Any discussion on contemporary Philippine practice of international law has been largely limited to the contrasting roles played by the Incorporation Clause and the Treaty Clause of the constitution. In this essay, I expand the discussion to the wider avenue of what I call ‘entry points’ in the Philippine constitutional and legal firmament. These entry points are often glossed over in available literature, or are otherwise unrecognized for what they are able to actually do. Here I correlate Professor Andre Nollkaemper’s theory of the dual direct effect of international law with the approach identified with Professor Merlin M. Magallona, former Dean of the University of the Philippines College of Law and the country’s foremost scholar of the Philippine practice of international law. These entry points for international law into Philippine law exhibit the tensions, conflations and paradoxes of monist and dualist tendencies in constitutional adjudication of international legal questions in Philippine courts. As will be hopefully shown in the discussion, these tendencies are not mutually exclusive; the interplay between national law and international law in Philippine practice is a window into the heterogeneous or incoherent Philippine jurisprudence on international law.