UP LAW FACULTY

Associate Dean and

Assistant Professor

Paolo Emmanuel S. TAMASE

pstamase@up.edu.ph

oad_law.upd@up.edu.ph

EDUCATION

Yale Law School, Master of Laws (2022)

University of the Philippines, Juris Doctor (2016)

University of the Philippines, Bachelor of Science in Business Economics (2012)

PROFILE

Paolo S. Tamase is Associate Dean and an Assistant Professor in the University of the Philippines (U.P.) College of Law.

He obtained his B.S. Business Economics, magna cum laude from the U.P. School of Economics in 2012. He then earned his Juris Doctor, cum laude from the U.P. College of Law in 2016, graduating valedictorian and serving as Chair of the Philippine Law Journal. He obtained his Master of Laws from Yale Law School in 2022, researching on comparative administrative law, comparative constitutional law, contemporary international law, and law and economics.

He was a lecturer in the College of Law from 2018 and until his appointment to the regular faculty in 2023. He has also been a lecturer in the Ateneo de Manila School of Law, teaching a course in Rights-Based Constitutional Review, a lecturer for political law in the U.P. Law Center’s Bar Review Institute, and a guest lecturer in its Paralegal Training Program, Continuing Legal Education Program, and other programs and projects.

Admitted to the Philippine Bar in 2017, he is a former senior associate of Cruz Marcelo & Tenefrancia, where he served in its dispute resolution, arbitration, natural resources, energy, and international trade practice areas.

PUBLICATIONS

Articles and Chapters

Emerging Issues in Impeachment and the Accountability Constitution, 98 Phil. L.J. 442 (2025)

Parrying Amendments: The Philippines’ Multitiered System of Constitutional Change (with Bryan Dennis G. Tiojanco), in Asian Comparative Constitutional Law, Vol. 2: Constitutional Amendments 235-261 (Ngoc Son Bui & Mara Malagodi, eds., 2024)

The Long Shadow of Vinuya in the Time of Artificial Intelligence: Reflections on Ethical Issues in Legal Research, 96 Phil. L.J. 850 (2023)

A Framework for Assessing the Legality of COVID-19 Emergency Measures, 93 (Special Online Feature) Phil. L.J. 198 (2020)

Guilty by Reasonable Doubt and Counterfactual Innocence: Asymmetric Appeals in Philippine Double Jeopardy Law, Note, 90 Phil. L.J. 401 (2016)

Assessing Compliance with Foreign Ownership Restrictions in Narra Nickel (with John Glenn C. Agbayani), Note, 89 Phil. L.J. 297 (2015)

Short Pieces

Dribbling institutions and the Duterte impeachment (with Athena Charanne Presto), East Asia Forum (Sept. 6, 2025), https://doi.org/10.59425/eabc.1757152800.

Impeachment a key weapon in the Philippines’ Marcos–Duterte divide (with Athena Charanne Presto), East Asia Forum (Mar. 10, 2025), https://doi.org/10.59425/eabc.1741644000.

Unconstitutional Moments: The 2024 Attempts to Change the Philippine Constitution, Constitution.net (Apr. 29, 2024), https://constitutionnet.org/news/voices/unconstitutional-moments-2024-attempts-change-philippine-constitution.