Forbes India’s “Legal Powerlist 2020” Features Faculty of Law, Marwadi University as One of the Top Law Schools in India
It’s a matter of pride for Marwadi University and the state of Gujarat as the Faculty of Law, Marwadi University has been classified as one of the Top Law Schools of India in the “Legal Powerlist 2020” By Forbes India. Know more about this achievement and the practices that made the faculty of law at Marwadi University the top law school of India.
Marwadi University, Faculty of Law, has been placed amongst only a few of the handful universities in the category of Top Law Schools in India in the Forbes India “Legal Powerlist 2020.’’
It is a moment of great pride and pleasure for Marwadi University and the state of Gujarat. With this achievement, Marwadi University becomes one of the few excellent universities in Gujarat that has been honoured with this feat.
Beginning with what is the Forbes India’s ‘’Legal Powerlist 2020'’ about:
“Legal Powerlist 2020” has been initiated by Forbes India in association with Legitquest. The initiative aims to identify deserving winners in various legal categories and felicitate them. Talking about the ‘Top Law School’ category, the main aim is to highlight those law schools that nurture students to become excellent lawyers and ultimate professionals.
On this proud moment of being honoured as one of the top law schools, Dr Rhishikesh Dave, the Dean at Faculty of Law at Marwadi University, said, “Marwadi University, Faculty of Law, is one of the youngest and fastest-growing law schools of Gujarat — making a name in the national and international arena”.
He further added, “Getting featured in the FORBES LEGAL POWERLIST 2020 is indeed an honour and also suggests that we are working in the right direction to fulfil the vision of making this law school one of the best institutes across the globe”.
Now, we shall move ahead and further look at what features and practices have made the Faculty of Law, Marwadi University, one of the top law schools.
How Are The Law Aspirants Nurtured at the Faculty of Law, Marwadi University?
Faculty of Law aspires to become an international centre of excellence in legal education, training and research. To make that vision turned into reality, the university provides students with in-depth and advanced knowledge of legal education through innovative pedagogy. The faculty of Law offers students BA LLB, B.Com LLB and LLM courses.
With this accomplishment of global recognition, MU further strives to fulfil the goal of making its Faculty of Law the quintessential preference for national and international law aspirants.
To achieve this goal and become an international centre for academic excellence, the faculty of law tutors its students through some unique practices:
- Students learn through a hands-on learning approach, which ensures practical education.
- For every subject, students are expected to submit research papers.
- The best approach to make students corporate-ready is to let them learn through internships. Students need to complete 8 internships in the legal areas during their course of a period.
- Students attend lectures from legal industry experts like judges, partners, lawyers, corporate lawyers etc., and learn from their experiences.
- Courses in collaboration with national and international universities offered to aspirants to leverage from.
- Students need to study various programs to develop excellent communication skills and analytical thinking abilities.
- Specializations and electives offered to the students in the programmes are based on industry requirements and are highly demanded.
- Students are open to specializing in Corporate Law, Intellectual Property Rights Law, Constitutional Law and Criminal Law.
- Electives that students can choose from are Air & Space Law, Maritime Law, Sports Law, Energy Law, Cyber Law, Health Law, Water Law, Food Law, Infrastructure Law and Law of War.
- To enhance their practical experience, students get involved in activities like debates, MUN, quizzes, the moot courts etc.
- Camps are organized in nearby villages for legal aid clinic and legal literacy.
In regards to such unique practices, check out here what Dr Sandeep Sancheti, Provost, Marwadi University, has to tell: “Looking at the huge global demand for highly skilled lawyers and companies like TATA, Reliance, Infosys, Wipro, TCS, ICICI Bank, regularly recruiting corporate lawyers in large numbers. MU emphasizes on preparing law graduates who are ready for the profession from the day of their graduation, through outcome-based holistic legal education and offering electives on emerging areas of Law”.
