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Bachelor of Laws [LL.B.(Hons.)]

The Department of Laws (LLB) with Honors has been offering a 4-year undergraduate degree program from 2014. This program is spread over eight semesters with two semesters per academic year. Admission will be thrice a year.

Bachelor of Laws [LL.B.(Hons.)]

About the program

The Department of Law at Notre Dame University Bangladesh (NDUB) is dedicated to developing skilled, ethical, and adaptable legal professionals who are equipped to meet the demands of both the national and global legal landscapes. Since its establishment in 2014, the department has offered a rigorous, comprehensive Bachelor of Laws (LL.B. Honors) program. Designed with an Outcome-Based Education (OBE) approach, the four-year program spans eight semesters, combining foundational legal studies with innovative, practical learning experiences that prepare students to excel in diverse roles within the legal field.

Our curriculum is crafted to foster not only a deep understanding of legal principles but also critical thinking, communication, and problem-solving skills essential in modern legal practice. Students engage with courses in core legal subjects as well as multidisciplinary studies that underscore law’s connection with society, business, and global issues. Small class sizes and personalized advising provide students with the guidance and support needed to maximize their potential, while a dynamic faculty—featuring both leading academics and seasoned legal practitioners—ensures a rich, real-world educational experience.

Graduates of the Department of Law at NDUB are prepared to enter the legal profession as competent, ethical, and forward-thinking lawyers, researchers, judges, and policymakers. The department’s commitment to justice, social responsibility, and academic excellence makes it an ideal choice for aspiring legal professionals seeking an education that is as relevant and adaptable as the field of law itself.

Tasnuva Sharmin
Asst. Professor & Coordinator, Department of Law

Message from the department chairperson

Message of the chair

The Department of Law at Notre Dame University Bangladesh has been committed to excellence in legal education since 2014, aiming to equip students with the knowledge and skills to unlock their full legal potential and serve their communities. We emphasize a strong foundation in moral and ethical values, integrated with the study of law, to prepare our graduates for impactful careers. Currently, we offer two programs: the Bachelor of Laws (LLB Hons.) and the Master of Laws (LLM). Our approach goes beyond traditional legal study by fostering an environment that encourages innovation and critical thinking. Here, students blend rigorous academic training with practical skills, essential for thriving in today’s complex legal landscape. 

We look forward to welcoming you to an enriching journey with us!

About the program

Faculty Members

The LL.B courses are taught by specialists who are dedicated to evolving your subject-specific knowledge as well as your broader skills and job prospects.

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Program details

Vision of the Program Offering Entity: 

The Department of Law, Notre Dame University Bangladesh endeavors to be a nationally recognized model for producing law graduates, to contribute to the needs of the time-demanding legal world and achieve global recognition as a legal education provider.

Mission of the Program Offering Entity:

 

M1

To achieve the highest possible standards of teaching and research in law by providing a high quality of education that will allow law graduates to be active, productive and engaging members of society in national and international levels.

M2

To prepare the students to achieve professional competencies, succeed academically, thrive intellectually, and meet the needs of the society.

M3

To develop students’ critical legal thinking ability and research skills to interpret laws, and to assess the complexities of laws.

 

M4

To promote multi-disciplinary knowledge with ethical values through innovative teaching methods to achieve professional excellence at home and abroad.

 

Objectives of the Program Offering Entity:

The aim of the Department of Law is to impart an education to upgrade the student’s legal knowledge. The objectives of the Department of Law are categorized in the following dimensions:

✔ Understanding and Knowledge,

✔ Skills and Methods, and

✔ Values and Attitudes

Name of the Degree: Bachelor of Laws (LL.B. Honors)

Description of the Program:

The Department of Law has been offering a four-years Undergraduate Bachelor of Laws (LL.B. Honors) Program since 2014. The four-years Bachelor of Laws (LL.B. Honors) Program is spread over eight semesters with two semesters per academic year. The present intake for every semester is 50 (fifty) students. The class sizes are limited to 50 (fifty) students in the interest of effective teaching and learning. Admission is offered twice a year for Spring and Fall semesters.

