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Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) : Introduction
Common Law Admission Test (CLAT), for graduate and post-graduate courses,
is an outcome of the initiative taken by the Human Resource Development
Ministry and facilitated by the UGC as a sequel to a Public Interest Litigation
(PIL) pending before the Supreme Court of India.
Seven National Law Schools namely NLSIU, Bangalore ; NALSAR, Hyderabad
; NUJS, Kolkata; NLU Jodhpur; NLSIU, Bhopal ; HNLU, Raipur and GNLU, Ahmedabad
have come together to conduct the Common Law Admission Test. According
to MoU (Memorandum of Understanding), CLAT would be conducted every year
by each of National Law Schools on rotation as per the criterion of seniority.
Candidates seeking admission to the Under Graduate (LLB) and Post Graduate
(LLM) Programmes in the above mentioned Law schools must appear in Common
Law Admission Test (CLAT).
The admission is based on the rank of the candidate in the entrance
examination. Besides these seven universities, Chanakya National Law
University, Patna; Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow
and Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab at Patiala will
also be relying on the CLAT scores for their admissions .
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