About College

About the Premier College of the Gujarat Law Society

The Gujarat Law Society (GLS) was registered in February 1927 with the object, among others, of providing facilities for the systematic study of Law, by opening Colleges in Gujarat and Kathiawar. Sir L.A. Shah Law College, the fourth Law College to be affiliated to the University of Bombay, was opened at Ahmedabad on 20th June, 1927.

The College was recognized by the University of Bombay in June 1935 for coaching students in post-graduate courses for the LL.M. degree examination. A fine, commodious building for the College was constructed at a beautiful site in the Ellisbridge area at a heavy cost in the year 1937. The College obtained its permanent affiliation to the University of Bombay in 1947. The College since its affiliation to the Gujarat University in 1950 has been recognized for instruction in Law for the LL.B. and the LL.M. degree examinations.

The College remained the only institution of GLS for the first twenty-nine years. The GLS enriched its heritage by opening H.A. College of Commerce (1956), I.M. Nanavati Law College (1958), Smt. L. & C. Mehta Arts College (1958).
Maneklal Nanavati Law College (1961), C.U. Shah City Commerce College (1961), C.U. Shah Arts College (1961), and also N.R. Secondary and Higher Secondary School (1957).Since then the GLS in its quick march forward, has come a long way with thirty-eight institutions teaching and training more than 38,000 students in various disciplines.

Vision

To impart qualitative graduate as well as post-graduate education in Law and equip students with necessary skills and capabilities to understand the complex process of enactment, enforcement and interpretation of law with a view to secure equitable justice to all citizens irrespective of their caste, creed, religion or sex.

Mission

  • To have highly qualified, experienced and competent Law-graduates and postgraduates on the Faculty.
  • To provide infrastructure for smooth, efficient running of the College programs.
  • To provide a Law Library, rich and up-to-date in literature.
  • To provide leadership in legal education and to maintain the status of the leading institution imparting legal education in Gujarat University and the region.

Visitors

Year 2022-23

  • Adv. Swapneshwar Gautam
  • Adv. Sameer Dave
  • Shri Premal Joshi
  • Shri Jay Unawala

Year 2019-20

  • Adv. Shri H. B. Shantunu
  • Adv. Shri Dipen Dave
  • Prof. Victoria Shroff, Animal Lawyer, Canada
  • Adv. S. D. Vasavada

Year 2018-19

  • Hon’ble Dr. A. C. Joshi, Moot Court & Guest Lecturer
  • Shri Swapneshwar Gautam
  • Adv. Shri Satyjit Sen
  • Adv. Shri Nisarg Trivedi

Year 2017-18

  • Adv. Shri Hriday Buch
  • Adv. Shri Anshin Desai

Year 2016-17

  • Shri Gopinath Amin
  • Adv. Shri Vijay H. Patel

Year 2015-16

  • Shri. Bhargav Karia
  • Shalin N. Mehta
  • Adv. Shri Satyjeet Desai
  • Adv. Shri Premal Joshi

Year 2014-15

  • Hon’ble Justice K.J.Thakor
  • Hon’ble Justice V.M.Pancholi
  • Dr T.J.Purani

Year 2013-14

  • Hon’ble Mr. Justice S. H. Vora, Judge, High Court of Gujarat
  • Hon’ble Mr. Justice G. R. Udhvani, Judge, High Court of Gujarat
  • Shri Sudhir Nanavati, Senior Advocate, High Court of Gujarat, Supreme Court of India and Executive Vice President, Gujarat Law Society
  • Dr. B. H. Joshi, Registrar, Gujarat Law Society
  • Dr. Sanjay M. Vakil, Principal, C. U. Shah Arts College
  • Hon’ble Mr. Justice K. M. Mehta, former Judge, High Court of Gujarat
  • Shri N. K. Pathak, former Director, Institute of Law, Nirma University, former Director, Gujarat University School of Law
  • Shri Pradeep Seth, Representative, All India Reportar
  • Mr. Edward Alden, Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow Council on Foreign Relations, USA
  • Ms. Anamika Chakravarti, Cultural Affairs Officer, USA Embassy, Mumbai
  • Mr. Ajmal Palakal, Program Organizor, USA Embassy, Mumbai

Year 2012-13

  • Hon’ble Mr. Justice R. R. Tripathi, Judge, High Court of Gujarat
  • Shri G. M. Amin, Vice-Chairman, Bar Council of Gujarat
  • Shri N. K. Pathak, former Director, Institute of Law, Nirma University, former Director, Gujarat University School of Law
  • Hon’ble Mr. Justice Anant S. Dave, Judge, High Court of Gujarat
  • Hon’ble Mr. Justice A. J. Desai, Judge, High Court of Gujarat
  • Hon’ble Mr. Justice D. G. Karia, former Judge, High Court of Gujarat
  • Hon’ble Mr. Justice B. N. Mehta, former Judge, High Court of Gujarat
  • Dr. Rajshekhar S. Malushte, Shriram Bhagojisheth Keer Law College, Ratnagiri, Maharashtra State.

