The 12th Convocation of National Law University Odisha (NLUO) was held on 13th September 2025 in the Amphitheatre at NLUO’s own campus. The University conferred degrees to 168 graduates of the five-year integrated BA LLB (Hons) and BBA LLB (Hons). 42 post-graduate students were conferred LLM degrees and 3 scholars were awarded PhD degrees. Additionally, 5 BA Law (Hons) students were also conferred degrees. They became the first graduating batch of this one-of-its-kind academic UG Course with a focus on skill building and employability in the legal and ancillary sectors. 14 Gold Medals were also given to the meritorious students.

The Convocation opened with the presentation of the annual report by Prof Ved Kumari, Vice-Chancellor of NLUO, an eminent legal educator with global credentials, capturing the achievements and initiatives of the academic year gone by i.e. 2024-25.

Hon’ble Chief Justice of the Orissa High Court and Chancellor of NLUO, Hon’ble Justice Shri Harish Tandon presided over the proceedings of the function. The Chief Guest for the occasion was Hon’ble Justice Aniruddha Bose, Director of the National Judicial Academy and former Judge of the Supreme Court of India.

Alongside academic accomplishments, the University has continued to strengthen its scholarship initiatives by awarding merit-cum-means scholarships annually to the tune of INR 18,00,000 for meritorious and deserving students from vulnerable income backgrounds. In the efforts to make legal education accessible, this year, 58 students were admitted from the Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe and Persons-with-Disabilities category.

NLUO is truly a pan-India institution with representations from 28 States and Delhi. In addition to the existing 2 UG, 2 PG, and PhD programmes, amongst all the National Law Universities in India, NLUO is the second NLU to offer a 3-year LLB programme. The first batch of this programme will graduate in 2026. NLUO has announced an additional course, that is, the 2-year MBA programme in Healthcare Management and Law to be started from January 2026.  The academic year 2024-25 also witnessed NLUO offering 18 certificate courses for students, practitioners and working professionals.

NLUO has been producing capacitated and future-ready legal professionals with a commitment to justice. Sustained efforts of faculties, students and administrative staff in building a culture of academic excellence and a vibrant campus life have led to significant progress in the ranking of the University in the Ministry of Human Resources and Development (MHRD) mandated National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF). NLUO’s ranking has substantially risen from 26^th position in 2023-24 to 15th in 2024-25 amongst all Law Universities (government, private and trust funded included). It is ranked 6^th among the 27 National Law Universities in India.

The graduating 5-year LLB batch of 2025 from NLUO has secured a total of 60 jobs, out of the 80 students who participated in the recruitment process. The recruiters range from top-tier domestic law firms (Saraf and Partners, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas, Argus Partners etc), banks, private corporations, advisory firms, and Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs). Additionally students have also secured offers from policy think tanks and landed prestigious fellowships like PRS India’s Legislative Assistant to the Member of Parliament (LAMP) Fellowship and the Internet Freedom Foundation’s Freedom Innovation Fellowship.

The University’s 21 Research Centers also undertook some important projects such as conducting training programme for the Railway Police Force, training for 500 officers of the Odisha Police on the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita and Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam. International Conferences on Finance, Economics, Banking and Insolvency Laws, along with a Conference on the role of international trade in Globalization Energy Transition were also organised. NLUO also conducted an official satellite event on “Advancing Children’s Access to Justice”, as part of the 5th World Congress on Children’s Access to Justice held in Madrid, Spain.

Project Kutumb, the flagship outreach initiative of NLUO launched the first urban area community-level child welfare and protection committees (CLCWPC) in Cuttack in the presence of the VC, District Child Protection Officer (DCPO) and Cuttack Mayor. Centre for Child Rights (CCR) also re-launched its academic journal i.e. Journal on the Rights of the Child of National Law University Odisha, which got internationally indexed and currently boasts of a globally credentialed Editorial Board and Editorial Advisory Board.

