KOLEHIYO ng BATAS - University of the Philippines Diliman

College of Law 345T he Board of Regents of the University of the Philippines formally approved the establishment of the College of Law on 21 January 1911. The College, however, traces its beginnings to the law courses opened in 1910 by the Educational Department Committee of the Young Men s Christian Association (YMCA), through the efforts of George A. Malcolm who was later to become the first permanent dean of the June 1911, the College was formally opened with first and second year classes. There was a total of 125 students comprising freshmen and sophomores, the latter numbering fifty when they started the YMCA school. Of this first law class, one became a President of the Philippines ,another, a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, while several others became legislators and legal faculty was at first predominantly American, but the faculty profile changed when the American teachers were supplanted by Filipinos.

In December 1948, with the transfer of the main campus of the University of the Philippines to Diliman, Quezon City, the College was first assigned to occupy an army hut, and later, a three-storey building named Malcolm Hall after the College’s founder and first permanent dean.

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