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The 2015 Bar Operations – Unprecedented by JORGE ALFONSO C AMICUS, Latin for “friend” or “comrade”, is the faculty bulletin of the Ateneo School of Law. It seeks to build a community of law school faculty members who inspire each other and the studentry to be skilled in the science and art of the law, to be imbued with a burning passion for justice, and to lead in serving the nation for Volume 4, No. 2 • December 2015 the greater glory of God. The 2015 Bar Operations – Unprecedented By JORGE ALFONSO C. MELO Unprecedented /ˌənˈpresədən(t)əd/ “never done or known before”. The word can be used to describe the collective gasp and groan of the Ateneo community as the results of the 2014 Bar Exams were released. While the nation scored a miserly 18% in a Bar Exam that was regarded as quite difficult, it was Ateneo’s overall passing percentage that elicited quite a bit of shock. Never before had Ateneo’s passing percentage dipped towards 50%; and while this was still higher compared to the national average, Ateneans young and old were flabbergasted like never before. With that statistic in the past, the Ateneo Law School, led by Ateneo Law Bar Examinees celebrate the end of the Bar Photo by AMPARITA S. STA. MARIA Dean Sedfrey M. Candelaria and Associate Dean Lily K. Gruba, Inside resolved to make a strong comeback and prove again that Ateneo President exhorts ALS alumni in public service to Magis at the Red Mass 3 Ateneo is the best law school in ALSC conducts legal aid mission in Macau 4 Dean’s Corner the country. Drawing boards were APS hosts conferences on COP21: dusted off, thinking hats donned, The Road to Paris Starts in Manila 4 By SEDFREY M. CANDELARIA souls searched, and counsel taken. Edmundo Garcia delivers public lecture in ALS 5 To paraphrase Dean Candelaria in Teehankee Center for the Rule of Law his send-off message before the holds map exhibit and moot court 5 The first semester of the new This year’s focus on delivery first exam in 2015, “No mas, no Ateneo coalition goes to the peripheries for academic year was significantly of an enhanced Bar review and voters’ education mas is not an option. We have to 6 marked with the Ateneo Law preparation has been triggered ALS attends ICOMOS’ 50th Anniversary and do more.” General Assembly in Fukuoka 6 School (ALS) community’s by a need to improve Bar As always, the dedication of AHRC mounts first Foundational Course on unprecedented expression performance as a result of the the volunteers of the 2015 Bar Business and Human Rights 7 of cura personalis for our impact of the past four years Operations is impressive. While ALAAI holds Grand Alumni Homecoming 8 2015 Bar Examinees. It was a wherein a different type of Bar the names of all the volunteers Ateneo Law School recognized at LEB semester which was preceded Examination was implemented deserve mention, there is not 5th Anniversary Awards Ceremony 9 by an intensified summer Bar by the Supreme Court. A Georgetown Law meets Ateneo Law 9 enough space or a small enough operations through a combined summary of the past four years Santiago: The Philippine Exemplar in Building font size to accommodate them a Vibrant & Caring ASEAN Community 11 effort of ALS administrators, of passing percentages showed all. Updates from the GLSI 12 faculty, students, and even the three top law schools Many professors, alumni, Inside the Refuge of Sinners 13 alumni. My deepest gratitude (Ateneo, San Beda, and U.P.) and the school administration Piecing Together for Peace 13 extends to everyone who averaging within the 70s mark redoubled efforts to help in In Memoriam 14 contributed immensely to this indicative of the effect of the continued on page 2 the Bar Operations. There was Too Good to be False 15 process. continued on page 10 Hot Off the Press 15 Meet the New Faculty & Staff 15 Volume 4, No. 2 • December 2015 2 Additional staff have also been hired to attend to our information technology and Dean’s Corner continuing legal education needs. Welcome, Mr. Michael John Ordoña. By SEDFREY M. CANDELARIA Allow me to thank the much invigorated Academic Departments for their healthy experiment. But the 2015 Bar Examination, competition to upgrade course syllabi, chaired by Associate Justice Teresita Leonardo- curriculum content, teaching methods, and de Castro, is expected to bring about a mentoring. The success of the Departments turnaround for most law schools in light of the is the cornerstone of our academic reforms. full shift to an all-essay examination. ALS grieves the death of former Dean Our implementation of the Tracking System Eduardo D. de los Angeles and Prof. Alan F. for elective subjects will be in full swing Paguia a few months ago. They have served by August 2016. Pre-enlistment has been the Law School well during their teaching undertaken by the sophomores this month to stints. Please continue to include them in determine the number of