JD Thesis 1 - MY RESEARCH PROBLEM PRIORITIZATION MATRIX

Name: _________________________________________ JD3

Directions:
1. List down three topics of interest (according to your order of priority, familiarity and competence)
which you would like to have for your proposal.
2. State the main objective.
3. Indicate the significance of your topic to the following: legislature, executive department, present
generation, future generation, lawyers, law students, and others.
4. You may extend the table/columns if necessary.

Topic Rationale/Objective Significance

Priority Topic 1 The awarding of titles and the To award forest land titles to
“Forest Land for the People: enforcement of private property occupants in order to lessen
Rules on ownership of rights may provide a the congestion of people in
Agricultural land be applied to decentralized approach to cities, rural areas and
forest lands” controlling rapid loss of forest. It agricultural ands;
may help in the reduction of Awarding of title to the
forest exploitation and occupants, who are staying
destruction.; for more than 30 years, can
Recommendations for legislative give them the land security
amendment or enactment that that they need and help the
often ignore traditional land use community in protecting the
rights of those people who are forest;
occupants for more than 30 This will also help in
years for extraordinary lessening the illegal logging
prescription and 10 years for activities and deforestation
ordinary; because the occupants can
Those people who are staying in now safeguard the forest,
forest land for more than 30 their new home.
years or 10 years, who became Over the centuries,
stewards of nature, can help in occupants in the forest lands
safeguarding the forest and have developed delicate but
keeping it viable for the next ecologically stable systems of
generation; swidden agriculture, forage
Most of the deforestation at and terrace agriculture. It is
present is not being done by the just to give them the rights
occupants, but driven by profit over the lands that they till
and asset maximization motives and occupy for more than 30
of the timber industry, years or 10 years.
companies who illegally invade
the products of the forest and
animal poachers.
This paper aims to discuss the
need to address the current rules
and regulations in the forest land
use and make proposals for
reforms.
Priority Topic 2 This aims to give the testator the In Philippine laws, the
full power to dispose his purpose of reserving a
Honor Thy Will: removal of properties according to his portion of the decedent’s
the concept of compulsory wishes. estate for his compulsory
heirs in testamentary An ineffective compulsory heirs is to secure the needs
succession heirship scheme would result in of the family long after he
Alternative title: Freedom in an infringement of a person’s had died. Its effectiveness in
Death: removing compulsory right to dispose of his estate carrying out its purpose,
heirs in testamentary mortis causa. however, has been proven to
succession The current system of be questionable through
compulsory heirs also tends to time. It became a hindrance
cause bickering and indolence for the testator to fully
among them, further justifying dispose his property based
its removal in testamentary on his wishes. The sharing-
succession. scheme of legitimes provided
by the law to the compulsory
heirs may result in
complications and confusion
in the manner of dividing the
estate, and sometimes, its
application results in
absurdity and inequality.
There are also instances
when the reserved portion
allocated for a compulsory
heir is excessive or
insufficient, thereby
defeating the primary
purpose of sustaining such
heirs after the testator’s
death.

The disposing power

of the testator should be
prioritize because he is
vested with property rights.
His will must be taken into
consideration even if it may
affect the compulsory heirs
concept in our country. The
testator knows who are the
people that he wants to
transfer his estate and being
the owner, he knows who
are the deserving ones to
inherit his properties.
Priority Topic 3 The awards of damages in torts The people who suffered
cases are most often than not from other’s negligence or
Quasi-delicts in relation to baseless or if not, based on intentional acts which
Nichomachean ethics: A previous jurisprudence. This resulted to damages can
justification of awards of study will try to prove that it recover the amount they
damages on torts cases needs to shy away from past deserve. An amount in par or
decisions because quasi-delict or higher than the damages
 tort is a very personalistic in caused. In Nichomachean
character. This study will help ethics, it tackled what and
people in the practice of law to how the ultimate goal of
gauge what extent of vindication men, plays an important role
is to be given to people who on achieving it.
suffered damages arising from
quasi-delict.

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