On June 5 to 7, 2018, scholars and experts from different fields of discipline gathered at the Ateneo Law School (ALS) for the 4th International Scientific Congress on Private Law of the Philippines and Spain: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Emerging Issues.
The congress was hosted by ALS together with the Universidad de Málaga Facultad de Derecho, Universidad de Deusto Facultad de Derecho and the Philippine Association of Law Schools, in cooperation with the Embassy of Spain and the Legal Education Board.
This was a follow-through of a similar congress held at the University of Malaga in Spain last 2015 attended by law deans and professors from the Philippines.
Students, professors, and law practitioners presented their papers on a multitude of topics, including culture & heritage, civil rights & freedom, politics & self determination, business & economics, access to health services & privacy concerns, assessing & regulating the use of technology, and transformative education & enhancing the capacity of courts.
Among the presenters were Rosario Hofileña, Head of the Investigative Unit of Rappler; Rev. Fr. Ranhilio C. Aquino, Dean of San Beda University Graduate School of Law; Ronald U. Mendoza, PhD, Dean of the Ateneo School of Government; and Justice Adolfo S. Azcuna, Retired Associate Justice of the Philippine Supreme Court and Chancellor of the Philippine Judicial Academy.
The Congress was then succeeded by the launch of Professor Ruben F. Balane’s most recent book, Jottings and Jurisprudence in Civil Law (Obligations and Contracts) and formally closed with a handing-over of copies of the book to the Ateneo Law School, the Universidad de Malaga, and the Universidad de Deusto.
