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NALSAR University of Law
File:Nalsar University of Law Logo.jpg
MottoDharme Sarvam Pratishthitham
TypeNational Law University
Established1998
ChancellorChief Justice of the High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad
Vice-ChancellorDr. Faizan Mustafa
Undergraduates480
Postgraduates120
Location
Hyderabad
,
Telangana
,
India
AffiliationsUnitary State University constituted by a statute of the Telangana Legislative Assembly
Websitewww.nalsar.ac.in[1]

NALSAR University of Law, or officially the National Academy of Legal Studies and Research (NALSAR), is a legal studies institution located in Shamirpet, Hyderabad, Telangana, India. It was established in 1998 as a state university by an Act of the State Legislative Assembly (Act 34 of 1998). The university which is fully residential and conducts teaching in law, is ranked as the best law school in India by India Today magazine in 2013.[1]

Academics

Admissions

Admission to NALSAR is extremely competitive. The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) serves as the qualifying examination for the university. In 2015, for the B.A, LL.B (Hons.) program, a total of 40,000 students contested for a mere 65 seats, making the examination one of the most competitive in India. However, since 2015, the intake has been increased to 120 students per year, in compliance with the BCI norms.

Undergraduate

The university is famous for its prestigious undergraduate program which forms the core of its academic and co-curricular excellence. NALSAR offers a five-year integrated B.A LL.B.(Hons.) program. Admission to the undergraduate program is on the basis of the highly competitive national-level Common Law Admission Test (CLAT). In 2013, of the roughly 27,727 candidates who wrote CLAT, the top 104 ranks were offered admission to the college under the general category- an acceptance rate of 0.39%-.[2]

Postgraduate

NALSAR offers a one-year postgraduate LL.M. program. 50 students are admitted through CLAT with ten more spots allocated to foreign nationals. About ten areas of specialization are offered, and the program requirements include a dissertation.[3] Additionally, two-year (four semesters) self-financed master's degree in Business Laws and Administration (MBLA)is also offered by the University apart from a one-year Master of Philosophy (M.Phil) which is open to candidate with an LL.M. degree,[4] and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D).[5] As a first among the Indian National Law Universities, starting academic year 2013-14, NALSAR now also offers a two-year M.B.A. program.[6]

Rankings

University rankings


India Today ranked NALSAR as the best law school in India in the latest 2013 ranking.[7] NALSAR was ranked first by Outlook in 2012. NALSAR was previously ranked second in 2010 and 2011.[8] India Today had previously ranked NALSAR as first in 2011 and 2008.[9] By popular estimates and rankings, NALSAR Hyderabad, and NLS Bangalore are together considered to be the most prestigious law schools in India.

Infrastructure

Entrance to the Academic Block
The Academic Block

The law school is divided into five precincts. The first is the Administrative Block which is adjoining the Academic Block. The Academic Block consists of the classrooms, conference halls, the library, the internet centre, a moot court hall, and research centres. The residential block consists of five separate hostels for boys and girls each. The entire campus is WiFi network enabled.[10] The stadium forms the fourth while the law school dining hall forms the fifth. Miscellaneous structures include the commemorative 'Keerthi Stambh' and a replica of 'The Thinker' by Auguste Rodin. An auditorium, with a seating capacity of close to 500, has also been completed.[11]

Boys' Hostel

Law library

NALSAR's library has a collection of more than 27,000 items comprising law reports, reviews, periodicals, manuals and choicest publications of textbooks and other resources. 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. The VPN-configured Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) is accessible from any terminal in and out of the campus.[12] 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. Unlike the traditional OPACS, each record provides bibliographic information with hot links to table of contents pages, reviews, publishers' notes, and peer driven reviews and ratings.[13] The library has a depository of UN collections. A separate section houses all the proceedings of the organs of the United Nations. The print collection is augmented by online access.

Research centres

The SAARClaw Centre

NALSAR houses research centres:[14]

  • M.K. Nambiyar SAARC Law Research Centre
  • Centre for Air and Space Law
  • Centre for Land Rights
  • Centre for Corporate Law and Governance
  • Dr. N.C. Banerjee Centre for Intellectual Property Law Studies
  • Dr. S.P. Chatterjee Centre for Environmental Law Studies
  • Centre for Proximate and Continuing Education (C-PACE)
  • Centre for Humanitarian Law and Refugee Law
    Nalsar Law library
  • 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

Student achievements

Moot court competitions

Nalsar students have excelled in mooting at the national and international level.

