New Delhi, December 10,
2017: Jindal Global Law School (JGLS) of O.P. Jindal Global University
(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. Peñalver, 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 Global Law School speaking on the occasion said, “In 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.”
Eduardo M. Peñalver, Dean of Cornell Law School said, “Cornell Law School is
excited by this new collaboration with one of the finest law schools in the
world’s largest democracy. We look forward to welcoming Jindal’s superb
students to our JD program”.
Professor Sital Kalantry, Clinical Professor of Law, Cornell Law School said,
“In today’s 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.”
Jindal Global 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 – 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
Global 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 Peñalver and Professor Sital
Kalantry have been delivering lectures on several occasions at JGU. Professor
Eduardo Peñalver spoke on ‘‘Civil Rights and Exclusion in Property Law’’ 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 “India’s Human Trafficking Laws and Policies and the UN Trafficking
Protocol: Achieving Clarity” was jointly carried under the aegis of Centre for
Health Law, Ethics & Technology, Rights Clinic of Jindal Global 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 Global 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.