NLUO’s mooting also earned laurels with students being finalists in the globally prestigious Oxford Price Media Law Moot, winners of Dastur National Tax Moot and Semi-Finalists of Surana and Surana National Corporate Moot. NLUO also conducted India’s only annual maritime moot i.e. International Maritime Arbitration Moot (IMAM) and introduced a new Moot Court Competition on Health Care.

NLUO also hosted the first legal services fest and successfully organised the 7th Bioscope Global Film Festival which featured various short films, documentaries, feature films, music videos and masterclass by actors, directors, script-writers etc.

NLUO also offered a unique six-credit course which included a play as the evaluation criterion. It was a “Theatre workshop on Legal issues” curated by Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC). It culminated with a play titled Mitti, which was a social commentary on identity, justice and dignity, conceptualized and staged by NLUO students.

The university also conducted a staff versus student cricket match which was more about team building and camaraderie than winning and losing. Continuing in the same spirit NLUO conducted its first “team building, management, leadership skills building” training programme for members of the faculty and staff.

The VC left the graduating students a life advise and reminding them of the core of legal education, “Days like convocation are like a bridge as one foot remains fixed in the past and one goes into the future. I say this to remind you that law becomes the anchor when storms gather. The law is the foundation holding democracy stable. Lawyers, judges, teachers and scholars must hold on to that anchor and it is you who has to do this. Uphold and promote the vision of NLUO with your empathy to the marginalized. professionalism in your workplace and integrity and sincerity in your personal and professional life.”

INTRODUCTION:

The One Nation, One Election Bill (ONOE), formally introduced as the 129th Constitutional Amendment Bill, 2024, represents a watershed moment in India’s electoral history. It seeks to synchronise the elections to the Lok Sabha and State Legislative Assemblies, thereby reviving a practice followed in the early years from 1951 to 1967. The initiative, endorsed by a High-Level Committee chaired by former President Ram Nath Kovind, is projected by the government to enhance administrative efficiency, reduce fiscal and environmental costs, and minimise governance disruptions caused by frequent elections. It is also expected to foster a unified national vision by aligning the country’s democratic cycles.

AIM OF THE EVENT:

The proposal has generated intense debate within legal, political, and academic circles. Former Chief Justices D.Y. Chandrachud and J.S. Khehar have affirmed its constitutional viability but has also emphasised the necessity of safeguards to prevent the concentration of “unbridled powers” in the Election Commission. While advocates highlight its potential to save billions of rupees, administrative resources, and promote stable policy cycles, critics caution that such a sweeping change may dilute regional representation, centralised political authority, and overshadow local governance issues, thereby altering the balance of India’s federal structure.

Against this backdrop, the Constitutional Law Society, NLUO, is organising a panel discussion on the theme “Synchronizing Democracy Through One Nation One Election: Reform for Efficiency or Engineered Consensus?”. The session aims to bring together eminent jurists, policymakers, and scholars to critically examine the constitutional underpinnings, logistical feasibility, and democratic safeguards surrounding ONOE. The discussion will not only consider the reform’s efficiency claims but also its potential impact on political pluralism and the voter’s democratic experience. By engaging with both the promises and perils of this electoral restructuring, the panel aims to contribute to an informed and balanced discourse on one of the most consequential constitutional reforms of our time.

ABOUT OUR PANELISTS:

Ms. Yamini Aiyar is currently a Senior Visiting Fellow, Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia and Watson Institute, Brown University. She was the President and Chief Executive of the Centre for Policy Research, a leading multidisciplinary think tank in New Delhi from 2017-2024. Ms Aiyar’s work sits at the intersection of research and policy practice. During her tenure she spearheaded the establishment of two important new research initiatives within CPR on State capacity and Politics. Prior to becoming President, she set up the Accountability Initiative at CPR known for its work on governance, social accountability and expenditure tracking in social Policy. Her research interests span the fields of contemporary politics, state capacity, welfare policy, federalism and India’s political economy. She is also a part of a number of boards and advisory committees of research centers and non-profits such as Advisory Committee, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, Member, United Nations Committee of the Experts on Public Administration and Member, Chief Minister’s Rajasthan Economic Transformation Advisory Council (2022-2023) to name a few. She has been widely published across national and international journals and is a regular columnist in the Hindustan Times and Deccan Herald.

