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The decision to unilaterally remove all corporate law electives including crucial commercial law offerings like Mergers & Acquisitions, Securities Law, and Equity,significant electives in international law (e.g., International Commercial Arbitration) or rights-based domains (e.g., Disability Law, Juvenile Justice) and replace them with a narrow selection of criminology-focused electives such as Forensic Sciences, Criminology and Victimology, and Transnational Crime is both pedagogically indefensible and professionally limiting. These changes appear to reflect the personal academic interests of NKC rather than the academic and career needs of a diverse student body.
The implicit assumption that all students would benefit from, or are interested in, what is effectively a criminology-centric curriculum is as absurd as it is exclusionary. It fundamentally disregards the academic and professional aspirations of students who wish to pursue careers in corporate law, litigation, arbitration, or international law.
Equally alarming is the reported violation of BCI rules through the removal of mandatory Clinical Courses such as Professional Ethics and Professional Accounting System. The introduction of non-mandatory courses like Indirect Tax in their place contradicts BCI mandates.
This is not merely an issue of academic mismanagement; it represents a serious threat to the foundational pluralism of the NUJS curriculum. For an institution once hailed for its academic breadth and autonomy, these changes risk converting the law school into an echo chamber of one man’s interests.