Andhra Pradesh University of Law

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Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh laying the Foundation Stone of A.P. Universty of Law

In the state of Andhra Pradesh, a state that made giant strides in spreading higher education, the government felt the need for establishing yet another university which would exclusively provide quality legal education and strive to raise national legal standards to competitive international level and promote legal awareness in the community, to realize the goals embodied in the Constitution of India.

Thus, the A.P. University of Law Act (Act No.32 of 2008) of A.P. Legislature came into force on July 9th 2008 establishing A.P. University of Law at Visakhapatnam (Main Campus) with Kadapa and Nizamabad Centres.

Vice Chancellor's Message

Being the First Vice-Chancellor, I feel it my proud privilege and immensely happy to welcome you to the city of destiny to walk through the portals of the Mansion where legal knowledge is imparted to match the trends of new millennium.

A.P University of Law is established by the Andhra Pradesh Government by Act No. 32 of 2008 with the main campus at Visakhapatnam and two centres, one each at Kadapa and Nizamabad. This reflects the government’s aim of spreading legal education to the entire state of A.P., catering to the needs of students of Andhra Pradesh in particular and India in general.

Our main emphasis is on practical training of the students in technical skills of the profession through Moot Courts, Seminars, Project Reports, Expert Lectures, Work in Law Chambers, Court Visits and conducting Legal Aid and Legal Literacy Camps in rural areas. The course is designed to provide the students with a macro perspective of the Indian Society, its problems and needs.

The campuses will be residential in nature with compulsory hostel accommodation and world class library facility. Each campus is allotted with 50 acres of land for building the institutions to match the existing Law Schools in India and abroad.

Chancellor's Message

Prof. A. Lakshminath, Chancellor Legal education nay Justice education should equip law students for filling different roles in society and discharging various law jobs, the range and scope of which are ever expanding in the modern democratic society e.g. as policy-makers, administrators, lawyers, negotiators, mediators, arbitrators law teachers, industrial entrepreneurs etc. In modern India, it is to be realized that legal education must have breadth, depth and width. It is the crucial function of legal education to produce lawyers with a social vision and mission in a developing country like India. Law has to serve as a vehicle of economic and social change in a developing society and that democracy and respect for law and rule of law will be strengthened in India by promoting legal education and research in law. Lawyers will play a very active role in rebuilding the Indian polity.

The National Knowledge Commission while recognizing legal education as an important constituent of professional education emphasized that the vision should be to provide justice-oriented education essential to the realization of values enshrined in the Indian Constitution. Legal education must prepare professionals equipped to meet the new challenges and dimensions of internationalization, where the nature and organization of law and legal practice are undergoing a paradigm shift. It has also emphasized the need for original and path breaking legal research to create new legal knowledge and ideas that will help meet these new challenges in a manner responsive to the needs of the country and ideals and goals of our Constitution.

Keeping the above mentioned goals and objectives the Government of A.P. has established the A. P. University of Law at Visakhapatnam with centres at Kadapa and Nizamabad to impart legal/Justice education to the deprived, depraved and the indigent.

Meet the Founders!

Get to know the Founder Members of Andhra Pradesh University of Law!