Dr Asha Sarangi is a Professor of Political Science at the Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Sciences in Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She did her PhD from University of Chicago, USA, where she was awarded the COSAS Fellowship for her work. She is also the recipient of the Social Scientist Award under the Indo-French Cultural Exchange Programme given by the University Grant Commission. Her areas of interest include political and cultural economy of development in modern India, identity and politics in South Asia and more specifically linguistic nationalism in modern India. She has written for several academic journals such as Taylor & Francis, EPW and the India Review. She has also authored several books on language and identity politics in India as well.

Mr Yashwant Deshmukh is a senior Journalist and Psephologist. For more than 25 years he has been inseparable part of Political and Elections coverage in Indian Media and has appeared extensively on almost all the leading News Channels including Aaj Tak, ABP, Times Now, Zee, Republic, India Today, BBC, CNN18, TV9, News24 and number of vernacular networks. He is the founder-director of C-Voter, one of the leading international Public Opinion and Stakeholder research agencies with expertise in working on assignments related to democratization, disaster mitigation and conflict resolution. A first-generation entrepreneur, he has travelled in more than 40 countries working in a number of transitional states and societies across Asia, America, Europe and Africa. Yashwant Deshmukh is an accomplished speaker, mentor, coach and trainer for media and communications students. His regular research workshops are attended by hundreds of students in many International as well as Indian universities.

The Panel Discussion shall take place on 12th September 2025, from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm. It shall take place virtually and shall witness participation from students all over the nation.

The Ministry of Education released the NIRF Rankings 2025 on September 4, 2025. Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan unveiled the 10th edition at a special event at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi.

National Law University Odisha secured the 15th rank in NIRF 2025 among the top 40 law institutions in India. A total of 267 institutions participated in the NIRF 2025 Law category.

The achievement marks a significant rise for NLUO, which was ranked 26th in NIRF 2024 and 30th in NIRF 2023.

• India Rankings 2025: Law

The healthcare sector is one of the fastest-growing industries in the world. In India, the healthcare sector is promisingly emerging as a large sector both in terms of revenue and employment. This sector encompasses a wide range of segments, including hospitals, medical devices, and equipments, health tourism, clinical trials, telemedicine, gig economy engagement, and health insurance outsourcing. We see a rapid expansion in the sector owing to the factors of increased awareness, increased service force participation, better public-private funding and investment. A large pool of well-trained medical professionals, enhanced coverage of the population in terms of healthcare services and comparatively lower cost of medical service that the Indian health sector offers, making it a preferred destination for both domestic and international patients to avail healthcare services.

Advancements and awareness in technology have been impacting the healthcare industry to such an extent that the relationship between the health seekers and health providers is both complementary and conflicting. The interface between health and law is often perceived to be necessary whenever the health seekers and the health providers encounter conflicts. However, the integrative and redemptive role of law in healthcare is rarely harnessed. Today, leading a healthcare organisation takes more than the ability to treat patients. Providers in managerial and leadership roles need to balance legal requirements, financial responsibilities, competitive pressure, and human resource needs to streamline healthcare delivery. This necessitates the need for an integrated approach to healthcare management. The discipline of Law forms the best thread to weave this approach.

Against this backdrop, National Law University Odisha is offering a two-year Program of MBA in Healthcare Management and Law, which is a forward-looking program designed to bridge this critical gap. The program offers an integration of legal education with healthcare management principles, enabling students to lead in this dynamic sector.

