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Pre-Week Reviewer in Political Law
This pre-week reviewer is a concise summary of possible topics for the bar examinations in Political Law. In this regard, I wish all the best for the examinee using this as his or her pre-week reviewer, and I hope and pray for his or her success in taking the bar examinations.
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IUS GENTIUM: Notes in Public International Law
Increasing relations between States — whether military alliances, economic partnerships and other links — have made rules of a transnational, international character indispensable. The rise of legal regimes — the World Trade Organization, the community law of the European Union, the whole regime of international criminal law — are three of many examples. There is also no doubt that the institutions of international law have become prominent. In the Philippines, the investigation of former President Rodrigo Roa Duterte by the International Criminal Court in connection with the ruthless “war on drugs” during his administration has brought the Court to the attention of many Filipinos. The Arbitral Award that gave the Philippines a resounding victory of the Peoples Republic of China have also initiated many Filipinos to the workings of dispute resolution under the Convention on the Law of the Sea. The laudable decision of Finland and Sweden to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization despite Russia’s saber-rattling, and the willingness of the European Union to consider the membership of Georgia highlight the prominence of new forms of international legal personality.
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Legal Negotiation: How to Win Without Fighting (with Artificial Intelligence and other Methods)
This book is specifically designed to share various techniques and strategies about how to negotiate more effectively in the actual practice of law. The core message of this humble work is that lawyers should endeavor to solve their clients’ problems through negotiation first. Only after all amicable means to resolve the disputes have been exhausted should lawyers resort to litigation. Competitive negotiation tactics and more collaborative problem-solving approaches are included in the discussion. This book focuses on negotiation as client representation. Lawyers as advocates have affected the process of negotiation in many ways. Some of the best contributions that lawyers could make to improve the justice system is to exert maximum efforts to resolve their cases without overburdening the justice system.
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Pre-Week Refresher in Political Law
For some law students, Political Law may not be as interesting as the other subjects, compared to, especially for the beginners, Criminal Law. Yet, in the Bar Exam, Political Law carries great weight in the computation of what would be the examinee’s final rating.
To help the examinees in conquering what would be one of the most important journeys of their lives, the Authors decide to write this pre-week reviewer to serve as their refresher or final reading material. The Authors hope for the best and wish the examinees “Good Luck!”.
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Political Law Reviewer (Questions and Answers)
The 2025 edition includes jurisprudence from the year 2023 – 2024. This book covers recent political law discussion on a wide range of topics and current events.
It is hoped that this book will be a useful tool in the preparations for the bar exams, for the everyday life of a lawyer and even for practical application where the reader feels the necessity.
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Review and Observations in Philippine Political Law
I have my reluctance and reservation in writing this book encompassing the entirety of Political Law, with the notion that bar reviewers are of abundance these days. However, my view changed after the release of my revised edition of my Constitutional Law: The Fundamental Powers of the State and Bill of Rights, when I learned from fourth year law students that they are awaiting the aforesaid book for his Political Law Review subject. It then dawned to me the need for a compendium on Political Law for the law student, bar reviewer, and the legal practitioner.
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Political Law Review: A Structured Textbook and Bar Reviewer
This book is a product of years of teaching, practice, and interaction with students and legal professionals, each of whom has enriched my understanding of the challenges faced when studying
political law.Recognizing the need for a comprehensive yet accessible resource, this book has been carefully structured to balance theoretical concepts with practical applications. It integrates key doctrines, landmark cases, and jurisprudential developments, while also offering bar-oriented insights to help students focus on what truly matters in their preparation.
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Administrative Procedures for Government Agencies with Quasi-Judicial Powers
Administrative agencies play an essential role in modern governance, bridging the gap between the legislative, executive, and judicial branches. As governments have grown more complex, the need for specialized bodies to regulate, implement, and enforce laws has become increasingly vital. In this context, administrative agencies with quasi-judicial powers serve as crucial instruments for resolving disputes, enforcing regulations, and protecting the rights of individuals and organizations within specific sectors.
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Public International Law: Law of Nations
International Law, also known as Public International Law and Law of Nations, is the set of rules, norms, and standards generally accepted in relations between nations. It establishes normative guidelines and a common conceptual framework to guide states across a broad range of domains including war, diplomacy, trade, and human rights. International Law thus provides a means for states to practice more stable, consistent, and organized international relations.
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The Law of Public Officers
THE LAW OF PUBLIC OFFICERS, as a field of public law, presents many interesting, and a few complicated, precepts – on the qualifications of public functionaries, the methods for their appointment or election, their performance of their broad duties and limited powers, the period for their exercise of their authority, and the termination of their officerships.
This work, written more than six years after its last edition, covers many significant new pronouncements of the Supreme Court on the subject, with a few of them providing for the discarding of what were heretofore reasonably considered as fixed concepts.
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A Treatise on the Local Government Law in the Philippines: Notes and Cases
This book aims to equip law students, practitioners, and scholars with the necessary knowledge to navigate and excel in the field of local government law in the Philippines by providing a comprehensive and detailed examination of these topics.
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Philippine Administrative Law
This edition tackles what the author constantly refers to as the continuing experiments in this field, as acknowledged and addressed or adjudicated upon by the Supreme Court in the last eight years, and on the basis of recent laws imposed, or inflicted, by the legislature, as enforced, properly or not, by the executives.
