Chapter II Chapter II

(1) There shall be established in the National Capital Territory of Delhi a University by the name of “the National Law University, Delhi”. (2) The University shall be a body corporate having perpetual succession and a common seal and shall sue and be sued by its name represented by the Registrar of the University. (3) The University shall be engaged in teaching and research in law and in allied disciplines. (4) The main seat of the University shall be at New Delhi and it may establish campuses at such other places as it may deem fit.

The objects of the University shall be: (a) To evolve and impart comprehensive legal education including distant and continuing legal education at all levels to achieve excellence; (b) To organize advanced studies and promote research in all branches of law; (c) to disseminate legal knowledge and legal processes and their role in national development by organizing lectures, seminars, symposia, workshops and conferences; (d) To promote cultural, legal and ethical values with a view to promote and foster the rule of law and the objectives enshrined in the Constitution of India; (e) To improve the ability to analyse and present for the benefit of the public contemporary issues of public concern and their legal implications; (f) To liaise with institutions of higher learning and research in India and aboard; (g) To publish periodicals, treatises, study books, reports, journals and other literature on all subjects relating to law; (h) To hold examinations and confer degrees and other academic distinctions; (i) To promote legal awareness in the community for achieving social and economic Justice; (j) To undertake study and training projects relating to law, legislation and judicial institutions; and (k) to do all such things as are incidental, necessary or conducive to the attainment of all or any of the objectives of the University.

(k) to create academic, technical, administrative, ministerial and other posts and to make appointments thereto; (l) to regulate and enforce discipline among the employees of the University and to take such disciplinary measures as may be deemed necessary; (m) to Institute professorships, associate professorships, assistant professorships, readerships, lecturerships and any other teaching, academic or research posts required by the University; (n) to appoint persons as professors, associate professors, assistant professors, readers, lecturers or otherwise as teaching and researchers of the University and as other classes of employees; (o) to institute and award fellowships, scholarships, prizes and medals’ (p) to provide for printing, reproduction and publication of research and other works and to organize exhibitions; (q) to sponsor and undertake research in all aspects of law, justice and social development; (r) to co-operate with any other organizations in the matter of education, training and research in law, justice, social development and allied subjects for such purposes as may be agreed upon on such terms and conditions as the University may from time to time determine; (s) to co-operate with institutions of higher learning in any part of the world having objects wholly or otherwise similar to those of the University by exchange of teachers and scholars and generally in such manner as may be conducive to the common objects; (t) to regulate the expenditure and to manage accounts of the University; (u) to establish and maintain within the premises of the University or elsewhere such schools, colleges and study halls as the University may consider necessary and adequately furnish the same to establish and maintain such libraries and reading rooms as may appear convenient or necessary for the University ; (v) to receive grants, subventions, subscriptions; donations and gifts for the purpose of the University consistent with the objects for which University is established; (w) To purchase, take on lease, or accept as gifts, or otherwise any land or building or works, which may be necessary or convenient for the purpose of the University and on such terms and conditions as it may think fit and proper and to construct or alter and maintain any such building or works; (x) To sell, exchange, lease or otherwise dispose of all or any portion of the properties of the University, moveable or immovable, on such terms and conditions as it may think fit and proper without prejudice to the interests and activities of the University; (y) To draw and accept, to make and endorse, to discount and negotiate Government of India and other promissory notes, bills of exchanges, cheques or other negotiable instruments; (z) To execute conveyances, transfers, re-conveyances, mortgages, leases; licences and agreements in respect of property, moveable or immovable including government securities belonging to the University or to be acquired for the purpose of the University; (Za) to appoint in order to execute an instrument or transact any business of the University any person as it may deem fit; (Zb) to give up and cease from carrying on any classes or departments of the University; (Zc) to enter into any agreement with the Central Government State Government, the University Grants Commission or other authorities for receiving grants; (Zd) To accept grant of money, securities or property of any kind or description on such terms and conditions as may be deemed expedient; (Ze) To raise and borrow money on bonds, mortgages, promissory notes or other obligations or securities founded or based upon all or any of the properties and assets of the University or without any securities and upon such terms and conditions as it may think fit and to pay out of the funds of the University, all expenses incidental to the raising of money, and to repay and redeem any money borrowed or debt made; (Zf) to invest the funds of the University or moneys entrusted to the University in or upon such securities or deposits and in such manner as it may deem fit and from time to time transpose any investments; (Zg) To make such Statutes, Regulations and other instruments as may, from time to time, be considered necessary for regulating the affairs and the management of the University and its properties and to alter, modify and to rescind them; (Zh) To constitute for the benefit of the academic, technical, administrative and other staff, in such manner and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed pension, insurance, provident fund and gratuity and other schemes as it may deem fit and to make such grants as it may think fit for the benefit of the staff of the University and to aid in the establishment and support of associations, institutions, funds and trusts for the benefit of the staff and the students of the University; (Zi) to confer honorary degrees and other distinctions in the manner laid down in the regulations; (Zj) to delegate all or any of its powers to the Vice-chancellor or any committee or to any one or more members of its body or its officers; and (Zk) to do all such other acts and things as the University may consider necessary, conducive or incidental to the attainment or enlargement of the aforesaid objects or any of them.

(1) all teaching in connection with the degrees, diplomas and certificates of the University shall be conducted in accordance with the syllabi prescribed by the Regulations. (2) The courses and curricula and the authorities responsible for organizing the teaching of such courses and curricula shall be as prescribed by the Regulations.

(1) The Chief Justice of India or his nominee, who shall be senior judge of the Supreme Court, shall be the Visitors of the University. (2) The Visitor when present shall preside over the convocations of the University and the meetings of the governing Council.

(1) The chief Justice shall be the Chancellor of the University. (2) The Chancellor, when present and in the absence of the Visitor shall preside over the convocations of the University and the meetings of the Governing Council. (3) The Chancellor may cause an inspection to be made by such person or persons as he may direct, of the University, its buildings, libraries and equipment and of any institution maintained by the University, and also of the examinations, teaching and other work conducted or done by the University and cause an inquiry to be made in the like manner in respect of any matter connected with the administration and finances of the University. (4) The Chancellor may offer such advice to the University as he may deem fit with reference to the result of such inspection or inquiry. (5) The University shall communicate to the Chancellor the action taken or proposed to be taken on such advice. (6) In case of differences among the authorities or officers of the University on any matter which cannot be otherwise resolved, the decision of the Chancellor shall be final. (7) The Chancellor may invite a person or persons of eminence in law and legal education to advise the University in relation to affairs of the University as and when he deems it necessary.

(1) there shall be a Vice-Chancellor of the University who shall be appointed in the manner as provided in section 20. (2) The term of the Vice-Chancellor shall be for a period of five years.