This article surveys a century of international law scholarship in the Philippine Law Journal to examine the ways in which Philippine legal scholars have continuously engaged “Asia” and the Philippines’ place within it. The various modes of writing Asia and that of the Philippines-within-Asia in the pages of the Journal are largely productive acts that track the shifts in geopolitical and pragmatic concerns. In treating the Journal as a historical archive, the article draws out the mechanisms and techniques of international legal scholarship particular to pieces that tackle Asia as a major theme or component of analysis. These pieces, though not uniform in the way they confront issues of theory and method in their writing, nevertheless implicate questions on epistemology and the uses of history in international legal scholarship. Mapping out and making explicit these theoretical and methodological commitments may provide a starting point for a more deliberate engagement by Filipino scholars with some fundamental issues in the production of legal scholarship and knowledge, especially in international law topics.