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Nalsar University of Law
File:Acad blck.jpg
The NALSAR academic block from afar
MottoDharme Sarvam Pratishthitham
TypeNational University
Established1998
ChancellorChief Justice of A.P. High Court
Vice-ChancellorProf. (Dr.) Faizan Mustafa
Undergraduates400
Postgraduates120
Location
Hyderabad
,
Andhra Pradesh
,
India
AffiliationsUGC
Websitewww.nalsar.ac.in
File:Nalsar University of Law Logo.jpg

The Nalsar University of Law, or officially the National Academy of Legal Studies and Research (NALSAR), is a legal studies institution located in Shamirpet, Hyderabad, India. It was established in 1998 as a state university in an Act of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly (Act 34 of 1998). The University is fully residential and conducts teaching in law and allied disciplines. NALSAR is one of the most prestigious law university in India, with acceptance rate lower than 1%.[1]

Academics

Undergraduate

NALSAR offers a five year undergraduate (UG) B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) program. Admission is through the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT), where 70 seats are offered. Ten additional seats are allocated to foreign nationals.[2]

In 2010, 80 students were selected for the B.A,LL.B(Hons.) programme from 16,350 applicants making NALSAR one of the most difficult Law Universities to get admitted to.[3] Similarly, in 2011, 80 students were selected from 23, 786 CLAT applicants. [4]

Postgraduate

NALSAR also offers a two year postgraduate LL.M. program. 50 students are admitted through CLAT with ten more allocated to foreign nationals. About ten areas of specialization are offered, and the program requirements include a dissertation.[5] Additionally, a one year Master of Philosophy (M.Phil) is offered, open to candidate with an LL.M. degree,[6] and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D).[7]

Rankings

University rankings


Since its inception NALSAR has been consistently ranked no.2 in India. In 2009, NALSAR was ranked no.1 law university in India. Then in 2011, NALSAR was ranked first by the India Today India's Best Law Colleges 2011[8] and second by Outlook India Top 10 Law Colleges of 2011[9] and Mint Top 15 Law Colleges of 2009.[10]

Infrastructure

NALSAR boasts of the best infrastructure amongst the law universities in India. The law school is currently divided into five distinct precincts. (a) The first is the Administrative Block which is adjoining the Academic Block. The Academic Block broadly consists of the classrooms, conference halls, the library, the internet center, a full fledged moot court hall and various research centres. (b) The residential block consists of four separate hostels for boys and girls each; all of them are internet enabled through wifi and LAN. (c) The sports complex including the 'stadium' forms the fourth while the law school dining hall forms the fifth. (d) An 800 seater centrally air-conditioned auditorium for conferences, (e) The Teachers Convention Centre for conducting various training and orientation programs for faculty, with a capacity of 30 rooms.

Miscellaneous structures include the commemorative 'Keerthi Stambh' and a copy of 'The Thinker' by Auguste Rodin.

Law Library

It has more than 500,000 volumes of books. The Law Resource Center is the hub of all library activities and aims at fulfilling the research and academic objectives of the University. Its rich collection of primary and secondary legal resources is accessible to all the users in the campus.[11]

The web Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) is accessible from any terminal in and out of the campus. It is designed to provide online information on availability of titles, and to allow the patrons to request for items that are on loan, renewal of books, access to patron accounts and other information services.[12]

Students can register themselves to become a member of the library and avail its services. Unlike the traditional OPACS which stimulate serendipity, each record is designed to provide extensive bibliographic information with hot links to table of contents pages, reviews, publishers' notes, and peer driven reviews and ratings.[13]

The centre is also a depository of UN collections. A separate section houses all the proceedings of the significant organs of the United Nations. The print collection is augmented by online access.

Research Centres

The SAARClaw Centre at NALSAR

NALSAR houses numerous exclusive research centres:[14]

  • M.K. Nambiyar SAARC Law Research Centre
  • Dr. N.C. Banerjee Centre for Intellectual Property Law Studies
  • Dr. S.P. Chatterjee Centre for Environmental Law Studies
  • Centre for Disability Studies
  • Centre for Corporate Law and Governance
  • Centre for Air and Space Law
  • Centre for Land Rights
  • Centre for Proximate and Continuing Education (C-PACE)
  • Centre for Humanitarian Law and Refugee Law
  • Centre for Alternative Dispute Resolution
  • Centre for Media Law and Public Policy
  • Centre for Legal Philosophy and Justice Education
  • Centre for Tax Laws
  • Centre for Culture, Law and Society (C-CLS)
  • Centre for Constitutional Law, Policy & Good Governance
  • Centre for Criminal Justice Administration and Human Rights
  • Centre for Disaster Management and Law
  • Centre for Family Law
  • Centre for Tribal and Land Rights

As a part of a memorandum of understanding entered between the NALSAR and Microsoft India in September 2005, it is proposed to create the Microsoft Intellectual Property Scholarship programme, where three students, focussing on fundamental research in Intellectual Property, would be awarded scholarships. NALSAR is one of the select few Universities in the world where Microsoft has established such a scholarship program.

Student Achievements

International Moot Court

NALSAR student have excelled in mooting as well as debating at the national and international level by being a consistent top-performer and winner.