enrolees in the three your prayers. tracks, including the streams of concentration We welcome back Prof. Maria Luisa chosen by the students. Isabel L. Rosales, who has just finished her It is coincidental that this year’s LL.M. at Harvard Law School. Prof. Ryan alumni homecoming was hosted by Jeremiah D. Quan is also back from Notre the first J.D. graduates of AY 1990-91 Dame University on a similar program. marking 25 years of the J.D. curriculum. Another returning faculty is Prof. Gilbert The Enhanced J.D. curriculum received a V. Sembrano, who has done a tremendous booster from Batch ’91 when they donated humanitarian mission work in Afghanistan Php 200,000.00 as their token of appreciation. for the past year. This semester, Justice Our heartfelt thanks extend to Batch ’91. Arturo D. Brion also returned to teaching Things are moving quite positively in our by offering Constitutional Litigation and the international linkages program. Our recent Power of Judicial Review. He hopes to be signing of two academic agreements with the more present after finishing his term with Coventry University (UK) and the University of the Judiciary. Hawaii – Richardson School of Law promises AHRC Executive Director, Atty. Ray Paolo to open new opportunities for both our faculty J. Santiago, deserves commendation for and students in pursuit of graduate degrees. having received the ASEAN Peoples’ Award We had a head start with Kyushu University (National Winner) conferred by ASEAN itself. when Prof. Ma. Rowena Soriano-Dionisio left You have made us proud! this first semester to pursue a master of laws In a fitting cap to the series of conversations on a dual degree program between Kyushu on legal education, the Philippine Association University and Ateneo Law School. Other of Law Schools (PALS) held its annual faculty members namely, Profs. Luz Danielle convention (December 4-7, 2015) in Guam Bolong and Edzyl Josef Magante, have also with the theme, “Global Trends in Legal been accepted at Harvard Law School’s LL.M. Education.” International Criminal Court Program. Prof. Ignatius Michael Ingles, on the (ICC) Judge, Dr. Raul C. Pangalangan was the otherhand, is with Georgetown University keynote speaker. Our host was Chief Justice Law School. A recent visit by a Georgetown Robert John Torres, Jr. of the Guam Supreme University administrator bore fruit with an offer Court. Other speakers were Dean Royce to provide subsidized tuition for our faculty Reynolds of Australian Catholic University, applicants. It is hoped that these initiatives Dean Melencio S. Sta. Maria (FEU), and Atty. could encourage more faculty members to Elaine May Bathan of University of San Jose avail of even, at least, short-term visits to – Recoletos. Outgoing PALS President, Dean supplement their teaching and practice needs. Nilo T. Divina (UST), passed the torch over I am pleased to inform the faculty that support to Dean Soledad Margarita Deriquito-Mawis funding from the Central Administration and (Lyceum of the Philippines). Good luck to the the ALS may be tapped for the purpose. new set of officers. We are painstakingly finalizing our We congratulate Dean Andres Bautista personnel component for the Legal Services for his tough assignment at COMELEC as Center and Graduate Legal Studies Institute Chairperson. At the rate the presidential with the entry of new co-workers. It is aimed at pre-campaign season is developing, novel beefing up our delivery of pioneering programs legal issues on citizenship and residency related to the development of trial skills will emerge which could eventually change and research capacity for our law students. continued on page 3 NEWS Volume 4, No. 2 • December 2015 3 Ateneo President exhorts ALS alumni in public service to Magis at the Red Mass On October 15, 2015, the Chapel By MARIA PATRICIA CERVANTES-POCO is the good, not the bad. The of St. Thomas More was once This year’s mass was officiated latch on to shallow truths. For enemy is the good, because you again filled with distinguished Law by the University President, men and women of faith, the can do many good things, but the School alumni appointed to the Fr. Jose Ramon T. Villarin, S.J. In truth is, we are children of this challenge is to do what is greater judiciary and public service. Every his homily, Fr. Villarin emphasized earth, but we are also children of – the better thing. We can spend year, the Law School sponsors that the legal profession is “also a God. That is why we are not mere all our lives doing good, when we a Red Mass to invoke light, ministry, a way of service, a way technicians of the law.” are called to do better, the greater inspiration, and fortitude from the of healing this messy world.” He He continued by explaining thing, the greater good, for the Holy Spirit for its faculty, students, exhorted the crowd not to see the second attribute of fire, “the greater glory.
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