THE Integrated Bar of the Philippines is the official organization of all lawyers in the Philippines — official in the sense that the Rules of Court provide for it and for the compulsory membership in it of all members of the Bar. The Philippine Bar Association is a voluntary organization, as are other lawyers’ groups in the country.

The Philippine College of Jurisconsults is not a lawyers’ group, although some of its prominent members are lawyers. It is principally a “collegium” of scholars, who make of the law the subject of study, research, discussion and publication. Its members include professors of international law, Philippine lawyers, foreign lawyers, canon law professors and Shari’a law publicists and scholars.