CLAT 2022- Know All About NLSIU Bengaluru

• The campus is located in the Nagarbhavi area, around 10 km from Bangalore city railway station, and spread over 23 acres. It is the premier legal institution of the country which has given many stewards to the legal profession.

• It has a residential campus that includes hostels for UG and PG students along with faculty residential quarters. The Chairman of the Bar Council of India is the president of its General Council which adds more prestige to its name.

 Admission

• The National Law School of India (NLSIU) conducted its own Entrance Test which was named as National Law Aptitude Test (NLAT). The test was held for admissions to NSLIU in the coming academic year.

• NLSIU has been ranked at the top in the National Law Universities list. Students must have passed 12^th standard or equivalent with no less than 50% marks.

Course Structure

• NLSIU is the first university in India to offer BA LLB (Hons.) course. Its purpose was to bring legal education at par with other professions like medical, and engineering where students who are freshly passed and make their career choice in law.

• NLS offered course is a five-year undergraduate program which offers you subjects like Space Laws, Human Rights Law, Consumer Law, Banking and Insurance Laws, etc, along with Sociology, Economics and Political other than civil and procedural laws.

• There are a plethora of seminar courses offered right from Air & Space law and medical law to cyber laws. The faculty teaching at NLS is selected from among the best available in their respective fields and the reputation of the university itself attracts the best faculty from all over India. Visiting faculty includes eminent names from all over India and the world.

• JS Verma, Kaushik Basu, Michael Kirby; are just a few of the eminent personalities who have graced the NLS visiting faculty list. Apart from the regular courses that constitute the compulsory curriculum, there are also offered from time to time, optional single credit courses.

• These courses are generally taken by experts from outside law school over a short period of time, a fortnight at the most. Some of the titles of these single credit courses have included, 'Politics in India', 'Admiralty Law', 'Law and Cinema'. These courses are completely optional and can be taken up by a student according to his interest and convenience.

      Internships (Work Experience)

• Every student is required to do at least three placements during his course at NLS. A placement is a 28-day internship that the student does with a lawyer or the law firm of his choice, subject to the applicable regulations. A student is required to do at least one trial and one appellate court placement.

• Other options for doing placements include NGOs (Non-governmental Organizations), International Organizations like Oxfam, Amnesty International, newspapers, or corporate houses.

• These placements give the NLS graduate a distinct advantage over his peers from other institutions as s/he would have had the hands-on experience of working as a lawyer in addition to the classroom knowledge that he acquires as part of the course.

University Infrastructure

• Recreational Facilities - For those that favor workout, NLSIU offers fairly decent sporting facilities. A gridiron, a court, two volleyball/throwball courts, a clay court are a number of the sporting facilities available on campus. 

• Additionally to the present, the men's and women's hostels have badminton courts and Ping-Pong there's also a well-equipped gym open for students from 6 am-10 am in the morning and 4 pm-8 pm in the evening.

• There's a standard room within the academic block, which features a television with cable connection, also as magazines and board games and carom board. The men's and women's hostels have common rooms also with television sets and Ping-Pong tables. The men's hostel has its own library, which additionally to academic books features a limited selection of sunshine reading.

• The Libraries - NLSIU has three libraries. The textbook section (affectionately referred to as the 'downstairs library' for obvious reasons) and the journals and periodicals section as well as the Subroto Roy Choudhary library (affectionately referred to the upstairs library and SRC library).

• These libraries have different timings. The downstairs library opens at 8 am and is open till midnight, though books are not issued after 5.00 pm (officially, but unofficially a lot of 'please please' can work wonders).

• The books in the downstairs library are fully searchable on a computerized database and this is very useful indeed. A similar database of journal articles is also in the process of being compiled. Each student is issued a library card and is allowed to issue one book on it.

Achievements

• The National Law School has won laurels in various fields connected and disconnected with the law. One of the main strengths of NLS is in the mooting department. National Law School teams have won the most prestigious moot court competitions in India and Abroad. The Philip C Jessup moot court competition (Washington), considered the most prestigious in the world was won by a team from NLS in 1999 and 2013.

• The International Client Counseling Competition, held in Chicago was also won by the National Law School in 1999. The Stetson moot court competition in Florida was won by the National Law School team in 2001. NLS also won the Afro-Asian moot court competition in 1999.

• NLS has shown creditable performances in other international moots like the Commonwealth Moot and The Vienna Moot Court Competition. Every prestigious moot court competition in India has been won by National Law School many times over. The Bar Council of India moot, the GLC Mumbai moot, The Kerala Law Academy moot ' the list is endless.

 Career Opportunities

• One of the aspects of NLS that sets it apart from similar institutions is the 'campus recruitment' that happens at the end of the course. Any student who desires to sit for recruitment can do so. Recruiters include top corporate houses & law firms from India & Abroad. These jobs include positions as legal advisers to corporates and practicing members of law firms.

• A sample list of recruiters (past & present ) would include Arthur Andersen, Wipro, Infosys, Hindustan Lever, ICICI, SAIL, GESCO, Tata Sons, Amarhchand Mangaldass, Pathak & Associates, ARA Law, DSK Legal. International recruiters have included Linklaters (the world's largest law firm) from London & Khattar & Wong from Singapore.

• The next most popular option for the NLS graduate is to practice. The practice has its pros & cons. The lure of instant cash in the form of a fat pay packet may be missing, but the long-term prospects are much brighter as a practicing lawyer.

• Students generally start out with law firms and once they get a firm grounding venture out on their own or set up their own firms. Many NLS graduates have set up firms and are doing well. This is not restricted to India. There are NLS graduates practicing in the UK and the USA.

• Many NLS graduates also opt to study further after their stint at NLS. Most of these students get scholarships and go to study abroad. It is notable that for the past six years, at least one alumni (most often two) has figures the list of Rhodes Scholars from India. Other scholarships like Inlaks & British Chevening are de rigueur for NLS graduates.

• NLSIU alumni can also be found at Harvard, Cambridge, London School of Economics, Stanford, Colombia, New York University, just to name a few. Many even opt to continue their education in India. IIMs are a favorite destination for such students. Interestingly, there is even alumni teaching at IIT.

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