Why Law at DSU?
Five years in a Law School is a process of self-discovery for the budding legal eagles. School of Law envisions imparting modern legal education in an inter-disciplinary fashion. This is not just a statement but a thought soon to be turned into reality for the students in their journey traversing across five years in the Law School. School of Law stands at the cutting edge of new age tech enabled modern clinical legal education which shall enable to the students to acquire the hands-on skills to face the market with fortitude, ease.
The exposure School of Law visions to offer are the best in class by creating an international state of the art facility for the students by not only giving them a loaded dose of internationally and nationally acclaimed online databases but also the opportunity to attend and interact with world renowned national as well as international experts from various fields not limited to law, management and social sciences coupled with innovative workshops in the form of co-curricular activities that shall enrich the students of School of Law in more ways than one to become the future thought leaders, policy makers of this nation.
DSU Law has a unique curriculum that not only focuses on imparting robust legal training but also ensuring that students are prepared to fully step into their roles as New Age Lawyers.
The program at DSU School of Law has the following elements that allow it to do so:
- A tech-forward program that allows students to explore a variety of contemporary topics like AI, Cyber Crime, NFT and IP law, etc from experts in the field. The program includes a series of workshops and seminars that are designed to introduce new developments in the field of law of technology to students. These seminars also allow students to directly interact with experts from the field ensuring that they receive first-hand insight into the changing landscape of the law.
- A dedicated foundational course on Science and Technology Studies (STS). STS is an interdisciplinary field that examines the creation, development, and consequences technology within its historical, cultural, and social contexts. Currently, STS is being included into curricula by universities like Harvard, Cornell, University of California Berkely, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). DSU School of Law is the first law school in India to incorporate this important field into its legal curriculum.
- Training in two foreign languages as part of the curriculum to ensure that students are prepared to take on the challenges presented by the increasingly interconnected international legal spheres.
- A truly interdisciplinary and critical teaching pedagogy to ensure that students not only understand the principles of the law but also the ways in which these can be reimagined to meet the changing demands of New Age society.
- A set up where the core procedural papers of law shall be looked into by industry specialists/experts to give a more practical, hands-on view for the students.
