6-Peat Champions: UP Law Secures its 6th Consecutive Championship at the Jessup Competition National Rounds The University of the Philippines College of Law won its 6th consecutive championship at the Philippine National Rounds of the 2023 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition. UP Law has held the national title since 2018. By unanimous decision, this year’s team bested the contingent from the University of San Carlos in the championship round judged by legal luminaries led by Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio T. Carpio (ret.). The Jessup is the world's largest moot court competition, with participants from roughly…

UP Institute of Human Rights held Women's Day Forum on gender-based violence in the post-pandemic digital age. On 6 March 2023, the University of the Philippines Institute of Human Rights (UP IHR) organized a forum entitled “The Post-Pandemic State of Women’s Rights in the Philippines”. The event was in celebration of International Women’s Day and National Women’s Month. Dean Edgardo Carlo Vistan II delivered the welcome remarks. He underscored the importance of women’s month as an opportune time to take stock of the state of women’s rights in the new normal. Meanwhile, in her opening speech, UP IHR Director Professor…

The Workers and Employees Program (WEP) of the University of the Philippines College of Law/Law Center conducted a virtual round table discussion (RTD) on Freedom of Association (FOA) on 18 February 2023. This marks the tenth (10th) RTD of WEP since it was established in June 2021. WEP Program Director Patricia R.P. Salvador Daway opened the RTD. She expressed WEP’s hope that this 10th RTD be a venue for workers and employees to ventilate their most urgent and serious concerns on FOA which effectively prevent them from fully enjoying their right to self-organization. She highlighted that the FOA is a…

LAE 2023 ANNOUNCEMENT re; Extension of Deadline for submission of applications. In order to accommodate applicants who are experiencing difficulties and delays in securing their documentary requirements, the deadline for application to the LAE is extended to Friday, 24 February 2023. Applicants need to register in the LAE portal on or before this date. The deadline for submission of academic records and other requirements for LAE applicants is extended to Friday, 3 March 2023. #UPCollegeofLaw #UPLaw #UPLAE2023  

The Post-Pandemic State of Women's Rights in the Philippines In celebration of International Women's Month, the UP Institute of Human Rights (UP IHR) will be hosting an in-person forum entitled “The Post-Pandemic State of Women’s Rights in the Philippines” to be held on 06 March 2023, from 9:00 a.m. until 12 noon, at the 1st Floor Lecture Hall, UP Law Center, UP Diliman, Quezon City. Join us in bringing attention to the challenges that women faced during the COVID-19 pandemic and the existing legal tools to combat them. The UP IHR sees the approval of House Bill No. 8655 in…

Philippine Law Journal inducts Volume 96 Editorial Board The new set of Philippine Law Journal (PLJ) editors formally assumed office on February 4, and took their oath in an Induction and Turnover ceremony at the Malcolm Theater in the UP College of Law. Notable guests and former PLJ alumni who attended the ceremony included former Supreme Court Associate Justice Vicente V. Mendoza and former Supreme Court Associate Justice Francis H. Jardeleza, who also delivered the keynote address. UP College of Law Dean Edgardo Carlo Vistan II, in his opening remarks, emphasized the challenging work of the PLJ Editorial Board to…