From July 2016 to December 2021, 427 human rights defenders were killed, 2,807 arrested, 1,161 jailed, and 1,367 raided, according to data from human rights group Karapatan. That sums up the war that President Rodrigo Duterte waged against dissent. In this episode, justice reporter Lian Buan talks to lawyer Jobert Pahilga of Sentro para sa Tunay na Repormang Agraryo (SENTRA) on what it was like to be a dissenter during the last six years of the Duterte administration, and their outlook for presi...
Jun 17, 2022•30 min
President Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody war on drugs was unconstitutional, said retired supreme court senior justice Antonio Carpio, adding it’s the one policy of the last six years “that should be redressed.”
Jun 14, 2022•44 min•Season 1Ep. 47
In this episode of Law of Duterte Land, we discuss estate tax more extensively with tax lawyer Jean Francois “Punch” Rivera III, the assistant national treasurer of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP). Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr.’s spokesman Vic Rodriguez continues to insist that the case is pending, even though Supreme Court records show that the 1997 ruling is final and unappealable, and became executory in 1999. Rodriguez said it’s because there are still pending ill-gotten wealth...
Apr 13, 2022•31 min
With so much confusion and misinformation about the unpaid P203-billion estate tax of the Marcoses, we digest the issue with a taxation law expert in the easiest way possible. In this episode, Rappler justice reporter Lian Buan talks with lawyer Mickey Ingles, who teaches tax law at Ateneo Law School and who authored the book 'Tax Made Less Taxing'.
Mar 26, 2022•20 min
In this episode of the Law of Duterte Land podcast, Lian Buan speaks to Fernando Peñarroyo, Integrated Bar of the Philippines' presidential adviser on energy, who said that for the group, it is more sound for the government to instead take up the 90% shares of Shell and Chevron instead of allow it to be transferred to Dennis Uy's subsidiaries.
Nov 27, 2021•31 min
Amid a pandemic, joblessness, and sinking economy, will Filipinos care about killings in the drug war when they fill in their ballot in May 2022? Rappler's Lian Buan talks to Filipino lawyer Perfecto "Boyet" Caparas about human rights as an election agenda. Support fearless and independent journalism, visit https://rplr.co/supportRappler to donate to Rappler....
Oct 20, 2021•38 min
The anti-graft court Sandiganbayan recently ordered the Royal Traders Holding Co. Inc to pay the Philippine government around P1 billion in Marcos ill-gotten wealth. So, where to find that money, and all the other loot? How has the PCGG been doing it, and what remained as the challenges all throughout these years? In this episode, Lian Buan talks to international lawyer Ruben Carranza who was PCGG commissioner from 2001 to 2004. Carranza was involved in the landmark 2003 ruling where the Supreme...
Oct 08, 2021•47 min
Is it time for the Philippines to pass its own memory law that would prohibit denial of the atrocities of the Marcosian martial law? Lawyers Raphael Pangalangan, Gemmo Fernandez and Ross Tugade discussed it in their 2018 paper "Marcosian Atrocities: Historical Revisionism and the Legal Constraints on Forgetting." They sit down with Lian Buan in this episode of Law of Duterte Land podcast.
Sep 22, 2021•1 hr 10 min
Now that the ICC's Office of the Prosecutor has been authorized to seek evidence to potentially request a warrant of arrest for President Rodrigo Duterte's drug war and the Davao City killings, what happens then? Lian Buan talks to Filipino international human rights lawyer Emerlynne Gil, the deputy regional director for research of Amnesty International.
Sep 17, 2021•20 min
Listen to this episode as we unpack how the justice system, for all its good intentions of due process for all, has fueled the culture against impunity
Jul 30, 2021•14 min
We talk to International Law expert Professor Andre Palacios for this episode
Jul 23, 2021•30 min•Season 1Ep. 38
In this episode, Rappler's Lian Buan talks to constitutional expert and retired Supreme Court justice Vicente V. Mendoza, who says Duterte can run for vice presidency, and can also succeed as president – if the new president who wins in 2022 resigns.
