Queen's enters partnership with new Indian law school

Jonathan Burton-MacLeod (middle), Law '06, of Jindal Global Law School presents copies of the agreement to Queen's Principal Daniel Woolf and Jindal's Vice Chancellor C. Raj Kumar for signature at Jindal Global University in India on November 12, 2010.

Queen’s Law and Jindal Global Law School (JGLS) in the National Capital Region of Delhi, India, signed an agreement in November establishing student exchange and study abroad programs that will begin in 2011. The agreement allows Queen’s JD and LLM students to study at Jindal and Jindal LLB and LLM students to attend Queen’s for a term. Jindal law students may also enrol in the Global Law Programs offered each spring at the Bader International Study Centre (BISC).

“As India’s economic growth continues to boom, Jindal is aiming high to become India’s first global law school of international rank,” says Dean Bill Flanagan. “It is an impressive initiative and I am proud that Queen’s Law is among the first law schools in the world to partner with Jindal.”

The new agreement will provide for the exchange of up to six students per year between Queen’s and Jindal. In addition, Andrew Best, Law ’81, has created a fund that will provide exchange bursaries for some of the Jindal students.

“The Robert Wallace Best Exchange Award will certainly contribute to the success of the exchange by assisting Jindal students to attend Queen’s,” says Vice-Provost (International) John Dixon. “As we work to expand Queen’s University’s links and presence in India, we are pleased to partner with the Jindal Global Law School, a newly established, high-quality school with a dynamic, global outlook.”

Jindal students in the Global Law Programs at the BISC will also be eligible for financial support from Queen’s through the BISC International Award and the Queen’s University bursary programs.

“I’m delighted that Queen’s, and its Law School in particular, will be affiliating with Jindal Global University,” says Queen’s Principal Daniel Woolf. “Jindal is a very new university, and Queen’s a much older one, but the two institutions share the same aspirations with respect to global education.”

Woolf signed the memorandum of understanding and agreements while on a seven-day mission to India along with 14 other Canadian university presidents.

“I feel that we are entering into a collaboration with Queen’s that will take on its own organic form of growth in the areas of student exchange, programmatic and research collaboration,” says Jonathan Burton-MacLeod, Law '06, JGLS’s Assistant Dean of Research and International Collaborations and Assistant Director for the university’s Centre on Global Governance and Policy. “The foundation has been well laid by our interactions with Dean Flanagan and Principal Woolf, evidenced by a willingness to go the ‘extra mile’ to partner with us in the formative stages of our development.”

The first exchange student from Jindal, Neelam Singh, will be coming to Queen’s Law in the winter term with the support of a Best bursary.

Find detailed information on the exchange and study abroad programs at http://authoring.wp.queensu.ca/lenya/lawwww/authoring/international.html.