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India’s premier government aw for the fourth year consecutively.
Dr. Sudhir Krishnaswamy, an
alumnus of NLSIU and Oxford Uni-
& humanities universities versity appointed Vice Chancellor of
NLSIU in 2019, is delighted that EW
survey respondents have rated NLSIU
#1 again with top scores under nine of
Despite the reputation of the country's judiciary having the ten parameters of higher education
hit its nadir, the number of government legal education excellence.
institutions are proliferating countrywide “We are honoured and grateful to
receive this recognition for the fourth
consecutive year. It confirms that we
are steadily maturing into a globally
leading law, social sciences and hu-
manities multidisciplinary university.
I am especially pleased that we have
been awarded top scores under the pa-
rameters of curriculum and pedagogy,
faculty competence, and research and
innovation. This is timely appreciation
because last year we initiated a com-
prehensive curriculum review process,
and the revised curriculum is ready for
implementation in the new academic
year 2025-26. In addition to our So-
cratic seminar teaching pedagogy, we
have also introduced personalised tu-
toring sessions. Moreover for the first
time, our faculty strength has crossed
100 with NLSIU emerging as the uni-
NLSIU's Krishnaswamy: comprehensive revised curriculum versity of choice for law and humani-
ties. Research and innovation is also a
lthough the reputation of pursuant to second-generation legal focus area with the university’s open
the country’s judiciary is education reforms (1985) implement- access journal platform hosting eight
at an all-time low with the ed by the Bar Council of India. Admis- academic journals, available on our
Ajudicial system reduced to sion into NLUs is through the highly repository.nls.ac.in which has become
a snail’s pace under the burden of 50 competitive national CLAT (Common the most visited resource for academic
million pending cases, discovery of a Law Admission Test). In 2024, of the legal material in India,” says Krishnas-
cash mountain in the official bunga- 68,786 school/college leavers who wamy.
low of a senior judge of the Delhi high wrote CLAT, a mere 3,696 were ad- With NLSIU growing in reputation
court on March 14 and shocking, in- mitted. and under pressure to expand capac-
sensitive Allahabad high court judge- Since 2022, when your editors seg- ity, the university has recently received
ment in the case of attempted rape of a regated government and private uni- a land grant of seven acres and “has
minor girl, legal education institutions versities according to domain/subject commenced architectural planning
are proliferating countrywide. specialisations, NLUs have dominated for a new South Campus”. “We have
According to the Union law minis- the league table of India’s best govern- also initiated redevelopment of two
try, 1,721 colleges/universities — in- ment law and humanities universities. academic blocks and sports arenas.
cluding 920 private colleges, 248 pri- The 2025-26 league table is no dif- In the next 12-24 months, the campus
vate universities, 383 government law ferent. Seven of the Top 10 ranks have infrastructure will be comprehensively
colleges and 170 government varsities been awarded by 2,100 EW sample re- redeveloped to globally benchmarked
— are dispensing legal education pro- spondents to NLUs with the National standards,” promises Krishnaswamy.
grammes across India. Of them, the Law School of India University Currently, NLSIU has an enrollment of
most highly reputed are the 26 Na- (NLSIU), Bengaluru (estb.1988) 1,355 students and 100 faculty.
tional Law Universities (NLUs) pro- topping the EW league table of govern- In the EW league table of India’s
moted by Central/state governments ment law and humanities universities best government law universities

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