The O P Jindal Global University (JGU) in Sonipat, Haryana on Thursday announced the launch of a three year BA (Hons) programme in Legal Studies.
“This new undergraduate programme in law will fulfil the much-needed gap in Indian higher education. It builds on the efforts of the Indian high school education system, which has introduced legal studies as a course in recent years,” the university’s founding vice-chancellor C Raj Kumar said in a statement.
According to the statement, the programme is the first of its kind launched by an Indian university at the undergraduate level.
The USP of the course:
It will create an opportunity for all high school students to pursue the study of law after plus-two and make informed choices as to whether they want to pursue law as a career. After the undergraduate degree in legal studies, they can choose to pursue the three-year LLB programme.
The BA programme is interdisciplinary in nature as the curriculum has laid emphasis on the social, economic, and political context of law in society.
Students enrolling into the course will have an opportunity to experience short term study abroad programmes in law that are held at Harvard University, University of Oxford, Fletcher School-Tufts University and also exchange programmes at many other universities, the statement said.
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