National Law University, Jodhpur
National Law University, Jodhpur is an autonomous law university in India. It is one of the most prestigious law schools in the country. The University offers both under-graduate and post-graduate courses in various streams of law.The degrees offered at the under-graduate level are; B.A.,LL.B. (Hons) B.B.A,LL.B. (Hons) B.Sc.,LL.B. (Hons) All of these are ten semester courses, and are open to students only on a fully residential basis. Since 2008, the admission to these courses is through the nation-wide Common Law Admission Test, the first of which took place on 11 May 2008.At the post-graduate level the degrees offered are (subject-wise): Constitutional Governance (MA/M.Sc in Constitutional Governance, Four Semesters) Intellectual Property Law (LL.M-IPR/MIPR, Four Semesters) Management and Law (MBA,LL.M/MBL, Six Semesters) Insurance (MBA in Insurance, Four Semesters) International Trade and WTO (LL.M.(International Trade), Four Semester) Banking and Finance (MBF, Four Semesters) The admission to these courses is though the National Entrance Tests organised by the University each year.HistoryThe National Law University, Jodhpur was set up in November 1999 under the leadership of Dr. N.L. Mitra. Since then the University has seen two more Vice-Chancellors. The first batch of the University was admitted in the year 2001. The first under-graduate batch passed out in 2006 with their graduation ceremony organised in January 2007 and attended by the then Vice-President of India Bhairon Singh Shekhawat and the then Governor of Rajasthan and formerly the President of India H.E. Mrs. Pratibha Patil.