Atty. Manuel J. Laserna Jr. - Email lcmlaw@gmail.com

As the world celebrates World Human Rights Day, perhaps it is timely to present to the visitors of this blog a summary of the fairly recent ...

Philippine jails have been judged and have been found wanting. And by neutral foreign experts, at that. In a recent article by Dona Pazzibug...

I wish to summarize here some of the salient points stated in a previous Philippine Supreme Court study on court caseflow management program...

The 1987 Constitution of the Philippines (Art. VIII, Sec. 9) provides that “the Members of the Supreme Court ... shall be appointed by the P...

In the November 24, 2008 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer, columnist Fr. Joaquin Bernas, a renowned Philippine constitutionalist, wrot...

In his column Separate Opinion in the Philippine Daily Inquirer, issue date November 23, 2008, entitled “The Backbone of a Banana”, former P...

In 2001, Pr of. Stefan H. Krieger of the University of Oregon published an article entitled “ A TIME TO KEEP SILENT AND A TIME TO SPEAK: TH...

In 2000, Prof. Richard McAdams published an article entitled “AN ATTITUDINAL THEORY OF EXPRESSIVE LAW”, 79 Or. L. Rev. 339, which I which to...