National University of Advanced Legal Studies (NUALS)

The National University of Advanced Legal Studies (NUALS) has been established to be a national level institute of excellence in higher learning of law in the State of Kerala by the Government of Kerala by virtue of the Act 27 of 2005. The curriculum, teaching methods and examination system shall be quite unlike in any conventional colleges in the country. The Bar Council of India has recommended 37 subjects (including 4 training courses) for the 5 years LL.B Course. However, the NUALS is offering 40 to 50 subjects with nearly one-third of them providing wide variety of options to the students. The students shall be required to write projects in each subject, they may also be asked to involve in extension activities like legal aid services, clinical projects like woman and law, media and the law, environment and the law etc. Placement for a period of at least one month every year may be resorted to by the University as an important component of the course. The students will be conferred with B.A : LL.B(Hons.) Degree at the end of 5 years.