Law school begins search for faculty

R. Sudhakar, Judge, Madras High Court, said that the Tamil Nadu National Law School here had chalked out a plan of action to make it a leading law school in the country.

Flanked by T.S. Sivagnanam, Judge of Madras High Court, and V. Arun Roy, Vice-Chancellor-in-charge, Mr. Sudhakar, who is the Executive Council member of law school, told presspersons here on Saturday that the process of appointing qualified faculty members for the law school had been initiated as per the best practices being followed in some leading law schools in the country. Due to the increase in the number of law universities in the country, there was a dearth of faculty members.

Other universities had been facing similar issues. However, sincere efforts were made to identify suitable faculty members for future requirements.

The number of students of the law school had gone up to 303 with the enrolment of 89 candidates, who had cleared the Common Law Admission Test. Of the total students, 120 were girls. Sufficient faculty members were available for various disciplines for immediate requirements.

Elaborating the decisions taken at the Executive Council of the law school on Saturday, Mr. Sudhakar said the council would take more steps to improve the standards in all areas in future with the guidance of the Chief Justice of the Madras High Court, who was the Chancellor of the law school, and the support of the State government