BCI LLM Admissions: Bar Council of India has issued new regulations on postgraduate legal education on January 02, 2021.
Bar Council of India has abolished the one-year postgraduate programme in law or LLM. According to the new rules, the course will now be of two-years term spreading over four semesters.
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BCI Legal Education Rules of 2020 state, “A master degree program in law of one-year duration introduced in India in 2013 by the University Grants Commission shall remain operative and valid until the academic session in which these regulations are notified and implemented but not thereafter at any university throughout the country.”
The Legal Education Rules additionally state that no University will be permitted to award an LLM degree to other students except law graduates.
Students who have completed a five-year integrated programme such as B.Sc. LLB/ BBA LLB/ BA LLB will also be eligible for the master’s degree in law.
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There will be an all-India common entrance exam i.e. Post Graduate Common Entrance Test in Law, or PGCETL organized by BCI for admission to the LLM programme.
The law education institutions are permitted to admit students following the existing system until the implementation of the new law.
LLM aspirants will have to compulsorily qualify the common admission test in order to get admitted to the course. The admissions for this course will be based on rules of classification and reservation in the concerned state.
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