University of the Philippines

University of the Philippines College of Law or UP Law is the law school of the University of the Philippines. Since 1948, it has been located at the... University of the Philippines Diliman in Quezon City, the flagship campus of UP's seven constituent universities. Until the 1970s, night classes of the College of Law were conducted at the U.P. Manila campus along Padre Faura St. Formally established in 1911, the U.P. College of Law graduated many leading figures in the political history of the Philippines, including Philippine Presidents Manuel Roxas, Jose P. Laurel, Elpidio Quirino, Ferdinand Marcos, Abraham Sarmiento, Gerardo Roxas, Marcelo Fernan, Hilario Davide, Jr. and Reynato Puno. Several of its graduates and faculty members have also been appointed to serve on the Supreme Court, including former deans such as Vicente Abad Santos and Irene Cortes. The college is noted for having produced the largest number of bar topnotchers and maintaining one of the highest bar passing rates among law schools in the Philippines.
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Carlos Peña Rómulo was a Filipino diplomat, politician, soldier, journalist and author. He was a reporter at 16, a newspaper editor by the... age of 20, and a publisher at 32. He is the co-founder of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines. Rómulo served eight Philippine presidents, from Manuel L. Quezon to Ferdinand Marcos, as the Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines and as the country’s representative to the United States and to the United Nations. He also served as the Resident Commissioner to the U.S. House of Representatives during the Commonwealth era. In addition, he served also as the Secretary of Education in President Diosdado P. Macapagal’s and President Ferdinand E. Marcos’s Cabinet through 1962 to 1968. In his career in the United Nations, Rómulo was a strong advocate of human rights, freedom and decolonization. During the selection of the UN's official seal, he looked over the seal-to-be and asked, "Where is the Philippines?" US Senator Warren Austin, head of the selection committee, explained, "It's too small to include. If we put the Philippines, it would be no more than a dot." "I want that dot!" insisted Romulo.
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