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Cura Personalis,Ignatius' Standard of Caring for Others 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 VolumeVolume 4, No. 5, No. 2 • 1December • August 20162015 the greater glory of God. Cura Personalis, Ignatius’ standard of caring for others By DR. ANGELA C. YLAGAN and MARIA PATRICIA CERVANTES-POCO It was a bright and sunny Saturday To help us find the answers morning on August 6, 2016, when to our questions, Dr. Roberto we, twenty-one Ateneo Law Guevara, Associate Dean for School (ALS) professors, began Student Formation of the Loyola our trip to Prado Farms in Lubao, Schools, gave an enlightening Pampanga for the second ALS talk on “The Characteristics of Class Advisers’ Workshop. Jesuit Education and the Ateneo After a hearty, organic Teacher”. He highlighted a few of breakfast, the workshop was the points discussed in “Our Way officially opened by Associate of Proceeding,” a 1986 document Dean Giovanni F. Vallente. To get on the characteristics that animate to know each other a little bit Jesuit education, including: more, participants were made to • Jesuit education is world- introduce themselves and their Class advisers gather for a light moment at Prado Farms affirming, helping the students “fictional character alter ego,” the Photo Credit: PATRICIA CERVANTES-POCO discover the radical goodness latter drawing laughs from the exactly are our roles as an adviser? violence? How do we handle of the world by encouraging a crowd. (At least three participants What do we do as advisers on the students dealing with abuse, self- sense of wonder and mystery in identified with DC Comics hero academic aspect? How can we be harm, etc.? How can we make them. “The Flash”.) more than just academic advisers advisers more useful and more • Jesuit education assists in the At the beginning of the or technical advisers? What is known to the students? How do total formation and fullest workshop, we sought answers our responsibility when it comes we deal with the generation of development of all talents of to the following questions: What to students who are victims of our students? each individual. continued on page 2 Inside Supreme Court Justice tells Ateneo’s new By SEDFREY M. CANDELARIA lawyers that integrity matters 3 Dean’s Corner Convergence of Culture, History, and Law: ALS hosts ‘International Scientific Congress on Private Law of the Philippines and Spain’ 4 ALSC strengthens mandate thru partnerships 5 Reunited on all fronts How the West (Philippine Sea) was won 6 ALS faculty join Ignatian Spirituality in Education Workshop for Administrators 6 As we flew into Oslo on the ALS revamps Introduction to Law 7 21st of August 2016, I could not Ateneo community calls for respect for life, help but trace the number of due process 7 times I have flown to Europe to Ateneo reminds alums in government: participate as a young lawyer in go to peripheries, find friends 8 the formal peace negotiations ALS units convene to respond to pressing since it opened in Brussels, human rights and rule of law issues 9 Belgium in 1995 during the #HustisyaNatin: Round Table Discussion on Judicial Monitoring held at APS 9 Ramos Administration – that’s AHRC Summer Internship 2016 – 21 years ago! Reaching out to the peripheries 10 In 2001, upon succeeding Proud of our own: Getting to know to the Presidency, Gloria our 2015 topnotchers 11 Macapagal-Arroyo resumed Leadership by Example: A look at the formal talks with the Ateneans cross paths to peace (from left: Atty. Marie Yuvienco, the awardees of ALS Class 2016 12 National Democratic Front of Dean Candelaria, Prof. Jose Ma. Sison, Mr. Allan Jasmines, and Dreams of Harbour City: ALS faculty and continued on page 14 Atty. Edre U. Olalia) staff visit Sydney 13 Meet the New Faculty 15 Volume 5, No. 1 • August 2016 2 ALS advisers with the workshop facilitators Cura Personalis, Ignatius’ standard of caring for others from page 1 In the following session, Atty. Dean Vannie Vallente’s dorm-life students will know that they • Jesuit education insists on Patty Sison-Arroyo asked the antics. can approach their class adviser individual care and concern for group to reflect and thresh out in The following day, a special for both academic and non- each person, or cura personalis. concrete terms and indicators the session on students at risk (those academic concerns, especially • Jesuit education encourages four values that the ideal Ateneo experiencing extreme anxiety, when the latter affects their a realistic knowledge, love, Law School graduate is expected depression, and other emotional well-being. and acceptance of self, where to espouse: spiritually developed; and mental health issues) was • The class advisers will undergo students are challenged in order academically competent and facilitated