Emphasis on justice education

The National Law University, Cuttack, today commenced its academic activities with 85 students in two courses of five-year integrated Law and five-year Law and Management.Around 3,000 students had appeared in the nationwide tests for admissions to the youngest member of the premier legal education institutions in the country. There are 12 NLUs in the country today. Counselling was held on Saturday and 85 seats in the BA LLB and BBA LLB were filled up. The students in the courses with 60 seats each have been drawn from 22 states. The rest 35 seats would be filled up on July 24, when the second counselling would be held. The fledgling institution has started classes from a rented premises at Chahata. Welcoming the students, Vice-Chancellor Prof Faizan Mustafa said that the University would soon get its own campus and building. About 60 acre land at Naraj on the outskirts of Cuttack has been alloted for the purpose. Work on the project site has started and by the next academic session, the University is expected to have shifted to its own campus. The Vice-Chancellor said that the University would mark a shift from the traditional by inculcating the concept of justice education rather than basic legal studies. While emerging fields of specialisation would be promoted, legal research would also be given optimum emphasis. The University is planning to launch specialised courses like mining law, shipping law, food law and agriculture law from the ensuing academic session. Work on designing and preparing the course frame-work and modules is on. They will come into existence from 2010-11 academic year.

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