Title: Practical Aspects of Litigation, Arbitration, and Ancillary Legal Frameworks

Mode: Online

Duration: 32 hours (19.5 hours of knowledge-based sessions, 10.5 hours of drafting sessions, and 2 hours of assessment test)

Timeline: 2nd August 2025 to 12th September 2025

Registration Fees:

• INR 700 for NLUO students
• INR 1,200 for students from other universities
• INR 1,700 for working professionals

Registration: Link

Payment: Link

Course Objectives:

• Impart foundational knowledge of civil litigation and procedures under the CPC.
• Develop expertise in domestic and international arbitration frameworks.
• Equip students with practical drafting skills for critical legal documents.
• Analyze post-award remedies, enforcement mechanisms, and challenges of arbitration.
• Explore interdisciplinary intersections between arbitration, commercial laws, IBC, consumer law, and investment treaties.

Course Outcomes:

• Analyze jurisdictional principles, limitation periods, and procedural requirements for civil suits, and draft arbitration agreements.
• Apply provisions, evaluate grounds for challenge, and develop strategies for enforcement.
• Integrate ancillary laws into dispute resolution strategies.
• Formulate cross-border arbitration clauses aligned with institutional rules.

Schedule:

• 02nd – 03rd August: Module 1 (Civil Litigation)
• 09th – 10th August: Module 2
• 16th – 17th August: Module 3 (Interim Measures, Procedure & Time Management)
• 23rd – 24th August: Module 4 (Post-Award Remedies, Challenges & Enforcement)
• 30th – 31st August: Module 5 (Ancillary Legal Frameworks)
• 06th – 07th September: Module 6
• 12th September (Tentative): Assessment Test
• Last week of September (Tentative): Course Results

Assessment:

• The assessment test comprises 50 marks (MCQ) and 50 marks (subjective/descriptive answers).
• A minimum of 50 marks out of 100 is required to pass and receive the certificate.
• The test will be conducted online under the supervision of Alumni Relations Society members.

Attendance:

• A minimum of 75% attendance is mandatory to be eligible for the assessment test.

Resource Persons:

• Mayank Sapra (Batch of 2009-14): Advocate-on-Record at the Supreme Court, Delhi HC, and tribunals, specializing in real estate, arbitration, telecom, insolvency, and human rights.
• Gaurav Rai (Batch of 2010-15): Managing Associate at C&S Partners, specializing in commercial arbitrations, with an LL.M. from University College London.
• Arbaaz Hussain (Batch of 2010-15): Advocate-on-Record at the Supreme Court, with expertise in complex civil and commercial disputes, including arbitrations.
• Sughosh Subramanyam (Batch of 2011-16): LL.M. from University of Cambridge, practicing before the Supreme Court and High Courts, founder of Chambers of Sughosh Subramanyam.
• Pragya Prakash (Batch of 2013-18): Senior Associate at Trilegal, specializing in international commercial arbitration and dispute resolution.
• Pranav Budihal (Batch of 2013-18): Foreign Counsel at Providence Law Asia, Singapore, with an LL.M. from NUS and prior experience at SIAC.

Call for submissions: Original Research Papers, Case Commentaries, Case Notes, Articles, Pop culture reviews, Fact Sheets, Info-graphics, Photo-essays for the “Journal on the Rights of the Child of National Law University Odisha”

ISSN # 3107 – 4030

Double Blind Peer Reviewed Journal

About the Center:

Centre for Child Rights (CCR) is the oldest and the specialized action research centre of the National Law University Odisha (NLUO) Cuttack. The Centre was inaugurated on April 12, 2015, by Hon’ble Justice Dipak Misra, former Chief Justice of India and the then Visitor, NLUO, in the august presence of the Hon’ble Chief Justice and Judges of Orissa High Court, and Secretary, Department of Women and Child Development, Government of Odisha.

CCR aims to build a rights temper and mainstream it amongst the children, state and the society, strengthening law and access to justice for children, and promoting child wellbeing by supporting and initiating research, policy advocacy, and community action on children’s issues. The Centre aims to provide integrated support and consultancy to different layers of institutional governance for protection and insurance of child rights, child protection, and understanding and reforming enabling and disabling factors to further child rights and the inter-sectionalities.