by Mr. San Andres. special training on psychological for them to realize their value. excellent; socially involved and He shared factors that may help first aid in order to be more • Jesuit education is centered culturally rooted; and a global identify potential self-harm effective in advising students on faith that does justice, citizen. cases, and how to administer regarding their non-academic manifested by particular love The full day of events psychological first aid. The concerns. for the poor. was capped by a community workshop ended with a planning • A draft referral protocol for Fr. Ismael Jose Chan-Gonzaga, celebration of the Eucharist and session on setting up a referral cases involving students at risk S.J., APS Chaplain and recent an Italian-themed dinner. Those system for these types of cases in (“StARs”) will be prepared and ALS graduate, then shared his who were not quite ready to the law school. circulated among the group for thoughts about cura personalis retire for the night enjoyed cold The following resolutions were review and comments. from the perspective of a student. beer as they were regaled with made at the end of the workshop: • The suggestion to involve He suggested three values for law tales of Atty. Snoops Montero’s • The term “class advisers” will the advisers in processing professors to consider in relating Blue Babble glory days (and one be used instead of the term milestones and critical events with their students: consistency, lifeless beloved pet eagle) and “academic advisers,” so that and in implementing activities acceptance, and openness. for social involvement and Mr. Rene San Andres, Associate cultural rootedness will be Dean for Student Affairs of the revisited. After Atty. Lat designs Loyola Schools, talked about “Cura the program, the appropriate personalis: The whole school persons to implement the approach.” He discussed long- program will be determined. term or transformational change It was a fruitful two-day in the context of the Law School, workshop. What follows is the and identified the following as key challenge to live out and share areas of consideration: mission with other ALS professors the and strategy; leadership; culture characteristics of Jesuit education within the organization; structure that “pursues excellence, seeks to and functions; systems, policies form men and women for others, and mechanisms; climate; and and insists on individual care and individual needs and values. All smiles after a hearty organic farewell lunch. concern for each person.” NEWS Volume 5, No. 1 • August 2016 3 ALS faculty members at the 70th Ateneo Law School Commencement Exercises Photo credit: PATRICK S. PERILLO Supreme Court Justice tells Ateneo’s new lawyers that integrity matters By UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS AND PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICE Justice Estela Perlas-Bernabe called on the heart that the legal profession will not only be Ateneo Law School’s (ALS) Class of 2016 to your means of livelihood; it will be a vocation keep their integrity intact even when the title whose honor you will swear to uphold. You will of Attorney has been affixed to their names. be identified with truth and justice. And so do “I therefore hope that while all of you try not betray this image,” Bernabe said. to make your way through the crossroads of Bernabe, an Associate Justice of the Supreme change and seek the pathway of success, you Court, earned her law degree from ALS in will nonetheless keep intact the Atenean virtue 1976, graduating as salutatorian. After passing of being a ‘man for others;’ that you realize the the bar, she immediately joined the judiciary. greater meaning in a life of self- devotion; and “Because my father wanted me to be a that you find happiness in changing things for judge, he exerted his influence that led me the better.” to work in the Supreme Court under then Bernabe delivered the commencement court administrator Justice Lorenzo Relova. address at ALS’ 70th graduation exercises on Aside from the low pay and meager working July 17, 2016 at the Meralco Theatre, Pasig conditions, I wasn’t really enthusiastic about City. working for the government,” she said. “As lawyers, you will be, first and foremost, Disheartened with her experience, Bernabe protectors of the law. And so, of all people, transferred to a prominent bank and worked Justice Estela M. Perlas-Bernabe you should be faithful to the law. Keep to her way up. Photo Credit: SUPREME COURT PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE “I was stable and secure with my life. Until, one day I felt that I was not,” she said. It turned Bernabe also advised the future lawyers to out that her father was right: she wanted to honor the law.
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