TWO alumna of the University of San Carlos Law School won major awards in the Foundation for Liberty and Prosperity 2021-2022 Dissertation Writing Contest.

Breden Arcayos grabbed the second prize with her dissertation titled “Balancing Security and Liberty: A Comparative Study on Domestic Anti-Terrorism Laws vis-à-vis Human Rights Obligations of States Under International Human Rights Law.”

Atty. Rashid Pandi served as her thesis adviser.

Meanwhile, Nicole Marie Carreon bagged the third prize with her dissertation “The Code as Law and the Code of Law: The Legal Challenges in Adopting Stablecoins as Securities under the Securities Regulation Code and other Laws.”

Carreon was mentored by Atty. Noel C. Felongco.

Aside from Arcayos and Carreon, two more USC Law graduates were chosen as finalists.

Chrisha Ver Romano-Weigel was recognized for her thesis titled “The Boat People’s Crisis: Transforming the Law of the Sea to Accommodate Human Rights Norms, Clarify the Parameters of the Duty to Rescue, and Create a New Nexus for Imputing State Responsibility on the High Seas.”

On the other hand, Edward Dominic Emilio was acknowledged for his thesis “Prometheus Unbound: Establishing the Human Right Against Information Vacuums.”
Assistant Dean Atty. Daryl Bretch Largo was their thesis adviser.

Funded by the Ayala Group and in cooperation with the Philippine Association of Law Schools, FLP awards papers that best explain and espouse the Foundation’s philosophy of “liberty and prosperity under the rule of law.”