By: Arvin Paolo D. Cortez Ateneo Law School Today, the Nation faces a challenge never before known to it in recent history. For the first time since the successful People Power Revolution of 1986, values and principles, which were once taken as gospel truth by a majority segment of…
By: Patricia Isabel E. Cornelio Far Eastern University On Liberty, Prosperity and Social Justice under the Rule of Law In the beginning of Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle posits that “wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else”.[1] Prosperity is desirable by many…
By: Micah Celine S. Carpio De La Salle University My family came from humble beginnings – both my father and mother were from a common family in Batangas. At a very young age, my father, who came from a family of sewers, was already selling shorts and dresses which my grandmother made in Quiapo…
By: Angelette C. Bulacan Far Eastern University “Legal profession is a noble vocation”, the first description law students associate to lawyering, the idealism inculcated in young dreamers, and the guiding light continuously flickering throughout the time. Like two sides of a coin, legal profession is counter depicted as a…
By: Pamela Camille A. Barredo Far Eastern University “Ite, inflammate omnia” (Go, set the world on fire.) – St. Ignatius of Loyola A career in law was in my cards as early as when I was five years old because of my grandfather. He was a lawyer; a prosecutor to be exact. It…