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 The National Academy of Legal Studies and Research (NALSAR) University of Law was set up in Hyderabad, India in 1998 to create a generation of able and competent lawyers who would join the Bench. It was created by an Act of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly (Act 34 of 1998). The University is fully residential and conducts teaching in law and allied disciplines. NALSAR was responsible for the Common Law Admission Test(CLAT) in 2009. It was ranked as the best law school in the country by India Today in the year 2008.
[edit] Courses and curriculumNALSAR currently offers 50 courses for its B.A,LL.B (hons.) Programme :- NALSAR's admission process was linked with the Common Law Admission Test(CLAT) in 2008. The Course Curriculum includes 50 credit courses having varying credit to be completed over a period of five years extendable to a maximum of seven years. This includes 47 compulsory courses and 3 seminar courses where students choose the subject to write a thesis on. NALSAR follows a semester system having two semesters in a year, viz. June to October, January to April. Students are required to intern with Non-governmental organizations, advocates, law firms, judges or governmental bodies over the course of the winter vacation in November and December. The LLM program admissions are also carried out on the basis of the Common Law Admission Test(CLAT. Presently LLM is offered in the following specialisations:
The LLM course in a competitive 2 Year programme offering students a conducive atmosphere to further hone their skills in their area of expertise. The course curriculum and facilities are quite intensive and professional. [edit] InfrastructureNALSAR prides itself on its exceptional and outstanding architecture and infrastructure. The law school is currently divided into five distinct precincts. The first is the Administrative Block which is adjoining the Academic Block. The Academic Block broadly consists of the classrooms, conference halls, the library, the internet center, a full fledged moot court hall and the various research centres. The residential block consists of four separate hostels for boys and girls each; all of them are internet enabled through wifi and LAN. The sports complex including the 'stadium' forms the fourth while the law school dining hall forms the fifth. Miscellaneous structures include the commemorative 'Keerthi Stambh' and a copy of 'The Thinker' by Auguste Rodin. Construction is on to build a 800 seater centrally air-conditioned auditorium, while the Teachers Convention Centre for conducting various training and orientation programs for faculty, with a capacity of 30 rooms, has been completed. [edit] LibraryNalsar boasts of the second largest law library in the country. It has more than 50000 volumes of books. The Law Resource Center is the hub of all library activities and aims at fulfilling the research and academic objectives of the University. Its rich collection of primary and secondary legal resources is accessible to all the users in the campus. The web (OPAC) Online Public Access Catalogue is accessible from any terminal in and out of the campus. It is designed to provide online information on availability of titles, and to allow the patrons to request for items that are on loan, renewal of books, access to patron accounts and other information services. Students can register themselves to become a member of the library and avail its services. Unlike the traditional OPACS which stimulate serendipity, each record is designed to provide extensive bibliographic information with hot links to table of contents pages, reviews, publishers' notes, and peer driven reviews and ratings. The centre is also a depository of UN collections. A separate section houses all the proceedings of the significant organs of the United Nations. The print collection is augmented by online access. [edit] ResearchNALSAR has been heavily involved with research since its inception 8 years ago. NALSAR is currently working on a project on of the law relating to the environment, child labour, access to justice, Intellectual Property etc sanctioned by the Government of India and Andhra Pradesh as well as suo moto, independent research projects. NALSAR's faculty is internationally known for their teaching and extensive research skills and many have been involved with various programs of international organisations like United Nations, European Commission, World Bank, Ford Foundation etc. The disciplines like Disability Jurisprudence, Intellectual Property Laws and Arbitration Laws in NALSAR have gained international the expertise of the concerned faculty in these fields are being relied upon by various national and foreign agencies.[citation needed] [edit] Research centres NALSAR currently houses three exclusive research centres
As a part of a memorandum of understanding entered between the NALSAR and Microsoft India in September 2005, it is proposed to create the Microsoft Intellectual Property Scholarship programme, where three students, focussing on fundamental research in Intellectual Property, would be awarded scholarships. NALSAR is one of the very few Universities in the world, where Microsoft has established such a scholarship program [edit] Extra-curricular activitiesNALSAR promotes a healthy and vibrant extracurricular atmosphere. The SBC regularly conducts various quizzes, writing competitions, debates and other cultural activities. Students also conduct various cultural festivals throughout the year. The University has excelled in mooting as well debating at the national level by being a consistent top-performer and winner. Early in 2007, the young team of Third Year students were placed among the top 8 teams in the world, at the prestigious Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition. The team also performed exceedingly well in the terms of the written memorial ranking (Ranked 3rd in the world). In addition to this, one oralist from the team, Mr. Vinay Kesari was adjudged the best speaker from a country other than United States and has been awarded a summer scholarship to Georgetown University. This has followed the blistering start in 2006 with a previous team having got top honours at the national round of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition and the ILS Surana Moot. Most recently, NALSAR made it to the top 12 teams and competed in the International Finals of the 11th Annual Stetson Environmental Moot Court Competition held at Stetson University College of Law, Texas in November 2006. The university has student and faculty exchanges with 17 universities in Europe, Asia and North America and its students have bagged scholarships to pursue higher studies in universities like Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard and London School of Economics. Students of NALSAR made their presence felt in international moot courts competitions, which considered as traditional play turfs for students from European and North American law schools. "Our students won some of the most prestigious international moot competitions such as the International Criminal Court Trail Moot and Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, Washington D.C., by defeating peers from the likes of Harvard, Yale law schools," the Vice-Chancellor tells Education Plus. The Vice-Chancellor once also said, "At national level, NALSAR competes with no one, everybody has to compete with us". In February 2006, NALSAR was also placed second at the DM Harish Moot Court Competition and bagged the 'best-speaker' and 'second best speaker' prizes. NALSAR was ranked amongst the top four in the world at the international rounds of the Philip C. Jessup Moot Court Competition 2006 at Washington D.C.[1] Nalsar has also made its impact felt in the debating circuit. Nalsar won India's oldest and most prestigious Parliamentary Debate at St. Stephens College, Delhi in December 2005. This was followed by victories at the prestigious Annual Parliamentary Debate held at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in January 2007 and 2009 and at the Debate conducted by the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad in February, 2007. Nalsar further cemented its reputation on the debating circuit by winning the inaugural IIM Bangalore Parliamentary Debating Championship 'Cicero' in January, 2009[2]. Two cultural festivals are organised in a year. The intra-college festival known as Carpe Diem has a host of competitions spread over a three-day period and is generally held in the month of March. The immensely successful inter-collegiate cultural festival 'The Summons' attracts participants from all parts of the country to take part in a literary-cultural-sport extravanganza. This is generally held in the month of September. In 2006 and 2007 'Summons' Indian band 'Indian Ocean' and Pakistani band 'Jal' were invited to perform. 'Jal' came as messengers of peace, friendship and to promote cultural relations between the two nations. [edit] Recent academic achievementsNALSAR Alumni have swept other prestigious academic scholarships in the year 2007, 2008 and 2009 including the Rhodes, Felix, Inlaks and the Hugo Grotius Fellowships. Aditya Swarup, a final year student has bagged the scholarship for the year 2010. He is the third Rhodes scholar from the college. Recognizing the environment in the college, the famous law entrance exams' coaching centre- Law School Tutorials of Career Launcher placed NALSAR in its Tier-1 of Law Colleges in India, in its rankings. [edit] References
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