NUJS Kolkata 14th Convocation: Priya Garg bags 13 gold medals/prizes

National University of Juridical Sciences Kolkata recently organised its 14th convocation ceremony, where Ms Priya Garg won 13 academic honours for being ranked 1 and highest scorer in 10 subjects.

National University of Juridical Sciences Kolkata held its 14th convocation ceremony where Ms Priya Garg, a resident of Ghaziabad won as many as 13 academic honours for being ranked 1 and highest scorer in 10 subjects.

The event was graced by the presence of dignitaries such as the Chief Justice of India, Justice UU Lalit, Chief Justice of Bangladesh Supreme Court, Hasan Foez Siddique, Chief Minister West Bengal Ms Mamata Banerjee, IIT Bombay Director Subhasis Chaudhuri and various other high-level ministers and higher judiciary judges, as reported by Live Law.

Other feathers in Ms Garg's cap

She is an alumna of Oxford (UK) where she studied LLM as an Oxford-India Centre scholar and KC Mahindra Trust Scholar. At Oxford also, she won the coveted Oxford Union elections. 

She was also offered admission by LSE, Cambridge, University of Pennsylvania (US), UC Berkeley, and New York University for pursuing an LLM.

Ms Garg has been a law researcher to Supreme Court judges Justice PS Narasimha and Justice Bela Trivedi. Her articles have been published in national dailies like Indian Express, Live Mint and international portals like Oxford Human Rights blog. She has presented her paper at IIM Ahmedabad and has trained civil servants at IIFT, Delhi.

She advised students to be consistent, ambitious, bold, perseverant, disciplined and evolving in nature to succeed. She strongly believes in the law of attraction. 

In a male-dominated legal world, examples such as Ms Garg's would serve as a motivation for many young girls and women to pursue a legal education.

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