IBP Legal Education

The official Twitter account of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines’ National Committee on Legal Education & Bar Admissions (IBP-CLEBA). FB/IG: @ibp_legaled

[IBP Legal Education @ibp_legaled]

February 2nd is #ConstitutionDay

[AJIL and AJIL Unbound @AJIL_andUnbound]

How far does law travel—and who feels its reach? The AJIL Unbound symposium "Exploring Extraterritoriality's Empire" examines how legal authority beyond borders has shaped empires, governance, and international law.

Read the symposium: https://t.co/xrwhscNxC5

[Legal History Blog @legalhistory]

Grimm on German Constitutional History since 1949 https://t.co/EEdWtrsKLH

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

An MIT professor taught the same math course for 62 years, and the day he retired, students from every country on earth showed up online to watch him give his final lecture.

I opened the playlist at 2am and ended up watching three of them back to back.

His name is Gilbert Strang. The course is MIT 18.06 Linear Algebra.

Every machine learning engineer, every data scientist, every quant, every self-taught programmer who actually understands how AI works learned the math from this one man. Most of them never set foot on MIT's campus. They just opened a free playlist on YouTube and let him teach.

Here's the story almost nobody tells you.

Strang joined the MIT math faculty in 1962. He retired in 2023. That is 61 years of standing at the same chalkboard teaching the same subject to 18-year-olds.

The interesting part is what he did when MIT launched OpenCourseWare in 2002. Most professors were skeptical. They worried that putting their lectures online would make their classrooms irrelevant. Strang did not hesitate. He said his life's mission was to open mathematics to students everywhere. He filmed every lecture and gave it away.

The decision quietly changed how the world learns math.

For decades linear algebra was taught the wrong way. Professors started with abstract vector spaces and proofs about field axioms. Students drowned in the abstraction. Most never recovered. They walked out believing they were bad at math when they had simply been taught in an order that nobody's brain is built to absorb.

Strang inverted the entire curriculum.

He started with matrix multiplication. Something you can write down on paper. Something you can compute by hand. Something you can see. Then he showed his students that everything else in linear algebra eigenvectors, singular value decomposition, orthogonality, the four fundamental subspaces was just a different lens for understanding what the matrix was actually doing under the hood.

His rule was strict. If a student could not explain a concept using a concrete 3 by 3 example, that student did not actually understand the concept yet. The abstraction was supposed to come last, not first. The intuition was the foundation. The proofs were just confirmation that the intuition was correct.

The second thing Strang changed was the classroom itself. He said please and thank you to his students. Every single lecture. He paused mid-derivation to ask "am I OK?" to check if anyone was lost. He never used the word "obviously" or "trivially" because he knew exactly what those words do to a student who is one step behind. He treated 19-year-olds learning math for the first time the way he treated his own colleagues. With patience. With respect. With the assumption that they belonged in the room.

For 62 years.

The result is something that has never happened in the history of education. A single math professor became the default teacher of his subject for the entire planet.

Universities in India, China, Brazil, Nigeria, every country with a computer science department, started telling their own students to just watch Strang's lectures. The University of Illinois revised its linear algebra course to do almost no in-person lecturing. The reason was honest. The professor said they could not compete with the videos.

His final lecture was in May 2023.

The auditorium was packed with students who had never met him before. He walked to the chalkboard, taught for an hour, and at the end the entire room stood and applauded. He looked confused for a moment, like he genuinely did not understand why they were cheering. Then he smiled and waved them off and walked out.

His written comment under the YouTube video of that final lecture was four sentences long. He said teaching had been a wonderful life. He said he was grateful to everyone who saw the importance of linear algebra. He said the movement of teaching it well would continue because it was right.

That was it. No book promotion. No farewell speech. No legacy management.

The man whose teaching is the foundation of modern AI just thanked the audience and went home.

20 million views. Zero ego. The entire engine of the AI revolution sits on top of math that millions of people learned for free from one quiet professor in Cambridge.

The course is still on MIT OpenCourseWare. Every lecture, every problem set, every exam, every solution. Free.

The most important math course of the 21st century is sitting one click away from you. Most people will never open it.

[Chel Diokno @ChelDiokno]

Klaro sa batas: ang Impeachment ay exception sa Bank Secrecy Law. Hindi puwedeng gawing taguan ito kung pananagutan sa bayan ang usapan.

Yan ang dahilan kung bakit nailabas ng Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) ang reports ng bilyong-bilyong covered and suspicious transactions sa accounts ni VP Sara Duterte.

