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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.
The College of Law of the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila (PLM) in Manila, Philippines is one of the two Professional schools of the University. [1] Its current dean is Ernesto P. Maceda Jr., former Vice Mayor and City Councilor of Manila. It is located in Gusaling Katipunan.
In 1989, the college followed a revised model law curriculum adopted by the Philippine Department of Education. The program composed of 51 subjects (124 academic units) which took effect in 1990. It offered additional non-bar subjects such as legal profession, legal ethics, legal counselling, legal research, and legal writing. [13]
The college has the following programs: [4] Juris Doctor (J.D.) - a standard four-year law degree program covering all subjects in the Philippine Bar Examinations.; Bar Refresher Course (two semesters) - a special review program for law graduates in preparation for the annual Bar Examinations.
Known as Facultad de Derecho Civil, the University of Santo Tomas Faculty of Civil Law is the oldest lay college in the University as well in the Philippines. [1] It was established on September 2, 1734, the same year that the Faculty of Canon Law was founded, with a curriculum identical to that adopted during the time in leading universities in Europe.
On November 1, 1947, eighteen professors and Six co-founders included Assoc. Justice Jose Benedicto "JBL" L. Reyes, Sen. Lorenzo M. Tanada Sr., Dr. Leoncio B. Monzon, Justice Arsenio P. Dizon from the school where Dr. Monzon served first president and as Dean joined him in an old MLQ School of Law Building at the corner of Mendiola and Legarda Streets to begin training 643 students for the law ...
Prior to the creation of the Board, the legal education in the Philippines was largely left unsupervised. However, on December 23, 1993, Republic Act No. 7662, or the Legal Education Reform Act of 1993 through the authorship of Senator Edgardo Angara, was created into law.
The first law school in the Philippines is the Faculty of Civil Law of the University of Santo Tomas which was founded in 1734.. As of 2007, there are 89 law schools legitimately operating and regulated by the Legal Education Board, Commission on Higher Education, Philippine Association of Law Schools, Philippine Association of Law Professors, and the Association of Law Students of the ...