LAE Announcement: Availability of Pre-LAE Test Following the extended period for verification and payment, the Pre-LAE Text (known last year as the Prep Course) will be open from March 24 to 28, 2021. Your Pre-LAE Text result, along with other information submitted in your application (including the GWA) will be considered in determining your eligibility to take the LAE. Login credentials to the Pre-LAE will be sent via email (to the address provided in the application) within 2-3 days of verification of your payment.  

AN URGENT APPEAL TO THE SUPREME COURT TO PROTECT ITS LAWYERS, STOP IMPUNITY, AND UPHOLD THE RULE OF LAW WE, the undersigned lawyers[1] and officers of the Court, earnestly and urgently call the attention of the Court to the deeply disturbing action widely reported in the media that the Philippine National Police has asked trial courts to compile a list of “lawyers who represents [sic] Communist Terrorist Group (CTG) personalities.” Inquiries with other lawyers and court officials across the country by curious and concerned lawyers confirmed that similar letters were received by them. That the top leadership has subsequently denied…

Fr. Joaquin Bernas S.J, eminent Constitutionalist, passes away at 88 Father Joaquin G. Bernas S.J., one of the framers of the 1987 Constitution and Dean Emeritus of the Ateneo Law School, passed away March 6. He was 88. Ateneo Law School Dean Jose Maria Hofileña confirmed the eminent Constitutionalist’s death in a memo released early this morning. “This morning brought very sad news of the passing of Fr. Joaquin G. Bernas, S.J., Dean Emeritus of the Ateneo de Manila University School of Law,” said UP College of Law Dean Edgardo Carlo L. Vistan II. “The College of Law community joins…

UP Law Wins 2021 Jessup Moot Court National Championship The UP Law Jessup team, led by Team Captain Julia Inez Blando (III-E) with members Camille Angela Cruz (IV-C), Peter Joshua Ortega (III-E), Andrea Jasmine Yu (III-E), and Rissa Nicole Lumba (II-C), brought home the championship in the 2021 DivinaLaw Philippine National Rounds of the Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court Competition conducted from February 22 to 26, 2021 via Zoom. This championship marked the 4th consecutive win of UP Law in the national rounds. Aside from the championship, the team received special awards for their written submissions and oralists. The…