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    LEB-PALS CONFERENCE ON LEGAL EDUCATION’ PRESENTATION of J. ARTURO D. BRION August 17, 2013, San Carlos University, Cebu City Thank you very much for your invitation. I entertained :10,second thoughts in giving my noc to the role you assigned me and to the topic ‘Producing ethical, balanced, mindful lawyers and leaders: Should legal education take on this task?” This is a subject -hat has been on my mind, in one aspect or another, in the last few years. | can thus go straight to the point and immediately tell you that, for me, the answer is obvious — who else will, and who has a closer interest than us, lawyers and educators, in undertaking this task? I was very happy, too, with your invitation because I knew it “would bring . “me to a gathering of like-minded, colleagues ‘in the profession, tackling the questions and the topies that I have been waiting for a long time for the legal academe to ask. Seeing and heating these questions now asked and their vatious aspects answered; with Justice Hilarion Aquino here, focused on his mission of reforming legal education; with you here as the front liners in |2gal education; and with us in the Court to: provide support and’ capability for action, | believe that at long last we may.well’be on'the road towards improving the teechihg of ethics, and values, and uplifiing of ethics and values of the legal professior itself. I hope that, at some point, the acctimulation of these efforts will even affect our society as a whole. f apparent defewona bm of Te To me, gen the timing of this conference may If we look at . the developmehts in our society today, more than suffitient cause fpeabarmecrtars in terms of theethics, morals, and values of'our societyt You Wi recall that not too Overall State of Ethics and Values: \ be| provider long ago, we have"had’an unprecedented Killing incident in a Vlindanao province where no less thén 58 journalists and political supporters of-a cendidate were killed in a single incident. Public outery resulted, but only for atime. ‘True to what has happened in the past,’the matter has now been relegated to the background. The irials may still be proceeding, but the public awareness aind the public who matter * may no longer be there. i ‘To be more current, the media now carry news of raids cn dur treasury that, if true, would be unprecedented in scale, not only in terms of the amounts-invdlved but likewise in te number of those involved and in their dist-ibution among the fer us te be alarmed « * Mune hak homens baer, various branches and levels of our government. Has there been an outery? Yes, but perhaps not enough to last for a longtime and not enough to leave impressions and ‘& “utavine sie thet saa Hetty Hoe to teach us lessons for the future. 4 recent encouraging sigi, Be * interest of Luis‘Antonio Cardinal Tagle who even cried on national television as he called on politicians involved in the BLOB pork barrel scam to yo to the slums and” experience what itis tobe poot, dud She ecent qa uernpensy mores, But agau let us weutand

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