The Philippine Yearbook of International Law

University of the Philippines

Associate Professor Casis received his LL.M. (2010) from Columbia University, specializing in International Law, Climate Change Law, and Environmental Law. He earned the distinction of being a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar (magna cum laude equivalent). He has been teaching at UP Law since 2005 and became a full-time faculty member in 2008. He is the Director of the Institute of International Legal Studies of the University of the Philippines Law Center. 

Associate Professor Casis regularly publishes in peer-reviewed and indexed international law journals.  He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Asia-Pacific Journal of International Humanitarian Law, Associate Editor of the Philippine Yearbook of International Law, State Practice Rapporteur of the Asian Yearbook of International Law, and Editorial Board Member of the Korean Journal of International and Comparative Law.  He was the State Volume Editor of the Philippine Chapter of the Encyclopedia of Public International Law in Asia.

Associate Professor Casis is the co-author and co-editor of other international law books.  He has written Philippine law treatises on the Law on Contracts, Torts and Quasi-Delicts, Damages, Agency and Partnership.  He is the faculty adviser for UP Law’s moot court teams (Jessup, Stetson, IHL, and Asia Cup).