By: D. Ballesteros

Commissioner Josue A.  San Pedro, a member of the Arellano Law Foundation Board of Trustees and former Associate Commissioner of the Bureau of Immigration and Deportation, said his last good bye on 26 May 2008. He was 71.

Commissioner San Pedro graduated from the law school in 1962. He taught Insurance, Agency, Transportation, Criminal Procedure, Administration Law and Remedial Law.

The Arellano Law community sponsored a mass in his memory on 27 May 2008 at Loyola Memorial Chapel, Guadalupe Makati.

By D. Ballesteros

Dean Eduardo V.  Alejandro, a member of the Arellano Law Foundation Board of Trustees and former Dean of the Arellano University School of Law Bataan, bid his last farewell on 3 May 2008. He was 56.

Dean Alejandro graduated from the law school in 1984. He taught Persons and Family Relations, Obligations and Contract, Property, Partnership, Civil Law I and II.

The Arellano Law community sponsored a mass in his memory on 7 May 2008 at Funeraria Paz, Araneta Avenue.  

391 aspirants to the law profession are enrolled in the Arellano Law Foundation’s 2008 Bar Review Program, according to data provided by the Records Section of the Arellano University School of Law School. Of the said enrollees, 92 are alumni.

In 2007, there were 404 enrollees, of which 127 were alumni. Of the 127 alumni who enrolled, 53 passed the 2007 Bar Examinations.

The Bar Review Program commenced last 17 April 2008, and lectures are held Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. It is administered by the Center for Legal Education and Research, with Dean Jose R. Sundiang as Review Director.   

Samira Ali Gutoc-Tomawis, founding editor of both the Arellano Law and Policy Review and the Arellano Law Gazette and columnist of the Manila Times, added another feather to her cap when she became one of the finalists in the Aim High Pinay women empowerment campaign of popular consumer  brand Modess.

This was disclosed by Ms. Gutoc-Tomawis herself in an exclusive interview with the Arellano Law Today last 30 April 2008. The story of Ms. Gutoc-Tomawis and the rest of the finalists were featured in a special supplement of the Philippine Daily Inquirer last 4 April 2008. Winning stories will be chosen to be featured in the next Modess TV commercial, and will win a financial grant.

The campaign encourages women to overcome barriers in order to achieve their goals and to continue to aim for more and be better, as the stories of the finalists from different fields have amply shown. In the campaign profile, Ms. Gutoc-Tomawis was described to have set out to become a living example of professional and civic leadership for the Muslim community, and has succeeded at it.