and industrial relations students, and others participated virtually in the first…

To Give Back to Essential Frontliners, WEP Proposes Magna Carta of Health Workers Bill The University of the Philippines College of Law/Law Center Workers and Employees Program (WEP) conducted a series of roundtable discussions (RTDs) on select Saturdays via Zoom, to present and improve the WEP Magna Carta of Health Workers (MCHW) bill with health workers, their organizations, associations, and unions, other labor organizations, labor law practitioners and academics. WEP Program Director Patricia R.P. Salvador Daway emphasized, “We need a comprehensive law that will address the concerns of both public and private health workers. The services they provide us all…