Bachelor of Laws (LLB-Hon’s)

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Faculty of Law is creating legal professionals to meet the need of the country in the legal field. The Department of Law is the only department under this Faculty currently offering Bachelor of Laws (Honors), Bachelor of Laws (Pass), and Master of Laws. This Department is enriched with a galaxy of quite a good number of internationally reputed faculty members who are directly imparting education to the students studying under different programs at GUB. To ensure quality education, some adjunct faculty members are also hired from Dhaka University and other professional institutions. The graduates from this department will be able to contribute a lot to meet the need of the country in this field.

Objectives of LLB (Honors) Program

• To provide necessary knowledge that is a pre-requisite to obtain any kind of certificate, including Bar Council registration that may require of undertaking any traditional law-related business, practice, and services at all entry levels of legal practitioners.
• To familiarize intimately with the teaching methodologies and legal research of both national and international characters keeping in view the different types of legal systems, especially in Common Law traditions as well as Civil Law system as practiced in the Continental Europe.
• To bolster the progressive changes in regard to rule of law, economic reforms, human rights, women’s rights, and the protection of the rights of children, elderly, sick and disadvantaged segments of the population both with the formal legal framework and beyond.
• To arrange comparative lessons between the legal studies and other fields of study including sociology, political science, economics, psychology, philosophy and so forth.
• To foster study and research into legal theory and values; to examine the relationship between theory and practice; and to enhance opportunities and provide support for scholarly research, writing, and publication by faculty members and students.
• To encourage students to contribute to the society, nation and to all human kind at large.
• To impart knowledge to the hearts and minds of the students making them capable of analyzing and examining the economic, cultural and political impact of enacted laws.

Special Features of LLB (Honors) Program

• Highly qualified and experienced faculty members who have their evident exposure to at home and abroad.
• Regularly updating academic curricula to keep pace with ever changing demands of the societies and growing needs of the day.
• Small class-size to ensure personal care with professional touch.
• The state-of-the-art academic curriculum engendering cutting-edge skills for the professionals in the legal service sector.
• Moot court, Law Club, Debate Club, Cultural Club, etc. in order to enhance the extra-curricular activities of the students.
• Enriched with many DU teachers, present and retired District Judges, Secretaries of the Law Ministry, and renowned advocates of the Supreme   Court of Bangladesh.
• A balanced group of scholars with excellent team work conducted by senior and junior faculty members.

 

LLB (HONORS) PROGRAM STRUCTURE

The LLB (Honors) Program contains 125 credits having 34 courses. The duration of the program is four years divided into 12 trimesters. To obtain LLB Honors degree from GUB a student will have to complete all 125 credits with a minimum CGPA of 2.0 in all courses individually. The courses for LLB (Honors) are given as under:

 

Courses of LL.B. (Hon’s) programme:

Semester 1-1

Semester 1-2

Semester 1-3

Semester 2-1

Semester 2-3

Semester 3-1

Semester 3-2

Semester 3-3

Semester 4-1

Semester 4-2

Semester 4-3

Total Credits: 125