COURSE SYLLABUS
POLITICAL LAW II
AND PUBLICINTERNATIONAL LAW
ACADEMIC YEAR 2024-2025
Lecturer
I.
:
Guiller B. Asido, J.D., Ll.M
Administrative Law
a. General principles
b. Administrative agencies
c. Powers of administrative agencies
1. Rule-making power
1.1
1.2
Kinds of administrative rules and regulations
Requisites for validity
2. Adjudicatory power
2.1
2.2
2.3
Administrative due process
Administrative appeal and review
Administrative res judicata
3. Fact-finding, investigative, licensing and rate-fixing powers
d. Judicial Review
1. Doctrine of primary administrative jurisdiction
2. Doctrine of exhaustion of administrative remedies
3. Doctrine of finality of administrative action
II.
Law on Public Officers
a. General principles
b. Modes of acquiring title to public office
c. Modes and kinds of appointment
d. Eligibility and qualification requirements
e. Disabilities and inhibitions of public officers
f. Powers and duties of public officers
g. Rights of public officers
h. Liabilities of public officers
1. Preventive suspension and back salaries
2. Illegal dismissal, reinstatement and back salaries
i. Immunity of public officers
j. Distinguish : De Facto and De Jure officers
k. Termination of official relation
l. Civil Service
1. Scope
2. Appointments to the civil service
3. Personnel actions
m. Accountability of public officers
1. Types of accountability
1.1
1.2
Administrative
Criminal
2. The Ombudsman and the Office of the Special Prosecutor
3. The Sandiganbayan
4. Impeachment and Quo Warranto
n. Term limits
III.
Election Law
a. Suffrage
1. Qualification and disqualification of voters
2. Registration and deactivation of voters
3. Inclusion and exclusion proceedings
4. Local and overseas absentee voting
5. Detainee voting
b. Political parties
1. Jurisdiction of COMELEC over political parties
2. Registration of political parties
c. Candidacy
1. Qualifications and disqualifications of candidates
2. Filing of certificates of candidacy
1.1
1.2
1.3
1.4
Effect of filing
Substitution and withdrawal of candidates
Nuisance candidates
Effect of disqualification
d. Campaign
1. Premature campaigning
2. Prohibited contributions
3. Lawful and prohibited election propaganda
4. Limitations on expenses
5. Statement of contributions and expenses
e. Board of election inspectors and board of canvassers
1. Composition
2. Powers
f. Remedies
1. Petition to deny due course to or cancel certificate of candidacy
2. Petition for disqualification
3. Failure of elections; call for special elections
4. Pre-proclamation controversy
5. Election protest
6. Quo Warranto
7. Recall
IV.
Local Governments
a. Autonomous Regions and their relation to national government
b. Public Corporations
b.1 Concept; distinguished from Government owned and controlled
corporations
b.2 Classifications
i. Quasi-corporations
ii. Municipal corporations
ii.1
ii.2
ii.3
Elements
Nature and function
Requisites for creation, conversion, division, merger or
dissolution
c. Principles of local autonomy
d. Powers of local government units
d.1 General welfare clause
d.2 Eminent Domain
d.3 Taxing power
d.4 Closure and opening of roads
d.5 Legislative power
d.5.1 Requisites for valid ordinance
d.5.2 Local initiative and referendum
d.6 Ultra vires acts
d.7 Corporate powers
d.8 Liability of Local Government Units
d.9 Settlement of boundary disputes
d.10 Local Officials
d.10.1 Vacancies and succession
d.10.2 Discipline
d.11 Recall
d.12 Term limits
V.
Public International Law
a. Concepts
b. Relationship between international and domestic law
c. Sources of international law
c.1 Article 38, International Court of Justice Statute
c.2 Effect of the United Nations Declarations, Security Council
Resolutions
c.3 Effect of actions of organs of international organizations created by
treaty
d. Subjects of international law
d.1 States
d.2 International Organizations
d.3 Individuals
d.4 Others
e. Jurisdiction of states
e.1
Basis of jurisdiction
1. Territoriality principle
2. Nationality Principle and statelessness
3. Protective principle
4. Universality principle
5. Passive Personality principle
e.2
Exemptions from jurisdiction
1. Acts of state doctrine
2. International organizations and their officers
f. Diplomatic and consular law
g. Nationality and Statelessness
h. General Principles of treaty law
i. Doctrine of state responsibility
j. Refugees
k. Treatment of aliens
k.1 Extradition
k.1.1 Fundamental principles
k.1.2 Procedure
k.1.3 Distinguished from deportation
l. International Human Rights Law
l.1
l.2
l.3
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
m. International Humanitarian Law
m.1
Categories of armed conflicts
m.1
m.2
m.3
International armed conflicts
Internal or non-international armed conflict
War of national liberation
n. Core international obligations of states
o. Principles of international humanitarian law
o.1 Treatment of civilians
o.2 Prisoners of war
p. Judicial and Arbitral Statement
p.1 International Court of Justice
P.2 Permanent Court of Arbitration
p.3 Peaceful Settlement of International Disputes
p.4 Use of Force Short of War
p.5 War and Neutrality
p.5.1 Treatment of Civilian
p.5.2 Prisoners of War
q. Law of the sea
q.1 Baselines
q.2 Archipelagic states
q.2.1 Straight archipelagic baselines
q.2.2 Archipelagic waters
q.2.3 Archipelagic sea lines passage
q.2.4 Regime of islands
q.3 Internal waters
q.4 Territorial sea
q.5 Contiguous zone
q.6 Exclusive Economic Zone
q.7 Continental Shelf
q.8 International Tribunal for the Law of the sea
r. International Environmental Law
r.1
r.2
Principle 21 of Stockholm Declaration
Precautionary principle
VI.
STRATEGIC PLAN FOR JUDICIAL INNOVATIONS
A. Challenges
B. Four Guiding Principles
C. Three outcomes and Activities
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