De La Salle University Tañada-Diokno School of Law

Congratulations to the DLSU Tañada-Diokno School of Law Football Team for emerging as Champions at the 2026 Conflicts of Law Tournament. The team was formally crowned champions during the awarding ceremony on 31 May 2026 at the Arellano School of Law, hosted by the Association of Law Students of the Philippines (ALSP).

Also winning individual honors are Luis Antonio Reyes (Best Goalkeeper), Gabriel Denison Cuevas (First Team), Enrique Teodoro (First Team), Jose Gabriel Oropeo (First Team), and Dennis Gabriel Manimbo (Best Captain).

Organized by the ALSP, the Conflicts of Law is an annual flagship tournament in the Philippines that features athletic competitions and academic contests among law schools. The tournament aims to promote sportsmanship and foster camaraderie among law students.

With this victory, the DLSU Tañada-Diokno School of Law Football Team has now won back-to-back championships, following their win in the 2025 edition of the tournament.

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Congratulations to Atty. Maria Veronica M. Manalo for being awarded as the Young Lawyer of the Year by the Asian Legal Business Southeast Asia Law Awards 2026. The event was held last May 21, 2026, at the Tower Ballroom, Shangri-La, Singapore.

Atty. Vi is one of our Clinical Legal Education Program Supervising Lawyers for corporate practice. She also handles skills courses such as Corporate Practice and Legal Forms.

On 6 May 2026, students enrolled in the course "Legal Education and Teaching Law" visited the Supreme Court of the Philippines and engaged in a dialogue with the Office of the Bar Confidant (OBC).

Legal Education and Teaching Law is a pioneering elective course developed by Atty. Justin Sucgang, Associate Professor of Law, for the Tañada-Diokno School of Law (TDSOL). A first of its kind in the country, the course provides junior and senior law students a broad overview of the usual issues and current conversations in Philippine legal education, including its rationale, structure, components and phases, and endeavors to jumpstart an in-depth discussion of its historical, political and philosophical antecedents, as well as the concerns and challenges currently faced by its stakeholders, culminating in a discussion on the future(s) of the education and training of the legal profession(s).

With the bar examination playing a dominant role in training, assessment and licensing of members of the legal profession, TDSOL students had the unique opportunity to have a meaningful conversation with OBC officials on the ongoing and planned innovations in the conduct of the bar examinations.

After the dialogue, TDSOL students toured the Supreme Court and met some of the law school alumni now working in the highest court of the land, among them were Atty. Chantal Chua of the Office of the Chief Justice Alexander Gesmundo, Atty. Cheska Dominguez of the Office of Associate Justice Samuel Gaerlan, and Atty. Nath Antonio of the Office of the Spokesperson."



Photo credits: Supreme Court of the Philippines Office of the Spokesperson

Atty. Gil de los Reyes, Dean of DLSU Tañada-Diokno School of Law (TDSOL), shared TDSOL's best practices in Clinical Legal Education during the recently convened CLEP Colloquium in Mandaue City, Cebu (March 24–26, 2026), to strengthen the Clinical Legal Education Program (CLEP) under Rule 138-A. The Supreme Court of the Philippines convened the colloquium, which was attended by select Law Deans and Professors, as well as representatives from the Legal Education Board and the Philippine Association of Law Schools.

Through CLEP, law students gain real-world experience serving actual clients, especially those from marginalized communities, while becoming practice-ready lawyers.

Senior Associate Justice Marvic M.V.F. Leonen emphasized that clinical legal education is central to the formation of competent, ethical, and socially responsive lawyers. Justice Maria Filomena D. Singh highlighted that CLEP links practice readiness with access to justice, ensuring that law students contribute meaningfully to public service.

The Colloquium provided a platform to share best practices, address challenges, and reaffirm that CLEP must remain at the core of legal training.

Read more: https://sc.judiciary.gov.ph/sc-holds-colloquium-on-clinical-legal-education-program/

Associate Professor Rebecca E. Khan was in Amsterdam in late March upon the invitation of the University of Amsterdam – Amsterdam Center for International Law, to take part in the two-day workshop “Colonial Mobility and Legal Encounters: Rethinking the Dutch East India Company(VOC)’s Role in Asia”. An activity funded by the Decolonial Futures Research Priority Area at the University of Amsterdam, the workshop served as an exchange of ideas among a select group of legal scholars and historians about the experience of European colonization in Asia. Dr. Khan presented a paper entitled “Revisiting the Island of Palmas: A Post-Colonial Assessment of Territorial Claims Based on Contractual Relations of the Dutch East India Company with Indigenous Communities vis-à-vis the Right of Self-Determination.” Her paper put a 21st-century spin on the famous 1924 “Island of Palmas” case, which concerned a territorial dispute about an island off the coast of Mindanao. Students of Dr. Khan will remember this important arbitration case, as she discusses it in her Public International Law classes at TDSOL. By participating in academic events abroad, the faculty at the DLSU Tañada-Diokno School of Law bring home the benefits of international academic discourse to the classrooms of TDSOL and thereby enrich the student experience here.

TDSOL’s full-time faculty member Prof. Rebecca E. Khan was in Oxford, UK recently to participate in “Legal History in Asia and Beyond: Lessons from the Past for the Present”, an academic conference co-hosted by the Faculty of Law of the University of Oxford and the Asian Legal History Association. Prof. Khan, who has a doctorate degree in International Law, delivered a presentation entitled “The History of Environmental Litigation in the Philippines as a Roadmap for International Climate Justice”. Discussing topics such as locus standi of generations yet unborn, the Writ of Kalikasan, and the ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change, Prof. Khan’s presentation at Oxford covered topics that her students learn about in two of the courses she teaches at TDSOL: Public International Law, and Special Rules and Proceedings. In addition to this presentation, Prof. Khan also chaired a panel on international environmental law and colonialism at the conference. The conference brought together legal scholars from all over the world; faculty members at the DLSU Tañada-Diokno School of Law are active participants in the international academic community, bringing global perspectives to legal education.

Last March 18, 2026, Atty. Gil de los Reyes, Dean of DLSU Tañada-Diokno School of Law, facilitated a forum on how to prepare, enter, and succeed in a law school. The forum was held at the lobby of the Library Learning Commons and attended by DLSU UG and SHS students, and some young professionals.

TDSOL JD student Genary Kyna Gonzales was recognized as Top 2 among all the competitors at the recently concluded Philippine National Rounds of the Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, held at the end of February in Manila. With 24 law schools competing, and a total of almost 90 law students from all over the Philippines participating as oralists at the moot, Ms. Gonzales was awarded at the closing ceremonies for having obtained the 2nd-highest score during the preliminary rounds. At these oral rounds, competitors had to simulate a hearing before the International Court of Justice, with a panel of three practicing lawyers and law professors judging each round and interpellating the mooters. Together with fellow JD students Juan Lorenzo Delfin, Carlie Manayan, and Francesca Sarmiento, the DLSU-TDSOL team ranked 5th place overall.

Ms. Gonzales is also Vice President of the law school's Law Moot and Debate Society (LAMDES), the student organization that represents TDSOL at moot competitions locally and in other countries. Mooting enhances advocacy skills, and law students gain valuable experience by participating in these competitions.