PhD in Law and Governance studies

5 Years On Campus Phd Program

Jawaharlal Nehru University

Program Overview

The program focus draws on critical social science approaches in its attempt to explore how practices of law and governance are embedded in political, economic, social and historical processes; how practices of governance are dispersed over various sites ranging from the government, bureaucracy, judiciary, community and family, the socio-legal processes that deter or provide access to justice and notions of governmentality.

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Career Options

  • Professor
  • Criminal Lawyer
  • Business and Commercial Lawyer
  • Civil Procedure Lawyer
  • Academic researcher

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