It 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] In 2007, Nalsar was placed amongst the top eight teams in the world, at the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition. In 2010, the team from Nalsar finished as semi-finalists in the Jessup International Law Moot Competition.[16]

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, Florida in November 2006. Nalsar finished as runners-up in the first edition of the ICC Trial Competition at The Hague.[17] In 2009, Nalsar won the D.M. Harish International Moot Court Competition. The team also won the Best Speaker and Best Researcher prizes. In 2011, Nalsar finished as runners-up in the ICC Trial Competition 2011,[18] and semi-finalists in the Asia-Pacific rounds of the Manfred Lachs Moot Court Competition 2011.[19] In 2012, Nalsar won the Monroe E. Price International Media Law Moot Court Competition at the University of Oxford.[20]

Nalsar won the extremely prestigious Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Court Competition, conducted at Vienna.[21] In 2013, Nalsar finished as semi-finalists in the ICC Trial Competition 2013. In 2015, the Vis East team from NALSAR returned as Semi-Finalists in the world rounds.

Nalsar was judged the best in India in mooting in the first two seasons of Mooting Premiere League in 2009-2010 and 2010-2011.[22]

Scholarships

Graduate students from NALSAR have received the Rhodes Scholarship in the following years: 2003, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015. Additionally, there are 4 Felix scholars and 2 Inlaks scholars from NALSAR. Students have received various scholarships to pursue higher education at University of Oxford, Cambridge University, Harvard University, University of California, Georgetown University, Yale University, University of Chicago, Stanford University, Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania, NYU, London School of Economics, and Leiden University.

Debating

NALSAR won India's oldest Parliamentary Debate at St. Stephens College, Delhi in December 2005. This was followed by victories at the Annual Parliamentary Debate held at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in January 2007 and 2009, the debate conducted by the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad in February 2007, and that of the Young Orators Club of Secunderabad in 2008.[23] NALSAR further cemented its reputation on the debating circuit by winning the inaugural IIM Bangalore Parliamentary Debating Championship 'Cicero' in January 2009.[24][25]

The NALSAR Intervarsity Debating Championship is the pioneer of the British Parliamentary Debating format in India. The idea for the NALSAR IV was born to introduce the British Parliamentary debate format to the national debating circuit and provide a preparatory ground for the WUDC (World Universities Debating Championship), the most prestigious debating championship in the world. Thus, the NALSAR IV is aimed at exposing debaters to the most competitive standards of adjudication. The NALSAR IV has now earned the name to be one of the most prestigious debating championships in India.[26]

Quizzing

Over the past many years, NALSAR has been very active in the Hyderabad and Indian quizzing circuit. Teams representing the university have won a number of inter-college quizzes in the twin cities, and across India.The college has a strong quizzing base and sees quizzes being hosted within the college regularly from time to time. Achievements by quizzers from NALSAR include finishing as runners-up in the K-Circle India Quiz 2010 and 2011, as well as winners in BITS Pilani-Hyderabad Campus' annual fest Pearl 2012, 2013 and 2015. A 4th year team won the Best College Team title at the Landmark Quiz held at Hyderabad on 6 October 2013, something which has also been won by NALSAR before. NALSAR also finished second in Manipal's Quiz on The Beach 2015 and Tata Crucible Hyderabad 2015. A team won the Economic Times in Campus Quiz for two years consecutively in 2014 and 2015. The university has also become host to one of India's largest college QuizFests, titled 'Interrobang', which will be in its third edition in March 2016.

Student initiatives

NALSAR students have begun several initiatives, working both in and out of campus. Some of the initiatives founded by NALSAR students and alumni include:

The Nyaya Forum for Courtroom Lawyering strives to make careers in the lower judiciary and litigation not only more attractive and interesting but also feasible and plausible. The Forum aims to do so through a variety of its programs:

  • The Forum hosts speakers from the backgrounds in litigation and judiciary sharing their experiences through its Nyaya Anubhav program igniting interest in the students through hosting experience-sharing sessions.
  • Further, the Forum also seeks to provide internship opportunities to students to work under practitioners and judges through Nyaya Awasar program.
  • Through Nyaya Vidya program, the Forum hosts eminent practitioners and judges for offering credit courses in several interesting scopes pertaining to practice and judiciary.
  • The Forum further aims to lubricate communication among students and practitioners to build networks for career opportunities in litigation through its Nyaya Vyavsaya program.
  • The Forum also has a Nyaya Niti program which seeks to address issues relating to policy matters in courtrooms; for instance judicial backlog.

Therefore, the Nyaya Forum for Courtroom Lawyering at NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad– a students' initiative seeks to further the purpose of establishing universities exclusively providing legal education in India, and help budding students take their first steps into courtrooms as the future doyens of the bar and the bench. The Forum's approach to achieve this is to join disjointed activities that happen in law school, right from academic courses to guest lectures to internships. This is with the purpose of providing leverage to the upcoming generation of budding lawyers currently in law schools in pursuing a career in litigation or lower judiciary immediately after graduation.

