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Legal education in the Philippines is developed and offered by Philippine law schools, supervised by the Legal Education Board.Previously, the Commission on Higher Education supervises the legal education in the Philippines but was replaced by the Legal Education Board since 1993 after the enactment of Republic Act No. 7662 or the Legal Education Reform Act of 1993.
Justice Dante O. Tinga – Ll.B. 1974; retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines; served as a three-term Congressman of Taguig-Pateros district; former Dean of the University of the East College of Law and Polytechnic University of the Philippines College of Law; 15th Placer, 1974 Bar Exams [13] [14]
Like the majority of law schools in the country, UP used to provide the Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.), a standard four-year law program covering all subjects in the bar exams, until the change to J.D. was made in order to reflect more accurately the U.P. law program being a "professional as well as a post baccalaureate degree."
San Beda College of Law is the law school college under the San Beda University, a private, Roman Catholic university run by the Benedictine monks in the Philippines. [ 1 ] The main campus, educational, and administrative offices are located at Mendiola Street in San Miguel, Manila .
With the exception of the representative of the law students' sector, the Chairman and regular members of the Board must be natural-born citizen of the Philippines and members of the Philippine Bar, who have been engaged for at least ten years in the practice of law, as well as in the teaching of law in a duly authorized or recognized law school.
The first law school in the Philippines is the Faculty of Civil Law of the University of Santo Tomas which was founded in 1734.. As of 2007, there are 89 law schools legitimately operating and regulated by the Legal Education Board, Commission on Higher Education, Philippine Association of Law Schools, Philippine Association of Law Professors, and the Association of Law Students of the ...
Established in 1939, the CPU College of Law is one of the leading law schools in the country in terms of bar exam performance, alumni it produces and linkages. In 2012, the Juris Doctor (JD) replaced the Bachelor of Laws (LLB), making it as the first law school to offer such program approved by legal education board of the Philippines.
The University of London External Programme in Laws (LLB) has been awarding its law degree via distance learning since 1858. At the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, the principal law degree remains the Bachelor of Arts, in either Jurisprudence or Law, which is equivalent to an LLB in other universities. Traditionally, the LLB at Cambridge ...