NLSIU’s 3 Yr LLB will transform law degree in India, says Vice Chancellor Krishnaswamy

The VC said that the National Education Policy 2020 proposes radical reforms in higher education with an accent on more multidisciplinary programmes and larger university clusters.

As many as 76 BA LLB (Hons) graduates and 40 LLM postgraduates passed out of NLSIU Bangalore during its convocation. Along with these, 53 MPP postgraduates, six PhD candidates, one M.Phil candidate; and 653 candidates from its Professional and Continuing Education programmes graduated.

After two years National Law School of India University (NLSIU) Bangalore held its convocation on campus. NLSIU Vice Chancellor Dr Sudhir Krishnaswamy said that measuring a university’s success is a difficult and contentious task.

The VC while presenting annual report stated that in Academic Year 2021-22, NLSIU announced a new 3-year LLB (Honours) programme. “We admitted students based on a novel admission test, designed and implemented by NLS faculty. The initial cohort of 60 students has completed a term on campus and we are delighted with the progress they have made, and the promise they have demonstrated,” he said.

NLSIU vice chancellor during his convocation address stated that three year LLB course launched will transform the 3-year LLB degree in India. Krishnaswamy said: “We remain confident that NLS will transform the 3-year LLB degree in India in the 2020s, much like we pioneered and electrified a new 5-year BA LLB law degree in the 1990s. We certainly believe that the new curricular model and intense pedagogical practices in the programme will put us on the track towards a second transformation in Indian legal education.”

This academic year NLSIU expanded its student intake in the BA LLB, LLM and MPP programmes. Significantly, VC informed: “We’ve reduced faculty-student ratios and the average size of the classroom from 80 to 60 even as we’ve expanded overall student intake. In the last year, we’ve redesigned the LLM and MPP curriculum based on feedback from faculty, students and our recruiters. In Academic Year 2022-23, we’ve begun a comprehensive redesign on the BA LLB programme which will result in the foundational reset of the programme from Academic Year 2024-25."

The VC said that the National Education Policy 2020 proposes radical reforms in higher education with an accent on more multidisciplinary programmes and larger university clusters. Krishnaswamy said: “We are actively engaged in building such a university cluster with the Indian Institute of Science and the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore.”

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