Practicing the Law
“Stand up. The court is asking you.”
Trial work, drafting and teaching it back — the year the student stops being an audience.
Courses this year
Each course names the text it is built on and the visual that carries it. Courses with a lesson ready are marked; the rest link to a quiz on the Bar subject they feed.
Semester 1
Specialization and the courtroom floor · 17 units- Practice Court I3u
Trial technique; Judicial Affidavit Rule (A.M. No. 12-8-8-SC)
Objection reflex trainer — a transcript plays at reading speed and you must object in time
- Environmental Law2u
Rules of Procedure for Environmental Cases (A.M. No. 09-6-8-SC)
Writ of kalikasan — the "two or more cities or provinces" threshold drawn on a real map
- Agrarian & Social Legislation2u
CARL (R.A. 6657)
Retention limits — a landholding subdividing to the five-hectare retention and the award ceilings
- Securities & Rehabilitation2u
R.A. 8799; FRIA (R.A. 10142)
Rehabilitation vs. liquidation fork, with the stay order freezing every claim mid-flight
- Conflict of Laws2u
Civil Code, Arts. 15–17
Nationality vs. lex loci — one OFW's marriage tested under two legal systems at once
- Clinical Legal Education II2u
Supervised practice
Case portfolio and reflection log
- Electives4u
Student's choice — election law, media law, data privacy, ADR, mining and energy
Set by the elective
Semester 2
Integration · 15 units- Practice Court II3u
Full mock trial, complaint to decision
One case carried the whole semester, judged by practitioners
- Practical Exercises3u
Pleadings, contracts, affidavits, verifications, notarial documents
A portfolio of 24 drafted documents — the graded drafting component of the Bar
- Capstone3u
A publishable explainer set on an under-served area of Philippine law
Comic, animation, codal write-up and quiz bank, shipped to the public site
- Integration Seminars2u
The six Bar groupings re-walked at doctrine level
Taught by the 4Ls to the 1Ls — a teach-back assessed by the audience
- Electives4u
Student's choice
Set by the elective