School of Law and Governance

Significance of Legal Studies Programmes in the Modern MilieuLaw as a profession has always attracted young men and women who are in search of an adventurous career where one can make a mark in society. The central objective of Law Studies programme is to present and appraise the formation and functioning of legal systems and their effectiveness in contributing to the governance processes and development goals. Many of the venerable leaders who fought and won freedom for our country belonged to the legal profession. Ancient India, in fact, had a tradition of law as a craft. Manu, one of the ancient law-givers in the world, Kautilya, the clever practitioner as well as theoretician of statecraft, Panini, the great grammarian, all strode this ancient land of ours. Legal studies explore the relationship between law and culture and the problems of an effectively multicultural society has made this discipline increasingly relevant. Since the late 1980's, study of law has attracted bright youngsters in India mainly because it has become a professional course in the new five-year integrated programme of study, anointed by the Bar Council of India, with the blessings of the Judiciary. The five-year integrated programme of law studies throws open at least four avenues of career to be a judge, a lawyer, a legal adviser in a firm/multinational/industry, or a legal academic. In a vast state like Rajasthan, we have only one National Law School, which due to severe national level competition is not able to cater adequately to the law-aspirants from the State. The youth must be given wider options to pursue law along the lines of the national law schools, even if they fail to make it to the few seats available at these schools and our School of Law and Governance caters to their aspirations.