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The vice chancellor of the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bengaluru, Prof Sudhir Krishnaswamy, Saturday announced a series of academic initiatives, including a new research policy, joint degree programmes with leading foreign universities and recommencement of the admissions for foreign students during the 31st annual convocation ceremony.
Given the expanding student and faculty body in the institution, the vice chancellor also appealed to the Karnataka government and other philanthropic institutions for support in securing additional land and resources to build residential facilities.
“For the University to deliver the highest quality of education while expanding, we need to build an institutional capacity to operate at scale. The University has focused on developing institutional capacity along two dimensions: first, to enable the digital transformation of all academic and administrative processes and secondly, to reimagine and restructure the University administration with the support of the governing bodies,” said Krishnaswamy.
Elaborating on the new research policy NLSIU VC said, “The University has now adopted a new research policy to democratise leadership of University Centres and Chairs and enhance participation of faculty in collaborative research projects. By investing University resources in supporting individual faculty, Chairs and Centres we are confident that these new beginnings will snowball into a quantum jump in research output at the University.”
NLSIU’s Krishnaswamy also highlighted that the institution’s governing bodies has decided to recommence admitting foreign students to academic programmes of NLSIU; secondly, to develop twinning, dual and joint degree programmes with leading Universities around the world, and finally, to develop deep research partnerships with select Universities that facilitate the production of new and useful knowledge in various fields.
“These initiatives taken together will allow the NLSIU to take its rightful place in global legal education and contribute to the development of a multipolar future,” Krishnaswamy said.
For the academic year 2023-24, there are 1,078 on-campus students of whom nearly 450 joined the university this academic year. As of July 2023, the university recorded 77 faculty members of whom 66 have joined the university in the last three academic years.
In Saturday’s NLSIU convocation ceremony, nearly 2,000 law students graduated, including eight with a Doctor of Philosophy, 59 with a Masters in Public Policy, 68 with a Masters in Law, 74 with a Bachelors in Arts and Law (Hons) and 1,490 with a Masters in Business Law or Post Graduate Diploma of the Professional and Continuing Education programmes.
The NLSIU convocation ceremony was presided by Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud who also inaugurated the redeveloped library — Shri Narayan Rao Melgiri Memorial National Law Library — at the NLS campus in the presence of Sudha Murty, chairperson of Infosys Foundation.
The library was established in 2005 with assistance from Murty and houses a collection of over 50,000 books and 20,000 journals covering a wide range of general and special subjects. The redeveloped library has an increased seating capacity of 600 persons across its three floors. The library precinct is also redeveloped to allow for a seamless connection between the outdoors and the library space. The redeveloped building now includes space for zoning, disabled friendly features, terraces, digital volumes of 25,000 materials.
