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October to Volume II December 2013 Issue no. 4 The Official Publication of the Foundation for Liberty and Prosperity One Year CONTENTS Liberty and Prosperity: . at a Glance B Balancing critique and utopianism .................... 2 he “Liberty & Prosperity Journal” came out The Indigenous Peoples Rights Act (IPRA): . A Vehicle for Liberty & Prosperity ...................... 4 with its maiden issue (September to December 2012), together with two succeeding issues Comparative Analysis of the MOA on . T Ancestral Domain and the Framework . (January to March 2013 and April to June 2013) by Agreement on the Bangsamoro .......................... 5 the second quarter of 2013. These were distributed as e-copies (in PDF format) to guests who were invited to the musicale “Ageless Passion” (December 20, 2012). Apart from the VIPs who received copies of the e-newsletter via e-mail, all FLP professorial chair holders (law school deans) also received the same and were asked to disseminate it to their respective law schools for the information and benefit of students and faculty alike. Third Public Lecture On March 6, 2013, Dean Joan Sarausos-Largo of the University of San Carlos, Cebu delivered her (Photo) Students and faculty of the University of the Cordilleras applaud during the first professorial lecture held in Baguio City, first lecture aptly titled “The Powerful Judiciary on October 3, 2013—the biggest audience to attend an FLP- and the Concept of Rule of Law in the Philippines: sponsored event since the launching of the professorial chairs at Correlations, Consequences and Implications” at the Metrobank Auditorium, Makati City. the Albert van Gansewinkel Hall, University of San Carlos, Cebu City. of Commerce and Industry also expressed their Her lecture was warmly commended by warm remarks and appreciation. Also in attendance retired Chief Justice Artemio V. Panganiban and were the President of IBP Cebu City Chapter Atty. retired Chief Justice Hilario G. Davide, Jr. Mr. Earl Bonachita, the President of the IBP Cebu Aniceto M. Sobrepena, President of the Metrobank Chapter Atty. Ferdinand Pepito, USC President Fr. Foundation; Mr. Gordon Alan Joseph, President of Dionisio Miranda, SVD, and USC Vice President for Cebu Business Club; Mr. Philip Tan, President of Academic Affairs Fr. Anthony Salas, SVD, as well Mandaue Chamber of Commerce and Industry; and as Court of Appeals Justices and Judges of Cebu, Mr. Efrain Pelaez, Jr., President of Mactan Chamber Mandaue, and Lapu-Lapu. continued on page 2... Subscribe to our Online Newsletter : Libertywww.libpros.com & Prosperity Journal • 1 Liberty and Prosperity: continued from page 1... rights, ancestral domain claims, and their economic out the constitutionality of the Aurora Pacific A written copy of the lecture as well as a copy of the implications. Economic Zone and Freeport (APECO) by arguing Balancing Critique PowerPoint presentation were submitted to the FLP The open forum welcomed insightful for or against the proposition to amend R.A. 9490 secretariat by Dean Largo. A PDF copy of the lecture comments and additional discussions from FLP otherwise known as the Aurora Special Economic and Utopianism is accessible and downloadable via the FLP website. Education Committee Chair Dr. Edilberto C. Zone Act of 2007 (Republic Act No. 10083). Debate de Jesus (also former Philippine Department of teams impressed the diverse audience, and earned Kristian Jeff Agustin Fourth Public Lecture Education Secretary and Deputy Commissioner of accolades from retired Chief Justice Panganiban. the Presidential Office of the Peace Commission) The teams consisted of Block 1-B’s Leo Balancing act On 18 April 2013, incumbent Chancellor of the and Ateneo Law Professor Atty. Camilo Miguel M. Arman Galang, Christopher Reyes, and Kenneth Philippine Judicial Academy (PhilJA) and retired Montesa (also former head of the Peacemaking and Varona (affirmative panel); and Block 1-A’s Abby dvocacies espousing equality, freedom of Supreme Court Justice Adolfo S. Azcuna fulfilled his Peacekeeping Group in the Office of the Presidential Castelo (awarded Best Speaker), Ponce Lopez, and speech, free press, social responsibility, first commitment to the Foundation for Liberty and Adviser on the Peace Process or OPAPP). Steffi Sales (negative panel). The former argued A and the like are grounded on normative Prosperity as a professorial chair holder by delivering Dean Candelaria submitted to the FLP the unconstitutionality of R.A. 10083, stressing the discourse and ethical principles characteristic of his lecture entitled “Supreme Court Decisions on secretariat the written copy of his lecture, which is negative implications on social justice and human civilization, and concomitant of modernization. the