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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.
Ateneo Law School's only summa cum laude graduate, Claudio Teehankee, placed number one in the 1940 Bar Exams. [1] It is worth noting that Teehankee's son, Manuel Antonio, followed in his footsteps by graduating at the top of his Ateneo Law School class (albeit, not as summa cum laude) and placing first in the 1983 bar exams.
Through the years, Aquila Legis has produced over 40 lawyers who reached the top ten of the Philippine Bar Examinations, four (now five) [14] of whom placed first. [15] [16] A number of alumnus bar topnotchers have gone on to distinguished public careers in government.
The list only included law schools which had 20 or more examinees: [15] University of the Philippines (10%) Ateneo de Manila University (9%) San Beda University (8%) University of San Carlos (7%) Ateneo de Davao University (6%) University of Santo Tomas (5%) University of Cebu (4%) San Beda College Alabang (3%) Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila (2%)
When I personally met thrice, Tricia Nicole Q. Velasco, daughter of then Court Administrator Presbitero J. Velasco, Jr., in 2002, I told her to desist from taking law at the Ateneo (she failed the UP entrance test), coz I told her that I was full second honors Ateneo 1982 and placed 12, 87.55%, 1983 bar with only 21.3% passed (UP and Ateneo, 60 ...
Around 2009, the Board of Trustees explored the feasibility in opening a law school in Ateneo. Due to a moratorium in place preventing new law schools from being opened in the Philippines, [23] It was decided that the new law school was to be a branch of the Xavier University College of Law. A certificate of authority was issued on May 18, 2011 ...
Aquila Legis Fraternity was founded as Fraternitas Aquilae Legis in 1949 by 21 second and third-year students of the Ateneo Law School. As expressed by Aquila Legis alumnus and former Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye, the fraternity was created "to promote camaraderie" and to "nurture Catholic lawyers and to produce leaders in every field of human endeavor", in line with the aims of the Jesuit ...
The Legal Education Board has ranked the Ateneo de Manila School of Law as the top law school in the past decade, producing a 7.18% share or 1,794 out of total new lawyers. [59] The school continues to consistently have the highest passing rate for first-time examinees, topping the 2020/2021 and 2022 Bar Examinations. [ 60 ]