CHAPTER 9 - PHILOSOPHY OF LAW

Legal philosophy- assist the professor of law in the preparation and teaching of legal concepts, principles
and applications as well as a better appreciation and wider dissemination of its importance and
consequences.

Legal education- has for its purpose, to teach and train individuals to become lawyers and officers of the
court in the dispensation of justice.

In the press version- the true ends of legal education is the enrichment of the vast gamut of what we call
our system of laws.

Legal Education- as a means in itself is to develop our understanding of the concepts of law – on how it
applies to the dynamism of human action and interaction.

Legal Education- Is not one-dimensional that it focuses on the student of law alone.

It is multi-dimensional as it is multi-disciplinary as it also take into consideration the

development of the professor, the school and the community within which they operate --- all usually
and ultimately showcased within a court-setting.

High Court had the occasion to declare that -what qualifies a man to enjoy equal human or political
rights does not qualify him to teach equally with others or even to study equally on every level.

Professor Hook- gives us pause with his incisive observations that in a liberal educational regimen,
everything is subject to the rule of reason, and all are equals as questioners and participants.

Justice Cruz- as judges, we are not automatons. We do not and must not unfeelingly apply the law as it
is worded, yielding like robots to the literal command without regard to its cause and consequence.

Justice Holmes- warned that “where these words import a policy that goes beyond them”