Ross Tugade

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Ruby Rosselle “Ross” Tugade is a Filipino lawyer with experience in documentation, monitoring, and analysis of large-scale human rights violations in the Philippines. She is also a law and political science lecturer in two of the country’s leading universities and serves as a resource person for talks relating to contemporary human rights issues. Ross is a published writer on various academic and mainstream media platforms.

• Never Again, the limits of the law, and the demands of history, PhilStar Life

• With Ben&Ben, all roads lead to home, CNN Philippines

• Justice Among Us: Producing an Equilibrium of Interests
  in Peer-to-Peer Sexual Harassment Proceedings Within Educational and Training Institutions, UST Law Review

• Enforcing the Right to Health: the Philippines and COVID-19 from a Human Rights Perspective, Bedan Law Review

• What does the LGBTQIA+ community need from our legislators?, CNN Philippines

• Beyond Legal Transformation: Assessing the Impact of Transitional Justice Mechanisms in the Philippines, Philippine Law Journal

• OPINION: What attacks against lawyers say about the profession — and our country’s future, CNN Philippines

• A Rebellion in Reverse, Sinister Wisdom Vol. 120

• Why the proposed ‘Marcos Day’ is in conflict with the law, CNN Philippines

• Surveillance and Compliance, Jurisdiction: Philippines, Global response to Covid19 - a comparative law and economics project

• State of Exception, Jurisdiction: Philippines, Global response to Covid19 - a comparative law and economics project

• Justice-Oriented Approaches to Pandemic-Related Human Rights Abuses in the Philippines, Shaping Human Rights and Peace Research and Education in ASEAN/Southeast Asia

• Anticipating the aftermath of the pandemic through a human rights response, Rappler.com

• Stories from these days of stillness, Rappler.com

• OPINION: The San Juan hostage incident is a labor rights issue, CNN Philippines​

• Boarding Gates and Promises of Home, Philippine Daily Inquirer

• An Unwinnable War: Locating the Value of Life in the Middle of the Philippine’s Campaign Against Illegal Drugs, University of Asia & the Pacific Law Journal

• In the death penalty debate, who gets to say who can live and who must die?, CNN Philippines

• Dispatches From Therapy, Philippine Daily Inquirer

• Marcosian Atrocities: Historical Revisionism and the Legal Constraints on Forgetting, Asia-Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law

• The Meaning of Being Lonely, Philippine Daily Inquirer

• Ode to the Ground, The Tiny Journal

• EDSA and History Lessons for Today, Rappler.com

• Lawyering is Risky Business, Philippine Daily Inquirer

• What does it take to pass the Bar exams?, CNN Philippines

• A new era for equality?, Scout Magazine

• We need to talk about mental illness in the Philippines, CNN Philippines

• Politics and law in the middle of a drug war, Rappler.com

• Understanding Insanity: Making Sense out of Mental Illness in Philippines Law and Jurisprudence, Philippine Law Journal