Member Details

Name The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata
Address ‘Dr. Ambedkar Bha Wan’, 12, L.B. Block, Salt Lake City, Sector III, Kolkata: 700106, INDIA
Join Date 30/05/2020
Website https://www.nujs.edu
The National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata is an academic community committed to the pursuit of knowledge, wisdom, discovery, and creativity. Its mission is to provide student-centric education and foster personal and intellectual growth to prepare students for productive careers, meaningful lives, and responsible citizenship in a global society.

In furtherance of this mission, the University seeks to incubate innovative approaches to legal education and profession and prepare students for leadership roles not only in legal profession but also in a wide range of social institutions, including government, politics and business so as to further the University's many roles in contributing to decision-making in national and international institutions.

These mission objectives are served through an academic programmme, charactersied by academic rigour and interdisciplinary teaching and research. The curriculum content and design encourage students and faculty to transcend disciplinary boundaries by tackling complex and vexing problems facing the legal community in theirs social and political, local, national, and global, context and view law as a social institution.

More specifically, the University tries to combine teaching and research in an integrated manner so as to further its variegated statutory objectives. On the teaching side, the University offers a combination of undergraduate and post-graduate degree programmes in order to advance and disseminate learning and knowledge of law and legal processes. Along with its degree programmes, the University offers several diploma programmes, certificate courses and a host of specialised training programmes to impart legal education to professionals, entrepreneurs and advanced students seeking to develop specialisation in niche areas. These courses arc also combined with community based programmes like legal aid, awareness programmes and workshops in order to instil in the scholars a sense of responsibility to serve society in the field of law and contribute to use of law as tool for social transformation and empowerment.