Overview

Under the school of law, the department of Law & Justice was started its operation from 1^st September‟2009 by offering 4-years based LL. B (Hons.) program after obtaining final approval of syllabus of program & necessary permission from University Grant Commission (UGC), Bangladesh. The ultimate purpose of the department is to produce high standard law professionals who can deliver their judicial service for ensuring justice to the society at large as lawyer, judge or other skilled professionals. The department is operating its academic functions by its full-time faculties out of which four are full-time lecturers and one associate professor & also with the assistance of resource person like senior professors of the public universities, senior judges, senior lawyers of the Judges‟ court & the Supreme Court of Bd. The department is continuing its administrative functions by the Dean, Chairman, Course coordinator, Academic, Exam & Tabulation committee. The department is not only continuing its] academic function in classroom-based system but also develop its products by providing clinical legal education like mock trial, court visit, study tour, annual picnic, law seminar and workshop, report writing, assignment, class test, mid-term exam, final exam, quiz, viva-voce, class presentation & other frequent assessment process. For obtaining 4-years LL. B(Hons) degree, each law student must have to achieve 141 credits & need to pass in 47 courses in between six months based eight semesters. The department of Law & Justice is always trying to maintain its high quality of standard to produce potential law graduates & postgraduates as per direction of PUB authority, UGC & Bangladesh Bar Council

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

• To assess of the current state of teaching and learning environment.
• To identify the areas that needs change or correction and improvement.
• To enabling students to acquire contemporary legal theories and concepts of laws.
• To enhance the overall quality of the students to apply such legal theories to real life.
• To facilitate learning through quality links of students, faculty and experienced law professionals & resource persons.
• To facilitate& engage the law students in critical thinking and decision making process in ensuring quality legal education in Bangladesh.

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.