Bar Council approves KIIT School of Law at Bhubaneswar

The Pioneer,BBSR(27thFeb)
KIIT University has fast emerged as a diversified educational conglomerate offering academic programmes from kindergarten to post-doctorate level. The KIIT School of Law (KSL), which was established in 2007 on the pattern of the National Law Schools to meet the surging demand for legal professionals in the wake of globalisation and rapid expansion of corporate sector and influx of multinationals in the country, has now been recognised by the Bar Council of India (BCI) for its academic programmes.
As KSL is a national-level law school, it was inspected last year by a high-level BCI team, headed by its chairman S Gopakumaran Nair and former chairman Jagannath Patnaik. The team observed with great satisfaction the curricula and infrastructure of the school, leading to its approval.
As per the letter of approval, 80 seats each were sanctioned for the five-year integrated programmes leading to BA LLB, BBA LLB and BSc LLB degrees from the 2007 academic year onwards. In addition, KSL also offers LLM, PG Diploma and PhD. Its first batch attracted students from as many as 20 States.
KSL is guided by the vision of Prof NL Mitra, former director, National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore, and Founder Vice-Chancellor, National Law University, Jodhpur. He is the chairman of the Advisory Committee of KSL.
The school is headed by distinguished academician Prof Faizan Mustafa, former Dean and Registrar, Aligarh Muslim University. KSL is in the process of establishing collaborations with leading international law schools for joint programmes and research, Prof Mustafa informed. Expressing his gratitude to the BCI, A Samanta, Founder Secretary of KIIT, said a third generation five-year integrated law curriculum, eagerly awaited by the students of the State, is now available at their doorsteps.