Philippine Legal Education Board 2nd Environmental Law Faculty Training

In the Philippines, the Legal Education Board (LEB), as administrator of the legal education system, has initiated a series of reforms in the training and education of future legal professionals. One key reform has been the revision and modernization of the existing model law curriculum into the Revised Model Law Curriculum (RMLC), which provides for the mandatory teaching of environmental law as a non-core subject in Philippine law schools.

In 2021, upon the request of the LEB, the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the United Nations Environment Programme, and the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law, supported a 12-week capacity development program for more than 100 legal educators from across the Philippines. This Environmental Law Teachers Online Training Program ran from September 22 to December 8, 2021, and covered curriculum development and best practice in environmental and climate change law teaching. Following the initial program's success, and to further support the LEB’s request for additional capacity building and development of a Model Environmental Law Syllabus, a second Environmental Law Faculty Training will be conducted on 27 and 28 October 2022 at ADB headquarters in Manila and via Zoom.

The objectives of the 2-day hybrid-training event are to:

1. Update environmental law educators in the Philippines with best practices in effective pedagogy, including online and hybrid teaching pedagogy.
2. Explore lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic and innovations in distance learning and online pedagogy
3. Introduce the draft Model Environmental Law Curriculum and discuss its applicability to the development of a Philippines Model Environmental Law Syllabus, which will help implement the reforms under the Revised Model Law Curriculum adopted in 2021.
4. Foster networking and knowledge-sharing between environmental law professors and academics in the Philippines.

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