UP LAW FACULTY

UP LAW FACULTY

Associate Dean
Andre C. PALACIOS

College of Law
5/F UP Bonifacio Global City
Taguig 1634

assocdean_law.upd@up.edu.ph

EDUCATION

University of the Philippines, Bachelor of Secondary Education (1992)

University of the Philippines, Juris Doctor (1998)

University College London, University of London, Master of Laws (Public International Law), with Merit (2006), British Chevening Scholar

PROFILE

Associate Dean Andre C. Palacios, also known as Raj, oversees the University of the Philippines (UP) College of Law and UP Law Center development and extension service programs.

As academic administrator, he also oversees the UP Juris Doctor extension program in UP Visayas, and was previously the Executive Director of the UP Master of Laws program.

Associate Dean Palacios specializes in international law and in public–private partnership (PPP) and infrastructure law. As UP academic, he pioneered legal scholarship on how judges and lawyers may effectively use international law and foreign law in their Philippine cases. His novel teaching methods use “deep learning” through student case-studies presented at the Junior Scholars Symposium on International Law (JSSIL) which he convenes every semester.

As international law specialist, Associate Dean Palacios is a professorial lecturer at the Philippine Judicial Academy. He chairs the respective International Law Committees of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines and the Philippine Bar Association. He was a senior World Bank lawyer in Washington, D.C.; assistant to the Philippine representative to the WTO in Geneva; and member of the Republic of the Philippines legal team in its WTO dispute involving distilled spirits.

As ASEAN law specialist, Associate Dean Palacios is the Executive Director of the ASEAN Law Institute under the ASEAN Law Association. Concurrently, he is the ASEAN Law Program Director of the UP Law Center, and the Project Director of the ASEAN-Japan Comparative Law Study being undertaken by UP with the Japan Federation of Bar Associations.

As infrastructure law specialist, Associate Dean Palacios was the Executive Director (Undersecretary rank) heading the PPP Center of the Philippines. Previously, he was an Assistant Secretary in the Office of the Presidential Legal Counsel, and later the general counsel and chief integrity officer of the Philippine government corporation Millennium Challenge Account-Philippines which implemented a US$434M foreign-funded infrastructure and development program.

He is a partner at LGTON LAW. He serves as legal expert for infrastructure projects funded by the Asian Development Bank and continues to advise Philippine Government agencies and private companies on infrastructure and PPP projects.

PUBLICATIONS

  • Origins and Outcomes: The Philippine Competition Act of 2015, 93 Philippine Law Journal 344 (2020)
  • Competition Policy and Inclusion in the Philippines (monograph co-authored with Raul Fabella and Senen Bacani), University of the Philippines Center for Integrative and Development Studies (2020)

COURSES TAUGHT

Juris Doctor Courses

  • Public International Law
  • Private International Law
  • Supervised Legal Research (on topics in Public International Law, Private International Law, and ASEAN Law)

Master of Laws courses

  • ASEAN Law
  • Infrastructure Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) module (in Government Contracts, Procurement and Public Policy course)
  • Infrastructure contracts module (in Contract Drafting for Cross-Border Business Transactions course)