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State and National Law School. The State and National Law School was an early practical training law school founded in 1849 by John W. Fowler in Ballston Spa, New York. It was also known as New York State and National Law School, Ballston Law College, and Fowler's State and National Law School.
- John W. Fowler
- John W. Fowler
- Ballston Spa, then Poughkeepsie, New York, USA
- private
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Law schools are nationally accredited by the American Bar Association (ABA), [1] and graduates of these schools may generally sit for the bar exam in any state. There are 198 ABA accredited law schools, along with one law school provisionally accredited by the ABA. [2] .
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The National Law School was founded after two decades of work by lawyers including former Chief Justice Mohammad Hidayatullah, Ram Jethmalani and Upendra Baxi, who petitioned the Legal Education Committee of the Bar Council of India to establish a university similar to Harvard Law School. Subsequently, the Bar Council of India Trust and Government ...
The Chief Justice of India is the Visitor and de facto Chancellor of the school, with the ability to inspect the functions of the school. The Vice-Chancellor of the school is the chief executive officer of the university and manages the day-to-day operations of the school. The school has had five more Vice-Chancellors since Menon, namely N. L. Mitr...
Admissions to 5-year undergraduate programme are based on the Common Law Admission Test-undergraduate (CLAT-UG). For the 2023-28 session of the undergraduate CLAT, a total of 56,472 students competed for 2644 seats, out of which 240 were offered at the NLSIU. In 2020, the NLSIU attempted to withdraw from the CLAT, announcing that it would hold its ...
Undergraduate
The NLSIU offers graduates a five-year integrated BA/LLB which qualifies the student to sit for the bar in India. The curriculum consists of a blend of social science and law subjects. In the first two years, students attend courses in history, political science, sociology and economics, alongside legal subjects such as tort, contract and constitutional law. In the subsequent three years, students mainly study legal subjects. In 2017, NLSIU overhauled its academic curriculum to allow students...
Postgraduate
NLSIU launched a three-year LLBprogramme in 2022, making it the first National Law University to do so. The school offers a one-year LLM by coursework, a two-year MPP, and doctorate programmes. In addition to the above full-time programmes, the school's continuing education department offers several part-time distance learning programmes, including a Masters in Business Law and postgraduate diplomasin various fields.
Rankings
National Law School of India is widely considered the best law school in India. The National Institutional Ranking Framework ranked the institute first in its law ranking of 2023, as did India Today's "India's Best Colleges 2023: Law", and Outlook India's "Top 13 Government Law Institutes" of 2023.
Student Bar Association
The Student Bar Association (SBA) is the umbrella body that coordinates all student activities. All students are de facto members of the SBA. The SBA oversees twelve activity-based committees (ABCs) that manage specific student activities. Institutional events include the Spiritus sports festival, Strawberry Fieldsmusic festival, the NLS-Trilegal International Arbitration Moot, the NLS Negotiation and Mediation Competition, and the Admit One theater festival. Students also run the publication...
Competitive debating
NLSIU plays an active role in promoting parliamentary style debatein India. The school regularly participates in international competitions and is currently the highest-ranking Indian team in the debating world rankings. NLSIU reached the ESL Finals in 2002 and in 2007 at the World Universities Debating Championship. It also recently won the 15th All Asian Debating Championships held in Dhaka in 2008. NLSIU was the first South Asian team to reach the second round of the Cambridge University D...
Moot court competitions
The NLSIU is the only law school in South Asia to have won the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition twice, in 1999 and 2013. It also reached the Jessup finals in 2018. The university has also won the Monroe E. Price Media Law Moot Court Competition at the University of Oxford in 2021. NLSIU has also won the Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court competition in 2009, 2012and most recently in 2017.
Alumni
1. Shamnad Basheer, founder, SpicyIP Blog and the IDIA Trust. 2. G. C. Bharuka, Acting Chief Justice, Karnataka High Court 3. Gautam Bhatia, lawyer 4. Ananda Mohan Bhattarai, a Justice of Supreme Court of Nepal 5. Harpreet Singh Giani, litigator. 6. Menaka Guruswamy and Arundhati Katju, a homosexual couple known for their involvement in decriminalisation of homosexuality. Jointly named as one of Times 100 Most Influential Persons 2019. 7. Padmapriya Janakiraman, Indian Actress 8. Kalyan Chakr...
Faculty
1. Albertina Almeida, a lawyer and human rights activist 2. T. R. Andhyarujina, Senior advocateat the Supreme Court of India 3. S. Rajendra Babu, 34th Chief Justice of India 4. Ajay Gudavarthy, a political theorist, analyst and columnist in India 5. Shashikala Gurpur, Indian author and professor 6. Alangar Jayagovind, Professor of International Trade Law, and also a former Vice Chancellor. 7. Altamas Kabir, 39th Chief Justice of India 8. Subramanya Nagarajarao, author and researcher specialis...
There are numerous journals published by the students and faculty at NLSIU. Their National Law School of India Review has been cited by the Supreme Court of India in two notable judgments including the Right to Privacy verdict, which is the only student-run law journal of the already few Indian law journals to have been cited by the Supreme Court o...
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