The Higher Education Review

One of the elite institutes of international excellence in the field of legal education, the Bharati Vidyapeeth New Law College was established in 1978 with a mission of spreading the fragments of law and ensure the real zest of justice to the masses. Emerging as one of the top law schools of the country, the Bharati Vidyapeeth New Law College has been upholding the dignity of human beings, promoting awareness of rights and duties of citizens, rendering social justice to the poorest of poor since its inception.

Contributing cordially across the law education space in India, the New Law College is one of the constituent units of Bharati Vidyapeeth University Pune, recognized by the Bar Council of India and the University Grant Commission as well as re-accredited with `A+' Grade by National Assessment & Accreditation Council. Supremely equipped with quality legal education standards, the college not only remains adaptable to the continuously changing needs and expectations of various stakeholders but also stays committed to providing a real-world learning experience to the learners, along with the ICT-driven practice of teaching and learning.

Ensuring Contemporary Teaching and Learning Standards
Having established the fact that law is dynamic and not static, the New Law College has witnessed the evolution of enactment and implementation of IPR, cyber-ADR and AI laws due to globalization. The College has adopted the new change of curriculum to hone the skills of students through the environmental cell, AI cells, ADR cells and so on.

Apart from offering quality legal education at undergraduate, postgraduate levels in the form of LL. B 3 Year, BBA LLB 5-year, BA LL.B. 5 Year & LL.M. (Trimester & 2-year Course) which are recognized and approved by the BCI & UGC, the college also offers diploma and certificate courses in the areas of specialization in Labour Laws, Taxation Laws, Arbitration Laws, Human Rights, Intellectual Property Rights, Cyber Laws and Corporate Laws.

Innovative programs in

interdisciplinary courses and paralegal courses have also been introduced recently in the form of B.B.A. (LAW), expertise in Commercial drafting, Insurance law, Mergers and Acquisitions, Art of Advocacy and so on. The faculty of law also provides an opportunity for pursuing a Doctorate in Law. Seeking regular guidance from senior lawyers, corporate lawyers from industries and retired judges from Supreme Court as well as various High Courts are some of the distinctive features of the college.

"We follow an outcome-based curriculum, best serving the societal and industrial needs. Once in every five years, we revise the curriculum, and the college makes sure that the teachers are trained towards it. Apart from traditional classroom teaching, the college focuses on imparting courtroom teaching by adhering to Gladiator model of teaching, wherein students are professionally trained to master the art of adequacy," states Dr. Ujwala Bendale, Dean & I/C Principal, Bharati Vidyapeeth New Law College.

“Through our incubation center, placements and internship programs, we groom our students as leading law legal professionals of future”

Promoting Innovative and Interdisciplinary Programs
The college has a spacious seven-storied independent building with a huge Auditorium, separate Moot Court Room, Human Rights Cell, Cyber Cell, Women Empowerment Cell, Legal Aid Cell, Placement Cell and Foreign Student Cell and so on. Its Library is rich with classic, as well as, recent works on law and legal systems along with a collection of online databases including volumes of reputed law journals, law reports, and reference books.

Consistently ranked amongst the top ten law colleges in India on the criteria of curriculum, teaching staff, course, research, library and placement, the college imparts practical training (courtroom teaching) through Moot Courts, Legal aid Programmes, educational visits, pro-bono internships.

With programs designed to expose the students to the different aspects of legal work and procedures in the chambers of Lawyers, Courts, Lok Adalats, Administrative Offices, Legal Aid Centres, Legal Literacy Camps and so on, the students of the college were rewarded at international moot court competitions at Oxford, Chicago & Florida and one of the law college team was invited at

Harvard University for attending United Nation's Model Conference.

The college is associated and collaborated with renowned universities in the UK and the USA through participation in the international moot court competitions, recommending students for LL.M. Courses abroad and sending faculty to deliver a legal discourse. The college is associated with Oxford University, University of Sussex, The Law Society of England & Wales, King's College (London), John Marshall Law School (Chicago), DePaul University (USA), University of Reading (UK), University of Westminster (UK), Birmingham University (UK).

"In the recent past most of our students have successfully been placed in the reputed international and national law firms and corporate houses like Denton (Singapore), Robinson Law Firm (USA), Giovanni and Associates (UK), Clifford Chance US, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas and so on.

To invoke the spirit of entrepreneurship in young lawyers and students, we have established one incubation center as we believe that today's generation is no more confined to 10 to 5 timing along with six-figure salaried jobs and are rather interested in creating employments. So, through our incubation center, placements and internship programs, we groom our students as leading law legal professionals of the future," shares Dr. Ujwala Bendale.

The New Law college promotes innovative and interdisciplinary programs that are designed with eminent legal experts and ensure practical curriculum delivery, blended learning with flipped classrooms, along with inventive and research-driven teaching-learning processes. With the major goal of introducing the best pedagogical methodologies in the field of legal education, the Bharati Vidyapeeth New Law College is gradually overcoming the numerous challenges imposed by the pandemic and getting itself armed with the latest technological advancements and new curriculums of distance legal education.

Focusing more on company documentation, creating creative thinking among students for business ventures and running more workshops to make the students into better entrepreneurs of tomorrow and the future road of the college is to adapt with the changing trends of the subject, syllabus, and courses of the legal arena.