HISTORICALLY, legal education was introduced in the Philippines during the Spanish colonial period with the establishment in 1734 of a Faculty of Civil Law at the University of Santo Tomas. In 1911, the American civil government set up the first state-run College of Law at the University of the Philippines (UP). The ratification of the 1935 Constitution paved the way for the introduction of law programs in various private colleges and universities in Manila.
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