Academic Facilities

NLC has a fine list of academic facilities provided to each of the students. The college has a seven-storied academic building, which houses 40 well-maintained classrooms along with a spacious library with reading rooms. Other important facilities provided by NLC are the moot courtrooms, research centres, auditorium, conference rooms, sports room, NSS room and more.

Classrooms

Students will be able to access 40 spacious classrooms in NLC for all of their academic pursuits. The smart classrooms are well-equipped with modern facilities to help the students grow and learn within a dynamic and stimulating environment.

Moot Court

NLC also offers the facility of moot courts to help the students understand the principles and concepts of justice in practice. The moot courts or mock courts will allow the students to role play as the defense, prosecution, judge or accused and experience the situations that might occur at the courtrooms.

Moot Court Society

The Moot Court Society is one of the most treasured societies available for the students to uphold the benchmark of excellence that has been set by the college. The main responsibilities of the Moot Court Society are to facilitate the mooting activities in the college and to organize international-national and in-house moot courts and Trial Advocacy competitions. Students who join the Moot Court Society are introduced and given optimum training and guidance by the faculty, senior students and experts in the different fields of law. Each student is encouraged to participate and represent the college in international-national competitions.

NLC has organized the following moot courts and Trial Advocacy competitions to date:

Justice P.N Bhagwati International Moot Court Competition on Human Rights
Surana and Surana National Trial Advocacy Competition
Intra- College Moot Court competition for the first and second-year students.
Intra- College Moot Court competition for the third, fourth and final year students.

Selection Rounds for choosing teams for representing the college in National and International competitions.

Workshops on Mooting Skills

The Moot Court Society also conducts workshops regularly to boost the mooting skills of the students. During the workshop activities, the students and especially fresher’s, are made to engage in the activities of problem-solving, mock trials and competition. Over the years, the students have acknowledged the workshops to be very effective and have participated with overwhelming responses.

Designed to suit the understanding levels of the target audience, the workshops are held throughout the year to ensure consistency and gradual grooming. Each workshop will be designed to deal with different skills required to excel in the legal field, such as ‘Effective use of Language’, ‘Fundamentals of Public Speaking’, Fact Management, data structuring and Framing contentions and tools to refute arguments.

Intra College Moot Court Competition

The Intra College Moot Court Competition for all the students of BA LLB (5 Years), BBA LLB (5 Years) and LLB (3 Years) was held on September 23, 2017. 84 teams had participated in the competition that was divided into three rounds – Preliminary, Semi-Final and Final.

The problem for the moot court competition was based on the ‘Law of Torts.’ The final round was judged by Dr. Mukund Sarda, Dr. U.S. Bendale and Adv. Rajendra Anbhule.

Mooting Achievements for the Academic year

Auditorium and Conference Hall

The New Law College houses a state-of-the-art auditorium named ABHIJEET KADAM AUDITORIUM equipped with modern equipment. It was inaugurated in the presence of Hon'ble Mr. Justice P. Sathasivam (Judge of Supreme Court), Hon'ble Shri K. Venkatapathy (Law Minister, Govt. of Maharashtra), and Hon'ble Smt. Justice V.K. Tahilramani (Judge of Bombay high court). This auditorium acts as a platform for students and faculty members to engage in interactive sessions. Various events like lectures, seminars, conferences, parents-teachers sessions, and other college activities are conducted here.

Aside from the auditorium, we also have a well-furnished conference hall. It serves as a specialized unit for our activities. From decision-making to conflict resolution, important discussions take place under the roof of our conference hall. We also hold conference meetings to discuss how we can improve individual performances and increase the productivity of our college.

Research Labs

The New Law College has state-of-the-art research labs for driving innovation in the legal industry. These labs give students an opportunity to engage in innovative projects to make the legal-service delivery efficient. The labs have an unbeatable research atmosphere where the focus is on innovation and new discoveries in the legal continuum. Our research scholars conduct rigorous research in these labs to identify problems and work towards improving and implementing effective solutions. They work on discrete legal cases that are presented to the faculty members by courts. From researching the issues and discussing them to preparing a brief for the lawyers to use, they provide complete assistance on these cases.

Undertaking legal research projects and working on them in the research labs provide them hands-on experience at the forefront of legal technology to become prepared for their future careers. By immersing themselves in research works, they learn how they can improve the efficiency and effectiveness of law practice. We have a multitude of invaluable legal resources including various legal databases like Westlaw, Lexis-Nexis, Manupatra, SCC Online, Crimes On-line, etc. to support our research scholars.

Library and Computer Centre

The New Law College has one of the best libraries with a rich collection of both Indian and foreign books. Students use it not only for curricular references but also for broadening their horizons and research work. The library gives access to an exclusive collection of primary and secondary resources to all the users in the college. It is well stocked with textbooks, reference materials, law reports, and journals/periodicals worth more than Rs.1 crore.

Our library is perhaps the only library in Pune having the collection of All England Law Reports, United States Supreme Court Report (136 Volumes), and Corpus Juris Secundum Halsbury Law England (150 Volumes), which is an invaluable tool for law research. The latest additions to our library are Manupatra, LexisNexis, and Westlaw. Our library services include a reading room, interlibrary loan, OPAC, internet, open access system, and book bank.

Books And Journals

Total no. of books: 33890
Total No. of bound volumes reports and journal accession: 3598
Total no. of journal subscribed: Presently: 59(39 National, 20 International)
Total CD-ROM Databases: 2 (AIR, Grand Jurix, SSC)
Total Online Database: 7 (Manupatra, West Law, SCC Online, Taxman, Hein Online, and CLA Online)
E-Books: 31,00,000 +
E-journals: 6,000 +

SSC Online (Digital Resources)

The complete AIR Supreme Court on CD-ROM
High Courts on CD-ROM (AIR Nagpur)
Grand Juris
Direct Taxes (SC and HC Judgements)
Supreme Court Case Law
Sales tax Cases (SC and HC Judgements)
Criminal Law (SC and HC Judgements)
Arbitration and conciliation
Labour Law (SC and HC Judgements)

Subscription to Legal Internet Database

Manupatra
West Law
SCC Online
CLA Online
Taxmann Online
Delnet
Hein Online

Other Features

Corpus Juris Secundum (101 volumes)
States Supreme court reports 126 Volumes
Moores Indian Appeals
The Law Reports Indian appeals: being cases in the Privy Council
Inflibnet -N-List
Delnet Library service
Halsbury’s Laws of England

Library Linkages

British Council Library, Pune
Confideration Of Indian Industries (CII)
Indian Merchants Chamber (IMC)
Erandawane Campus Libraries

We also have a state-of-the-art computer centre backed up by an IBM net server with a leased line internet connection and UPS power back up. It is well equipped with more than 100 computers allowing mobile accessibility.