Courting success

Among Indian universities offering a three-year law degree, the Faculty of Law, University of Delhi, is perhaps the best. Of the several reasons that distinguish it from others, the major one is its low fee. One can become a law graduate by spending a little less than Rs 10,000 over three years.

It has a diverse mix of students hailing from different corners of the country.

“Students (with different socio-economic backgrounds) join this institution to pursue varied careers. Here, you would find students from Kerala, Bihar, North East, UP and Delhi studying together in one classroom. Some aim to become lawyers, a few wish to join the civil services while others nurture the ambition of becoming judges,” says Prof Raman Mittal, associate professor, Campus Law Centre.

The teaching methodology at the law faculty is also quite different. Students are given latest case studies at the beginning of the session. These materials chronicle court cases heard in Indian and international courts, and give students a larger perspective of different laws taught in the syllabus.

“In the classroom, a teacher moderates discussions on myriad legal aspects among students. In this way, we induce critical thinking in them,” adds Prof Mittal.

Famous for: Its heritage, Delhi University’s tag and the list of noted alumni including Arun Jaitley, Mayawati, Kapil Sibal, Justice YK Sabharwal and LM Singhvi

Programmes: Three-year LLB, LLM (two-year full-time and three year part-time), PhD, Doctor of Civil Law (DCL) and Master of Comparative Law (exclusively for foreign students).

Extra-curricular: There are little or no extra-curricular activities in the college but there is an emerging trend of moot court competitions that have now become pretty regular here just as that in national law universities. Infrastructure: The Faculty of Law has three law centres — The Campus Law Centre (CLC) and Law Centre-I

(LC-I) in north campus at Chhatra Marg and Law Centre-II (LC-II) in the Atma Ram Sanatan Dharam College building at Dhaula Kuan, New Delhi. Each Law Centre has its own teaching faculty and administrative staff (headed by a professor-in-charge).

Author: Vimal Chander Joshi

Date: 14th April, 2010

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