  • Lecture Series on Constitutionalism[31]
  • Photo Booth NALSAR[32]
  • Public Policy Group[33]
  • ADR Board[34]

Published journals

NALSAR publishes the following law journals:[35]

  • Indian Journal of Air and Space Law ( IJASL)
  • M. K. Nambyar SAARC Law Journal
  • NALSAR Law Review
  • NALSAR Student Law Review
  • Journal of Corporate Affairs and Corporate Crimes
  • Indian Journal of Constitutional Law
  • Media Law Review
  • Environmental Law & Practice Review
  • The Indian Journal Law & Economics
  • Nalsar ADR Journal
  • Indian Journal of Intellectual Property Law

See also

References

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  2. ^ "CLAT 2012 Top 104 ranks have the option to go to NALSAR". Legallyindia.com. Retrieved 24 October 2013.
  3. ^ "Academic Programmes - LL.M". nalsar.ac.in. Retrieved 19 August 2011.
  4. ^ "Academic Programmes -M.Phil". nalsar.ac.in. Retrieved 19 August 2011.
  5. ^ "Academic P--~~~~rogrammes -M.Phil". nalsar.ac.in. Retrieved 19 August 2011.
  6. ^ "NALSAR MBA announcement". nalsar.ac.in. Retrieved 12 June 2013.
  7. ^ "National Academy of Legal Studies and Research University Best Law Colleges 2013 India Today Survey". Indiatoday.intoday.in. Retrieved 24 October 2013.
  8. ^ "Outlook Rankings: NALSAR, Hyderabad ranked the best law school in the country; followed by NLSIU, Bangalore and NLIU, Bhopal". Barandbench.com. Retrieved 7 November 2012.
  9. ^ "National Academy of Legal Studies and Research University Best Law Colleges 2013 India Today Survey". Indiatoday.intoday.in. Retrieved 7 November 2012.
  10. ^ "NALSAR Self Study Report" (PDF). www.nalsar.ac.in. NALSAR University of Law. 2015. Retrieved 18 October 2016.
  11. ^ "CM KCR Inaugurated NALSAR Auditorium, Siasat Daily". 20 March 2016. Retrieved 18 October 2016.
  12. ^ See pg 144, https://www.nalsar.ac.in/pdf/Self%20Study%20Report.pdf
  13. ^ "Welcome to Our Nalsar Library..." nalsar.ac.in. Retrieved 29 April 2012.
  14. ^ "Research - Research Centres". Nalsar.ac.in. Retrieved 7 November 2012.
  15. ^ "NALSAR tops Asia Pacific in Jessup competition". The Hindu Business Line. 2006. Retrieved 26 April 2006.
  16. ^ "Australian National University wins Jessup Moot Court Competition NALSAR reaches semi-finals". Bar and Bench. Retrieved 24 October 2013.
  17. ^ "Earlier Editions". Icc-trialcompetition.org. 15 April 2011. Retrieved 24 October 2013.
  18. ^ Overload, Partner. "ICC Trial success for Nalsar: MPL win out of contention? | Mooting | Law students". Legally India. Retrieved 24 October 2013.
  19. ^ Overload, Partner. "Spectactular: GNLU, Nalsar, NLU Delhi dominate Manfred Lachs Asia; Delhi in finals for MPL silver | Mooting | Law students". Legally India. Retrieved 24 October 2013.
  20. ^ "NALSAR students win international moot court competitions". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 23 April 2012. Retrieved 16 June 2012.
  21. ^ "Nalsar wins Willem C Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot 2012". Bar and Bench. Retrieved 24 October 2013.
  22. ^ "Mooting Premier League 2009-10 - Legallypedia". Legallyindia.com. Retrieved 24 October 2013.
  23. ^ The Hindu. "NALSAR, Nasr school sweep YOCS competition".
  24. ^ NALSAR University of Law. "Student Achievements".
  25. ^ "NALSAR, Hyderabad Wins IIM Bangalore's Parliamentary Debating Championship 2009". Coolavenues.com. 1 January 2009. Retrieved 19 August 2011.
  26. ^ "Education Plus : NLU Delhi wins Parliamentary debate". The Hindu. 11 April 2011. Retrieved 24 October 2013.
  27. ^ "CLATGyan". Retrieved 18 October 2016.
  28. ^ "Law School 101". 18 October 2016. Retrieved 18 October 2016.
  29. ^ "Nyaya Forum for Courtroom Lawyering".
  30. ^ "Nyaya Forum for Courtroom Lawyering | Facebook". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
  31. ^ "NALSAR Lecture Series on Constitutionalism". Lawctopus. 9 September 2016. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
  32. ^ "Photo Booth Nalsar | Facebook". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
  33. ^ "Log into Facebook | Facebook". Facebook. Retrieved 27 November 2016. {{cite web}}: Cite uses generic title (help)
  34. ^ "Nalsar ADR | Facebook". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
  35. ^ "Research - Publications". nalsar.ac.in. Retrieved 29 April 2012.
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