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Motto | Yato Dharmastato Jayah |
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Motto in English | Act Dharma - Thus get victory |
Type | National Law University |
Established | 2008 |
Affiliation | BCI |
Endowment | ₹35 crores |
Chancellor | Chief Justice of Andhra Pradesh High Court |
Vice-Chancellor | Dasari Surya Prakash Rao |
Location | Nyayaprastha, Sabbavaram, Anakapalli district , , India 17°44′15″N83°20′19″E / 17.73738°N 83.338519°E |
Campus | Subbavaram |
Colors | Azure Cyan-lime Green |
Website | dsnlu |
Damodaram Sanjivayya National Law University (DSNLU) is a National Law University located at Sabbavaram, Anakapalli district, Andhra Pradesh, India constituted by the DSNLU Act, 2008. It offers 5 year integrated B.A LLB. (Hons.) course to eligible Undergraduate students based on the Common Law Admission Test centralized admission process. The University offers postgraduate courses also, including the one-year LL.M. programme and, PhD and LL.D. programmes. The university is housed at Nyayaprastha in Sabbavaram with 75.5 acres built up area in the first phase. The establishing Act of 2008 of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly (Act No. 32 of 2008), had provided the main campus at Visakhapatnam. [1]
DSNLU is one of the National Law Universities of India in the National Law University system of legal education in India. It has a similar academic structure as other National Law Universities within the system. It regularly organises seminars and conferences, with distinguished guests and experts both for academic audiences and policy-setting audiences.
DSNLU conducts teaching in law and allied disciplines, with emphasis on practical training of the students in technical skills of the profession through Moot Courts, Seminars, Project Reports, Expert Lectures, work and internships in law chambers, Court visits and conducting Legal aid and Legal literacy camps in parts of the country, with one being "Abhyeti" conducted in Bhopal. [2]
Admissions to DSNLU are made through the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT), which serves as the qualifying examination for the university. Out of a total of 120 seats, 60 are reserved for students from the state of Andhra Pradesh, 48 for all India General category and 12 for NRI and foreign national candidates. [3]
The first national moot court competition of DSNLU was held on 15 & 16 February 2014. [4] [5] [6] The second national moot court competition was held by the University on 6 to 8 March 2015. [7] The third national moot was conducted in the last week of February, 2017. [8] Along with the national moot, the University conducted a statewide moot for the students of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, the 1st D.V. Subba Rao Memorial Moot Court competition on 11 and 12 April 2015 in honour of D. V. Subba Rao, an advocate and legal luminary of Visakhapatnam. [9]
The government appointed Prof. A. Lakshminath as the first Chancellor, Y. Satyanarayana as the First Vice-Chancellor and Amancherla Subrahmanyam as the first Registrar of the university. After the DSNLU Amendment Act, 2016 had been notified, the Hon'ble Chief Justice of the High Court of Andhra Pradesh is the ex-officio Chancellor of the University. The current chancellor of DSNLU is Hon'ble Justice Dheeraj Singh Thakur and Vice-Chancellor is Prof. Dasari Surya Prakash Rao.
No. | Vice chancellor | Took office | Left office | Milestones during term as VC |
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01 | Y. Satyanarayana | 2008 | 2011 | Founder VC of DSNLU |
02 | R. G. Babu Bhagavath Kumar | 2011 | 2015 | Founded DSNLU National Moot Court competition • Established MoUs with other NLUs • Started overseeing construction of new campus at Sabbavaram • Presided over first convocation in December 2014 |
03 | G.S.N. Raju | 2015 | 2016 | |
04 | E.A. Narayana | February 2016 | June 2016 | |
05 | V. Kesava Rao | 2016 | December 2018 | Made the shift to the new campus at Nyayaprastha • Established Centre for Advanced Research in Dispute Settlement (CARDS) • Conducted first placement drive |
06 | S. Surya Prakash | December 2018 | June 2023 | |
07 | Dasari Surya Prakash Rao | 2023 | Incumbent | |
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