In law school, we take pride in all-nighters, study-hard or grind culture, and the Socratic learning method. We hate these things but we subtly glorify them. It is as if they have become our badges…

Adobo has been part of Pinoy diverse culture. All regions of the archipelago have their own version of “adobo”, the unofficial national dish of the Philippines. This is due to the fact that although we…

Imagine you are intently and religiously doing a mandatory requirement of your religion, such as fasting in the month of holy Ramadan. In the middle of such a month, an airstrike befalls your land. It…

As if the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic were not destructive enough, chaos erupted anew between Israel and Palestine over the past month. Tensions rose after an Israeli court promulgated a decision to forcibly evict…

The recent pronouncement of Commission on Higher Education Chairman Prospero De Vera III on having flexible learning as the new normal has drawn public flak and attention. Although he clarified in a different interview that…

Just like most Filipinos who are currently very enraged not just by the shooting in Tarlac, but what it says about us as a country, I also saw the video first thing in the morning…

Fear is always legitimate as no one has the right to invalidate a feeling. However, when is fear lawful? When does fear constitute an actual controversy for a law to be annulled? Outrageously, one may…

Under the Duterte administration, 61 lawyers have been killed – from July 2016 to January 2021 – without any convictions made against perpetrators. One of whom is Angelo Karlo. He was attacked in such a…