LAT, Tanya Karina A.

Status: 
Full Time
Contact No.: 
+63 (02) 899-7691 ext. 2408
Biography: 

Tanya Karina A. Lat is Program Officer for Formation (Social Programs) and has been a faculty member of Ateneo Law School since 2013. She is keenly interested in ethics, values education and formation, and seeks to create a cadre of lawyers who are committed to personal and social transformation, spirituality, and social justice in whatever fields of law they are in.  She is currently serving as Executive Director of the Philippine Association of Law Schools (PALS). She is a member of the PALS Task Force on Legal Education and Bar Exam Reforms, and has been appointed by the Legal Education Board to facilitate the proceedings of the Working Committee on the Revision of the Law Curriculum. Atty. Lat authored "The Trade Advocate's Manual: Navigating Philippine Trade Policy" (2010) and is the lead author of “Bar Blues (Or Everything You Want to Know About the New Bar Exams But Are Too Busy to Ask)” which is already on its 4th edition.
 
Professional Association & Recognition: 
  • Member, Integrated Bar of the Philippines

Courses Taught: 
  • Legal Profession
  • Legal Ethics
  • Legal Technique and Logic
  • The Lawyer As Leader and Policymaker
  • Legal Ethics
  • Legal Education
  • International Trade Law

Education: 
Master of Laws (LL.M.), Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C. (2008); Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.), University of the Philippines (2001); Bachelor of Science in Psychology, Ateneo de Manila University (1995)