During the 31st annual convocation ceremony, Prof Sudhir Krishnaswamy, vice chancellor of the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bengaluru, announced a series of academic initiatives, including a new research policy, joint degree programmes with leading foreign universities, and the resumption of admissions for foreign students.

Given the institution's growing student and faculty body, the vice chancellor also requested assistance from the Karnataka government and other philanthropic institutions in acquiring additional land and resources for residential facilities.

“For the University to deliver the highest quality of education while expanding, we need to build an institutional capacity to operate at scale.

The University has focused on developing institutional capacity along two dimensions: first, to enable the digital transformation of all academic and administrative processes and secondly, to reimagine and restructure the University administration with the support of the governing bodies,” said Krishnaswamy.

Elaborating on the new research policy NLSIU VC said, “The University has now adopted a new research policy to democratise leadership of University Centres and Chairs and enhance participation of faculty in collaborative research projects. By investing University resources in supporting individual faculty, Chairs and Centres we are confident that these new beginnings will snowball into a quantum jump in research output at the University.”

“These initiatives taken together will allow the NLSIU to take its rightful place in global legal education and contribute to the development of a multipolar future,” Krishnaswamy said.

Previous Week, NLSIU convocation ceremony, nearly 2,000 law students graduated, including eight with a Doctor of Philosophy, 59 with a Masters in Public Policy, 68 with a Masters in Law, 74 with a Bachelors in Arts and Law (Hons) and 1,490 with a Masters in Business Law or Post Graduate Diploma of the Professional and Continuing Education programmes.

The NLSIU convocation ceremony was presided by Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud who also inaugurated the redeveloped library — Shri Narayan Rao Melgiri Memorial National Law Library — at the NLS campus in the presence of Sudha Murty, chairperson of Infosys Foundation.

The library precinct is also redeveloped to allow for a seamless connection between the outdoors and the library space. The redeveloped building now includes space for zoning, disabled friendly features, terraces, digital volumes of 25,000 materials.