Shri Sudhir Nanavati

It gives me immense pleasure to introduce the first and most premier law college of Gujarat Law Society, indeed, of the state of Gujarat itself.

Sir L. A. Shah Law College was the first Law College in Gujarat, established in 1927 by the Gujarat Law Society. Its establishment was possible due to the mammoth efforts of its founders Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Sheth Shri Kasturbhai Lalbhai and Shri Ganesh Mavlankar.

Initially affiliated with Bombay University, Sir L A Shah Law College was later permanently affiliated with Gujarat University after its formation in 1949. This is the flagship educational institute of Gujarat Law Society, which has since metamorphosized into a huge trust managing 34 different academic institutions ranging from kindergarten to post graduate courses across disciplines such as arts, commerce, law, and management and information technology.

Sir L. A. Shah Law College has the unique distinction of giving great luminaries to the Judiciary, the Bar, various national and international Universities, the public administration services, and industry. Our alumni have adorned the Bench of the Supreme Court of India as well as the High Courts of Gujarat and other states, and have scaled peaks in various walks of life.

Sir L. A. Shah Law College offers graduate and post graduate courses in Law leading to the LLB and LLM degrees of Gujarat University as well as a PG Diploma program in Intellectual Property Rights. The college also offers a Ph.D. Program in Law under the aegis of its own research center. In its march towards excellence with the mission to provide leadership in the legal education by example, Sir L A Shah Law College sources the contribution of renowned senior and experienced practicing lawyers as visiting faculty, thus ensuring that the standard of legal education is always of the highest level.

The college has a special focus on intensive practical training which is manifested in the Moot Court Competitions, Seminars, special lectures of renowned Lawyers, Judges and academicians that are organised regularly. It is a matter of pride for us that invariably every year, our students represent Gujarat University at the All India Moot Court Competition organized by the Bar Council of India. Facilitated by the rich library, excellent infrastructure and state-of-the-art class-rooms, students of L A Shah Law College excel at all the Examinations taken by the Gujarat University.

The academic excellence of the college is recognised widely not only in Gujarat, but at a national level. The law magazine “Lawyers’ Update”, ranks Sir L. A. Shah Law College as 23rd in India.

I invite you to explore this glorious institution further by browsing this website.

Shri Devang Nanavati

The Gujarat Law Society (GLS) with its thirty-eight institutions offering courses in various disciplines and with an enrolment of more than 38,000 students ranks among the premier educational bodies in the country, and the Sir L. A. Shah Law College among the premier institutions imparting legal training in India.

The Law College has always had the rare good fortune of being blessed and patronized by men of distinction in the realm of law. Hon’ble Justice Sir Lallubhai A. Shah baptised the College by lending its illustrious name. Hon’ble Mr. Justice Sir Chimanlal H. Setalvad guided its deliberations as the President of the GLS during the years 1927-1947. Hon’ble Mr. Justice Sir H. V. Divetia (the first Vice-Chancellor of Gujarat University) during the years 1947-1950 and Shri Motilal C. Setalvad (the former Attorney General of India) during the years 1950-1956 carried on the rich tradition as the President of the Society.

Hon’ble Mr. Justice J. C. Shah (former Chief Justice of India) as the President of the GLS during the years 1977-91, Hon’ble Mr. Justice P. N. Bhagwati, Shri I. M. Nanavati, first as the Hon. Secretary and then as the Vice-President of the GLS during the years 1958-1981, Shri J. M. Thakore (former Advocate general of Gujarat), Shri Sudhir I. Nanavati, first as the Hon. Joint Secretary and then as the Hon. Secretary of the GLS during the years 1979-this day, Shri Suresh N. Shelat (former Advocate General of Gujarat) first as an active Member of the Governing Body of the GLS during the years 1979 -2004 and then as the Vice-President of the GLS during the years 2004 –this day - all with their dynamism, managerial skill and foresightedness contributed immensely to the growth and development of the Law College as well as the GLS

Amongst the distinguished alumni of the Sir L.A. Shah Law College are Hon’ble Mr. Justice J. C. Shah and Hon’ble Mr. Justice A. M. Ahmadi – both former Chief Justice of India, Hon’ble Mr. Justice M. P. Thakkar, Hon’ble Mr. Justice M. B. Shah and Hon’ble Mr. Justice S. B. Majmudar, all former Judges, Supreme Court of India, Hon’ble Mr. Justice N. M. Miyabhoy- former Chief Justice, High Court of Gujarat, several sitting judges and former judges of the High Court of Gujarat, the three generations of the Nanavaties Shri I. M. Nanavati, Shri Sudhir Nanavati and Shri Devang Nanavati, many former chairmen as well as many former and sitting members of the Bar Council of Gujarat, many eminent advocates, academicians, and social workers.

If you could enroll yourself as a student of the Sir L.A. Shah Law College, you will surely have all the opportunities to peak the scales in the field of Law.

Dr. R.V. Mehta

Sir L. A. Shah Law College, one of the only four Law Colleges affiliated to the University of Bombay in the year 1927, has been affiliated to the Gujarat University since 1950. The College has been imparting qualitative education to the students for the LL.B. degree since 1927 and for the LL.M. degree since 1935. The objective of the College has been to produce high-caliber practitioners in law, administrators, academicians, social workers and persons with a balanced out-look towards life.

The College with its highly qualified, experienced and competent faculty members, the provision of infrastructure for smooth, efficient running of the College programmes as well as a Law Library rich and up-to-date in literature has all throughout provided leadership in legal education in Gujarat and maintained the status of the leading institution imparting legal education in Gujarat University as well as other universities in Gujarat. The students of the College have earned laurels for their alma mater all throughout. They have been winners of most of the University medals and prizes for the LL.B. examinations. Our students have won often the inter-collegiate elocution as well as moot court competitions and represented Gujarat University in the All India Inter University Moot Court Competition organized every year by the Bar Council of India. We invite you to become a part of the student community of Sir L. A. Shah Law College for your development in the professional faculty of law and ultimately becoming a useful citizen of the Country.