 Graduate Attributes/Profiles (Based on Need Assessment):

Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs) are narrower statements that describe what students are expected to know and be able to do by the time of graduation. These relate to the knowledge skills and attitudes that students acquire while progressing through the program. The students of the Bachelor of Laws (LL.B. Honors) program are expected to achieve the following graduate attributes or program outcomes at the time of graduation:

Summary of course categories and credits for each academic year

Academic Year

Total Course

(143 Cr.)

Core Course 

(96 Cr.)

General Education Courses (GED) 

(39 Cr.)

Viva-Voce

(4 Cr.)

Research (4 Cr.)

Total Course credits

       

1st Year

12

0

0

36

2nd Year

13

 

38

3rd Year

12

10 

2

0

0

36

4th Year

11

7

2

1

1

33

Total

48

32

13

2

1

143 

 Graduate Attributes/Profiles (Based on Need Assessment):

Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs) are narrower statements that describe what students are expected to know and be able to do by the time of graduation. These relate to the knowledge skills and attitudes that students acquire while progressing through the program. The students of the Bachelor of Laws (LL.B. Honors) program are expected to achieve the following graduate attributes or program outcomes at the time of graduation:

SL NO

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Graduate Attributes

BNQF

Learning Domains

1

An ability to demonstrate basic legal principles, legal fundamentals, and specialized legal knowledge appropriate to the program.

Knowledge base for legal skills

Fundamental

2

An ability to use appropriate knowledge and skills to identify, formulate, analyze, and solve complex legal problems in order to reach substantiated conclusions.

Problem solving skill

Thinking

3

An ability to conduct investigations of complex legal problems by methods that include appropriate experiments, analysis and interpretation of legal and factual information in order to reach valid conclusions.

Investigation

Thinking

4

An ability to find solutions for complex, open‐ended legal problems.

Develop the skill of legal solution

Fundamental

5

An ability to create, select, adapt, and extend appropriate techniques, resources, and modern legal theories with an understanding of the associated limitations.

Use of legal skills

Fundamental

6

An ability to work effectively as a member and leader in teams preferably in a multi‐disciplinary setting.

Individual       and teamwork

Social

7

An ability to communicate complex legal concepts within the profession and with society at large. Such abilities include reading, writing, speaking and listening, and the ability to comprehend and write effective reports and design documentation, and to give and effectively respond to clear instructions.

Communication skills

Social

8

An understanding of the roles and responsibilities of the Professional lawyer in society, especially the primary role of protection of the public and the public interest.

Professionalism

Social

9

An ability to analyze social aspects of lawyer activities. Such abilities include an understanding of the interactions that have with the economic, social, legal, and cultural aspects of society.

Adaptability       and Flexibility

Impact of lawyers on society

Fundamental

10

An      ability  to         apply   professional          ethics, accountability, and equity.

Ethics and equity

Personal

11

An ability to appropriately incorporate economics and business practices including project, risk and change management into the practice of lawyer, and to understand their limitations.

Legal project management

Social

12

An ability to identify and to address their own educational needs in a changing world, sufficiently to maintain their competence and contribute to the advancement of knowledge.

Life‐long learning

Personal

Program Educational Objectives (PEOs):

The Department of Law started its journey in 2014 with the mission of providing students with a well-rounded legal education so that they can demonstrate their full legal potential and serve the community wherever they live and work. The program offering entity also emphasizes instilling moral and ethical values through the knowledge of the law. The PEOs of Bachelor of Laws (LL.B. Honors) are shaped by two factors: firstly, the mission and vision of Notre Dame University Bangladesh; secondly, the inherent possibilities of the program. The Department of Law has set the following five PEOs.

PEO1

To facilitate the students to conceptualize and critically analyze their basic knowledge of the law in theory and practice.

