I HAVE been dean of the Graduate School of Law of San Beda University for over 20 years now, and for a long time, there was divagation on the part of those who did not like me or my ideas about why a non-lawyer should be allowed to direct a graduate school of law.
While I never had a doubt that there could really be no issue for those who wanted to think the matter through with logical precision, the Supreme Court wrote finis to all doubts in the Pimentel v. Legal Education Board case in 2019 and the resolution it promulgated in 2021, disposing of the motions for reconsideration that had been filed.
Not too long ago, the Commission on Higher Education and the Department of Budget and Management — the agencies that have habitually interfered with academic freedom — issued a 'Joint Circular,' or JC 3, that lays down the qualifications and requirements for different professorial ranks.
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