This article is about academic discipline on law and management. For field of business administration on legal issues, see
Enterprise legal management.
Legal management or paralegal studies is an
academic,
vocational, and
professional discipline that is a hybrid between the study of
law and
management (i.e., business administration, public administration, etc.). Often, alumni of legal management programmes pursue a
professional degree in law such as
Juris Doctor (JD) or
Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) while some profess as
paralegals, law clerks, political analysts, politicians,
public administrators, entrepreneurs, business executives, or pursue careers in the
academe.
Legal management student organisations across the Philippines are represented by the Alliance of Legal Management Associations of the Philippines (ALMAP) to the
Securities and Exchange Commission, as a
non-stock,
non-profit, student-run corporation.
Curriculum
Legal management is currently offered in multiple degree formats depending on the offering
college or
university. Its variety and flexibility is a focal point among schools that have it in their roster of
academic degrees. Some capitalise in the
legal aspects, while others for the
business aspects. Some schools may offer the degree either as a predominantly preparatory law programme, a
liberal arts focused programme, or a business and
management programme. Core subjects include:
law,
philosophy,
literature and
management (public and business). Depending on the school, the ratio of law courses to management courses vary between 40:60 to 90:10.
Variations of the discipline can be conferred either as the following undergraduate degrees:
Legal management alumni are highly trained, adept, and knowledgeable in the following gamut of disciplines:
Liberal Arts
Law
Business
Anthropology
Communication Arts
Governance and Public Administration
History
Literature
Philosophy
Psychology
Political Economy
Political Science
Public Policy
Sociology
Administrative Law
Civil Law
Constitutional Law
Criminal Law
Labour Law
Legal and Judicial Ethics
Legal Writing and Statutory Construction
Mercantile Law
Remedial Law
Taxation Law
Political Law
Public International Law
Accounting
Business Mathematics
Business Communication
Corporate Social Responsibility
Economics
Finance
Marketing
Human Resource Management
Statistics
Organisational Behaviour
Operations Management
Public Relations
Strategic Management
Taxation
Total Quality Management
Alliance of Legal Management Associations of the Philippines
Founded in 2000, the Alliance of Legal Management Associations of the Philippines (ALMAP, Inc.) is the home of all Legal Management Student Organisations in the Philippines. It is responsible for the promotion of all Legal Management Degree Programs in the country, and is the sole and exclusive representative of the Legal Management Student Body in the
Commission on Higher Education (CHED) and it is duly registered with the
Securities and Exchange Commission as a Non-Stock,
Non-Profit Student Organisation.
It fosters relationships between different schools offering the Legal Management, Legal Studies, Paralegal Studies, and the like degree programs through social engineering projects, forums, academic seminars, project partnerships and nation-building initiatives.