PEO2

To encourage the students to sharpen their analytical and communication skills, placing a balanced emphasis on qualitative and quantitative approaches.

PEO3

To equip students in developing a service-oriented and community-responsive legal education.

PEO4

To inculcate the ability to grow efficient and dedicated judges, lawyers, legal advisers, law teachers, law officers and researchers at home and abroad.

PEO5

To acquaint students with moral and ethical values and to fulfill social commitments both personal and professional.

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Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs) are the skills, competencies and ideas students are expected to be able to articulate, put into action or theoretically or pragmatically utilize after the completion of a degree or certificate. The PLOs have been formulated in alignment with the mission statements, objectives and PEOs of the Department. After completion of the program students will be able to:

PLOs

BNQF Learning Domains

Learning Outcomes

PLO1

Fundamental Skill

Explain the fundamentals and applications of the concepts of legal theories.

PLO2

Demonstrate the legal knowledge in the context of complex socio- legal problems.

PLO3

Thinking Skill

Demonstrate the level of critical thinking, problem solving abilities, ideas and skills.

PLO4

Research Skill

Analyze and solve contemporary legal problems.

PLO5

Communication Skill

Communicate, interact effectively and clearly in Bengali and English.

PLO6

Social Skill

Produce clear and well-structured rules of law in the social and

environmental contexts for the sustainable development of society

and country.

PLO7

Perform effectively as an individual or a leader in diverse teams as well as in multidisciplinary socio-legal fields.

PLO8

Job Skill

Plan and manage activities required for professional development in legal sectors.

PLO9

Life-long learner

Develop the ability to engage in independent and life-long learning in the broadest context of changing legal arena.

PLO10

Environment and sustainability

Describe the impact of professional legal solutions in the environmental contexts to demonstrate the knowledge and need for sustainable development.

PLO11

Ethics

Apply the ethical principles and perform in professional ethics and responsibilities in the legal practice.

PLO12

Personal Skill

Display and practice the legal findings in oral, written and electronic visual formats to prepare logical legal drafts and illustrate the same in their respective professional field.

 

Program Structure

This Undergraduate Program (LL.B) consists of a set of Textual, Theoretical, Viva-voce courses and internship/thesis.

Two lectures of 1.5 hours (total 3 hours) a week will be equivalent to three credit hours.

Type of Courses No of Courses Credit Hours (Each Course) Total Credit Hours
Foundation Courses 10 3 30
Compulsory Law Courses 22 101
Internship/Thesis 1 3 3
Total 51 - 134

Course Offering and Instruction

The courses to be offered in a particular semester is announced and published in the Course Curriculum along with a tentative semester schedule before the end of the previous semester. Whether a course is to be offered in any semester is decided by the Department.
Each course is usually conducted by one teacher. The Course Teacher is responsible for maintaining the expected standard of teaching of the course and for the assessment of the students’ performance.

One adviser is normally appointed for the students of each batch by the department.  The adviser advises each student about the courses to be taken in each semester by  discussing the academic program of that particular semester with the student.  However, it is also the student’s responsibility to keep regular contact with his/her  adviser who will review and eventually approve the student’s specific plan of study  and monitor subsequent progress of the student. For a student of second and  subsequent semesters, the number and nature of courses for which he/she can register  is decided on the basis of academic performance during the previous term. The  adviser may permit the student to drop one or more courses based on previous  academic performance. 

