Centre For Post Graduate Legal Studies

Director's Message

Professor Dabiru Sridhar Patnaik

Professor and Registrar of JGU
B.A. LL.B.(Andhra University);
M.Phil. (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi);
P.G.D.A. (University of Turin)

Thank you for your interest in LLM programs offered under the aegis of the Centre for Post Graduate Legal Studies (CPGLS) at the Jindal Global Law School (JGLS), India’s first global law school. The website of CPGLS provides you with comprehensive information about our post graduate law courses, academic program plans, and coursework, teaching pedagogy, assessment and students’ responsibilities. I welcome you to familiarize yourself with the contents of the website. 

We are happy to receive you as a student at the JGLS from the forthcoming academic year. Considering this momentous change there has never been a more exciting period to study LLM at the Jindal Global Law School as students are integrated into the activities of the CPGLS, and the multidiscplinary culture of the O.P. Jindal Global (Institution of Eminence Deemed To Be University). With accomplished and dedicated faculty affiliated to the Centre, our LLM students will have an intellectually stimulating environment and quality learning experience.

The wide range of courses offered in each of the four specializations in Corporate and Financial Law, International Trade and Investment Law, Intellectual Property Rights and Technology Law, Taxation Law are designed, developed and taught by subject experts in the relevant area.The specialization in Taxation Law, comprising of national, comparative and international perspective is primarily meant for professionals with working experience. As a student of LLM, you will have the experience of studying the subject in a global context as our faculty members are from different backgrounds and universities around the world. 

At the Jindal Global Law School we believe in a multidisciplinary approach to study of law and legal systems. You will have an opportunity to cross register for courses offered by other Schools of the University. Further you will acquire knowledge and develop skills necessary for joining academia, practice of law in a transnational context, government, non-governmental agencies, international organizations, firms and corporations. I urge you to make the best use of this opportunity as Intelligence is the mightiest and nothing is beyond its reach.- Rigveda  

Professor Dabiru Sridhar Patnaik

Professor and Registrar of JGU
B.A. LL.B.(Andhra University);
M.Phil. (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi);
P.G.D.A. (University of Turin)