The prevailing Philippine culture on legal education may prove to be a challenge
in the promotion of a meaningful discourse on the academic life of law students.
Regardless, this obstacle does not prove to be insurmountable considering the steady
evolution of the regional political, economic, and social context to which law practice
and principles serve both as foundation and catalyst for progress. A consequent
change in legal education systems to integrate ASEAN Law would then have to follow if
only to prevent a failure of maintaining the resilient regional bloc envisioned by the
adoption of the ASEAN Charter.