Early in 2007, the young team of Third Year students were placed among the top 8 teams in the world, at the prestigious Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition. The team also performed exceedingly well in terms of the written memorial ranking 3rd in the world. In addition to this, one oralist from the team was adjudged the best speaker from a country other than United States and was also awarded a summer scholarship to Georgetown University. This has followed the blistering start in 2006 with a previous team having got top honours at the national round of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition. NALSAR was ranked amongst the top four in the world at the international rounds of the Philip C. Jessup Moot Court Competition 2006 at Washington D.C.[15] Students of NALSAR made their presence felt in international moot courts competitions, which considered as traditional play turfs for students from European and North American law schools. "Our students won some of the most prestigious international moot competitions such as the International Criminal Court Trail Moot and Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, Washington D.C., by defeating peers from the likes of Harvard, Yale law schools," the Vice-Chancellor tells Education Plus.

Most recently, NALSAR made it to the top 12 teams and competed in the International Finals of the 11th Annual Stetson Environmental Moot Court Competition held at Stetson University College of Law, Texas in November 2006.

Scholarships

The university has student and faculty exchanges with 17 universities in Europe, Asia and North America and its students have bagged scholarships to pursue higher studies in universities like Oxford[16] [17], Cambridge [18], Harvard[19], Berkeley[20], Yale[21], Columbia[22], University of Pennsylvania [23] and London School of Economics. [24]

Debate

NALSAR has also made its impact felt in the debating circuit. It won India's oldest and most prestigious Parliamentary Debate at St. Stephens College, Delhi in December 2005. This was followed by victories at the prestigious Annual Parliamentary Debate held at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in January 2007 and 2009 and at the Debate conducted by the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad in February 2007. NALSAR further cemented its reputation on the debating circuit by winning the inaugural IIM Bangalore Parliamentary Debating Championship 'Cicero' in January 2009.[25]

Law Journals at NALSAR law

  • NALSAR Law Review [26]
  • NALSAR Student Law Review [27]
  • Indian Journal of Constitutional Law [28]
  • Media Law Review[29]
  • Environmenal Law & Practice Review [30]
  • The Indian Jouurnal Law & Economics [31]
  • Nalsar ADR Journal [32]
  • Indian Journal of Intellectual Property Law [33]

References

  1. ^ http://blog.careerfreak.com/24000-students-attempting-clat-2011/
  2. ^ "Academic Programmes". nalsar.ac.in. Retrieved 19 August 2011.
  3. ^ "CLAT Results: Conversation with the Topper, NLSIU favourites, LST continues their top performance". Barandbench.com. Retrieved 2011-08-19.
  4. ^ http://blog.careerfreak.com/24000-students-attempting-clat-2011/
  5. ^ "Academic Programmes - LL.M". nalsar.ac.in. Retrieved 19 August 2011.
  6. ^ "Academic Programmes -M.Phil". nalsar.ac.in. Retrieved 19 August 2011.
  7. ^ "Academic Programmes -M.Phil". nalsar.ac.in. Retrieved 19 August 2011.
  8. ^ Cite error: The named reference Rankings_IT_L was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  9. ^ Cite error: The named reference Rankings_OUTLOOK_L was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  10. ^ Cite error: The named reference Rankings_MINT_L was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  11. ^ http://www.nalsar.ac.in/eLibrary/aboutlibrary.html
  12. ^ http://www.nalsar.ac.in/eLibrary/aboutlibrary.html
  13. ^ http://www.nalsar.ac.in/eLibrary/aboutlibrary.html
  14. ^ http://www.nalsar.ac.in/centers.html
  15. ^ "NALSAR tops Asia Pacific in Jessup competition". The Hindu Business Line. 2006. Retrieved April 26, 2006.
  16. ^ http://www.nalsar.ac.in/Awards/FELIX_scholarship.html
  17. ^ http://barandbench.com/brief/9/1069/nlsiu-nalsar-students-awarded-prestigious-rhodes-scholarship-
  18. ^ http://barandbench.com/brief/9/2283/nalsar-grad-awarded-gates-cambridge-scholarship-2012-one-of-only-three-indians-chosen-this-year
  19. ^ http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/plp/pages/ballakrishnen.php
  20. ^ http://silchartoday.com/LLB-Admission/NALSAR-University-Of-Law-Hyderabad-Admission-Courses.htm
  21. ^ http://www.clatgyan.com/the-window/scholarships-success-ttette-aditya-singh-commonwealth-scholar-2011/
  22. ^ http://www.hindu.com/edu/2009/02/09/stories/2009020950240400.htm
  23. ^ http://www.nalsar.ac.in/YoungIndia_Fellowship.html
  24. ^ http://www.hindu.com/edu/2009/02/09/stories/2009020950240400.htm
  25. ^ "NALSAR, Hyderabad Wins IIM Bangalore's Parliamentary Debating Championship 2009". Coolavenues.com. 2009-01-01. Retrieved 2011-08-19.
  26. ^ http://www.nalsar.ac.in/publications.html
  27. ^ http://www.nalsarstudentlawreview.com/
  28. ^ http://www.indlaw.com/ijcl/
  29. ^ http://www.nalsar.ac.in/publications.html
  30. ^ http://www.nalsar.ac.in/publications.html
  31. ^ http://www.nalsar.ac.in/publications.html
  32. ^ http://www.nalsar.ac.in/publications.html
  33. ^ http://nalsar.ac.in/IJIPL/Home/Home.html

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