Panjab University to offer one-year post-graduate law course

According to a proposal from the university's department of laws, which will be taken up in the Syndicate meeting on February 22, the current two-year LLM course will be replaced by the one-year course.

If approved by the Syndicate, the course will begin from the academic session 2014-15. The department has also proposed that the course be run only in the morning session.

Many universities across the country have already changed over to the one-year course, which the UGC said could check migration of Indian law graduates to foreign universities.

The present two-year course runs under the semester system and has 46 seats, which includes four for NRIs. Students who have passed either an LLB degree examination of PU or an equivalent examination of another university recognized by the Syndicate are eligible to join the first semester class of the LLM course. Admission to the course is on the basis of an entrance test.