| Established Year: | 1959 |
| Accreditation: | Not Available |
| Status Of College: | Bar Council Approved |
| College Management: | Private |
| College Facilities: | Department has its own library and computer lab to equip its students and faculty. Department has very rich library holding over 56,000 books in vast double storied area. Library maintains 55 periodicals, 22 monthly, 9 quarterly, 5 fortnightly, 5 weakly. |
College Information:
The Department of Laws, originally established at Lahore in 1889, was reestablished at Shimla in 1948, shifted to Jalandhar in 1950 and finally relocated at the University Campus at Chandigarh in 1959.
Its Alumni include Judges of the Supreme Court and High Courts, Union Cabinet Ministers, State Chief Ministers, Cabinet Ministers, Ambassadors, Senior Bureaucrats, Police Officers and other legal luminaries.The Department provides practical training to LL.B. students.
One full paper of 6th Semester includes compulsory participation in two Moots, attachment with advocates in District Courts for 7 to 10 days and special lectures by eminent Academicians, Judges and Senior Advocates which are compulsory as a part of curriculum.
Every year the students of the department are sent to the Supreme Court of India as a part of the practical training programme.It has established Legal Aid CliniccumArbitration Centre as well as a Placement Cell. It is the only Department which has student's Exchange Programme with ELSA under which various groups of students have gone from Chandigarh to Stockholm and viceversa.
The Department has provision for special lectures in memory of Justice Mehr Chand Mahajan and S. Ajit Singh Sarhadi. These lectures have been delivered over the years by eminent persons such as Justice V.K. Krishna Iyer, Justice V.S. Deshpande, Professor Upinder Bakshi, Dr. L.M. Singhvi, Professor Mool Chand Sharma, Justice J.S. Verma, Mr. Soli J. Sorabjee and Prof. M.R. Madhava Menon.
It has a good library with more than 51,000 books and 52 regularly subscribed Indian and foreign journals. The Department regularly publishes a Law Journal (Panjab University Law Review).ALSA:The Department has established Asian Law Students Association.
Its Alumni include Judges of the Supreme Court and High Courts, Union Cabinet Ministers, State Chief Ministers, Cabinet Ministers, Ambassadors, Senior Bureaucrats, Police Officers and other legal luminaries.The Department provides practical training to LL.B. students.
One full paper of 6th Semester includes compulsory participation in two Moots, attachment with advocates in District Courts for 7 to 10 days and special lectures by eminent Academicians, Judges and Senior Advocates which are compulsory as a part of curriculum.
Every year the students of the department are sent to the Supreme Court of India as a part of the practical training programme.It has established Legal Aid CliniccumArbitration Centre as well as a Placement Cell. It is the only Department which has student's Exchange Programme with ELSA under which various groups of students have gone from Chandigarh to Stockholm and viceversa.
The Department has provision for special lectures in memory of Justice Mehr Chand Mahajan and S. Ajit Singh Sarhadi. These lectures have been delivered over the years by eminent persons such as Justice V.K. Krishna Iyer, Justice V.S. Deshpande, Professor Upinder Bakshi, Dr. L.M. Singhvi, Professor Mool Chand Sharma, Justice J.S. Verma, Mr. Soli J. Sorabjee and Prof. M.R. Madhava Menon.
It has a good library with more than 51,000 books and 52 regularly subscribed Indian and foreign journals. The Department regularly publishes a Law Journal (Panjab University Law Review).ALSA:The Department has established Asian Law Students Association.
