A review course intended for bar examinees focusing on constitutional law, including political law, administrative law, electoral laws and related subjects. More importantly, the course provides integration of key principles, and discussion of important updates on jurisprudence and trends as may be projected to be covered in the bar examinations.
Under this course, law student practitioners who have successfully completed all their third-year law courses must apply for Student Practitioner Certificate Level 2. This course shall concentrate on developing skills in litigation and trial technique as these law student practitioners shall now be engaged in the actual taking of depositions and/or preparation of judicial affidavits of witnesses and preparation and signing of pleadings. They will also be appearing on behalf of ILAO clients at any stage of the proceedings before any court, quasi-judicial or administrative body, and in criminal cases, subject to the provisions of Section 5, Rule 110 of the Rules of Court, to appear on behalf of a government agency in the prosecution of criminal actions. The classroom component, on the other hand, shall be a simulation of a courtroom trial where the professor provides a civil case where the students shall prepare the complaint, the answer and the reply. These pleadings shall constitute the records upon which the trial shall be conducted. The lawyers, litigants, and witnesses are all members of the class and the professor acts as judge. It is made obligatory upon the students acting as lawyers, to argue their cases orally immediately after the evidence is closed. This phase of the subject is important, because it cultivates in the students the habit of noting down or remembering the facts and trains them in the art of arguing cases off-hand on the basis of the evidence presented. The judge then renders the decision in writing. Afterwards, the class assumes that the case tried is brought to the Appellate Court. The professor in charge acts as the appellate judge and members of the class are appointed to act as lawyers for the appellant and the appellee who shall argue their case orally on the basis of the records prepared previously. The judge then renders the decision.
This is the final part in the thesis writing series of the JD Thesis program. The students are required to finalize and defend a thesis on a subject of law which is considered novel, must deal with law or a controversial novel legal issue which has not been resolved by the courts and requires extensive discussion and analysis of legal principles and cases relevant to the thesis proposal. The preparation of the thesis is supervised by a Thesis Adviser chosen by the student who is a Faculty Member of the College of Law. The J.D. Thesis must be based on a previously approved thesis proposal by the Thesis Director and contains at least fifty (50) pages and not less than 13,000 words. Once the Thesis is completed and certified by the Thesis Adviser as ready for defense, the student is required to defend his thesis before a panel of three (3) persons knowledgeable in the relevant field of law, who may or may not be members of the faculty of the College of Law.
- Professor: Domnina Tuy Rances
A review course intended for bar examinees focusing on labor laws, social legislation and related jurisprudence. More importantly, the course provides integration of key principles, and discussion of important updates on jurisprudence and trends as may be projected to be covered in the bar examinations.
A review course intended for bar examinees focusing on civil law, including persons and family law, obligations and contracts, basic succession, laws on property and titles, private international law, torts and related subjects. More importantly, the course provides integration of key principles, and discussion of important updates on jurisprudence and trends as may be projected to be covered in the bar examinations.
A review course intended for bar examinees focusing on criminal laws, important and common special penal laws and related jurisprudence. More importantly, the course provides integration of key principles, and discussion of important updates on jurisprudence and trends as may be projected to be covered in the bar examinations.