National Law University, Delhi

National Law University, Delhi
Motto in English
 There shall justice prevail
Type Public
Established 2008
Chancellor Rajendra Menon[1]
Vice-Chancellor Ranbir Singh[1]
Visitor Chief Justice of India
Location New Delhi, 110078, India
Campus Urban
Affiliations BCI; UGC
Website www.nludelhi.ac.in
National Law University, Delhi from front

National Law University, Delhi (NLUD) is a law university in India, offering courses at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. It is situated in Sector-14, Dwarka, New Delhi, India. NLUD is one of the national law schools in India built on the five-year law degree model proposed and implemented by the Bar Council of India. The statute provides for the Chief Justice of the High Court of Delhi to function as the University's Chancellor whereas the Vice-Chancellor functions as the chief administrator.

History

National Law University, Delhi was established in 2008 by Act No. 1 of 2008 of NCT Delhi in the National Capital Territory of Delhi with the initiative of the High Court of Delhi under the leadership of Ranbir Singh (also the Founder-Director/Vice-Chancellor of Nalsar University of Law, Hyderabad), who became the first Vice-Chancellor. It was inaugurated by the President of India, Pratibha Patil. The college started functioning in 2008 from temporary buildings. By 2010, the college had completed its construction and was fully functional.

Academics

Undergraduate

NLUD offers a five-year undergraduate (UG) B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) program. Seventy seats are offered and ten additional seats are allocated to foreign nationals. The undergraduate program is based on a credits system with additional seminar courses for further learning, pursuant according to the interests of the students. The program consists of approximately fifty subjects to be studied over the duration of ten semesters, with five subjects in each semester. Students are expected to submit fifty research projects before their graduation. The curriculum remains intensive and has led to concerns being brought about stress levels amongst the students.[2]

Admissions to the undergraduate (UG) B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) program are conducted through the All India Law Entrance Test (AILET), a test conducted every year by NLUD.[3] NLUD does not utilize the Common Law Admission Test like other National Law Universities do.[4]

Postgraduate

NLUD also offers a one-year LL.M. program. The admission is through a written test which is conducted by the University followed by an interview.[5] It additionally offers Postgraduate Diploma program in Urban Environmental Management, Judging and Court Management, and IPR and Patent Law along with[6] Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D).[7]

Rankings

University rankings
Law – India
NIRF (2018)[8] 2

NLUD was ranked second in India in the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) law ranking in 2018.[8]


Justice TPS Chawla Library

The library is named after Hon'ble Justice TPS Chawla of the High Court of Delhi who contributed significantly to the development of the library by donating his personal collection of rare volumes to it. The library is fully automated, and book circulation is maintained through electronic Library-cum-Identity Cards with the help of a bar code system. The collection comprises over 41,000 documents, including monographs, commentaries, textbooks, reference books and loose leaf material on various subjects, such as Jurisprudence, Judicial Process, Constitutional law, Intellectual Property, Public International Law, Environmental Law, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Aviation Law, Human Rights, Criminal Law, Cyber Laws, International Business Transactions, and Maritime Law.[9]

The library consists of three storeys.

Research

NLUD currently has thirteen research centres:[10]

  • Centre for Banking and Financial Laws
  • Centre for Communication Governance
  • Centre for Comparative Law
  • Centre for Corporate Law And Governance
  • Centre for Constitutional Law, Policy and Governance
  • Centre for Criminology and Victimology
  • Centre for Comparative Studies in Personal Laws
  • Centre on Death Penalty
  • Centre for Environmental Law, Policy and Research (CELPR)
  • Centre for Innovation, Intellectual Property and Competition (CIIPC)
  • Centre for Social Inclusion And Minority Rights
  • Centre for Transparency and Accountability in Governance
  • Centre for Transnational Commercial Law

NLUD also possesses endowed chairs:

  • K.L. Arora Chair in Criminal Law
  • Justice B.R. Sawhny Chair in Professional Ethics

Student Bar Council

The Students' Bar Council serves as the umbrella organization that governs the various committees existing in the University. Members of the Council and the committees are appointed through elections. The Council consists of the various committees which are headed by the students.

Kairos

Kairos is the literary and cultural fest of the University. It includes a variety of events, which are legal as well as cultural. Each night features performances by popular stage artists and musicians, which have included The Raghu Dixit Project, Faridkot, Dualist Inquiry, Dhruv Visvanathan, The UrbanEarlymen and the Family Cheese.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Governance". nludelhi.ac.in. National Law University Delhi. Retrieved 18 August 2018.
  2. ↑ "Academic programmes". nludelhi.ac.in. Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 27 July 2011.
  3. ↑ "B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) Programme". National Law University, Delhi. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
  4. ↑ "AILET (All India Law Entrance Test)". Careers360. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
  5. ↑ "Academic Programmes - LL.M". nludelhi.ac.in. Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 27 July 2011.
  6. ↑ "Academic Programmes -P.G. Diploma". nludelhi.ac.in. Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 27 July 2011.
  7. ↑ "Academic Programmes -Ph.D." nludelhi.ac.in. Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 27 July 2011.
  8. 1 2 "National Institutional Ranking Framework 2018 (Law)". National Institutional Ranking Framework. Ministry of Human Resource Development. 2018.
  9. ↑ "Library". nludelhi.ac.in. Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 27 July 2011.
  10. ↑ "National Law University Delhi". nludelhi.ac.in. Retrieved 2017-07-20.

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