PURSUING A LAW DEGREE FROM REPUTED LAW COLLEGES

The study of laws, on condition they are good laws, is unrivalled in its ability to improve students                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    – Plato

Law, legal education and development have become inter-related concepts in modern developing societies which are struggling to develop into social welfare states and are seeking to ameliorate the socio-economic condition of the people by peaceful means. The same is true for India. It is the crucial function of legal education to produce lawyers with a social vision in a developing country like India. However, the legal education, in modern times is not confined to production of practicing lawyers alone. Today its scope and ambit has widened enough and its impact is felt in every sphere of human life. The law being a tool for the social engineering, legal education can be regarded as an instrument for the social design.

Martin Luther King Jr. once observed that “Injustice anywhere is threat to justice everywhere”. The statement contemplates that the lawyers and person who acquire legal education are having foremost duty on their shoulders to spread the awareness among the masses about their rights and to protect them from oppression.

Now it becomes extremely desirable that we should impart and inculcate better quality of legal education among the law students so that they can imbibe skills and ability to become the protector of people’s rights by spreading awareness amongst the masses.

The Bar Council of India

The Bar Council of India, the present regulatory body who makes rules and regulation for the promotion of legal education in India has also strengthened the system by imposing stringent measures to check and account for the credibility of professionals both during study and practice. Law degrees are given and conferred in terms of Advocates Act, 1961 which authorizes BCI to govern and regulate the conduct for both legal education and profession. Universities, Law Institutes, affiliated Colleges and National Law Schools have to confine themselves to the rules and standards prescribed by the BCI for courses of study, infrastructure requirements, eligibility for admission and are responsible for the promotion of legal studies in India. Traditionally, legal education was imparted as a three years graduate degree(unitary) after completion of Bachelor’s degree other but with increasing strength and honour attached to this profession, an Integrated Five-Year Law Program  was introduced by BCI in 1982 provided after 12th Standard as an alternative to three year course so that law aspirants can directly enrol in universities. Law being an interdisciplinary profession, students have the varied option to club the law courses with Management, Arts and Commerce depending in their area of interest.

NCU Law School

In the present scenario, if we look at the legal education system in India, we have created an infrastructure for imparting better legal education among law students. Like IIM’s and IIT’s, which aims at providing exceptionally sound education atmosphere, we are developing National Law Universities and other private Universities in India which have already begun the race for the best college for law in India. These institutions make constant endeavour to uplift Indian legal education system.  

Best Law Schools

Amongst the best law schools in India, the focus of the students is now-a-days shifted towards the Delhi-NCR region where they feel that they get better exposure which is true also. The fact that Delhi-NCR is the hub of major agencies of the State, apex judiciary, many NGO’s, World Organizations, the students get a lot of opportunity to hone their skills and intern with major law firms and advocates. They have ample access to resources to build in-depth knowledge and tend to learn from highly competent faculty and get connected to industry experts through guest lectures and seminars. Now if we critically analyse various factors which attracts law students in top law schools, then following factors comes in to consideration –

• Highly skilled Faculty
• Senior faculty members having worldwide recognition 
• Good library
• Continuous visits by legal field experts
• Close association with law firms and senior advocates
• New and innovative method of teaching
• Inclusion of emerging areas in field of law such as cyber law, health laws, maritime laws etc.
• Better placement offers for students after completion law degree

The NorthCap University Law School

The NorthCap University School of Law is one of the best emerging Law School in Haryana amongst the private universities. The students graduated from here are working with reputed law firms, started their own practice and some went for higher education in reputed Universities in London and USA. Every event hosted here is witnessed by the presence of eminent personalities from judiciary, practice and law firms.

As the time for admissions is approaching, the scenario of pursuing a law degree from not only reputed but also effective institution must be kept in mind to enable the professions to become better citizens tomorrow contributing actively in the development of the nation.

