UE CLaw strengthens academic instruction, sets lecture series

MANILA, Philippines - The UE College of Law (UE CLaw) continues to recruit highly skilled and qualified faculty members in pursuit of its retooling program to strengthen academic instruction.

The new additions to the UE CLaw faculty this first semester, SY 2010-11, teaching commercial law, political law and civil law are: lawyers Tristan Catindig, an authority in Commercial Law and a 1990 Mercantile Law Bar examiner; Jeremy Benigno Gatdula, 2009 Political and Public International Law Bar examiner; Ernesto Pineda, Civil Law Bar Exam reviewer and former DOJ Undersecretary; Jose Domingo Tan, chief legal counsel, JAKA Investments Corp.; and Rodolfo Dizon, 1979 Bar Exam 11th placer. Profs. Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III and January Sanchez, who topped the 1990 and 2004 Bar examinations respectively, are also members of the UE law faculty.

In a related event, UE CLaw’s welcome lecture series for free for freshmen and upperclassmen, among other interested parties, entitled “How to be a top rate law student”, on June 17, from 6 to 9 p.m. at the UE Pre-Bar Review Room, will have Bar topnotcher, reviewer and examiner Prof. Abelardo Domondon as lecturer. Likewise, Dean Valdez’s lecture on “Local Government and Election Laws” in analytical survey of 2009 Supreme Court decisions, will be on June 18, from 9 a.m. to 12 noon, at the 1st Floor, Lecture Hall, University of the Philippines (UP) Law Center, Bocobo Hall, Diliman, Quezon City.