The Department of Law, established in 2009, offers a unique four-year LL.B Degree which has an interdisciplinary approach towards legal education. With its strong social justice orientation, the LL.B degree program focusses on the interaction between law and society, whereby undergraduate students would be provided with an understanding of the role of law in addressing social problems. The Department of Law undergraduate curriculum has been designed in a manner that would achieve this objective.
In the first year of their study, the undergraduate students would obtain an understanding on foundations of law and thereafter substantive areas of law would be covered in their second, third and fourth year of study. A special feature of the LL.B Degree program is providing practical training through courses such as Mooting and Clinical Legal Education.Thereby undergraduate students will not only have a thorough understanding about legal concepts and theories but would also be equipped with practical skills required for a professional career.
The Peradeniya Law Journal (PLJ) is a publication of the Department of Law of the University of Peradeniya. It publishes high quality peer-reviewed submissions, ranging from articles and comments to case notes and book reviews, with the aim of contributing to the dissemination of critical and inter-disciplinary knowledge on the law with a strong focus on social justice, which is in keeping with the Department’s approach to the law and legal education. Hence, we wish to prioritize the publication of literature with a heavy focus on people-centered law reform.
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