
National Law University Delhi launches new-age online digital courses
India Today
National Law University Delhi has launched a couple of new-age digital courses on forensics, mental health and technology law.
National Law University Delhi has launched two new-age digital courses online. NLU’s centres Project39A and Centre for Communication Governance (CCG) launched the courses to promote and advance interdisciplinary legal studies in India. The courses are -- Decoding Forensics for Legal Professionals, and Forensic Mental Health and Criminal Justice.
“NLU Delhi’s focus since inception has been to look beyond normative legal studies pattern and frame new multi-disciplinary courses and encourage research in specialised areas that are still nascent,” said Professor Srikrishna Deva Rao, Vice Chancellor, NLU Delhi.
The new online courses are aimed at imparting an understanding of the use and limitations of forensics science in criminal law and relevance of mental disability in criminal justice system, respectively.
They have been launched in collaboration with Eleos Justice at Monash Law School, Australia.
Recently, NLU Delhi’s CCG launched the first edition of Technology Law and Policy Certificate Course.
The course touches on key contemporary themes of information technology and cyber laws, privacy and data protection, emerging technology, platform governance, cybersecurity and information security, intellectual property and technology, and competition law and technology.
“The course is designed to help students learn the legal, public policy and socio-political contours of cyberspace, and technology law and policy and their implications for our society,” said Dr. Daniel Mathew, Director, CCG, NLU Delhi.