La Vida Lawyer

Duterte has backtracked on his initial denial of the allegations made by Sen. Trillanes about his Php 211M  deposit in his BPI bank account ...

The timing couldn't be more right. Less than two weeks before the election and Trillianes pops the Php 211M expose. Somebody deposited P...

The Duterte election story is a narrative straight out of Hollywood. I told a friend of mine every episode of this Duterte phenomenon follow...

I once met a guy who claimed he was Marcos's illegitimate child and that the real Marcos didn't leave for Hawaii and stayed in obscu...

Duterte has not been apologetic with his friendship with the New People's Army (NPA) and its founding father, Joma Sison. Joma himself h...

The story goes that Duterte once pressed his gun against the crotch of a defiant smoker who challenged a restaurant owner to ask the Mayor t...

One of the things Davao City is proud of is the speed limit of 30 kph on its roads. Months ago, even the Mayor's daughter, 'drama qu...

In the 1990's, our moot court professor Judge Oscar Pimentel used to berate us for folding the sleeves of our Barong. Young and impressi...

We all heard it last night: Duterte is going on a jet ski to the Spartlys to plant the Philippine flag and dare the Chinese navy to shoot hi...

2. Duterte promised federalism and I'm sure to the average Juan the big "F" sounds like a good idea. But are we going to break...

The signs are all over. Duterte rallies have been well-attended. Carlos Celdran has been praising the Liberal Party (in spite of Proceso Alc...

I once defended an octogenarian accused of the crime of Robbery. It was the weirdest case I have ever handled, and I got by with a defense o...

Artwo rk by Celeste Lecaoz Copyright 2016 Whether people died in Kidapawan, whether they're hungry, whether the NPA was feeding ...

Line art by Celeste Lecaroz . C oloring by Teresa Regina Aceron Copyright 2016 I was inside the San Beda College compound when ...

When I used to teach in a law school, I had a policy of open notes during exams.  I guess my students loved me for it, but soon they realize...

"Everything has returned. Sirius, and the spider, and thy thoughts at this moment, and this last thought of thine that all things will...

Sen. Jovy Salonga was the commencement speaker when I graduated from the Ateneo School of Law twenty years ago. Coming out of law school wit...

It's hard to say the state cannot touch a convict's mind, especially if that mind plotted against the state. But the test between th...

Exploring the brain is not equivalent to controlling it. In the context of the Art of War, however, assuming we consider the tension between...

There is a Gary Larson cartoon which depicts a couple awake in bed in the middle of the night and the wife holding a pillow with which she a...

Let me start by saying that my iPhone is an extension of my brain. Of course, the extension is not physical, albeit I do not think that can ...

In the previous paragraph, we said Apple's stand on the right to privacy is motivated by its promise of privacy to its customers. By app...

Apple refuses to decrypt a terrorist's iPhone because of privacy concerns in spite of an order from a court which is ordering it for nat...

The Lakers were playing the Spurs Friday night (Saturday morning in Manila) and I arrived home just in time to watch the last two quarters. ...

The logic of adversity is the logic of deceit. That's why debates hardly ferret out the truth. Candidates put in adversarial positions a...

My metaphysics teacher, Fr. Roque Ferriols, S. J., used to digress a lot from his daily lecture topics to inject his views on social issues,...

Purely theory and nothing personal folks: social media has become the platform for displaying conspicuous consumption. When we post our exp...

Pambungad sa Metapisika by Roque Ferriols, S.J. is that book. An intellectual adventure can ruin you, but this one would always ground you a...

The peasants have no bread? Give them yeast and flour. Teach them to make dough. Government should build community ovens and supply the fuel...

Getting inspiration from National Geographic's December 2015 issue which featured an impressive article on Mother Mary in history, I dre...