Legum Baccalaureus (LL.B) – Bagmati University

Program Description

The Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) is a three-year postgraduate professional degree programme, offered by Bagmati Province University, Hetauda. This programme is designed for students who have successfully completed a Bachelor’s degree in any discipline from a recognized university.

Being a postgraduate law programme, the LL.B. curriculum exclusively comprises law and law-related subjects.

The programme aims to provide students with sound theoretical knowledge of law, practical legal skills, and professional competence required for legal practice, judicial services, public administration, academia, and other law-related professions.

The curriculum is structured in line with national legal education standards, with due emphasis on:

Nepalese legal system
Comparative and international legal perspectives
Clinical and experiential learning
Legal research and professional ethics

The programme follows a year-wise structure with compulsory and optional subjects, ensuring both core legal competence and subject-area specialization.

Program Objectives

The objectives of the LL.B. programme are to:

To provide students with in-depth understanding of substantive and procedural laws, jurisprudence, constitutional principles, and international legal frameworks.
To enable students to analyze legal problems, interpret statutes and judicial decisions, and apply legal reasoning in diverse contexts.
To equip students with essential skills in legal drafting, pleading, conveyancing, advocacy, negotiation, and alternative dispute resolution, through clinical courses and moot courts.
To develop competence in legal research methodology, academic writing, case analysis, and evidence-based legal argumentation.
To instill values of professional ethics, integrity, accountability, and social justice, in line with the standards of the legal profession.
To prepare graduates for careers as advocates, judicial officers, legal advisors, prosecutors, academicians, policy analysts, and other legal professionals.
To promote understanding of human rights, gender justice, inclusion, environmental protection, and the role of law in social transformation.

Eligibility Criteria for Admission

Applicants seeking admission to the LL.B. (Three-Year) Programme of Bagmati Province University must fulfill the following requirements:

The applicant must have successfully completed a Bachelor’s degree in any discipline from a recognized university or institution.
The applicant must have secured at least 40 percent aggregate marks at the Bachelor’s level.
For applicants from a grading system, a minimum of 1.6 CGPA at the Bachelor’s level is required.
The Bachelor’s degree must be completed prior to admission into the LL.B. programme.
Applicants must fulfill any additional admission requirements (such as entrance examination or interview) as prescribed by Bagmati Province University from time to time.

B. Course Structure

First Year

S.N	Subjects	Full marks
Compulsory subjects
1	Jurisprudence and Legal Theory	100
2	Constitutional law	100
3	Public International law	100
4	Procedural Law	100
5	Family Law	100
6	Law of Contract	100
Optional any two
7	Media Law	50
8	Administrative law	50
9	Taxation Law	50
10	Fiscal law	50
11	International trade law	50
12	Law of Torts	50

Full Marks: 700

Second Year

S. N.	Subjects	Full Marks
1	Law of Crimes	100
2	Law of International institutions	100
3	Moot court, pre-trail preparation and participation in trial.	100
4	Law of Property	100
5	Legal research Methodology	50
6	Clinical Law (Conveyancing and Drafting)	100
7	Law of Evidence	50
Optional area (any two)
8	Labour law	50
	Law of Consumer Protection	50
9	International Air and space law	50
10	Environmental aw	50
11	Gender and inclusive justice	50
12	Law of insurance	50
13	Criminology (Crime and Delinquency)	50

Full Marks: 700

Third Year

SN	Subjects	Full Marks
1	Comparative law and Nepalese legal System	100
	Human Rights Law and Refugee Law	100
3	Interpretation of Statutes	50
4	Professional ethics and lawyering skills	50
5	Law of Company Governance	50
6	Clinical Work (Placement)	50
Optional (any two)
7	Law of Banking and Negotiable instruments	50
8	Conflict of Laws	50
8	Intellectual Property law	50
10	Cyber law	50
12	Penology and Victimology	50

Full marks: 500

The total full marks for the LL.B. level is 1900, and a total of 37 subjects have been prepared. Of these, 20 subjects fall under the compulsory area and 17 subjects under the optional area. The total working hours allocated for the compulsory subjects is 125 hours (at 4 hours weekly), while the optional subjects are allocated 62 hours in total (at 2 hours weekly).

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