ICFAI Law School Ranchi 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.
ICFAI Law School Ranchi
ICFAI Law School Ranchi, a constituent unit of Faculty of Law 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. ICFAI Law School offers BBA-LL.B(Hons.), BA-LL.B (Hons.) and LL.B programs.
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:
Practical Experiences
Court room experiences
Chamber management
Horizontal and vertical relationships
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
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.