Balikan ang naging usapan sa hearing ng House Commitee on Justice noong Miyerkules—at mag-comment kung sa palagay mong may "probable cause" o sapat na batayan para umusad ang kaso.

[Boyd van Dijk @boyd_vandijk]

New handbook: International Law for Diplomats

https://t.co/JlKOyp1H12

[AJIL and AJIL Unbound @AJIL_andUnbound]

AJIL Unbound symposium "The Future of a Melting Arctic: Challenges for International Law" is now online! It examines the legal challenges emerging from a rapidly changing polar region, including environmental risks & geopolitical tensions.
https://t.co/TqYn3ax62g

[Lauterpacht Centre for International Law @Lauterpacht_Ctr]

Join us for this Thursday's lecture - 3 pm 19 March: 'Separating powers in the lex sportiva: Can the Court of Arbitration for Sport become an independent check on the transnational governance of sport?' - Dr Antoine Duval, TMC Asser Instituut. More at: https://t.co/zP71cpvGvE

[Smithsonian Magazine @SmithsonianMag]

From the archive: Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Brooklyn upbringing (and the influence of her mother Celia) taught her not to limit her view of what women could accomplish, but her path to women’s rights law was circuitous. #InternationalDayofWomenJudges https://t.co/in0JLb7t38

[Gerardo L. Munck @GerardoMunck]

𝗢𝗻 𝗛𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗞𝗲𝗹𝘀𝗲𝗻

This new volume, edited by Baume and Ragazzoni, will be of interest to all those who have read Kelsen. It includes chapters by well-known theorists and legal analysts.

You can also download the full book for free.

Open Access: https://t.co/Bfl5LOuGip

[The Shift Journal @TheShiftJournal]

The best way to teach people critical thinking is to teach them to write

[ABA Litigation Section @ABALitigation]

Looking for ways to build your leadership skills? Join the Litigation Section! Plan events, write articles, mentor young lawyers, and much more! Plus, enjoy discounts on CLE events and webinars, networking opportunities, and more. Visit https://t.co/C2aKnW9PIV to get started!

[LSSSE @TheLSSSE]

#WhatDoYouThinkWednesday: How can law schools balance teaching practical skills with theoretical knowledge?

Comment and let us know what you think!

#LSSSE #LawSchool #LegalEducation #StudentSuccess #StudentEngagement

[Living Tricks @LivingTricks_]

Who is the smartest, USA or CHINA?

[EJIL: Talk! @ejiltalk]

Guatemala’s Application to Intervene in the Sapodilla Cayes Case: An Impermissible Intervention by an Indispensable Party? | by Sanmay Moitra
https://t.co/YErxuHMei3

[AJIL and AJIL Unbound @AJIL_andUnbound]

There is still time to register for today's webinar at 2pm (ET)
✅Register here: https://t.co/1kacCdPLC0
✅Read their AJIL article "The 'America First Trade Policy' in Practice" with co-author Kathleen Claussen here: https://t.co/yX5g8vPymK

[Politics and International Law @PoliticsIntlLaw]

The ICJ takes forever to decide cases. Lately, it has been speeding up its rulings. Is it “cutting corners” or exercising judicial economy? Antoine De Spiegeleir weighs in. #UpholdingIL @ejiltalk https://t.co/SDpWf0h1xp

[EJIL: Talk! @ejiltalk]

Announcements: Right to Strike under International Law Seminar; BUL Law Talk Series; If the World is Family Event; CfS Cyber Law Toolkit [...] | by Mary Guest
https://t.co/5mqnPP8AcS

[IBA Events @IBAevents]

📢Sold Out! #IBABIC ‘Internationalisation seminar: helping lawyers access international legal markets or expand their practice to foreign jurisdictions'

🗓️ 2 Nov 🌎Toronto 🇨🇦

Info ➡ https://t.co/bubYeoYjpz

🔹Presented by BIC International Trade in Legal Services Committee

[IBA Events @IBAevents]

Katherine Hutchinson from Bennett Jones discusses what you can expect from the attending the IBA Annual Conference 2025 #IBAToronto 🇨🇦

⚖️We look forward to welcoming you at the best conference for #lawyers globally!

🗓️2-7 Nov🌍Toronto

✍️Register ➡️ https://t.co/jI0dYxXw87

[ABA Litigation Section @ABALitigation]

“Bivens” actions allow plaintiffs to hold federal officials liable in their official capacities for violating their constitutional rights. However, the Supreme Court has declined to recognize a “Bivens” action for nearly 50 years. Read to learn more:
https://t.co/jkfIV4DK6S