Year/Level/Semester/Term wise Distribution of Courses: 

FIRST YEAR: 1ST SEMESTER 

BNQF Course  Code Course Title Marks 

Credit  

Points

0231-1101 Basic English 100 3
0611-1102 Digital Literacy 100 3
0232-1103 Bengali Language and Literature 100 3
0222-1104 History of the Emergence of Independent  Bangladesh 100 3
0421-1105 Legal History and Legal System of Bangladesh 100 3
0421-1106 Legal Language and Professional Conduct &  Etiquette 100 3

FIRST YEAR: 2ND SEMESTER

Course Code Course Title Marks 

Credit  

Points

0231-1201 English (Speaking and Listening) 100 3
0421-1202 Criminology 100 3
0421-1203 Law of Torts and Consumer Protection 100 3
0421-1204 Jurisprudence and Legal Theory 100 3
0421-1205 Law of Contract 100 3
0421-1206 Constitutional Law of Bangladesh 100 3

SECOND YEAR: 1ST SEMESTER 

Course Code Course Title Marks 

Credit  

Points

0312-2101 Government and Politics 100 3
0421-2102 Hindu and Buddhist Personal Laws 100 3
0421-2103 Equity and Law of Trusts 100 3
0421-2104 Law of Crimes-I 100 3
0231-2105 Academic Writing 100 3
0421-2106Labour and Industrial Law 100 3

SECOND YEAR: 2ND SEMESTER 

Course Code Course Title Marks 

Credit  

Points

0421-2201 Muslim Law 100 3
0421-2202 Law of Transfer of Property 100 3
0421-2203 Research Methodology 100 3
0421-2204 The Code of Civil Procedure-I 100 3
0421-2205 Law of Crimes-II 100 3
0312-2206 Introduction to International Relations 100 3
0421-2207 Viva Voce 50 2

THIRD YEAR: 1ST SEMESTER

Course Code Course Title Marks 

Credit  

Points

0421-3101 Land Laws of Bangladesh 100 3
0421-3102 Law of Criminal Procedure-I 100 3
0421-3103 The Code of Civil Procedure-II 100 3
0421-3104 Laws of Company and Partnership 100 3
0311-3105 Fundamentals of Economics 100 3
0421-3106 General Clauses Act and Interpretation  of Statute 100 3

THIRD YEAR: 2ND SEMESTER 

Course Code Course Title Marks 

Credit  

Points

0421-3201 Law of Registration and Public Demands  Recovery 100 3
0530-3202 Basic Science 100 3
0421-3203 Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) &  Legal Aid 100 3
0421-3204 The Law of Criminal Procedure-II 100 3
0421-3205 Mercantile Law and Other Business  Laws 100 3
0421-3206 Law of Specific Relief and Limitation 100 3

FOURTH YEAR: 1ST SEMESTER 

Course Code Course Title Marks 

Credit  

Points

0421-4101

Legal Drafting and Conveyance 

Group A: Conveyance and Legal  Drafting (Civil) 

Group B: Legal Drafting (Criminal)

100 3
0521-4102 Environmental Sciences and Climate Change 100 3
0421-4103 Law of Evidence 100 3
0313-4104 Fundamentals of Psychology 100 3
0421-4105 Christian Personal Laws 100 3
0421-4106 Public International Law 100 3

FOURTH YEAR: 2ND SEMESTER

Course Code Course Title Marks 

Credit  

Points

0421-4201

Trial and Advocacy 

Group A: Trial and Advocacy (Civil) Group B: Trial and Advocacy (Criminal)

100 3
0421-4202 Administrative Law 100 3
0421-4203 Fiscal Law 100 3
0421-4204 Research Monograph 100 4
0421-4205 Viva Voce 50 2

Medium of Instruction

The medium of instruction in this Undergraduate Degree program is English. Therefore, adequate proficiency in English is a prerequisite for admission to the program

Admission Eligibility

A candidate for admission into the 4 year Bachelor program must have the minimum following qualifications:

The rules and conditions for admission into this Department shall be  designated by the Academic Council on the recommendation of the  Admission Committee each year.

Waiver Structure & Eligibility

Waiver Based On Merit:

Tuition Fees & Cost

Programs Credit Hours Semester per year Admission Fees* Course Fees* (per credit hour)
Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) Honors 143 2 10,000 3,500
*Semester Fees: 6,000/=
*Total Cost: 5,58,500/=
*Bangladeshi Taka (BDT)

Notice

ADMISSION OPEN: Spring 2025