Overview

1-Year LL.M Program is for the students of this university as well as for the students coming from other universities having required qualification. This program is designed according to the international standard of different prominent universities of the world. The program consists of 03 trimesters. The duration of the each semester is 04 months. 14 weeks for teaching, 1 week for examination and 1 week for semester leave. 39 credits are reserved for the whole 1 Year LL.M Program.

Mission

Department of Law and Justice of the People’s University of Bangladesh, believes in propagating legal knowledge in a resourceful way with a view to assistance in the nation’s development. To achieve this objective, the Department of Law and Justice identifies the following steps:

• To advance and divulge comprehensive legal education to reach excellence.
• To promote progressive studies and research in all branches of law.
• To sensitize the students of law regarding the various socio-legal issues of the country.
• To impart cultural, legal and ethical values with a view to foster the Rule of Law and the objectives enshrined in the Constitution of Bangladesh.
• To nurture legal awareness in the community for a greater social and economic justice.
• To prepare students for a variety of legal and law related careers.

Vision

To work towards the advance, improvement and foundation of such a generation of students who possess the intellectual genius, moral consciousness and social responsibility to ensure the Rule of Law, not just locally but also promulgating the same globally. Since we lead the way in legal professional education, the onus is on us to show the way in assimilating the Rule of Law within the society and remove any discrimination with respect to person, property or community in the society. The University is ground for Solicitors, Adjudicators, Legislators and Public Servants in the creating which would form part of the governing organism in the forthcoming future. We endeavor to create them preeminent in whatever constructive they do and polish them into professionals who would make a mark in the legal expanse.

Objective

The objective of the program is to create skilled, experienced, prominent and upright professionals to serve the future need in field of law as well as to make up the gaps of adequate laws by making laws, at the same time the application of those laws in the easiest way.

• Enabling the students to obtain knowledge on critical legal theories or ideas and concepts.
• Enhance the capacity of students to enforce such concepts to the critical situations of their practical life.
• Providing a comprehensive learning issue, designed to educate the students about global conflicts of laws.
• Facilitating learning through quality links of students, faculty and experienced law professionals & resource persons.
• Facilitating& engaging the law students in critical thinking and decision-making processing ensuring quality legal education in Bangladesh.
• Facilitating& engaging the law students in critical thinking and decision-making processing ensuring quality legal education in Bangladesh.
• Developing the knowledge of ethical behaviour and social responsibility, morality & etiquette.

Intended Learning Outcome (ILO)

• Interpret and relate law precisely as well as scrutinize and evaluate facts efficiently. Combine information about legal doctrine from primary sources including statutes, case law, and regulation. Use secondary sources to uphold understanding of primary authorities and identify and develop legal arguments.
• Engage in successful legal research. Use the cost-effective research methods and efficiently search on the major commercial legal research databases.
• Write effectively legal documents such as indications, guidelines, memos, contracts, legal letters, and written statements, decrees, reflecting the rhetorical conventions and expectations for the particular legal writing genre.
• Explaining legal arguments and advice in both formal and informal settings, regulating both style and substance to account for both the spectators and the purpose of the communication.
• Evaluating the law from diverse and global standpoints, discussing the political, social, and economic forces that shape laws; and examining not only the likelihood of an argument or strategy’s legal success, but also the moral, economic, social, political, and other factors implicated by the argument or strategy.
• Work to ensure diversity, inclusion, equity and multiculturalism to improve the quality of justice.
• Describe how legal, political, and economic forces have affected different social groups in different ways to produce inequity as a result of disparate or unjust outcomes and classifying stratagems likely to increase access to the legal system and develop the quality of justice in society.
• Apply the law correctly to different facts and in different contexts. Detect ambiguity, consistency, and inconsistency within and among different rules and sources of law. Lastly, investigate and analyze facts effectively.
• Demonstrate professional skills, including but not limited to respect and civility, for competently and ethically representing clients.