Headlined by the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Ved Kumari, one of the foremost chroniclers of juvenile justice and everything child rights in the world, NLUO got its first ever Chair Professorship on Child Rights with a five-member staff team sanctioned by the Hon’ble CM of Odisha in 2023. This is led by the Chief Minister’s Chair Professor – Prof Biraj Swain. This is the only fully functional chair professorship on child rights across India (law and non-law universities included)

About the Journal: Journal on the Rights of the Child of National Law University Odisha

The Journal i.e. Journal on the Rights of the Child of National Law University Odisha, is a platform initiated by the CCR, committed to plat-forming and mainstreaming pro-child rights’ discourse. We invite submissions (preferably original research papers) that explore the contemporary issues around child rights, the juvenile justice system, legislative developments, evolving socio-legal landscape of child well-being and the pop-culture discourse on children and their protection and rights. It is also committed to reclaiming journalism as a public good by demanding and shaping better coverage of children in news.

Periodicity: It is bi-annual, re-launched in April 2025. The next issue is due in October 2025.

Editorial Team:

Patron-In-Chief & Editor-In-Chief

Prof Ved Kumari, Vice-Chancellor, NLUO

Patron & Publisher

Prof Rangin Pallav Tripathy, Registrar, NLUO

Editor

Prof Biraj Swain, Chief Minister’s Chair Professor cum Director, Centre for Child Rights – NLUO

Editorial Advisory Board

• Hon’ble Justice Madan B Lokur, Chairperson, United Nations Internal Justice Council & Former Judge, Supreme Court of India
• Hon’ble Justice Geeta Mittal, Former Chief Justice of Jammu and Kashmir High Court
• Prof Bernd-Deiter Meier, Criminal Justice Institute, University of Hannover, Germany
• Prof Christopher Birbeck, Professor of Criminology, Salford University, Manchester, UK
• Prof Bhabani Prasad Panda, Director, School of Law, KIIT & Former Vice Chancellor, Maharashtra National Law University

Editorial Board

• Prof Ved Kumari (Editor-in-Chief), Vice Chancellor, National Law University Odisha
• Prof Biraj Swain (Editor), Chief Minister’s Chair Professor cum Director, Centre for Child Rights, National Law University Odisha
• Prof Ravinder Barn, Professor of Social Policy, & Head of Law and Criminology Department
• Royal Holloway, University of London
• Dr Frederick Phillip Fabian de Moll, Professor of Educational Science, Faculty of Education Science, Bielefeld University, Germany
• Dr Damanjit Sandhu, Professor and Head, Department of Psychology, Punjabi University Patiala
• Dr Asha Bajpai, (Former) Founder Dean and Professor, School of Law, Tata Institute of Social Sciences
• Dr Kalpana Purushothaman, Adjunct Professor, Indian Institute of Psychology and Research, Bangalore, Former Juvenile Justice Board Member, Bangalore Urban

Associate Editors

• Dr Swagatika Samal, Researcher, Centre for Child Rights, NLU Odisha
• Dr Pradipta Kumar Sarangi, Researcher, Centre for Child Rights, NLU Odisha
• Mr Ankit Kumar Keshri, UNICEF Consultant, Centre for Child Rights, NLU Odisha
• Dr Rashmi Rakha Baug, Assistant Professor (Law) and Co-Director, CCR, NLU Odisha
• Dr Shubhanginee Singh, Assistant Professor (Pol. Sci.) and Co-Director, CCR, NLU Odisha

Submissions being sought:

1. Original Papers on ongoing research, completed research (4000 -6000 words)
2. Case Commentaries (1500-2000 words)
3. Notes and comments i.e. articles on legal challenges and implementation review of laws on child rights and child protection, in national, sub-national and global space (1500 -2000 words)
4. Book Review (1200 – 1500 words)
5. Numbers at a glance: Fact sheet on child rights / child well-being: One indicator at a time presented visually through info-graphics
6. Juvenile Justice at a glance : Summary and commentary of most important developments in the past 4-6 months gone by (3000 -4000 words)
7. Through the Pop culture lens: Review/commentary on any pop culture content i.e. film/web series/comics/anime etc. (1200 – 1500 words)
8. Children in the news: Media scan and commentary on journalism around child rights: the best reportage and the worst reportage of the 4-6 months gone by and the broad trends (2000 – 2500 words)

Themes on which articles and papers are invited: 

Following is a suggestive (non-exhaustive) list of themes for the submissions:

1. Any contemporary judgment / legal landscape/ research on child rights, protection, children’s well-being and original data and the authors’ interpretation on it

For example (suggestive not exhaustive):

• The emerging trends of teenagers being charged with Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) even in consensual romantic relationships and how does that square up with the Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Health (ARSH) focus of the State too
• The latest SC judgment on Prevention of Child Marriage Act and how to not abuse that for undue criminalisation

2. Your article/commentary on any topical development and its impact on children:

For example (suggestive not exhaustive)

• Right to Education in the era of school mergers, closure of schools and para-teachers
• Continued under-funding of health and education sector and its impact on children’s cognitive development, life chances
• Is anonymization possible in the digital age? And is the principle of fresh start condemned to be violated because of over-sharing on social media, digital media ingression and over-present surveillance?
• Is re-integration and rehabilitation possible in case of children charged with heinous offences?

3. Public finance/budget allocation and children: Is the imagination progressive, is the allocation adequate?
4. Any film/web series on children/juvenile justice, your review of the same with a child’s best interest perspective
5. Your critic/commentary on reportage on “children in news’ that stood out for you for how good/bad it was and why and any particular story/article/reportage that worked for you?
6. When they see us: Photo-essay of everyday children in their everyday lives (pre-published with due compliance of consent guidelines in case of minors’ photographs) and what such photos tell the author. (The photos should be from copy-left/open-source platform with no potential copyright infringement liability on the author or the journal)
7. Education/Health/Nutrition/Internet access at a glance: What the numbers speak: Infographically presented fact-sheet

Submission Guidelines

• All submissions must be original. By submitting a paper / article / commentary / review / fact-sheet / photo-essay, the author undertakes that it has not been submitted, accepted or published elsewhere.
• All submissions shall be made to ccr@nluo.ac.in with the subject line “Submission for CCR -NLUO Journal”.
• Plagiarism and extensive use of AI for writing will result in summary rejection of the submission.
• Submissions must be made in.doc/.docx formats only.
• Along with the submission please provide the Turnitin Report and AI report. Less than 10% plagiarism and similarity word count – 14 is allowed in the manuscript
• Please provide citations, references in APA 7^th edition format for any data-point used
• The content should be written in Times New Roman Font with a size of 12. Line spacing should be 1.
• All the submissions will be mandatorily subjected to anti-plagiarism check.
• Co-authorship is allowed (order of the authors need to be clearly mentioned) and the corresponding author and their contact coordinates need to be clearly mentioned.
• Self-referencing/ referencing to one’s prior published work is allowed but it needs to be clearly mentioned in the Bibliography.
• All submissions must include an abstract of the submission (150-300 words) with minimum five key words
• Alongwith with every submission there should be a separate title page document clearly mentioning, the authors’, authors’ pen profile (50-75 words), authors’ contact coordinates, social media handles separately. Additionally the title page should also contain:
  • Authors’ self-declaration that the submission is an original, unpublished work
  • Declaration of research-funding, if any
  • Declaration of conflict of interest, if any

Deadline for submissions (for October, 2025 edition): 24^th August 2025

N.B: As we are taking papers on rolling basis too, submissions not considered in October, 2025 issue will be considered in the upcoming issue.