Jul 16, 2021•24 min
In this episode, Rappler's Lian Buan talks to former justice undersecretary Jose "JJ" Justiniano, who was a deputized prosecutor in the pork barrel scam cases which were started by the Aquino government.
Jul 05, 2021•29 min
We talk to Param-Preet Singh, associate director of the Human Rights Watch International Justice Program
Jun 18, 2021•30 min•Season 1Ep. 35
In this episode, we catch up with Angelo Karlo "AK" Guillen and talk about what it's like to be a lawyer facing an immense threat, as he survived an attempt on his life.
Jun 07, 2021•33 min
Where do lines blur, between national security and civil liberties, and between protected and seditious speech? For this episode, Lian Buan talks to NTF-ELCAC spokesperson Marlon Bosantog, who is part of the task force's legal cooperation cluster on the laws involved in hunting down their perceived communists.
May 28, 2021•54 min•Season 1Ep. 33
This episode is a recap of all the 9 sessions of the anti-terror law oral arguments in the Supreme Court, and how Captain Ri – a fictional character inspired by the hit Korean drama Crash Landing on You – embodied the fundamental issue of the law. What is the balance between personal freedoms and national security?
May 23, 2021•27 min
In this episode, we conduct a deep dive into the crazy world of electoral protests, and why Bongbong Marcos' annulment of elections bid in 3 Mindanao provinces failed. Rappler's justice reporter Lian Buan talks to former Comelec commissioner Luie Guia, who says what we have is an underdeveloped jurisprudence on annullment of elections.
Apr 25, 2021•32 min
In this episode, we talk to former justice assistant secretary Geronimo Sy, who was chairman of the criminal code committee during his time in the Department of Justice, about how to balance criminal laws and common sense governance in this pandemic.
Apr 14, 2021•41 min
In this episode we will talk about the process of choosing who gets to sit on the Supreme Court Bench, and whether the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) is accountable for appointees who turn out bad.
Mar 29, 2021•50 min
This disproportionate number and an alarming surge at that have compelled lawyers to call on the Supreme Court – exercise your extraordinary powers to respond to this extraordinary problem. For them, this is no time to be passive.
Mar 18, 2021•15 min
In this episode, we talk to lawyer Carlo Brolagda of the group IDEALS, or the Initiatives for Dialogue and Empowerment through Alternative Legal Services (IDEALS), which is the latest group to investigate the drug war.
Mar 05, 2021•49 min•Ep. 27
If you're still high over Day 1 of the Supreme Court oral arguments on the anti-terror law and anticipating Day 2, here's a podcast episode to recall the highlights of the stirring hearing held by the High Court. Our guest for this episode is constitutional law professor Tony La Viña, who is counsel to one of the 37 petitions.
Feb 05, 2021•24 min
This podcast summarizes key issues of the highly contentious pet law of President Rodrigo Duterte - the Anti-Terror Law
Jan 21, 2021•12 min
We talk to young lawyer Dino de Leon who filed the mandamus petition to disclose President Rodrigo Duterte's state of health
Dec 23, 2020•43 min
We talk to FLAG's Chel Diokno about the laws that can be invoked by anyone who is red-tagged
Dec 11, 2020•29 min
We talk to CHR Commissioner Roberto Cadiz for this episode, and we discuss how we use domestic and international law mechanisms to, quite literally, save the world.
Nov 05, 2020•24 min
We take a look at the evolution of SALN in the political process – from being ignored, supposedly weaponized, and being overly glorified
Oct 29, 2020•21 min
In this episode, Justice Undersecretary Adrian Sugay talks to Rappler's justice reporter Lian Buan about the anti-terror law, its implementing rules and regulations, and what it can mean in actual situations.
Oct 22, 2020•48 min
On a reduced court furlough, 23-year-old activist Reina Mae Nasino would have 6 hours split on two days to say goodbye to her 3-month-old daughter River, who died due to pneumonia complications on October 9. Listen to this podcast for a deeper discussion on her case.
Oct 14, 2020•22 min
