30/06/2025
The Bar Council of India (BCI) has said that offering LLM or equivalent legal courses online or through hybrid mode without its approval was unauthorised & unrecognised.
The BCI, as a result, issued an advisory against the proliferation of unapproved Master of Laws (LLM) programmes offered online, through distance or hybrid modes.
The advisory, authored by Justice (retd) Rajendra Menon, former Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court & co-Chairperson of the standing committee on legal education of the BCI, was sent to all the high courts on June 25 for necessary action.
“It is reiterated that any LLM or equivalent legal programme offered in online, distance, blended, or hybrid mode, or under misleading nomenclature such as LLM (Professional) or MSc (Law), without prior BCI approval, is unauthorised & shall not be recognised for any purpose whatsoever," it said.
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