In August, the Bangalore-based National Law School of India University launched a one-week international finance course for fourth year students, the first of its kind to be taught in India.
The week-long course focuses on international comparative law, as well as building students’ understanding of the practicalities of a legal transaction, particularly within the international banking sector and capital markets.
The aim is to give students a good understanding of the theoretical and practical aspects of international financial law that until now has only been available outside India.
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A successful pilot of the course took place in March 2008, with over 80 fourth and fifth year LLM students attending. This year the course will also be open to nominated students from other national law schools including Kolkata, Jodhpur and Hyderabad.
Professor Venkata Rao, vice chancellor of the National Law School of India University, said: “This course puts the National Law School in a unique position by leading the way in raising awareness of international finance law in India.”
The course is being delivered by leading academics and practitioners from India together with international law firm Allen & Overy and Indian law firm Trilegal, which have helped develop the programme.
Rita Dev, global head of banking training at Allen & Overy, said: “The course will give the students studying it a much broader context to their studies. Indian universities haven’t taught a course like this before so it really is bringing something new to the market and we hope it will broaden the students’ understanding of the international aspects of financial law.”
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