ADMINISTRATIVE LAW • Postponement of elections

• What are administrative agencies; functions o Abas kida v Senate

• Supervision of administrative agencies LOCAL GOVERNMENT
• Control of administrative agencies • Power of local government unit
• Qualified political agency o White light v city of manila
o Quasi-legislative power • Closure and opening of roads
o Quasi-judicial power o MMDA v Bel Air
 Ang Tibay v CIR • Local Initiative and Referendum
• Judicial recourse and review • Settlement of boundary disputes
o Doctrine of primary administrative jurisdiction • Gerrymandering
o Doctrine of exhaustion of administrative • Requisites of a valid ordinance
remedies o Ordinance v resolution
o Certiorari, prohibition, mandamus • Legislative power of local legislators
o Extents and limits
LAW ON PUBLIC OFFICERS
• General principles • President’s supervision over LGUs
o Remember: public office is not property in the • Liabilities of LGUs
context of due process o Can a prosecutor represent an LGU?
o Can the OSG represent an LGU?
• Appointment
o Read the case of Garafil v. OP  See limit on the LGUs to hire lawyers
• Eligibility and qualification • SK Law
• Disabilities and inhibitions of public officers • Katarungang Pambarangay Law
• Rights of public officers PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW
o Right to compensation • ICC jurisdiction over the president
• Personnel actions • ICC v ICJ (differences)
o Transfer • Jus cogens
o Detail • Obligations erga omnes
• Liabilities of public officers • EDCA, VFA
• De facto officers (in relation to right to • Doctrine of incorporation vs. doctrine of
compensation) incorporation
• Termination of official relation • Article 38 of ICJ Statute
o Acceptance of an incompatible office • Principle of diplomatic and consular law
o Removal • Diplomatic immunity
• Remedy to question title o Minucher v CA
o Republic v Sereno • Nationality v statelessness
• Read revised rules on administrative cases o Poe v COMELEC
ELECTION LAW • Doctrine of state responsibility
• Suffrage o Ariga v Swift
o Kabataan Party-list v COMELEC • UNCLOS
• Powers of the COMELEC o Magallona v Ermita
o When can COMELEC declare failure of • International Human Rights Law
elections? • Precautionary Principle
• Qualifications and disqualification of voters o West Tower v. FPIC
• Registration of voters • Immigration; treatment of alines
• Political Parties o Extradition v. Deportation
o Paglaum v COMELEC o Puruganan case
• Candidacy • Treaty v Domestic Law
o Quinto v COMELEC • Pacta sunt servanda
o Aratea v COMELEC
• Disqualification
• Campaign
o Read Penera v COMELC
• Casting of votes and absentee voting