HNLU offers an exhaustive, diverse and cross-functional curriculum considering the subjects, course design and the evaluation pattern. A meticulously planned syllabi coupled with the contemporary teaching methodology prepares the students to take on the challenges, the legal profession has recently posed. It encourages inquiry in an analytical and critical manner rather than meager application of law.

(A) Dialectic Teaching

A proficient lawyer remains a hermit, enormously committed to learning. The Institution, for teaching purposes, has thus meticulously designed a scheme where the critical appraisals and self enrichment through research supplant the traditional teaching methodology, paving the way for the evolution of a new age lawyer. We, at HNLU, sincerely recognize the importance of e-research databases for accessing growing volume of primary and secondary sources of law. These include Westlaw, Manupatra, SCC Online et al., adding impetus to the academic milieu.

To advance vocal skills combined with research, the curriculum requires each student to write 47 papers and 2 dissertations demanding extensive research. The curriculum further requires 49 extensive presentations in the form of moot court exercises, projects and viva voce.

(B) Curriculum

The prolific curriculum for the five-year undergraduate program at HNLU is nothing but the realization of Socratic expression, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. The compulsory subjects coupled with honours, optional, seminar and other clinical courses ensure a consistent understanding and holistic appreciation of the discipline.

The Honours Course at the University is the distinguishing feature of the curriculum as it offers the student to specialize in two subject areas of his choice. Unlike the conventional honors paper system, the course is designed to match the postgraduate content in the specific subject. Emphasis is also laid on dialectical reasoning with power point presentations. The University also offers allied courses in thie form of a wide range of Optional courses to choose from. HNLU curriculum also requires presentation of two seminar papers in the final year by every student. Seminars are instrumental in lending added insight into vital aspects of law. For an explicit understanding of the practical aspects of the legal profession, HNLU mandates a minimum of 5 periods of Internship with legal institutions and individuals.

HNLU, in pursuit of its acknowledged social objective, also insist on Clinical Legal Education. It has established a full-fledged Legal Aid Clinic, which organizes legal literacy programs, Lok Adalats and publishes eloquent legal literature to provide free legal assistance thus fulfilling the Constitutional objective enshrined in its Article 39A.

(C) Evaluation, Grading and Class Participation

The Institution evaluates its students over an extended spell of time. For this, each subject carries 100 marks covering moot courts, project writing, mid and end semester examinations, snap tests and even attendance. The Bell Curve assessment further ensures greater precision in appraising the bona fide aptitude of students in an ambiance that supports analytical thinking. This scheme of evaluation requires consistent performance from the students to attain good grades.