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Legal education in the Philippines is developed and offered by Philippine law schools, supervised by the Legal Education Board.Previously, the Commission on Higher Education supervises the legal education in the Philippines but was replaced by the Legal Education Board since 1993 after the enactment of Republic Act No. 7662 or the Legal Education Reform Act of 1993.
It was likewise the country's top performing law school, with a passing rate of 89.73%, in the 2015 bar exams. [26] Since 2019, UP Law is ranked 251-300 in the QS World University Rankings among all law schools in the world. [27] It is the sole Philippine law school in the list.
Social justice is justice in relation to the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society where individuals' rights are recognized and protected. [1] [2] In Western and Asian cultures, the concept of social justice has often referred to the process of ensuring that individuals fulfill their societal roles and receive their due from society.
The history of the journal is intertwined with the modern history of the Philippine legal system. Founded in the earlier part of the American Occupation, only three years after the University of the Philippines College of Law’s establishment in 1911, the journal served as a platform for the country's first legal scholars and luminaries to discuss highly contentious issues which would later ...
UP SOLAIR traces its origins from the Labor Education Center (LEC) which was established in 1954, to promote social justice and labor empowerment through education, research and labor empowerment. It started as a project of the UP School of Business Administration, through its Dean Jose Valmonte in 1953 in response to the new era of collective ...
These organizations help law students cope with the rigors of the legal studies and lighten the already high-pressure law school environment by getting involved in activities of their interests. They also engage in different social programs such as free legal assistance to the indigent members of adjacent barangays, gift-giving to street kids ...
Social power illustrates the exclusion of Lumad people from political decisions, which in turn, perpetuates existing human rights issues. [20] Power in this case is an umbrella term since social power is the real desire in order to pursue true control over livelihoods and the rules that govern them.
Irene Rian Cortes (October 20, 1921 – October 28, 1996) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines and a law academic.She was also the first female dean of the University of the Philippines College of Law.