bits law school mumbai: BITS Pilani launches BITS Law School in Mumbai

BITS Pilani has announced a foray into legal education with BITS Law School in Greater Mumbai. The BITS Law School reimagines all aspects of legal education, including a flexible and interdisciplinary curriculum, emphasis on empathy and creativity in learning, focus on legal writing and scholarly research, with strong digital underpinning across the programmes, and enabling access through scholarships.

BITS Law School will offer two five-year integrated degree programmes, B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) and B.B.A. LL.B. (Hons.). The first academic year will commence from August 1, 2023.

Kumar Mangalam Birla, Chancellor of BITS Pilani said in a statement: India’s emergence as an equitable, diverse, and inclusive knowledge economy will be championed by our universities and specialised centres of learning… BITS Law School seeks to reimagine legal education to address contemporary and emerging problems of local and global significance. Taking inspiration from the National Education Policy (NEP) and the soaring aspirations of young Indians, BITS Law School will be a melting pot of ideas.

BITS Law School will seek intellectual guidance from luminaries of the legal fraternity, higher education, business, and policymaking. Some of the esteemed members of the Advisory Council include Hon. Justice U.U. Lalit (eminent jurist and former Chief Justice of India), Hon. Justice B.N. Srikrishna (eminent jurist and a retired judge of the Supreme Court of India), Pallavi Shroff (Managing Partner, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co.), and Haigreve Khaitan (Managing Partner, Khaitan & Co.). Professor (Dr.) Ashish Bharadwaj joins as the founding Dean of the BITS Law School.

Founding Dean, Professor (Dr.) Ashish Bharadwaj said, “”Our progressive, interdisciplinary, and technology-led approach will help students know the law, practice law, live with law, and empower through law. We aspire to become an inspirational benchmark by firmly basing ourselves on the core values of those who built India and the core beliefs of those who will lead India.”

The law students will also gain access to and benefit from the 1,70,000+ BITS Pilani Alumni Network spanning across 55 Countries. A dedicated office will facilitate students’ preparedness, exposure, and access to leading law firms, business corporations, banks, NGOs, and research organizations.

A state-of-the-art, fully residential campus of BITS Law School is being developed by Architect Hafeez Contractor over 63 acres in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region. While the permanent and zero-carbon footprint campus will be operational in 2024, BITS Law School has commenced operations and will begin its first academic year from August 2023 out of an interim campus in the Hiranandani Gardens in Powai, Mumbai.Scholarships will be offered for meritorious students to enable access and preserve diversity. Among the specialisations offered are Technology & Media Law; Entertainment & Sports Law; Corporate & Financial Law; and Alternate Dispute Resolution & Mediation.