Gatmaytan, Dante B.

B.S. (Ateneo, 1987); LL.B. (U.P., 1991); M.S.E.L. cum laude (Vermont Law School, 1995); LL.M. (University of California, Los Angeles 1996); Coordinator, Policy and Research Advocacy Unit, KAISAHAN Tungo sa Kaunlaran ng Kanayunan at Repormang Pansakahan (19992001); Assistant Professorial Lecturer, DLSU (19981999); Staff Lawyer, Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center, Inc. Friends of Earth-Philippines (19921993; 19961998); Executive Officer, Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide-Philippines (19931994)

Courses Handled
Local Government, Land Titles and Deeds, Legal History, Legal Theory

Publications

• Environmental Disputes and Resolution Techniques in the Philippines, in Dispute Resolution Mechanisms in the Philippines, IDE Asian Law Series No. 18, Institute of Developing Economies (IDE JETRO) (March 2002)
   
• Tradition, Contestation, and Democratization: Law and the Challenge of Philippine Folk Democracy, PHILIPPINE LAW JOURNAL, vol. 76
   
• Cost and Effect: The Impact and Irony of the Internal Revenue Allotment, PHILIPPINE LAW JOURNAL, vol. 75
   
• Eyes Wide Shut: Judicial Avoidance and Agrarian Reform Law, 1999 PHILIPPINE PEACE AND HUMAN RIGHTS REVIEW (1999)
   
• Character, Credibility, and Contradiction: Rape Law and the Judicial Construction of the Filipina, 1998 PHILIPPINE PEACE AND HUMAN RIGHTS REVIEW
   
• Uprooting the Underclass: Comprehending Development Displacement as an Environmental Justice Issue, THE WORLD BULLETIN, vol. 13, nos. 1-2 (January-April, 1997)
   
• Death and the Maid: Work, Violence, and the Filipina in the International Labor Market, HARVARD WOMEN'S LAW JOURNAL, vol. 20 (Spring 1997)
   
• Ancestral Domains Recognition in the Philippines: Trends in Jurisprudence and Legislation, PHILIPPINE NATURAL RESOURCES LAW JOURNAL, vol. 5, no. 1 (1992)