Philippine Commentary

ELEVEN YEARS AGO TODAY, on Saturday, 20 January 2001, Hilario Davide, was wearing the robes of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court when h...

The following is a story I have published at Storify based on a Twitter conversation with Teddy Boy Locsin. It covers several different topi...

JOAQUIN BERNAS, S.J. defends the centrality of malicious intent as an element of Judicial Plagiarism in his PDI column, Sounding Board. In t...

(Manila, Philippines) Marvic Leonen, Dean of the College of Law, University of the Philippines said this on his UPLAWDEAN Page a few minute...

( Editor's Note: The Office of the Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile just released a  PRESS STATEMENT on the plagiarism issue that has...

The Supreme Court Decision alleged to contain plagiarized passages    Vinuya vs. Executive Secretary, G.R. No. 162230 (28 April 2010)  has n...

The Supreme Court Decision Vinuya v. Romulo is believed by many both here and abroad to be polluted with plagiarism, whether intentional or...

The essential insight of dissenting Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno is that in order to exonerate Associate Justice Mariano C. Del Castillo of ...

(I ask all Philippine Commentary and Global Post readers, correspondents and bloggers to give the letter below the greatest possible circula...

The opening paragraphs of Justice Sereno's Dissent from the majority opinion in the recent plagiarism decision of the En Banc A.M. No...

A recent En Banc Decision by the Supreme Court of the Republic of the Philippines (SCoRP)  disposes of charges that a previous En Banc Decis...

There is a quaint tradition in the Philippines that goes by the Filipino slang term palusot which operates when someone -- usually rich, po...

by Alan F. Paguia Former Professor of Law Ateneo Law School University of Batangas Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila alanpaguia@yahoo.com...