School of Law

About

The School of Law at The NorthCap University, offers BBALLB (Hons) and LLM. With an objective of providing students with ample scope of clinical legal education and assist them in facing the new challenges and dimensions of the legal profession, School of Law has shown an all-round progress and proved its credentials to be a force to be reckoned with in the field of legal education in the country. School of Law at NCU facilitates legal study as an intellectual discipline, which involves creating an analytical mind, a logical thought process and drafting skills. NCU grooms its young budding lawyers for a wide range of professions, including social science, business and commerce, civil services and international relations etc. apart from hard core legal professions. One of the advantages of studying law at NCU is acquiring breadth and depth of knowledge. In addition to hard core law courses, students are required to undertake foundation courses ranging from economics to accounting, financial management to marketing management, study of society to that of psychology and so on. While choosing courses and academic experiences, the students at law school are given the flexibility to opt for a broad and expanded range of programme elective and open elective courses, thereby giving them the opportunity to face the challenges of the contemporary world. At the same time, the open elective courses offered by other departments add to their scope to have a multidisciplinary approach to law. They may also specialize in a particular area of law, like constitutional law, corporate law, intellectual property rights or international law.

The curriculum has been revised regularly to respond to the demand for new skills and challenges facing law and legal education in the emerging global scenario. There has always been an effort to strengthen the core curriculum to ensure a strong all-round education for the students. Besides, the curriculum has been rationalized in such a way that by the time the students reach the final year, they could complete most of the core law and non-law courses. This is to facilitate more flexibility in the final year for the students to undergo practical training and internships beyond their class hours.

Additionally, clinical legal education in law school provides a unique opportunity for the students to learn not only about the professional skills used by lawyers but also about many other aspects of the curriculum essential for preparation to think and act like a lawyer.

Career Opportunities

Litigation, Corporate jobs, Law firms, Legal Advisors at PSU’s/Companies, Judiciary.

Highlights

1. Designing of Law School Curriculum to keep student’s industry ready: The entire course structure is regularly reviewed and updated to keep pace with the fast-changing technology and skills, ensuring international competitiveness.
2. Inter-disciplinary approach in Law: The Integrated Programme provides the students with an exposure to a wide range of courses having a combination of law, management, and technology, which enhances their employability skills in the present scenario.
3. Choice Based Electives: School of Law offers choice-based electives in the law programme. The students can choose from among a wide range of subjects to suit their areas of interests.
4. Opportunity to learn Foreign Languages: In addition to regular course curriculum, the students are given an opportunity to learn various foreign languages. This increases a law graduate’s ability to widen his/ her horizon in the legal profession at a global level.
5. Teaching pedagogy: use of audio-visual resources for classroom teaching, interactive sessions with experts, debates on current affairs, industrial visits, moot courts etc. are some of the compulsory components in all the law courses.
6. Learning management system: NCU holds the platform of a learning management system whereby students are provided with resources and assignments in addition to classroom activities.
7. Blended learning experience through exposure to online MOOC courses and other online forum etc.
8. Faculty with academic excellence from reputed National Law Universities (NLUs) and Central Universities.
9. Regular Industry interactions and association with experts
10.  A vibrant Mooting Culture: Apart from maintaining a strong internal mooting structure, the Moot Court Society at NCU hosting annually, the NCU Law School National Moot Court Competition. Such activities culminate in honing the advocacy skills of young learners.
11. Hands on training on Client Consultation – Law School has imbibed an enriched culture of holding national client consultation competitions annually.
12. Communication and Leadership Skills: In association with a dedicated Centre for Language Learning, the law students get a unique exposure to hone their communication and leadership skills through series of training programmes, workshops etc. apart from courses on Effective Communication.
13.  Pro- Active Legal aid services in association with District Legal Services Authority
14.  Structured Internship Programme & Placement– NCU Facilitates internship right from working in the grass root level through NGOs to law Firms, Courts and Tribunals. With a dedicated school of professional attachment in place, the students have made their presence in reputed law firms, public sector undertakings, litigation, international organizations etc. apart from being selected in reputed academic institutions across the world for pursuing higher studies.
15.  Strong Alumni connect. Having the advantage of a strong alumni network, the law students get the opportunity to learn and experience the challenges of contemporary legal professions through alumni
16. Personalised Grooming with Mentor and Mentee Schemes
17. Regular student counselling and career guidance
18. Fee concessions, scholarships, and other recognitions – NCU offers Fee-Concession and Scholarships to all meritorious students every year as well as students on Merit-cum-Means basis.
19. Sophisticated infrastructure facilities – with well-equipped classrooms, sports and other infrastructural resources for co-curricular and extra-curricular activities.
20. Integrating Co-curricular and extra-curricular activities for the overall growth of a student.

