KATHMANDU: The Law Faculty, Tribhuvan University, has allocated 14 out of 50 Masters in Laws (LLM) seats for reservation. Earlier, only five seats in the law faculty were reserved — three for women and two for foreign students.

“We decided to allocate quotas for LLM studies in line with the state policy to uplift underprivileged communities,” Dr Amber Prasad Pant, Dean, Law Faculty, told mediapersons today.

According to the dean of the faculty, three seats have been allocated to women, three to foreigners, three to students from indigenous communities, two to Madhesis, one to Dalits, one to the differently-abled and one to the students representing the backward regions.

Along with this new arrangement, the Law

Faculty has also introduced a new syllabus. “We have

introduced a new syllabus for the LLB and LLM to meet the new challenges in

this field of study,” Pant added.

The Media Law, the Law of Insurance, the Cyber Law, the Clinical Law, Victimology, Professional Ethics and Lawyer Skills are among the few new topics introduced in the LLB programme. According to Pant, the faculty has also introduced changes in the LLM course.

The LLM students would have to sit for a 1,000-mark examination to earn the degree. Earlier, the LLM course carried 800 marks.

As a result of recent political developments in the country, the LLM students would also have to study federalism, comparative law and Nepali legal system.

Earlier, the legal studies focussed on the unitary system of governance and the Hindu Law.