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Law

In a short period of 14 years
the NLSIU has emerged as the leading Indian institution for
legal education

It has held its position as India's No. 1 law school for the fourth consecutive year in the India Today survey and seems unbeatable. Cliches such as the "Harvard of the East" abound for the 14-year-old National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore. Ever year 15,000 students vie for the 130 seats through an all-India entrance test and then an interview. The school, which offers an LLB (Hons) degree (80 seats) and Masters and Doctoral programmes (50 seats), is famous for excelling in moot court competitions in India and abroad. Says Harvard-educated international jurist and school Director G. Mohan Gopal: "We want to be the best legal education centre in the East and impart legal knowledge that will positively change the society we live in, especially the poor."

Last year, a report of a three-member expert panel-law professors Marc Galanter of University of Wisconsin, us, Savitri Goonesekere of University of Colombo, Sri Lanka and William Twining of University College, London-noted that the school has established an enviable reputation as an innovative, multi-functional institution. To train top-notch lawyers, the NLSIU has successfully experimented with an integrated curriculum encompassing social science subjects and studies in the fields of history, philosophy, literature, sociology, economics and political science.

LEGAL EAGLES: NLSIU (left) remains at the top even as University College of Law, Bangalore cathes on

The NLSIU regularly offers consultancy services to lawyers and courts. Its governing body includes legal luminaries like the chief justice of India and many leading advocates of the Supreme Court and high courts. It has tie-ups with the London School of Economics and other notable universities across the globe. Dr N.R. Madhava Menon, one of the founders of NLSIU, says, "Outside the administration of justice, it is perhaps the best example of academy-bar-bench cooperation in the field of law." A deemed university under the UGC, the residential law school will soon have another campus which will house one of the biggest law university libraries in the world.

—Stephen David

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