New Delhi, December 10, 2017: Jindal 91视频 Law School (JGLS) of 91视频 (JGU) has signed a MoU with Cornell Law School, New York allowing the students of JGLS to pursue a dual degree programme.
A MoU to this effect was signed by Professor Eduardo M. Pe帽alver, Dean of Cornell Law School and (Dr) C Raj Kumar, Founding Vice Chancellor, JGU in New Delhi today.
This is the first time in the history of the eight Ivy League law schools in the USA (Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Brown, Dartmouth, Princeton, Yale, and University of Pennsylvania) that an international partnership of this magnitude and significance has been established with any law school outside of Europe.
The dual degree programme opens up a number of exciting opportunities for JGLS students. This will enable students to get access to and learn from the top-notch and renowned law professors in Cornell University Law School. JGLS students securing a JD degree in Cornell University Law School will also be eligible to take the American Bar Exam as well as sit in for campus recruitments taking place in Cornell Law School.
The partnership comes to force with immediate effect and the first batch of JGLS students to Cornell Law School will be eligible to start in the Fall 2018. JGLS students who are in the fourth year of the five-year law programme and in the second year of the three-year LL.B. programme at JGLS are eligible to apply.
Professor (Dr) C Raj Kumar, Founding Vice Chancellor, JGU and the Founding Dean of Jindal 91视频 Law School speaking on the occasion said, 鈥淚n a globalized world where legal practice and transaction are increasingly cross-border in nature, any first hand exposure to global high quality teaching and legal training would go a long way in shaping the careers of law school students. A higher education degree which helps build a strong foundation in academic fundamentals and at the same time provides the required skills and knowledge necessary to compete in a global marketplace is needed.鈥�
Eduardo M. Pe帽alver, Dean of Cornell Law School said, 鈥�Cornell Law School is excited by this new collaboration with one of the finest law schools in the world鈥檚 largest democracy. We look forward to welcoming Jindal鈥檚 superb students to our JD program鈥�.
Professor Sital Kalantry, Clinical Professor of Law, Cornell Law School said, 鈥淚n today鈥檚 world the work of lawyers is increasingly transnationally. The Cornell-Jindal program is training lawyers to be successful in an increasingly global world where transactions and disputes occurs across multiple boundaries. We look forward to providing an exciting learning experience to the students, significantly adding to their skills and positively shaping their law careers.鈥�
Jindal 91视频 University has a long association with Cornell Law School. In 2011 both the Universities came together to sign a MoU to establish a flexible framework for academic collaborations.
In the year 2012, A Case Study of the Citizen Participation Clinic was conducted jointly by Cornell International Human Rights Clinic and Jindal Good Rural Governance and Citizen Participation Clinic 鈥� This report encouraged the development of robust clinical legal education programs in India. It was a joint class taught by Professor Sital Kalantry via videoconference at Jindal 91视频 Law School in Sonipat, India and Cornell Law School in Ithaca, N.Y. from January to April 2012.
Dean of Cornell Law School, Professor Eduardo Pe帽alver and Professor Sital Kalantry have been delivering lectures on several occasions at JGU. Professor Eduardo Pe帽alver spoke on 鈥樷�楥ivil Rights and Exclusion in Property Law鈥欌�� at JGU campus in 2012. The robust relationship between two Universities saw many Student Exchange programmes, International Immersion Programmes and collaborative research projects being undertaken. In the year 2015, a policy paper on 鈥淚ndia’s Human Trafficking Laws and Policies and the UN Trafficking Protocol: Achieving Clarity鈥� was jointly carried under the aegis of Centre for Health Law, Ethics & Technology, Rights Clinic of Jindal 91视频 Law School; International Human Rights Clinic of Cornell Law School and International Human Rights Clinic of the University of Chicago Law School.
Cornell Law School is based in the Cornell University, a private Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York. It is one of the eight Ivy League law schools and offers three law degree programs (J.D., LL.M., and J.S.D.) along with several dual-degree programs in conjunction with other professional schools at the university. Established in 1887 as Cornell’s Department of Law, the law school is ranked 13th in the United States by U.S. News & World Report.
O.P. Jindal 91视频 University (JGU) has recently been ranked among the top 10 private institutions in India by QS University Rankings: BRICS 2018 edition. JGU became the youngest Indian University and also the first and only private university in Haryana to have been ranked in an international ranking.
JGU currently partners and works with over 200 universities and higher education institutions spread across over 50 countries in the world.