Malcolm Hall Lobby

Thank you for visiting this site. UP Law Class of 2001 presents Panata at Pagbabalik – A Malcolm Hall Tour! The tour gives a glimpse of the history of Malcolm Hall as told through some of its art collection with some historical anecdotes.

In the UP Diliman Official Walking Tour: Pasyal, the UP Office for Initiative for Culture and the Arts cited the UP Law Complex as containing a “valuable cache of portrait paintings” and we will see some of them today.

The first stop in this tour is the mural which was donated by the UP Law Class of 1955. Some of the notable members of this class are former Dean Bartolome Carale, notable textbook author Hector S. de Leon, and former Senator Benigno Aquino, Jr. who took his first year with the class before pursuing a career in journalism.

This inscription was installed on June 1967. According to the report of then Dean Vicente Abad Santos in a report to the UP President, the inscription was meant to serve as a reminder to the raison d’etre of the College of Law of the University of the Philippines.

It is often asked what it means to teach “In the Grand Manner”. It was said that the selection of the quote from Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes was at the suggestion of then College Secretary Jose C. Laureta ‘52. Justice Holmes was known as one of the founding members of the Positivist School of Legal Education.

The realists considered law as a process of legal observation, comparison, and criticism instead of an exact science of value-free principles. “The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience,” said Holmes.