Economic Provisions of the Constitution“. He publicly accessible online and downloadable via the rights, while the latter weighed on the difference However, most contemporary and current trends was the fourth to deliver the Chief Justice Artemio FLP website. between implementation issues as questions of more or less emerged from the idea of the public V. Panganiban Professorial Chairs on Liberty and fact and enduring questions of law and justiciable sphere and deliberative democracy put forward by Prosperity, and the first and only to deliver outside a Sixth Public Lecture controversies. The debate was successfully organized sociologist and critical thinker Jürgen Habermas1 law school setting. Apart from retired Chief Justices in partnership with the St. Thomas More: Society of (1962), whose utopian ideals hitherto generate Hilario G. Davide, Jr. and Artemio V. Panganiban, A successful lecture was delivered by Dean Advocates of the Ateneo Law School. ripples. Decades later, Yale scholar Seyla Benhabib2 the event was attended by retired Supreme Court Reynaldo U. Agranzamendez of the University of The position papers of both teams were argued that normative theories lie in between justices, judges, government officials, lawyers, law the Cordilleras College of Law on October 3, 2013 at submitted to the FLP in lieu of a lecture by Dean highly critical discourse and utopian ideals (1986), school deans, professors, and students alike. the UC Theater, Baguio City. Aside from attracting Candelaria. These are publicly accessible via the FLP as if such a spectrum exists. Benhabib’s critique of Retired SC Justice Bernardo P. Pardo a number of lawyers, academics and students, his website. Habermas’ normative (and almost reformist) views delivered the opening remarks, while Metrobank discussion on “The Indigenous Peoples Rights Act elucidated the diminishing of “utopian dimensions Foundation President and former Cabinet Secretary (IPRA): A Vehicle for Liberty & Prosperity” was Mid-year Planning by the Executive Committee of critical theoretical thought” (Misgeld 1987) Aniceto M. Sobrepeña gave a message of support also witnessed by guests from local government entailed in Habermas’ endorsement of practical during the program commencement. units, NGOs, and indigenous communities, press On June 24, 2013, the Executive Committee convened discourse.3 Benhabib further explained that utopian A written output of Chancellor Azcuna’s and media outfits who all gathered and filled the to specifically review and assess the Professorial dimensions are framed within abstract concepts lecture was submitted to the FLP secretariat as partial 700-capacity auditorium to standing-room-only, Chairs Program of the FLP. After a long discussion, (i.e., solidarity, friendship, love and care) instead of fulfilment of his commitment as a chair holder. The the biggest audience to attend a FLP-sponsored the ExeCom agreed on several actions including: pragmatic approaches to politics, for example. same is publicly accessible and downloadable via public event since the professorial chairs launching (1) the renewal of the term of Dean Candelaria of I think normative theories and discourse the FLP website. ceremonies held at the Metrobank Auditorium the Ateneo Law School as chair holder (AY 2013- must strike a healthy balance between critique or (Metrobank Plaza, Makati City). 2014), who fully complied and solely delivered critical discourse and utopian ideals. The model Fifth Public Lecture Dean Agranzamendez submitted to the FLP two outputs to date; (2) an extension of the term of media ethics by British media scholar Nick secretariat his written lecture, which is publicly of Dean Largo of the University of San Carlos, Couldry4, for instance, raised points on how we, just On his new term as FLP professorial chair holder, accessible online and downloadable via the FLP Cebu until August 20, 2013—when she completes like any journalist or researcher, must constantly Dean Sedfrey M. Candelaria of the Ateneo Law website. her deliverables in the form of a debate—and her and practically negotiate between our critique of School delivered another public lecture on November term’s renewal for another year (AY 2013-2014); (3) society (or culture, or institutions) and our idealistic 29, 2013. Presenting a “Comparative Analysis of the First FLP-sponsored Debate the extension and renewal of the term of Chancellor universalist views in order for us to propose and Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain Organized at the Ateneo Law School Azcuna of the PhilJA until 2014; (4) an extension promote ethical practices—whether in journalism, and the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro” of the term of Dean Jose Manuel Diokno of De La research, law, and business, among others. A good