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Law has emerged as the one of the most popular career choices in recent times. The demand for law professionals has increased significantly post liberalisation era. Thanks to arrival of multinationals in the era of globalization, plenty of profitable career opportunities are now available to law professionals. Legal education is not just about civil and criminal law. New disciplines of law like corporate and commercial law, intellectual property law, human rights law, meditation and negotiation, international law and environmental law etc are some of the more popular law disciplines. For someone who is willing to make a career in the exciting and challenging field of law, five- year integrated law course after passing the senior secondary level is definitely the best career alternative.
CLAT refers to Common Law Admission test. It was first conducted during the year 2008. The concept of CLAT took birth after top law institutes of the country decided to sign a memorandum of understanding to conduct a common law admission test. This was done with a view to streamline the process of admitting students to the 5-year LLB courses in India. This was a significant step for the legal education of the country. This helped in reducing the burden of students of taking different entrance examinations. CLAT is the most competitive exam for the law study in India.
CLAT is an all India level law entrance test. The exam is conducted for admission into different undergraduate and postgraduate level law programmes. CLAT was first conducted by the National Law School of India University, Bangalore in 2008. The statutory body for CLAT is NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad. CLAT score is accepted by several prestigious law institutes in the country apart from top eleven law Universities of India.
Universities and Institutes accepting the CLAT score are;
NLSIU (Bangalore)
RMLNLU (Lucknow)
NALSAR (Hyderabad)
Gujarat National Law University (Gandhinagar)
National Law Institute University (Bhopal)
CNLU (Patna)
West Bengal National University of Juridicial Sciences (Kolkata)
NUALS (Kochi)
National Law University (Jodhpur)
Hidayatullah National Law University (Raipur)
RGNUL (Patiala)
Courses offered through CLAT are;
B A LLB - Bachelor of Arts & Bachelor of Laws and
LLM – Masters of Laws
For undergraduate LLB program, candidates must have passed senior secondary or equivalent examination in any discipline from a recognized Board, with at least 50% aggregate marks. Candidates must have completed 20 years of age as on 1st July of the year of admission. For LLB, the CLAT test paper has 200 questions that students are supposed to complete within 2 hours. There are five sections in the test paper including,
English and Comprehension
General knowledge & Current Affairs
Elementary Mathematics
Legal Aptitude and Awareness and
Logical reasoning
For postgraduate LLM program, candidates must have cleared LL.B/B.L. examination or an equivalent examination from a recognized University with not less than 55% marks in total. The entrance paper for LLM is of two hour duration and includes objective type questions, short answers and essay.
Candidates are tested in following disciplines;
Law of Contracts
Law of Torts
Criminal Law
Constitutional Law and Legal Theory
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