This course shall continue the professional formation of the law student through classroom sessions and experiential learning through their continued internship with the Ignatian Legal Apostolate Office (ILAO). The classroom component of the course shall focus on instilling professionalism, and teaching workload, stress and crisis management that ensures practice-ready lawyers. It will also include student-led sessions that will address relevant experiences in their internship. The law student practitioner’s progress shall be monitored through an established working plan, weekly reflective essay, discussion conferences, mid-semester evaluation (self-evaluation), and final evaluation and essay. The continuing internship allows the students to engage in legal work for marginalized sectors that promotes social justice and public interest, and serves to fortify the foundations cemented in the mandated Clinical Legal Education core course.
A course dealing with legal transactions with emphasis on the choice of law, including problems on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments.
A study of Rules 72-109 of the Revised Rules of Court dealing with the procedural rules on the settlement of estate, will, letters testamentary and administration, escheats, guardianship, appointment of trustees, adoption, change of name, cancellation and correction of entries in the Civil Registry and appeals on special proceedings and the special rules under the Family Code on special proceedings. The course similarly surveys important special rules outside of the rules of court such as those in environmental and commercial cases. The course also develops familiarity with relevant legal forms.
A course which looks into the rules of presentation, admissibility, and weight and sufficiency of evidence, including burden of proof and presumption. It also covers medical jurisprudence on forensic and evidence gathering. The course also develops familiarity with relevant legal forms.
An instructional guide on how to research on and choose a topic for a legal thesis, with the objective of defending a thesis topic for preparation of a thesis proposal. This course will further discuss the different legal research methods and analysis, like doctrinal, qualitative, and comparative law approaches among others. The course requires the submission of the approved thesis topic, write up of relevant legislations and writings on the approved thesis topic, and preliminary bibliography; the identification of the legal gaps or legal problems or legal issues to be explored in the JD Thesis to be defended; and the drafting of the thesis proposal. This is the first in the series of thesis writing courses in the JD Thesis program.
This is a study of the general principles governing local governments. The course also covers the laws affecting the creation, organization and government of provinces, cities, municipalities, municipal districts, and barangays; the scope and application of the powers of municipal corporations, including municipal ordinances, contracts, liabilities, and enterprises; as well as the laws on autonomous regions, and the National Capital Region.
A survey of emerging and relevant commercial laws dealing with public interest, including Transportation Law, Insurance Law, Intellectual Property Code, Competition Act, and Data Privacy Act.