Philippine Law Journal
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| Discipline | Law, Legal Studies |
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Hilton A. Lazo (Chair, 2014-2015) |
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Publication history
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1914-present |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
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0031-7721 |
| OCLC no. | 1762247 |
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The Philippine Law Journal is an academic student-run law review affiliated with the UP College of Law at the University of the Philippines Diliman. Established in August 1914, the Journal marked its 100th anniversary in 2014 as the oldest law review in the Philippines and the oldest English language law journal in Asia. It is managed by the Editorial Board, composed of select students of the University of the Philippines College of Law. The Journal publishes four issues every year.
Its main office is at the Justice A. Reyes Room of Malcolm Hall, University of the Philippines Diliman. The room is named after the Supreme Court Associate Justice who served as the Journal's first editor.
The history of the Journal is intertwined with the modern history of the Philippine legal system. Founded in the earlier part of the American Occupation, only three years after the University of the Philippines College of Law’s establishment in 1911, the Journal served as a platform for the country’s first legal scholars and luminaries to discuss highly contentious issues which would later become the foundations of our current laws and jurisprudence. Decades thereafter, the rationale behind our legal system’s policy to protect indigenous people’s rights sprang from theories originally presented in the Journal. On several occasions, the Journal advocated the advancement of reforms to the law curriculum and legal education, the formation of policies protecting academic freedom.
Established in 1914 under the guidance of the UP College of Law’s founder and first Dean, Justice George A. Malcolm, and the law faculty, the Journal was designed as a vital training tool for law students, and modeled after the student-edited law reviews of American law schools. At its inception, the Journal was distinctively the only English legal publication in the Orient.
The pioneer editorial board was composed of former Associate Justice Alexander Reyes as managing editor; Paulino Gullas as business manager; and Jose A. Espiritu, Victoriano Yamzon, and Aurelio Montinola as associate editors. The inaugural issue featured a message from Justice Malcolm, which encouraged students to publish and maintain a law journal that would stimulate discourse and disseminate legal knowledge.
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