Year 2011-12

  • Hon’ble Ms. Justice Ruma Pal, former Judge, Supreme Court of India
  • Smt. Arundhati Ghose, former Ambassador, Government of India, Permanent Representative of India to the UN.
  • Hon’ble Mr. Justice N. V. Anjaria, Judge, High Court of Gujarat
  • Shri Bimal Patel, Director, Gujarat National Law University (GNLU)
  • Shri Sudhir Nanavati, Senior Advocate, High Court of Gujarat, Supreme Court of India and Executive Vice President, Gujarat Law Society
  • Dr. Purvi Pokhariyal, Director, Institute of Law, Nirma University
  • Shri P. S. Patel, Principal Vivekanand Law College
  • Prof. James Nadumpara, Assistant Dean, O. P. Jindal Global University, Hariyana
  • Mr. Anand Mishra, Project Assistant, O. P. Jindal Global University, Hariyana
  • Shri Pradeep Seth, Representative, All India Reportar

Year 2010-11

  • Hon’ble Mr. Justice C. K. Thakkar, former Judge, Supreme Court of India
  • Shri Sudhir Nanavati, Senior Advocate, High Court of Gujarat, Supreme Court of India and Executive Vice President, Gujarat Law Society
  • Dr. J. R. Trivedi, Principal, Shri M. R. Parikh Institute of Commerce
  • Dr. Avni Desai, Director, N. R. Institute of Business Management
  • Shri N. K. Pathak, former Director, Institute of Law, Nirma University, former Director, Gujarat University School of Law
  • Dr. Jyotsnaben Yagnik, City Civil and Sessions Judge, Special Judge, POTA Court
  • Hon’ble Mr. Justice S. J. Mukhopadhya, Chief Justice, High Court of Gujarat
  • Hon’ble Mr. Justice R. R. Tripathi, Judge, High Court of Gujarat

Year 2009-10

  • Shri N. K. Pathak, former Director, Institute of Law, Nirma University, former Director, Gujarat University School of Law
  • Hon’ble Mr. Justice K. A. Puj, Judge, High Court of Gujarat
  • Hon’ble Mr. Justice J. N. Bhatt, former Chief Justice, Patna High Court, Chairman, Gujarat State Human Rights Commission
  • Shri Devang Nanavati, Advocate, High Court of Gujarat, Hon. Secretary, Gujarat Law Society
  • Hon’ble Mr. Justice K. M. Thakar, Judge, High Court of Gujarat
  • Hon’ble Mr. Justice M. R. Shah, Judge, High Court of Gujarat
  • Shri Bimal Patel, Director, Gujarat National Law University (GNLU)
  • Shri Mahesh Pandya, Environmental Activist, Editor, Paryavaran Mitra – Janvikas
  • Ms. Ketreziyana Tsyola, Research Scholar, Holland
  • Ms. Lioni Thomas, Research Scholar, Polland

Year 2008-09

  • Hon’ble Mr. Justice R. R. Tripathi, Judge, High Court of Gujarat
  • Hon’ble Mr. Justice A. A. Kureshi, Judge, High Court of Gujarat
  • Hon’ble Mr. Justice M. R. Shah, Judge, High Court of Gujarat
  • Dr. Jyotsnaben Yagnik, City Civil and Sessions Judge, Special Judge, POTA Court
  • Hon’ble Mr. Justice K. M. Mehta, former Judge, High Court of Gujarat
  • Hon’ble Mr. Justice S. M. Soni, former Judge, High Court of Gujarat, former Lokayukt, Gujarat State

Year 2006-07

  • Miss Mira Ramnivas, D.I.G
  • Honourable M.R. Justice A.K.Trivedi, Former Judge, High Court of Gujarat
  • Honourable M.R. Justice S.M.Soni, Former Judge, High Court of Gujarat
  • D.R Gaurang Jani, Senior Professor, school of Social Science, Gujarat University
  • Honourable M.R. Justice Kalpeshbhai Jhaveri
  • Honourable M.R. Justice Dhirubhai N.Patel
  • Shri K.J.Darji, Project Officer, Permanent legal and Clinic, Ahmedabad

Year 2005-06

  • Honourable M.R. Justice R.R.Tripathi, Judge, High Court of Gujarat
  • Honourable M.R. Justice S.M.Soni, Former Judge, High Court of Gujarat
  • Honourable M.R. Justice A.K.Trivedi, Former Judge, High Court of Gujarat
  • Honourable Smt. Jyotsnaben Yagnik, Judge, City Civil & Session Court

NAAC Status

  • NATIONAL ASSESSMENT AND ACCREDITATION COUNCIL (NAAC):
    The NATIONAL ASSESSMENT AND ACCREDITATION COUNCIL (NAAC) is an autonomous body established by the University Grants Commission (UGC) of India to assess and accredit institutions of higher education in the country. It is an outcome of the recommendations of the National Policy in Education (1986) which laid special emphasis on upholding the quality of higher education in India. To address the issues of quality, the National Policy on Education (1986) and the Plan of Action (POA-1992) advocated the establishment of an independent national accreditation body. Consequently, the NAAC was established in 1994 with its headquarters at Bangalore.NAAC Status of the College :
    The college was accredited by the NAAC in cycle 1 in the year 2008 and given ‘B’ grade with 2.28 CGPA.