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.