JDN 109

Basic Legal and Judicial Ethics

Assignment for August 23, 2023

1. Introduction and Basic Principles (1.a to 1.b of the course

outline)

2. Read the following cases:

- Dominador Burbe v. Atty. Alberto C. Magulta, AC No.
99-634, June 10, 2002
- Benjamin Q. Ong v. Atty. William F. Delos Santos, A.C. No.
10179, March 4, 2014
- Cecilia A. Agno v. Atty. Marciano J. Cagatan, A.C. No.
4515, July 14, 2008
- Antonio X. Genato v. Atty. Eligio P. Mallari, A.C. No. 12486,
October 15, 2019
- Victoriano P. Resurreccion v. Atty. Ciriaco C. Sayson, A.C.
No. 1037, December 14, 1998
- Fidela Bengco and Teresita Bengco v. Atty. Pablo S.
Bernardo, A.C. No. 6368, June 13, 2012
- Stephen Brunet and Virginia Brunet v. Atty. Ronald L.
Guaren, A.C. No. 10164, March 10, 2014

3. Read the following:

- Attorney General Eric Holder’s Speech for Columbia Law
School on 14 May 2010
- US Attorney General Sally Yate’s Speech for Harvard Law
School on 25 May 2017
- David F. Levi, Dana Remus and Abigail Frisch ‘Reclaiming
the Role of Lawyers as Community Connectors’ (2019)
148 MIT Press 1, 30-36
- Hualing Fu and Richard Cullen, ‘Weiquan (Rights
Protection) Lawyering in an Authoritarian State: Building a
Culture of Public-Interest Lawyering’ (2008) 59 The China
Journal 111, 111-112
 - M. B. E. Smith ‘Should Lawyers Listen to Philosophers
about Legal Ethics?’ (1990) Springer 9, 67-93
- Austin Sarat ‘The Profession versus the Public Interest:
Re ections on Two Rei cations’ (2002) 54 Stanford Law
Review 6, 1491-1499
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