M.A in Business Laws – Centre For Post Graduate Legal Studies

M.A. in Business Laws

Start Date
03 Aug 2019

End Date
03 Aug 2021

Duration
2 Years

Last Date to Apply

15 Jul 2019

Program Fee (Yearly)

Rs. 3.0 Lacs

Course Information

Objective

The MA in Business Laws programme is O.P Jindal Global University’s initiative to address the needs arising from the unique dynamics of the current corporate environment, where business intersects with law, policy and dispute resolution. Today, corporate professionals – ranging from those involved with human resources, innovation strategy, intellectual property management or business compliance – have to synchronise their managerial skills with legal and regulatory strategy to ensure effective compliance and reduce their company’s risk profile, while growing their business. The Masters degree programme provides an all-important bridge between the various disciplines and skills required by the modern business professional.

This gives the MA in Business Laws a dynamic curriculum and teaching methodology to address contemporary legal and regulatory issues clearly and comprehensively, so that our executive learners develop real-world legal knowledge and enhance their technical and analytical skills to excel at their corporate and business roles. The postgraduate degree programme in business laws provides corporate officers, mid- to senior level executives and entrepreneurs with contemporary management ideas and practices in conjunction with cutting-edge legal, compliance, and regulatory tools to lead, comply, challenge, and innovate.

Eligibility

Bachelor’s degree in any subject with not less than 50% aggregate marks.

Who should attend?

Business professionals who do not possess an LLB degree (and therefore cannot proceed directly to an LLM), who nevertheless need a solid grounding in Business Laws to advance in their careers in the legal, tax, accounting, banking insurance and corporate finance domains.
Experienced senior executives, government official, senior partners, entrepreneurs – for example in other management fields such as medicine, healthcare, public administration, government department, higher education, journalism, engineering and management consulting.
Those practitioner-scholars who simply want to embark on a rigorous, highly selective, world-class journey of continuous self-improvement and acquire a wider knowledge base and personal network with academic accreditation and an international reputation for excellence.

Course Structure

1st Year	2nd Year
Semester 1	Semester 3
Law of Contract Introduction to Corporate & Financial Law Legal Research & Writing Labour & Industrial Relations Laws Environmental Laws	Banking Law & Financial Regulation Dispute Settlement in Trade & Investment Taxation of Corporations & Commodities Insurance Laws Law of International Trade
Semester 2	Semester 4
Principles of Intellectual Property Law Investment Laws Comparative Competition Law Advanced Corporate Law & Governance Information Technology, E-commerce & Cyberlaws	Law, Ethics & Governance Entrepreneurship & Family Business Infrastructure Finance Land Acquisition Laws Mergers & Acquisitions: Law, Concepts & Transactional Drafting

Course Electives

Students are offered a number of elective courses from their third year of study. These courses are often interdisciplinary, involving elements of law as well as other disciplines in social science and management. Successful completion of electives will lead to the awarding of credits, which are ascertained per elective, based on the number of instructional hours. For example, a three credit course will have atleast three hours of classroom lectures per week and one or more hours of tutorial instruction per week.

Further, a number of elective courses at the various schools of the University are open for cross-registration. For example, a student of the Jindal School of International Affairs shall may opt for a course on International Humanitarian Law offered by the Jindal Global Law School.

Scholarships

Scholarship Program is one of the most common ways which is run by all universities to give financial assistance to the students who come from a financially weaker section but have great possibilities to thrive through their academics. OPJGU has always tried that such students must not be left behind just because of money constraints.

Every year, Merit cum Means Scholarship applications are invited from students and reviewed by the scholarship committee during a series of frequent meetings. Rules and regulations are drafted/amended every year as required. The criterion taken into consideration are merit (CGPA) and means (family income). So many other factors also play an important role like participation in moot courts, debates, sports, cultural activities, societies’ events etc., contribution to university (CDPD & Admissions) and research. The review is done in such a way that maximum students get benefitted.

Students who qualify under Haryana domicile category may be eligible for full or partial fee concession.

Careers

Executive learners opting for the programme will not only gain inter-disciplinary knowledge of legal concepts and their application to industry, but also gain interpersonal skills and enhance their leadership and business management skills. In addition to following the curriculum noted above, the learning opportunities of our programme, include:

Specialised training by professionally experienced faculty members in transactional and business skills such as negotiation of commercial arrangements, drafting of contracts and structuring of various types of commercial transactions; and focused clinical training conducted by faculty as well as well as high-level business professionals from various industries for such key skills as business development and client management, effective communication and presentation skills, team-building and leadership.