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The law is a powerful tool to bring about change. The Salonga Center believes in engaging the community and policy makers—national and local—on a healthy discourse to map out and effectuate sustainable policies.
Research is integral to critically analyze and critique Philippine and international law. Opinions and analyses are incorporated in publications which will be made available to government offices, academic institutions, and non-governmental organizations.
As proponent of Transformative Law, the Salonga Center aims to bring the law beyond the courts and the classroom and to the barrios, barangays, local government units, policy makers, and legislators. The Salonga Center utilizes various forms and media to impart legal information — lectures, seminars, radio, newspaper, television, and the Internet.
The Salonga Center for Law and Development is an adjunct of the Silliman University College of Law. It was launched through the beneficence of nationalist, statesman, and legal luminary Dr. Jovito R. Salonga himself on August 26, 2006.
ADMINISTRATION
Dr. JOVITO R. SALONGA
The Salonga Center is administratively under a body composed of the Dean and Faculty of Law, with the Dean acting as the convenor. The Director of the Salonga Center is an ex-officio member of said body. This body is directly under the Office of the President of the university. Currently, it is headed by Dean Mikhail Lee Maxino, assisted by Atty. Karla Aguilan. Dean Maxino also heads the Environmental Law Desk which is one of the areas of the Salonga Center alongside the Social Justice and Human Rights Desk and the Labor Law Desk coordinated by law faculty members.
The volunteers with Dean Maxino
and Atty. Aguilan.
Guided by the teachings
of our Lord and Savior, the Salonga Center, same as that with the College, approaches law with a conscience: The kind that brings good news to the poor, liberates the captives, gives hope to the blind, and sets at liberty those who are oppressed. To fulfill these objectives, the Salonga Center utilizes the pillars of Legal Advocacy, Research, and Legal Education and Training.
LEGAL ADVOCACY
FREE LEGAL CLINIC AND LITIGATION ASSISTANCE
The Salonga Center makes its resources available to policy makers--especially the LGU--to help them craft sound policies. Moreover, indigent clients come to the Center for assistance. They are handled by student volunteers who are under the control and direction of lawyer volunteers.
Solid Waste Management Roundtable Discussion.
Guimaras Oil Spill.
DAI Eco-Governance Project.
Covenant On Free Elections.
RESEARCH
Silliman Law Journal.
The Purple Map.
LEGAL EDUCATION
& TRAINING
Law Lectures.
Training for Law Enforcers.
Bata, Bata:
Batas Ba'y Alam Mo Na?
Law Lectures for
High School Students.
Jail Visitation.
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