Krizea Marie K.

Duron

Proposed Thesis Topic 1:

Revisiting the Medical Expert Witness System

Legal Questions:
1. Who can be a qualified medical expert witness?
2. What kind of expert testimony can be admitted?
3. Is there a law providing definitions of a particular expertise to qualify as a medical expert
witness?
4. Are there laws regulating professional negligence of expert witnesses?
5. Is it legal to dissolve witness immunity and impose professional liability on expert witnesses?

Proposed Thesis Topic 2:

The Legal Capacity of the Mentally Ill

Legal Questions:
1. Is it a human rights violation for the mentally ill to be legally incapacitated?
2. What are the national and international standards assessing legal capacity?
3. Can a mentally ill person have legal capacity in Philippine courts?

Proposed Thesis Topic 3:

Sexual Violence in Pornography

Legal Questions:
1. Is there a link between pornography and sexual violence that make pornography a human rights
issue?
2. What human rights issues are involved in pornography?
3. Is there actual perpetration of sex violence in pornography?

Proposed Thesis Topic 4:

Civil Liability for Major and Persistent Damage Caused to the Environment by Wastes due to Economic
Activities

Legal Questions:
1. Is it legal to impute civil liability to persons or entities engaged in economic activities causing
major and persistent damage to the environment?
2. What is a major and persistent damage to the environment?
3. Is the principle polluters pay legal?

Proposed Thesis Topic 5:

Economic Sanctions to Enforce Human Rights Law

Legal Questions:
1. Legally, can a state be compelled to conform to a certain conduct?
2. Is it valid to use economic sanctions from a legal perspective?
3. What are the legal and theoretical considerations and problems underlying international human
rights law?
Proposed Thesis Topic 6:
Psychiatric Injury in Tort Law

Legal Questions:
1. Is inflicting psychiatric injury a tort?
2. What is the common law related to liability for negligently inflicted psychiatric injury?
3. Is legal responsibility for psychiatric damage an aspect of negligence liability?

Preferred Thesis Adviser:

1. Atty. Norberto Denura

2. Pros. Emmylou Bendanillo
3. Aty. Levi Estolloso