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International Negotiation
International negotiation is a cryptic area of study. People relish the idea of haggling with a foreigner or anyone who comes from another country or continent or anyone from a diverse race, religion, economic, political, or ideological background. The issues of international negotiation could range from personal, business, family, government, trade, and others.
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Administrative Law
Administrative Law has always been at the sidewalks in the streets of Political Law. As a separate subject in the study of law or in any other related discipline, less attention have been given to this area. Unknown to many, this field of law is as important as the branches of civil, criminal, commercial, or remedial law. This lay down the protocols, rules, and the procedural law of public administration. Many have not seen its significance because these are being practiced from within the organizational structure of the government. It does not generally apply to private individuals unless to the extent that liability attaches to the cohorts of public officers, and other exceptional circumstances.
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Katarungang Pambarangay: Alternatibong Resolusyon ng mga Hidwaan sa Pamayanan
Ang aklat na ito na pinamagatang “Katarungang Pambarangay: Alternatibong Resolusyon ng mga Hidwaaan sa Pamayanan” ay ikatlo sa serye ng mga isinulat ng mayakda na may kinalaman sa lokal na pamamahala.
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International Law Reviewer
It may be perhaps only fitting that there also be a birth centenary edition of this book, which was the first ever written by the author more than half a century ago.
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International Law
This volume incorporates essential references to recent important pronouncements, and events, in the field of International Law, which remains important to this day, and especially today.
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The Laws on Cooperatives
The Laws on Cooperatives, authored by Dean David Robert Aquino, is a comprehensive guide that provides a detailed analysis of the legal framework surrounding cooperatives. This book is an essential resource for individuals, organizations, and professionals involved in the cooperative sector.
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Philippine Political Law
This edition is written to mark the birth centenary of the author, who personally revised this work for the last time more than twenty years ago, and wrote his final words ever eleven years after.This comes at the heels of the writer’s effort to refresh the author’s other work, his Constitutional Law, which has as well just been published.
In the preface of his last edition, the author wrote his “warm greetings and appreciation” to all those who have “joined” him as “kindred spirits in the study of the republican government under the aegis of the Rule of Law.”
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International Law: Compendium and Bar Reviewer
This book is crafted for law students, Bar exam candidates, and practicing lawyers, presenting complex International Law concepts in an accessible language. The content has been enriched with recent Bar Exam questions relevant to the current state of International Law, alongside revised answers to reflect the latest jurisprudence and international practice. This endeavor reflects a modest attempt to demystify the intricate maze of International Law for those at the forefront of legal education and practice. -
International Law with Bar Examination Questions
If you are preparing for the bar examination and looking for comprehensive study materials on international law, we have a range of books that can help you in your preparation. Our collection of books is specifically designed to cover all the essential aspects of international law and provide you with the necessary knowledge and practice questions to succeed in your bar examination.
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Ratio Legis: Election Law
The principal purpose of the Ratio Legis is to reinforce the learning process by providing the student with syllabi notes from choice and selected jurisprudence with the end in view of providing context as well as illustrate the various legal concepts, principles and more importantly — the interpretation and application made by the High Court to various issues raised before It throughout our nation’s socio-political history.
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Ratio Legis: Legislative Inquiries
The principal purpose of the Ratio Legis is to reinforce the learning process by providing the student with syllabi notes from choice and selected jurisprudence with the end in view of providing context as well as illustrate the various legal concepts, principles and more importantly — the interpretation and application made by the High Court to various issues raised before It throughout our nation’s socio-political history.
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Handbook on Local Legislation
This work seeks to present selected provisions of the Local Government Code related to local legislation to serve as a quick reference guide and material for members of the sangguniang barangay, the sangguniang lungsod, the sangguniang bayan and the sangguniang panlalawigan — including other stakeholders that have an interest and participation in nation building and development.
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Pandemic Handbook
This Handbook aims to guide LGUs and LCEs in leading their constituents towards arriving at comprehensive local prevention, preparedness, and recovery response against COVID-19. It identifies the roles and responsibilities of LGUs and LCEs in the administration’s whole-of-government response to the pandemic. It provides for strategies, together with step-by-step procedures, if applicable, for LGUs and LCEs to carry out within their jurisdictions.
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How Can Philippine Democracy Be Improved?
This is the first book advocating for a technocratic form of Philippine Democratic Government.
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International Law and World Organizations
With several significant international events involving principles of international law, the authors were compelled to write this Fourth Edition. As a textbook in the law and political science schools, it is a reference material for the Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) as a required subject under Bar Matter 850 (MCLE) of the Supreme Court.
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Local Government Code (R.A. No. 7160) Subject Index
The Local Government Code (LGC), like other legislation, was so assiduously crafted to provide the student thereof with an easy guide to access relevant material therein. Unfortunately, what the legislator can do for him thereon is limited.
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From Rural to Global (The Taguig Story)
This provision reflects the country’s commitment to promoting peace, non-aggression, and cooperation with other nations in line with international law and diplomatic principles. The Philippines, like many other countries, advocates for the peaceful resolution of conflicts and disputes through negotiation, dialogue, and international cooperation.