Review Process

• Submissions for the Journal shall be reviewed on a rolling basis.
• Acceptance / rejection of submissions for the publication shall be conveyed within 5 / five weeks of the submission
• The Editorial Team will take maximum five weeks for the review of submissions along with blind peer review process. Once accepted the author cannot publish the accepted piece or any part of it in any other platform (academic, journalistic or blogspace like Medium / Substack etc.)
• The author should be prepared to make required changes as suggested by the editors
• Final editorial changes in the submitted content are subject to the discretion of the editorial board

We are delighted to share that Ms. T. Gowri Shailendra (Assistant Section Officer, Library) participated in the Two-Days International Conference on “Preserving the Legacy – The Life and Traditions of Tribal Communities”, held on June 25th and 26th, 2025. The conference was organized by Prince Shri Venkateshwara Arts and Science College, in collaboration with the Tamil Nadu Adi Dravidar Housing and Development Corporation Ltd. (TAHDCO), Chennai.

Ms. Shailendra presented a thought-provoking article titled “Empowerment and Personality in Tribal Women” and was honored with the “Voice of Excellence Award” for her impactful speech.

We extend our heartfelt congratulations to her on this remarkable achievement!

Certificate

We are happy to share with you that the Centre is offering a Single Credit Course on Justice Entrepreneurship. The course will be offered in physical mode at the NLUO campus from 15.08.2025 to 17.08.2025. The Course is open to all undergraduate and postgraduate students. Detailed information about the course is in the brochure attached to this email.

About the Course

The Justice Entrepreneurship credit course is a hands-on, 3-day experience where students dive into real-world justice challenges and develop innovative solutions. Through practical activities, students gain firsthand experience in justice-making, user-centred problem-solving, and the intersection of law and innovation. They will interact with real users, work closely with mentors, and craft solutions to address specific justice issues.

Topics to be Covered

1. Introduction to Justice Entrepreneurship
2. Identifying Community Challenges
3. Context-Specific Legal Barriers
4. Defining Problem Statements, Stakeholders and understanding Socio-Cultural Influences
5. Understanding existing Justice Entrepreneurs
6. Introduction to Transect Walk
7. Participatory Research Techniques for Justice Issues
8. Identifying Obstacles Citizens face in Accessing Justice
9. Engaging with Marginalised and Vulnerable Groups
10. Interpreting Insights for Action
11. Developing Prototype Solutions
12. Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Legal Innovation
13. Peer-to-Peer Learning & Team-Based Projects
14. Effective Storytelling for Justice Solutions
15. Pitching Legal Innovations to Stakeholders
16. Showcasing Solutions to the Community

About the Course Instructors
Rohit Sharma

Rohit Sharma is an alumnus of the National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata. He started his career as an associate at Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, worked with an ODR platform SAMA, and worked with various human rights organisations such as Jansahas, Project Second Chance, Observer Research Foundation, among many other spaces. Currently, besides Law Firm Ready, he also co-founded Awaaz Leadership Labs, an initiative focusing on supporting law students in building law and justice ideas. He is also a Research Assistant at the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University.

Previously, he has served as Editor of the Journal of Indian Law and Society (JILS) and Team Leader at Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access (IDIA). He has also been a core member of the NUJS Mentorship Buddy Initiative. He has mentored over 2000 law students across various domains, ranging from CLAT preparation to Online Dispute Resolution and career counselling.

Dimple Singh

Dimple Singh is a law graduate from Banasthali Vidyapith, Rajasthan. She is the co-founder of COHAS (Community of Hope and Support), an initiative that focuses on art-based learning pedagogical approach and emphasises constitutional values. She has experience in pro bono lawyering and has worked with organisations working in the field of child rights and women rights. She has trained over 1000 young students on climate, gender, and rights-based issues through her interactive workshops. She is working with Awaaz in JI 101 as a facilitator.

Brief Overview of the Course

Duration: 16 Hours of Session, including Presentation and Assessments

Dates: 15-17 August 2025.

Mode of Instruction: Offline/Physical

Course Fee: INR 1000/-

How to Pay and Register: Details in the Brochure (Click here)