This article will
focus on why a five year BA LLB course is the best course for law today and then
the article will talk about the best college for this course.
Let us first look
at the five year LLB course vis a vis a three year LLB.
Total years of
education
An important
deciding factor is that a 3 year LLB is done after graduation and that means
your education takes 6 years and a 5 year LLB is an integrated 5 year course so
you save an year by doing a 5 year LLB.
Your interest in
arts subjects
Plus, a 3 year
LLB is all about law and in the 5 year course you study not only the core law
subjects but also some very interesting arts subjects like history, sociology,
political science, economics, philosophy and psychology.
Placements
Last of all there
is a lot of difference in placements in these two courses. Although the best
colleges offering a 3 year LLB like the Delhi University claim that their
placements are as good as that of the best 5 year law colleges but that is just
a claim.
How sure are you
about a career in law
On the whole it
is rightly said that a 5 year integrated course is much better if you are sure
that you want to make a career in law and the three year law course would
enable you to have more career options open. Having said that there is no
dearth of career options post five year law. Some of these options are
litigation, work as an in house counsel, judiciary, working as an academician, work
in corporate law firms, higher judiciary, NGOs and social work, judicial
clerkship, further studies abroad, bank jobs and more.
Now let us look
which college is the best for a 5 year BA.LLB integrated program. The best
college by far is the National Law School Of India University. The course saw
its inception at NLSIU. Besides law subjects the students get to study arts
subjects such as History, Political Science, Sociology and Economics and more.
Also, a student gets to study such subjects which are not offered in any other
college for instance law, poverty and development. There are courses which one
can choose from such as law and cinema, admiralty law and politics in India.
In the final year
students get to opt for seminar courses which is kind of a specialization and some
of the subjects to choose from are space laws, cyber laws and medical laws. The
college sees eminent guest faculty such as Mr. Ram Jethmalani. The students are
required to go for many internships in NGOs, lower courts, appellate courts and
law firms and corporate houses. There is a moot court society since moots are
an integral part of the course. There is also a debating society. This is just
academics.
For sports
enthusiasts there is a football ground, a basketball court, volleyball courts,
tennis courts, badminton and table tennis courts. One can play indoor games and
there is a facility for the same in the common room. The common room has a TV
and many magazines which you can read. There is a gym for health freaks. On the
whole the infrastructure is great.
The law and
technology group aims to make the whole campus fully digital. The legal
services clinic conducts drives to educate people and spread legal literacy.
Finally there are
the NLSIU fests which are extremely popular among the law students community.
The lit and cultural fest is called Strawberry Fields. Then there is the sports
fest called Spiritus. The college
believes in celebrating and there is a University Week in May and its all fun
and games during that week.
The college is
very much deserving of the Rank 1 among all law schools across the country
because it provides holistic development of students and transforms the
students into competitive lawyers and no other college boasts of three jobs per
student.
