ICFAI Law School
- The ICFAI Law School, a constituent of the ICFAI University, Jharkhand with an objective of developing a new generation of legal professionals through comprehensive and contemporary body of knowledge in integrating law with management offers BBA-LL.B(Hons.), BA-LL.B(Hons.) and LL.B programs, which are approved by Bar Council of India.
Faculty Resources
The ICFAI Law School faculty members play a significant role in ensuring quality education through student-centric interactive teaching. The faculty members bring their extensive knowledge, professional to their task. Faculty members emphasize both theory and practice in the classrooms.
Learning Methodology in Law
Learning Methodology at the ICFAI University is student centric and multi-dimensional. The teacher does not teach what he knows but imparts what student is required to know for his professional career. It imparts and trains the student in:
Organizing Skills
- Planning the work and time
- Office management
- Court management
- Client management
- Time management
- Stress management
- Team management and coordination
- Resources planning and management
- Technology management
Professional Skills
- Lawyering skills
- Advocacy skills
- Drafting skills
- Communication skills
- Negotiation skills
- Articulation skills
- Listening skills
- Research skills
Practical Experiences
- Court room experiences
- Chamber management
- Horizontal and vertical relationships
Interpersonal Skills
- Soft skills
- Client psychology
- Public relations
- Client assessment
The students learn aforesaid skills with the help of
- Class room lectures
- Interactions with Judicial officers and advocates
- Court visits and Moot courts
- Internships
- Clinical courses
- Assignments
- Immersion workshops
- Seminars and workshops
- Simulations
- Co-curricular and extracurricular activities
- Role plays
- Organizing the functions and events
- Participations in inter college and national level competitions
- Social works
- Group discussions
Legal services clinic
- Community legal support
- Community legal literacy
- Pro Bono Public service, for the purpose to pursue self litigation.
- Promoting the alternative Dispute Resolution Mechanisms (ADR) such as arbitration, mediation and conciliation.
- Such Legal Services Clinic is duly authorized by the District and State Legal Service Authority, Ranchi.
Moot Court
Moot Court activity, part of clinical legal training, equips the students to gain practical experience, improve analytical reasoning, legal aptitude, and presentation and communication skills. The moot court helps the students in understanding bar and bench relationship. It helps to inculcate good court-room techniques, processes and discipline among the students.
ICFAI University internalizes the moot court process into the curriculum throughout the program as it strongly feels that moot court helps the students in understanding the requirements of clients and courts in the real life situations. A student is made to learn the legal issues associated with the case and prepare the briefs and arguments. The mock trials help in understanding the requirements of the clients and prepare in a direction.
Students are encouraged to participate in the national and international moot court competitions. In every semester, one intra-college moot court competition is organized by the ICFAI University so that students imbibe the qualities of a professional lawyer.
ICFAI University is committed to social cause and contributes to the society by way of spreading legal awareness, legal literacy and by providing legal services. It plans to coordinate with the District and State Legal Services Authorities in solving the disputes of the local people. As part of Legal Aid Program, the students undertake some of the programs under the supervision of the faculty and Legal Service Authorities. These programs help the poor and needy who cannot afford the services of a lawyer for the conduct of a case or a legal proceeding in any court, tribunal or before an authority. Students learn how to handle clients who are illiterate and poor.
They will be also helping the citizens to understanding the rights they have under the constitution and other enactments.
These initiatives aim at making the students independent before they plunge into the competitive professional environment.
Legal Aid Clinic
At ICFAI University, guest lecture play an important role in enhancing knowledge base of the students.
Eminent academicians and practicing legal professionals are invited for guest lecture where students understand the practical applications of various laws and management related concepts and ideas.
It also arranged a series of lectures on technical and contemporary courses by the subject experts.
Clinical courses are the compulsory courses for the students. These courses help the students to learn the skills of drafting, pleading and conveyancing. These courses prepare the students to learn advocacy skills and train them in professional ethics.
Students joining law program are divided into groups and each group will be mentored by one of the faculty members. All the faculty members will be involved in the process, based upon requirements.
The process is aimed at helping the students to come out of their problems (academic and non-academic) in the absence of their parental guidance, and to streamline the inherent skills and strengthen the students for building up best career and best future. It enables the mentor to address performance deficiencies of the students.
Mentoring process is a unique program initiated by the ICFAI University. It helps the students to gain confidence, plan their future and understand the expectations of the University. It involves the students in team building and social interactions. It helps to assess the psychological profile of students and help them achieve attitudinal changes required in today’s dynamic professional life. The faculty in-charge of group conducts relevant psychometric tests and gives feedback on their strengths, weaknesses, aptitude, and behavioural traits and identifies opportunities for improvement of the students.
The Internship forms an important component of LL.B. program at the ICFAI University. It is an attempt to bridge the gap between the professional world and academic institutions. Internship is a vehicle for introducing students to get the professional and practical exposure. The ICFAI University has a very clearly defined and structured institutional process of internship to link up the real life situations with that of academic learning. During the internships the students are encouraged to take up assignments, which are multidisciplinary, goal-oriented, time bound and involving teamwork.
The students undertake the internship program of 4 weeks for LL.B. program at the end of each year during the summer holidays. Students are required to seek internships in the law firms, corporate houses, nationalised banks, NGOs and advocates dealing in various fields of law for practical knowledge. During this period, students attend the office concerned and also attend the court’s proceedings. Every student will be under continuous evaluation both by the faculty guide and professional guide. At the end of the internship all the students are required to submit a detailed report on all the cases studied, attended by them, duly evaluated by the advocate/faculty concerned.
- Govt. Regulatory Authorities and Agencies - Jharkhand Legal Service Authority (JHALSA)
- District Legal Service Authority (DLSA)
- Lokayukta Office, Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA)
- Debt Recovery Tribunal (DRT)
- State and District Consumer Commission
- Human Rights Commission
- Women and Child Commission.
- Poddar and Associates
- Vidhi Associates
- Yugantar Legal
- Bona Law Official Chamber
- Litigo Law Chambers
- Niranjan and Associates
- SKB Legal Office
- Jain and Company
- Mittal and Associates
- SS Rai Legal Associates
- ONGC
- Oil India Ltd.
- Power Grid Corporation
- NTPC
- BCCL
- MECON
- TATA Steel
- Jindal Steel
- HDFC Bank
- ICICI Lombard
- BAJAJ Allianz
Emphasis is laid on the need to balance in-class and out-of-class life. The students work hard in class, but they also utilize energy for diverse activities such as organizing seminars on contemporary legal issues, publishing in-house magazines, organizing guest lectures, participating in inter and intra-law college competitions. Inter-college meets will be organized which offer an opportunity to develop closer interaction and friendship among the law fraternity.
Students will be encouraged to involve in several co-curricular activities like:
- Group Discussion
- Elocution
- Seminars & Debates
- Quiz Competition
- Skits and Plays
- Sports Meets
- Publications/Magazines
- Law Forums
- Industrial Visits
- Cultural Programs
- Local Festivals
- Ethnic games / sports
- Social Activities.
