For all intents and purposes HNLU is striving to take legal education and research to a sci-fi level. It affords an integrated round-the-clock wireless access to electronic research databases throughout the campus. It maintains state-of-the-art classrooms with DLP projector generated power point presentations, interactive boards etc. The Language Lab, exclusive among all law schools in India, helps the students sharpen their lingual prowess. Only a handful of institutions in the country have access to similar cutting edge technology. These qualify the students at HNLU for an illustrious standing among others.
Library
An accomplished legal professional is he who recognizes where to find the law. The University takes pride in its triple rowed massive library, storing a plethora of print and electronic research material. Our library is also the depository of rare books donated by the family of Hon’ble Justice M. Hidayatullah and is therefore rather enviable for other law libraries. Given the interdisciplinary course that the University offers, the library also shelves books on allied fields overlapping with legal studies, whilst retaining books on a wide array of law subjects. The library also lays claim to a first-rate anthology of books on Philosophy (Sacred Books of the East and History of Dharmashastra among others), Vedic Texts, English language and classical and contemporary English literature.
The current assets of the library comprise:
- A rich collection of authoritative and classic titles on Indian and International Law.
- Subscription of numerous scholastic law journals of global repute such as Harvard Law Review, Modern Law Review, Law Quarterly Review, Cambridge Law Journal, Yale Law Journal, Journal of World Trade, Journal of Peasant Studies, Law and Society Review etc.
- Complete sets of All England Law Reports, Butterworths Company Cases, The Digest, All India Reports, Supreme Court Cases, Cr.Law Journal, Labour & Industrial Cases, Labour Law Journal, Company Cases, Income Tax Reports, Divorce & Matrimonial Cases, Moor’s Indian Appeals, and Indian Appeals etc.
- Latest set of Halsbury’s Laws of England
- E-library resources and several CD ROM databases including Grand Jurix and on-line resources such as Westlaw, Manupatra etc.
The library has been computerized using a state-of-the-art package designed by the National Informatics Centre, Government of India.
Schools of Excellence
One of the salient features of HNLU is its six schools set up as Centres of Excellence in their relevant spheres. Six Units/ Centres under each School make them a total of thirty six units. The six schools are:
1. The School of Juridical & Social Science (SJSS)
2. The School of Constitutional & Administrative Goverance (SSTSD)
3. The School of International Legal Studies (SILS)
4. The School of Science , Technology & Sustainable Development (SSTDS).
5. The School of Business & Global Trade Laws Development (SBGTLD).
6. The School of Administration of Justice, Continuing & Clinical Legal Education (SAJCCLE).
Publications
HNLU publishes a bi-annual Student Bar Journal of Law. The introductory issue of this in-house journal contained a foreword by Prof. (Dr.) IP Massey and complementary messages from legal luminaries viz. former Chief Justices of India, Justice YK Sabbarwal, Justice RC Lahoti, Supreme Court Judges, Justice SB Sinha and Senior Advocate Shri PP Rao. This journal is solely a students’ endeavor and its editorial board comprises of students of the currently graduating batch.
Furthermore, the University also publishes a Journal on Law and Social Policy to dedicate writing spaces to the respectable faculty members. The journal has a distinguished panel of editors.
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