Kathmandu School of Law

Suryabinayak- 04, Dadhikot, Bhaktapur, Nepal

+977-016634663

info@ksl.edu.np

Established 2000

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About Us

Kathmandu School of Law, established in 2000 AD as an affiliate of Purbanchal University, is a community-based, non-profit academic institution that upholds its unrestrained commitment for a pragmatic, research-based and community responsive legal education in the country. It was conceptualized within the ambit of non-profit movement dedicated to serve the need of an academically sound and functionally feasible legal education in Nepal. Hence, just within two decades, it has not just shaped legal education in the nation with its innovative courses and teaching pedagogies but also widened the scope of law developing quality legal professionals. Since its inception, it is persistently serving the aspirations of students and scholars with diverse backgrounds. To put it simply, it has brought about a paradigm shift in the field of legal education with its state-of-the-art approaches including clinical and community outreach programs in the curricula and research-based teaching methodology. Thus, it heralds a new beginning in the less-trodden field of legal education in terms of its motive, approach, quality and international standing.

Vision

It envisions fostering the institution into the center of excellence capable to contribute to the positive transformation of the nation into a functional democracy based on rule of law,human rights and good governance.

Mission

Promote Justice through enhanced legal education for social engineering and value-based professionalism

Objectives

1) To provide a conducive educational platform where law students build on empirical method of learning legal concepts and skills in an interdisciplinary approach.

2) To develop legal professionals that are able to cater to the socio-economic and development needs of disenfranchised people in particular.

3) To shape the legal landscape of Nepal where international standards are given due respect and enforcement.

4) To endow law students with the expertise and exposure to represent the cases of national interests in the international setting.

Core Values

Fair treatment on the basis of equity and equality (no discrimination on the basis of gender, class, caste, creed and religion/ in fact positive discrimination for the benefit of disenfranchised students through various scholarship schemes)

Student-centered learning - offers a unique kind of intellectual freedom and a dynamic educational incubation environment where students can harvest their knowledge, acquire skills, and develop their leadership qualities

Learning by engaging, challenging, exploring and reinforcing. We resort to the locally and regionally generated repository of knowledge in designing projects, research and academic interventions, and thus in doing so, contributing to the gamut of knowledge

Message From The Managing Director

Knowledge With Your Intervention Keeps Changing The World Towards Better.”

Twenty years back, we conceived a dream to alter the face of our nation through a competitive legal education that not just informs the state’s

functioning and governance but also leads the overall societal changes. In fact, it is this passion that laid the foundational stone of Kathmandu School of Law (KSL). While executing initiatives back in the late 1990s against social ills like inequality, trafficking, gender-based violence and systemic failures in the field of law and justice, it dawned to the present team of KSL that legal education is a prerequisite to bring about desired positive changes in the country. Hence, KSL emerged as a brainchild of all those local constraints, gradually realized in the care of non-profit motivation. Today, it stands out as an exception to the academic institutions with a business motive. Our only mission is to work tirelessly for a center of excellence with an academic ambience where we prepare students for the increasingly complex and rapidly changing world with a sensitivity to serve the disenfranchised people in particular.

Significant numbers of our students of Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees have landed on to important government services holding senior positions like Joint Secretary, Under Secretary, Deputy Director, Deputy Government Attorney and others. Similarly, our students have pursued higher studies in premium universities like Harvard Law School, Oxford University, Cambridge University, Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, University of Oslo, Notre Dame and Sydney, and others getting fellowships and scholarships like AusAID, Fullbright, Chevening, Norwegian Aid and others.