How long does it take to read Legal Philosophy for Filipinos?
Legal Philosophy for Filipinos by Gil Marvel P. Tabucanon takes about 3 hours 50 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 50 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2011. 209 pages, about 57,475 words.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 23 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 50 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 24 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Yesterday, I received the complimentary copies of my book published by Rex Bookstore in Manila entitled Legal Philosophy for Filipinos. The book is dedicated to Baha’u’llah, the prophet founder of the Baha’i Faith, who wrote and commented extensively on global justice, the idea being that mankind has reached a point of maturity enough for it to accept and realize the concept of ‘oneness of mankind’ and the ‘fundamental unity of all the religions.’ But going back to legal philosophy let me share the preface I wrote in the book: Legal philosophy is not an easy subject to tackle; for that matter, it is not usually in the law students’ top ten list of favorite subjects. I base these observations from my more than seven years of teaching the course. I will cite three reasons why legal philosophy baffled law students in the past, and continues to do so at present among today’s supposedly cyber-smart students: 1) It is not a bar subject; ergo, it must be a ‘minor’ subject, 2) its study does not help bring in one’s first ‘million,’ and 3) legal philosophy is only for philosophers inhabiting cloistered academic ivory towers. The arguments are misplaced. True, legal philosophy is not a bar subject. But so is legal research, or, strictly, legal writing. All three subjects imbue skills to the bar candidate pervading through in all the eight bar subjects and beyond. Imagine a lawyer who is deficient in legal research: where would he find his law, and decisions to bolster his argument, not to mention citations deconstructing the fallacies of his opponent. Or a practitioner whose writing skills amounts at best to legal mumbo-jumbo, i.e., one who has no clue how to present his thoughts on paper in simple, grammatically correct and clear terms. Legal philosophy equips students with outright skills in questioning, analysis and the ability to look at the facts and law from different viewpoints. The course teaches students how to be broadminded, mindful of the ‘essence’ of the rules…
Subjects: Cases, Philosophy, Law, Jurisprudence