Programme Educational Objectives (PEOs)

1) Professional Efficiency

• To develop the art of lawyering, including such skills as research, writing, legal analysis, client counselling, negotiation and advocacy.
• To intimately nurture the talent of the students by a team of distinguished Judges, Legal Practitioners and Consultants, Social Activists, Corporate Counsels, and Faculty Members of law schools across the country.

2) Learning from practice

• Provide opportunities which integrate substantive learning with the practice of law.
• Assist students to build up confidence in practical lawyering situations

3) Promote professional ethics and standards

Promote ethical practice of law by sensitizing students to issues of professional responsibility.

4) Scope for self-assessment

Enhance students’ understanding of their own individual strengths and weaknesses to facilitate self-assessment.

5) Enhance employability

Explore and understand specific issues relating to workplace such as time management, discipline, work place culture, teamwork, giving and receiving feedback, and achieving balance in one’s life in a multidisciplinary environment.

6) Inculcate communication skills

• To inculcate all the required skills such as Good oral and written communication skills, Analytical and Reasoning Skills, Initiative, Personal Impact, Resilience, Teamwork, Legal Awareness, Planning and organizing, through its innovative course matrix.
• To develop the ability to work in a team and multidisciplinary environment with passion and commitment.

7) Promote self-directed and life – long learning

Continuously updating themselves in areas and technologies that are relevant to their career, participate in personal development and increasing their understanding of matters that are current and important to society at national and international levels.

Programme Outcome (POs)

1) Instilling professionalism

To equip with knowledge, passion and drive to excel as leaders in the legal profession, judiciary, public service, non-profit & non-governmental organizations, entrepreneurships, and corporate entities through internship programmes.

2) Effective communication

Graduates are able to communicate effectively to various stakeholders and practice their profession with high regard to societal needs, diversity, constraints in the professional workplace and ethical responsibilities.

3) Understanding the legal system

Students are able to understand the Indian legal system and various principles and theories which the system is based on.

4) Ability to use various legal tools and techniques through classroom and moot court exercises

• Students are able to understand and use precedents to construct legal arguments.
• They are also able to read, understand and interpret statutes and other enacted rules to solve legal problems or construct legal knowledge
• Predict the probable judicial interpretation of simulated legal disputes.
• Learning techniques of persuasive written advocacy.
• Access to various online legal databases like West Law and Manupatra subscribed by the University to upgrade to higher learning and research activities.

5) Active participation in professional training

Students develop the skills to actively participate, as professionals, in legal counselling, advocacy and decision-making through legal aid clinic, workshops, seminars and internship programmes.

6) Dealing with contemporary issues

The students can recognize the need for identifying contemporary issues due to changing scenario by participating in classroom debates, special lectures and moot court exercises on latest cases.

7) Building up teamwork

Enhance the coordination among students to work in a team through participation in Moot Court competitions, Parliamentary Debates and various other co-curricular and extracurricular activities.

8) Honing Communication & Inter-personal skills

With an exposure to various courses in the field of management and effective communication included in the curriculum, students are able to develop their oral and written communication skills as well as analytical and reasoning power.

Students take active part in planning and organizing various events in law school including moot court competitions in the national level which strengthen their organizing skills and leadership qualities.

Programme Specific Outcome

Program Specific Outcomes (PSOs) For BBA LL.B (H)

The graduates of Five Year BBA LL.B (H) Degree Programme will be able to attain the following:

PSO 1- Effective application of laws and drafting skills

To be able to understand and demonstrate knowledge about substantive and procedural laws to engage with a wide variety of arguments and resolve legal disputes through fact-finding, investigation, interviewing, legal research and drafting.

PSO 2- Professions on Alternative Dispute Resolution mechanisms

Ability to effectively adopt alternative dispute resolution mechanisms for settlement of disputes in an expeditious manner thereby delivering a well-rounded and satisfying experience for the parties involved.

PSO 3 – Enhancement of employability skills through Inter-disciplinary approach to law

To enhance employability skills in the contemporary times through exposure to a wide range of courses having a combination of law, management and technology thereby opening up more inter-disciplinary employment opportunities.