Address: Osmania University
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW
OSMANIA UNIVERSITY,
HYDERABAD, INDIA -500 007
Phone No: 91-040-27098928 or 91-040-27682368 (Principal’s Office)
Website: www.osmania.ac.in/lawcollege
Information:-
The Faculty of Law, Osmania University has a glorious history of more than 100 years. The “Law class” was opened in the year 1899 to give instruction in law to students desirous of joining legal profession along with “Judicial Test” classes for Judicial Officers. Thus teaching of Law was in existence even before Osmania University came into existence in the year 1919.
In the year 1923 the “law class” and “Judicial Test” classes were abolished and Law Department was constituted in the Osmania University at the Arts College with a Head and two teachers, who were supported by the part-time lecturers to cope up with the teaching work. The University made successful experiment of teaching law in vernacular language, namely, Urdu. At that time Urdu was court language too. The Translation Bureau translated all the leading textbooks into Urdu. From 1923 to 1934 there were only five papers for both the years. But in 1935 one paper each was added to both the years. The classes were held in the morning. Hardly there were hundred students in both years put together.
Library:
The Library of the Law is one of the best law libraries in the entire South India having a good collection of law journals, text books, reports, commentaries and theses. All the leading journals like the All India Reporter, Supreme Court Cases, Journal of Indian Law Institute and Indian Bar Review are subscribed regularly in the library. Foreign Journals like All England Reports, Cambridge Law Journal, Harvard Law Review and Modern Law Review are subscribed in the Main Library of the University. It caters to the needs of LL.B. and LL.M. students and also Ph.D. scholars. At present there are more than 32,000 books and 30 periodicals in the library. and more than 6400 back volumes, there are about 200 books on International Humanitarian Laws contributed by ICRC. The Library is equipped with computer system. It has the AIR CDROM of Supreme Court Judgments from 1950 to 2005, the Law Super with Acts and cases from 1950 till to date. A CD of all the laws of Andhra Pradesh has also been added to the library. The year 2005 is a land mark in the history of the law college library as an IPR Depository consisting of a core collection of books and journals’ relating to IPR has been established at a cost of Rs. 2.5 lakhs sanctioned by the Ministry of HRD, Government of India New Delhi The college library is catering to law literature to the subject experts advocates of all cants, Research scholars of other Universities etc. is a great extent, who frequency visit the library.
