FACULTY Judge Gina Bibat-Palamos Criminal Procedure / Special Proceedings / Election Law / Insurance Law Judge Palamos is currently the Presiding Judge of the Regional Trial Court branch 64 in Makati City, a specialized criminal court for drug cases. She is also the Acting Presiding Judge of the Regional Trial Court branch 194 of Paranaque, a specialized Family Court. A true Bedan at heart, she graduated from San Beda College of Law Mendiola in 1990. After a brief stint at private practice, she became counsel for POEA, Clerk of Court in the RTC of Pasig, State Prosecutor for the Department of Justice, Metropolitan Trial Court Judge of Pasay City, and the versatile Regional Trial Court judge that she is today. As a law professor her strict style of teaching keeps her students on their toes and instills diligence and perseverance which leads to proficiency in the courses that she teaches which include Special Proceedings, Election Law, Insurance Law, and Criminal Procedure.
Justice Rodrigo Cosico Legal Profession / Legal Ethics Justice Cosico is the first appointee from San Pablo Colleges as an Associate Justice for the Court of Appeals, where he served for almost eleven years until his retirement. He passed the bar on January 22, 1962 after which he became a State Prosecutor for the Department of Justice for 23 years and thereafter became a Regional Trial Court Judge in Laguna. Among his numerous achievements, Justice Cosico was also awarded with the George Malcom Award by the Rotary Club of Manila and an Achievement Award by the Court of Appeals for having finished all the cases conferred to his office before he retired. Now Justice Cosico, continues on his love for law by being a professor in Legal Profession and Legal Ethics in the School of Law of San Beda Alabang; and as a Professorial Lecturer in the Philippine Judicial Academy.
Judge Selma Alaras Negotiable Instruments Law / Practice Court I and II / Criminal Law I An embodiment of success, propriety and integrity in the judiciary is Judge Selma P. Alaras. With about seventeen years of court practice, she sits as the presiding judge of Branch 62 of the Regional Trial Court of Makati. The only female professor teaching Practice Court 1 in fourth year this semester, Judge Alaras was a consistent honor student from elementary and high school at Centro Escolar University and even in college at the University of the Philippines. She has a long list of firsts to her name, to wit: She is the first teacher to preside over the newly opened moot court and the first Practice Court teacher at the San Beda Alabang School of Law. She was elected as the first female president of the Law Student Government of SBC Law, where she received her Bachelor of Laws in 1990. She was also elected as the youngest and first female president of the City of Prosecutors League of Manila in 1998. Loved by her students for her generosity and for treating them as her children, Judge Alaras is an esteemed member of the school who is willing to share her knowledge in law and her fruitful experiences in court. Currently, she is finishing her Masters of Law in the Graduate School of Law of San Beda as a full scholar.
Atty. Joan Ca単ete-Chan Sales and Lease A psychology graduate, she received her law education at the University of the Philippines and graduated in 2001. She considers herself as blessed to have been taught by a crop of truly dedicated professors like Sanidad, Baviera, Fernandez, Concepcion, and Leonel, who made studying law an exciting experience. Atty. Chan specializes in Labor Law, Corporate Law and Taxation Law. She has been a professor in San Beda Alabang since the School of Law started. Currently, she teaches Sales and Lease, and Obligations and Contracts. According to Atty. Chan, she teaches because she loves to. As for her students, Atty. Chan makes studying a lighter burden because she makes it a point that the law is understood by all her students. To her, learning is attained not only by teaching, but also by mentoring.