National Law University Odisha

National Law University Odisha
Motto सत्ये स्थितो धर्म:
ସତ୍ୟ ସ୍ଥିଥୋ ଧର୍ମଃ
(Sanskrit)
Type Public
Established 2009
Chancellor Chief Justice of Orissa High Court
Vice-Chancellor Srikrishna Deva Rao
Students 635
Undergraduates 600
Location Cuttack, Odisha, India
Campus Cuttack
Website www.nluo.ac.in

National Law University Odisha (NLUO) is an autonomous law university in India located at Cuttack, Odisha. It was established in 2008 (Act 4 of 2008) under the National Law University Odisha Act, commencing its first batch from July 2009. The Institute offers undergraduate ( integrated B.A./LL.B. , B.B.A./LL.B. , B.Com/LL.B.) and post-graduate courses ( L.L.M , M.Phil. , Ph.D ) in law.

The founding Vice Chancellor of NLUO was Faizan Mustafa. Prof. Srikrishna Deva Rao is the present Vice-Chancellor of the University.[1]

Campus

NLUO was established under the National Law University Odisha NLUO Act of 2008. Since June 2012, NLUO has been functioning from its current campus amid rivers Mahanadi and Kathajodi at Naraj.The campus is spread over an area of 50 acres (200,000 m2) sanctioned by the Odisha government with another 20 acres set to be allotted.

The University has two men's and women's hostels respectively, a sports complex with infrastructure supporting basketball; volleyball and tennis,an auditorium (Amphi-theater) of 1500 seating capacity and a guest house and an administrative block apart from the Academic block which consists of the Classrooms, Seminar Hall, Moot Court Hall and E-brary.

Admissions

For both the Undergraduate and Post-Graduate programs, students are accepted through the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT).

Undergraduate[2]

The total intake of undergraduate students aiming to pursue either of the courses is 180. The lot is divided into 120 seats for B.A/LL.B and 60 seats for B.B.A./LL.B.. Of the 120 B.A/L.L.B. seats, 14 are reserved for scheduled tribes, 10 for scheduled castes, 4 for the disabled, 4 for foreign nationals and 10 for NRI. As of now, the University does not provide state domicile reservation. However, the state government has approved the proposal of 25% reservations which may be applicable in the coming few years.

Postgraduate[3]

NLUO Offers a 1 year long L.L.M course in Corporate & Commercial Law and Constitutional Law and has an intake of 50 students divided 25 each for the streams. Out of the 25 in each stream 03 are reserved for SC, 2 for ST, 01 for Specially Abled Persons, 02 for NRi and 01 for Foreign Nationals respectively.

Mooting

Amongst the 19 NLUs, NLUO is best known for its fast growing mooting culture and its excellence in mooting and other such competitions.[4] NLUO has a system of forming a mooting pool through an annual Intra University Moot Court Competition (IUMCC) hosted by The Moot Society (TMS). Moots are picked up through a system of show of hands by bidding the IUMCC ranks. Some international and national moot court competitions are categorized to Open Challengers where students outside the Mooting Pool of IUMCC can compete to be allowed to represent NLUO in a moot competition.

International Maritime Arbitration Moot (IMAM)

Since 2014, NLUO has been conducting the ‘NLUO International Maritime Arbitration Moot Court Competition (IMAM) , a Flagship event of The Moot Society (TMS) of NLUO. It is India's first International Maritime Law Moot with a special focus on International Commercial Arbitration and over the years it has also come to become one of India's best Maritime Law moot competitions.

IMAM 2018 was organised by The Moot Court Society [TMS] in association with Eastern Book Company/ SCC Online Web Edition in the month of March –April 2018. As a prize, the top two finishing teams had an opportunity to intern in the Mumbai office of Bose & Mitra & Co. –one of the leading maritime and shipping law firms of the country.

Mooting Achievements

NLUO has been ranked 10 in the Mooting Premier League the 7th edition which is decided on the basis of cumulative points earned in multiple moot court competitions.[5] For two consective years 2016 and 2017; NLUO has qualified for the international rounds of the prestigious Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition . While in 2016 it finished in top 16, in 2017 NLUO was the Semi Finalist in the world rounds and the winner of the National rounds.

NLUO in 2017 was the winner of the 34th BCI Moot Court Competition[6] among its other achievements. NLUO was also the Runner-Up of South Asia Rounds and an Octo-Finalist in the International Round of Oxford Price Media Law Moot Court Competition 2017-2018.[7] It also received the honorable mention for Runners Up in the category of Best Newcomer Team in the 18th International Maritime Law Arbitration Moot (2017) hosted by Murdoch University, Australia [8]

Rankings

University rankings

National Law University Odisha has been ranked 3 by India Today's "India's Best Law Universities" [9] and was ranked 18th by Outlook India's "Top 25 Law Colleges In 2018".[10]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.odishasuntimes.com/80877/80877
  2. ↑ "Under Graduate Programme - National Law University". National Law University. Retrieved 2018-10-01.
  3. ↑ "LL.M. Programme - National Law University". National Law University. Retrieved 2018-10-01.
  4. ↑ http://www.legallyindia.com/201402114334/Mooting/mpl-weekend-bonanza-nlu-j-wins-dmh-nlsiu-picks-up-kla-and-gimc-nliu-back-in-2nd-with-surana-corp
  5. ↑ https://www.legallyindia.com/home/it-s-official-gnlu-beats-nalsar-nls-nujs-to-win-mpl-7-after-rocking-elsa-moot-and-season-20170823-8725
  6. ↑ http://www.nluo.ac.in/news-updates/nluo-wins-34th-bci-moot/
  7. ↑ https://pricemootcourt.socleg.ox.ac.uk/2017/09/international-rounds-2018/
  8. ↑ http://www.nluo.ac.in/news-updates/nlu-odisha-team-runners-18th-international-maritime-law-arbitration-moot-2017/
  9. ↑ http://www.nluo.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/India-Today-Ranking-Press-Release-1.pdf
  10. ↑ https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/top-25-law-colleges-in-2018/300182

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