Committee constructed to develop the initial programs and syllabi for the Central University of Orissa: Samaja
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April 7th, 2009
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Faizan Mustafa appointed as the first VC of National Law University of Orissa
As per comment 3 of an earlier post of ours, The National Law University Act, 2008 (Orissa Act 4 Of 2008) was published in the Orissa Gazette (Extraordinary) Vide No.2215, dated 4th December, 2008. So the official establishment year of this university will be 2008.
Following are excerpts from a report in tathya.in about the appointment of the first vice chancellor of this university.
Professor Faizan Mustafa is the first Vice Chancellor of the National Law University of Orissa (NLUO).
Justice Dr. Balbir Singh Chouhan, Chief Justice of Orissa High court and the Chancellor of NLUO has appointed him in the top post here on 6 April.
Professor Mustafa is at present the Director KIIT Law School, Bhubaneswar.
He is a gold medalist in LL.M. from Aligarh Muslim University. who had completed his Ph.D. in Intellectual Property Law.
Professor Mustafa also has a Diploma in International and Comparative Human Rights from International Institute of Human Rights, Strasbourg, France.
Before joining KLS as Director, he was Dean of Faculty of Law, AMU and Registrar of AMU for a period of two years. …
… Finally the NLUO is taking concrete shape with Prof.Mustafa at the helm and initiative of the Higher Education department to place funds for the institution.
The State Government has already provided Rs.5 crore to the Corpus Fund.
Naveen Patnaik, the Chief Minister laid foundation of the institution on 5 January at Brajabiharipur near Naraj in Cuttack district.
The State Government has allocated 30 acres of land free of cost.
Similar National Law Schools opened earlier in the other states are listed here. So far there were 12 of them in Bangalore (1986), Hyderabad (1998), Bhopal (1998), Kolkata (1999), Jodhpur (1999), Gandhinagar (2003), Raipur (2003), Kochi (2005), Lucknow (2005), Patiala (2006), Patna (2007), and Delhi (2008). Admission to all of them except the last one is through the common law admission test (CLAT).
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