THE GRAND MANNER

With apologies to O.W. Holmes, this is a site dedicated to the "grand manner" of learning law, as seen from ground level, and not from the peak of Mt. Olympus, where hunger, despair, disenfranchisment, powerlessness and poverty are not a "mere form of words" but real, tangible and often seemingly insurmountable.

Thursday, October 02, 2008

Septembers at Taft

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You will recognize an old-er lawyer when s/he invariably shakes his/her head at the organized chaos that is the Bar Ops and mutters soto vo...
Saturday, June 21, 2008

Reality kicks in

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"The Board of Regents, at its 1233rd meeting held today, approved the appointment of Prof. Theodore O. Te as Vice President for Legal A...
Friday, June 06, 2008

it is finished...

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...my term as OLA director, that is. I took over in December 2005 and officially turned the directorship over to my replacement earlier to...
Tuesday, June 03, 2008

"i don't know what" in french

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Hadn't heard this in some time but was surprised to hear this the other day in casual conversation -- " je ne sais quoi " (...

things you can toss around in casual conversation to

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Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Life Lessons Learned, Grandly

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(A send-off to UP Law Batch 2007-2008, taught in the grand manner, and hopefully to become great lawyers and even greater Filipinos) [NB. Su...
Friday, April 18, 2008

A blast from the past... for me, at least

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"I read the news today, oh boy" (credit the Beatles for this line which I shamelessly rip off) and it spoke of the United States S...
Friday, April 04, 2008

Intergenerational courtesy and hubris

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More on the bar examinations and the throwing down of the gauntlet. (Read the post in my other blog )
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