The UP Law Center, established by Republic Act 3870, has various programs that  carry the law to the wider public in fulfillment of its mandate to raise the legal literacy level of Filipinos. Its Charter directs the institution:

• to undertake law institutes or study programs for continuing legal education (such as the MCLE, click here to know more);
• to undertake legal studies and researches on request from the various agencies of the government concerned with law reform, including the committees on Revision of Laws of the House of Representatives and the Senate; and
• to undertake the publication of studies, monographs, research papers, articles, and other works or writings on law, with special emphasis on those related to its general objectives, and to distribute them at cost to government agencies, judges, lawyers, government administrators and other interested parties