Dr. Jemy Gatdula, Dean of the Institute of Law of the UA&P School of Social Sciences, Law, and Governance, has been reappointed as Vice Chairman of the Jurisprudence and Legal Philosophy Department of the Philippine Judicial Academy (PHILJA). 

Created by the Supreme Court in 1996 and institutionalized in 1998 through Republic Act No. 8557, PHILJA provides continuing judicial education for justices, judges, court personnel, lawyers, and aspirants to judicial posts. The late Chief Justice Hilario G. Davide, Jr. referred to the Academy as “the [Supreme] Court’s implementing arm and the nation’s watchdog in the pursuit of excellence in the Judiciary.”

Dr. Gatdula's reappointment also renews his membership to the Corps of Professors, the official instructional force of PHILJA, which is composed of the Department Chairpersons and their members, incumbent Supreme Court Justices as special lecturers, full-time professors, part-time professors, and professorial lecturers.