KOCHI:
The Eleventh Annual Convocation of the National University of Advanced Legal Studies (NUALS) is to be held at 11.00 a.m. on Saturday, the 20th January, 2018, at the NUALS Campus, Kalamassery.
Justice Kurian Joseph, Judge, Supreme Court of India, will deliver the convocation address. Justice Antony Dominic, Acting Chief Justice, High Court of Kerala who is also the Chancellor of the University will preside over the Convocation and admit the graduating students to the Degree. Prof. (Dr.) Rose Varghese, Vice-Chancellor, other members of the Executive Council, General Council and Academic Council of the University, Judges, Advocates, Bar Councillors and invitees will also be participating in this august function.
As part of the Convocation, the Executive Council of the University will meet at 9.30 a.m. on 20th January, 2018 to supplicate graces on candidates who were declared by the Board of Examiners to be qualified for the degree. The Chief Guest, the Chancellor, the Vice-Chancellor, members of the Executive Council, General Council and Academic Council will participate in the Convocation in ceremonial robes and proceed to the Convocation Hall in an academic procession.
The Chief Guest, Justice Kurian Joseph, Judge, Supreme Court of India, will award the C.K. Sivasankara Panicker Memorial Gold Medal for the best Law student, Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer Memorial Endowment Gold Medal for the best student in Constitutional Law, T. R. Raman Pillai Memorial Endowment Gold Medal for the best student in Criminal Law and Procedure, M.K. Nambiyar Endowment Gold Medal for the best student in Public Law, the NUALS PTA Gold Medal for the 2nd best outgoing student , Nani A. Palkhivala Memorial Endowment Gold Medal for the best Post Graduate student in Law and NUALS Gold medal for the First Rank holder in the two year LL.M Degree course 68 students of the B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) Degree Course and 31 students of the One Year LL.M.
Degree Course of the 2016 Batch, 2 students of the Two Year LL.M. Degree Course of the 2014 Batch and 6 students of the Ph.D. Degree Course are being awarded the degrees at this Convocation. Several students of this batch have started practising with leading lawyers and a few have preferred higher studies in India and abroad. Many of them have been selected by corporate law firms through campus recruitment.
