NLSIU announces JSW grant for redevelopment of new academic block

The grant will also support a new research centre on campus -- ‘JSW Centre for the Future of Law’.

Originally built in 2014, the New Academic Block of NLSIU is a two-storeyed building that accommodates lecture theatres, seminar rooms, office spaces and meeting rooms. (Representative image/ file)

The National Law School of India University today announced a grant from the JSW Group for a comprehensive redevelopment and expansion of the University’s core Academic Block and Precinct. This grant will support the redevelopment of the New Academic Block (NAB), located in the southern part of the NLSIU campus at Nagarabhavi, Bengaluru.

Originally built in 2014, the New Academic Block of NLSIU is a two-storeyed building that accommodates lecture theatres, seminar rooms, office spaces and meeting rooms. However, this grant will help add four floors and redevelop the available two floors to provide flexible and technologically advanced learning and office spaces, along with collaborative research spaces for faculty, students, and researchers.

With this development, the building will be renamed as the ‘JSW Academic Block’.

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Additionally, the grant will also support a new research centre on campus — ‘JSW Centre for the Future of Law’. This centre will anchor academic and policy research and curricular interventions that explore the effects of new technologies on the future of the legal system, the legal profession and legal education. The aim of this centre will be to develop new and appropriate models of legal regulation and incubate new technologies that facilitate legal system reform and access to justice. Under the leadership of a Centre Director, the centre will host doctoral and postdoctoral researchers who will engage with multiple stakeholders including governments, domestic and international regulators, academia, civil society and private sector entities.

“This generous grant, the largest in the University’s history, enables the successful implementation of the next phase of the NLSIU Inclusion and Expansion Plan 2021-25. Under this Strategic Plan, the University aims to expand student intake by nearly 350% to facilitate greater opportunity for all while creating a socially inclusive student body. We are grateful for JSW’s support and commitment towards the growth of NLSIU by developing world class infrastructural facilities for future generations of law students, and fostering new and useful legal research that responds to the technological transformations of our time,” said NLSIU Vice Chancellor, Prof (Dr) Sudhir Krishnaswamy.