CLAT 2022- Know All About NALSAR Hyderabad

NATIONAL ACADEMY OF LEGAL STUDIES AND RESEARCH, HYDERABAD

• National Academy of Legal Studies and Research (NALSAR) was established in 1998 by a Statute of the then State of Andhra Pradesh.

• Since its inception, the University has been home to vital conversations on law and justice. These conversations have acknowledged that questions of justice arise in all legal pursuits whether in the world of courts, corporations, education or administration.

• The University very seriously follows the social justice agenda as it believes that the cause of building a rule of law society is a continuous enterprise, which is sustainable if it is undertaken with optimism and good cheer.

ADMISSION

• NALSAR take students for an under-graduate and post-graduate program through Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) which is being conducted every year.

• NALSAR has been ranked in 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

• NALSAR offers a five-year integrated B.A LL.B. (Hons.) program. Admission to the undergraduate program is based on the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) which is taken by upwards of 70,000 students every year.

• With only 120 seats open at NALSAR, the program is considered highly selective. NALSAR follows a credit-based elective system, with specific mandatory courses, which requires students to earn 200 credits over five years to reach the degree.

• NALSAR offers a one-year post-graduate program. Fifty students are admitted through CLAT with ten more spots allocated to foreign nationals.

• About ten sections of specialization are presented, and the program obligations include a dissertation. 

• Moreover, a two-year (four semesters) self-financed master's degree in Business Laws and Administration (MBLA)is also offered by the University apart from a one-year Master of Philosophy(M.Phil) which is accessible to the candidate with an LL.M. degree, and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD).

• As a first amongst the Indian National Law Universities, beginning the academic year 2013-14, NALSAR now also offers a two-year M.B.A. program.

PLACEMENTS (WORK EXPERIENCE)

• Every student is required to do at least three placements during his course at NALSAR. 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 NALSAR 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.

COLLEGE LIBRARY

• NALSAR's library has a compendium of more than 27,000 articles encompassing law reports, reviews, periodicals, manuals and choicest publications of textbooks and other resources.

• The Law Resource Center is the focal point of all library activities and aims at fulfilling the research and academic intentions of the University.

• Its rich assortment of primary and secondary legal resources is accessible to all the users on the campus.

• The VPN-configured Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) is available from any terminal in and out of the campus.

• It is intended to provide online information on the availability of titles and to allow the patrons to request items that are on loan, renewal of books, access to patron accounts, and other information services.

• Contrasting the traditional OPACS, each record provides bibliographic information with hot links to the table of contents pages, reviews, publishers' notes, and peer-driven reviews and ratings.

• The library has a collection of UN collections. A distinct section houses all the proceedings of the organs of the United Nations.

• The print compilation is augmented by online access.

EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

Moot Court Competitions

• Right up to the national level Nalsar students have shined in mooting.

• It was positioned amongst the top in the world at the international rounds of the Philip C. Jessup Moot Court Competition 2006 at Washington, D.C. Nalsar was placed amongst the top eight teams in the world, at the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition in 2007.

• Three years later in 2010, the team finished as semi-finalists in the Jessup International Law Moot Competition.

• NALSAR made it to the leading 12 teams and participated in the International Finals of the 11th Annual Stetson Environmental Moot Court Competition held at Stetson University College of Law, Florida in November 2006.

• Nalsar closed as runners-up in the first edition of the ICC Trial Competition at The Hague, a feat it repeated in 2011.

• Nalsar bagged the D.M. Harish International Moot Court Competition in 2011. The team likewise won the Best Speaker and Best Researcher prizes. In 2011, Nalsar emerged the semi-finalists in the Asia-Pacific rounds of the Manfred Lachs Moot Court Competition.

• In 2012, Nalsar clinched the Monroe E. Price International Media Law Moot Court Competition at the University of Oxford.

• In 2014, Nalsar bagged the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Court Competition, conducted at Vienna.

• Nalsar was declared the best in India in mooting in the first two seasons of the MPL (Mooting Premier League) in 2009-2010 and 2010-2011.

Debating

• NALSAR won India's firstborn Parliamentary Debate at St. Stephens College, Delhi in December 2005.

• It was followed by victories at the Annual Parliamentary Debate held at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in January 2007 and 2009, the debate conducted by the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad in February 2007, and that of the Young Orators Club of Secunderabad in 2008.

• NALSAR further cemented its repute on the debating circuit by winning the inaugural IIM Bangalore Parliamentary Debating Championship 'Cicero' in January 2009.

• The NALSAR Intervarsity Debating Championship is the innovator of the British Parliamentary Debating format in India.

• The concept for the NALSAR IV was born to introduce the British Parliamentary debate format to the national debating circuit and provide a preparatory ground for the WUDC (World Universities Debating Championship), the most prominent debating championship in the world.

• Thus, the NALSAR IV is designed at exposing debaters to the most aggressive requirements of adjudication. The NALSAR IV has now gotten the name to be one of the most esteemed debating championships in India.