IICA And NALSAR Launch ‘LL.M In Insolvency & Bankruptcy Laws’ Programme: MCA Issues Press Release
Pallavi Mishra
9 Jun 2023 2:38 PM GMT
On 8th June 2023, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (“MCA”), Government of India has issued a Press Release intimating that the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA) in association with NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad, has launched LL.M programme in Insolvency and Bankruptcy Laws in an event held in New Delhi. Interested students can apply online at www.nalsar.ac.in...
On 8th June 2023, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (“MCA”), Government of India has issued a Press Release intimating that the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA) in association with NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad, has launched LL.M programme in Insolvency and Bankruptcy Laws in an event held in New Delhi. Interested students can apply online at www.nalsar.ac.in till 31.07.2023.
Launch event at New Delhi
The Programme has been launched by Shri Manoj Govil (Secretary, MCA) in the presence of Shri Praveen Kumar (Director General & CEO, IICA), Prof. Srikrishna Deva Rao (Vice Chancellor, NALSAR) Prof. K. Vidyullatha Reddy (Registrar, NALSAR) and Dr. Pyla Narayana Rao (Head, School of Corporate Law, IICA), besides faculty and staff members from the both Institutes.
Shri Govil appreciated IICA for conceptualizing the Programme and collaborating with the world class institutions such as NALSAR University of Law. He further appreciated IICA for emerging as the leading institute in terms of offering the online and offline courses regularly on the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Laws and Procedures.
With reference to the LL.M Programme with NALSAR on IBC, the Secretary mentioned that the main objective of the programme is to produce the best and tailor-made professionals, academicians and researcher on IBC who may take up the profession with utmost confidence and join the rich insolvency eco-system in the country. While speaking about the course coverage, he mentioned that the contents of the course are covering all kinds of insolvency included both in IBC and allied legislations. He expressed his heartfelt happiness and wished the prospective students and both the institutes great success and long association.
Prof. Shrikrishna Deva Rao, Vice Chancellor. NALSAR spoke about the association with IICA as historical considering the fact that the NALSAR and IICA are sharing the common goals to emerge as center of excellence in this area of IBC. He expressed his confidence that both the institutes would go a long way to get associated in many areas like Research, Teaching and Offering many more such courses in future. He assured that NALSAR would like to associate with IICA for all academic programmes in relation to corporate and commercial laws.
Course description
The LLM course is a two-year full time LL.M. Degree Residential Course, with 51 credits arranged over four semesters, equally divided between the two campuses of IICA and NALSAR. The intense academic activity during each semester will be for at least 24 weeks of teaching, research, practical assignments, seminar presentations focusing on the subjects offered, in and outside the classroom, and will also include four distinct periods of mandatory internship component with industry.
Initially, a total of 60 seats is being made available for each batch. The registration process for the course would start from 08.06.2023 and end on 31.07.2023. The classes would commence from 5th October, 2023 at NALSAR campus. Selection would be both through the CLAT scores and a written examinations-cum-interview process, each stream contributing 30 students each. Students can apply online at www.nalsar.ac.in till 31.07.2023.