NCU School of Law - Legal Education matching global frontiers

Dr Arvind P Bhanu

Associate Professor 

School of Law

The NorthCap University,Gurgaon

Though  legal education in India has  changed its shape from good to  best, yet the current decade is  continuously wrapping its face from all around, i.e., from good to bad,  bad to worse,  bad to good and best to excellent. As law has emerged as one of the most promising arenas in professionalizing students, this decade has seen a number of law schools being run as producer of lawyers on papers as well as lawyers crossing the legal height in performance. In the present age the parents charged with ambitions, and the aspirants charged with change, starts to seek at various dimensions, as to which law school should they join, to realize the goal and destination of life?

Moreover, all the Law Schools imparting legal education are theoretically understood as having a role in teaching, training and research & also having nexus with the object of legal education. An institution is considered to be delivering an excellent output when it imparts Legal education, amalgamating all the above mentioned elements in such a manner that by the time a student get his law degree, he may need no further training.  Thus, we can say that in order to be a claimant of the premiership in Law Schools, one has to establish calculatively the above three elements.

The Law School of the NorthCap University has proved to do so by giving preferences to these components and has emerged as one of the premier law Schools in NCR. Keeping in view the overall development and cultivation of legal ability in students, the NCU Law School offers the programmes like Bachelor of Business Administration LL.B. (BBA LLB), Master of Laws (LL.M) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) The LL.M courses are having one year tenure and through electives, students at the NCU, School of Law in LL.M. courses can focus their legal education in areas including corporate law and Human rights Law.
 

The NCU provides facilities and services that are unmatched in size, quality, and beauty. the campus features a comfortable, inviting learning environment with student study space, high-tech classrooms, great appellate and trial courtrooms, rich law library and the State –of –The –Art infrastructural facilities. It also has a variety of journals, one such journal is the NCU Law Review.

Very recently, the very fact of excellence in imparting education has been studied and researched, under the National Institutional ranking Framework (NIRF) by Union Ministry of Human Resource Development in which the Northcap University has been ranked among top 100 Universities in India. Moreover, the NCU has procured the 4th rank in all Private universities in North India and happens to be the only private university in Haryana and NCR region to be placed in top hundred. 

As far as the Law School of NCU is concerned, it has procured the first rank in the recently conducted GHRDC survey in Haryana. Certainly, such certification of highest rank owes to the contribution of proportionate blending of Teaching, Training and Research, contribution of renowned faculty members who hail from top ten premier law institutes in India and the conducive environment at the campus.

Thus, NCU Law School is committed towards developing the student's overall ability keeping in view the needs & demands of the present day legal world which are at par with the global scene.     

Law Colleges in Haryana

                                                         
 

     

Dr Praveen Kumar Lohchab 

 Head, School of Law 

The NorthCap University, Gurgaon 

www.ncuindia.edu

                                                         

We believe that the journey of getting a dream job at any law firm or pursuing legal practice and becoming a well established lawyer begins only after legal education. But this journey starts from the very first day, on which a student after completing secondary education decides to pursue law as a career. So every student must plan this journey from the first day and selection of best law school and integrated 5 years law degree programme is vital for this. To support my view I would like to quote few words of Erin Andrews who has said “Success doesn’t happen overnight. Keep your eye on the prize and don’t look back”.

1. Law School Selection

Students must prepare for CLAT and LSAT Examination to get enrolled in top National Law Universities. I have noticed most of the students write competitive exams without even knowing the outlines of the Syllabi of these competitive exams. Without preparation students do not get admissions in desired Law schools.

2. Appropriate Course Curriculum

Gone are the days, where we had traditional dual degree integrated 5 years BA-LLB degree and this was the only option available for law students to pursue. Now with the changing paradigms of legal education, we have other specialisations merged with law like BBA-LLB, BBA-LLB (Hons.), B.Tech-LLB, BSc-LLB etc. These degree programmes have been designed to cater the needs of the industry. Many leading Universities have excelled in imparting these specialised programmes. For instance, BBA-LLB (Hons.) is the flagship programme of Law School at The NorthCap University, Gurgaon which is top & only private university in Haryana in the NIRF (MHRD, Govt. of India) ranking. Likewise UPES, Dehradun offers B.Tech-LLB in energy laws. Though, I may not suggest Law programme with B.Tech./ B.Sc., because the employment prospects in the legal industry with respect to engineering and science is currently very limited and on the other hand BBA-LLB (Hons.) is highly desired and the demand is growing.