Dept of Law and Justice at a Glance
The Department of Law and Justice at Bangladesh University of Business and Technology (BUBT) stands as a beacon of academic excellence, fostering a dynamic environment for legal education. Established with a commitment to shaping skilled legal professionals, the department offers a comprehensive curriculum that blends theoretical knowledge with practical insights. Students engage with diverse legal disciplines, including constitutional law, criminal justice, international law, and human rights, preparing them to navigate complex legal landscapes.
Our distinguished faculty, comprised of experienced academics and practicing lawyers, provides mentorship that empowers students to excel in both national and global legal arenas. Through moot court competitions, internships, and seminars, the department ensures hands-on learning, equipping students with critical thinking and advocacy skills. With a focus on ethical practice and social justice, the Department of Law and Justice at BUBT cultivates graduates who are ready to uphold the rule of law and contribute meaningfully to society.
About BUBT
Bangladesh University of Business and Technology (BUBT) is a premier institution dedicated to academic excellence and innovation. Established to empower students with knowledge and skills for a dynamic world, BUBT fosters a vibrant learning community, blending modern education with practical application across diverse disciplines.
Foundation of the Department of Law and Justice
The Department of Law and Justice at BUBT was founded on the 30th October, 2003 to cultivate legal scholars and practitioners equipped to address contemporary challenges. Rooted in a commitment to justice and ethical practice, the department has grown into a hub for legal education, emphasizing critical thinking, advocacy, and societal impact since its inception.
Program Offering
The department offers a robust LL.B. (Hons.) program, designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of legal principles and their real-world applications through outcome-based education (OBE). The curriculum spans constitutional law, criminal justice, international law, and human rights, complemented by practical training through moot courts, internships, and legal workshops. The Department also provides a 1-year LL.M. Programme.
Core Values of the Department of Law and Justice
The Department of Law and Justice upholds the following core values:
- Commitment: We are committed to knowledge generation that positively impacts the lives of those within and outside our university community. We are contributing to human resource development and capacity building of individuals to cater to the needs of the economy, society, and country, leading to the development of the nation.
- Academic Excellence and Integrity: Academic excellence will always serve as the hallmark of our endeavors. BUBT always promotes a culture of excellence among students and faculty members in the teaching-learning process, research, and extension services to develop the university as a center of excellence for imparting quality education through modern technologies and delivery models while pursuing national quality parameters (BAC & UGC parameters). We are committed to conducting ourselves in an honest, ethical, and credible manner with a firm commitment to fairness and doing what is in the best interest of our students, faculty, staff, and employers at home and abroad.
- Leadership and Good Governance: We are always responsive to the emerging changes, challenges, and needs of the university stakeholders through effective academic and administrative leadership with defined goals, responsibilities, and required autonomy. Following good governance principles being accountable, transparent, responsive, effective and efficient, equitable and inclusive, rule of law, participating and consensus-oriented in the process of making and implementing of decisions.
- Collaboration and Teamwork: We bridge gaps between theory and practice with a focus on skill development and industry integration through collaborative initiatives. We are committed to professionalism, civility, and cooperation across the university system to ensure success in achieving our vision, mission, and objectives. We recognize that we will be stronger and more effective when we work together as a team.
- Social Responsibilities: We are committed to social responsibility and do our best to make positive changes to both society and the environment through our teaching, research, public engagement, and day-to-day operations, and encourage philanthropic activities amongst the student bodies, including volunteering, student-led charity fundraising, and community ventures.
Vision, Mission, Objectives & PEOs, POs
Vision
To produce skilled manpower in the field of law for developing leadership and excellence in the modern competitive world through academic potential, innovation, and research.
Missions
Mission 1: To prepare students for qualified leadership and legal professionals in several fields by increasing critical thinking, problem solving, to develop the legal system, etc., and thus transform graduates into competent human resources.
Mission 2: To enhance oral and written communication skills and conduct legal research in diversified aspects so that the graduates can contribute to the legal arena.
Mission 3: To promote counseling skills, a compromising approach for compromising suits, legal disputes, and a practical idea for alternative dispute resolution, organizing and managing power in the legal field.
Mission 4: To spread knowledge among the graduates from multidisciplinary fields of scholarship associated with legal education; make them professionally skilled so that they can maintain professional ethics, and transform them into competent human resources.
Objectives
Our principal objective is to produce highly skilled manpower capable of contributing to the national development as entrepreneurs, academics, professionals, and administrators. The following objectives are within the focus of the overall activities of BUBT:
- To maintain an excellent academic environment for imparting higher education to learners in different fields.
- To encourage learners to inculcate ethical, cultural, and social values in their thoughts, actions, and practices and follow them in their personal and national life.
- To build up a dynamic center of excellence in higher education & research, which will generate knowledge for the creation of an ideal society.
- To develop learners’ understanding of the advances in knowledge and complexities of the modern world and utilize these for the solution of problems of contemporary society.
Program Educational Objectives (PEOs)
PEO1 To make law graduates conceptualize so that they can critically analyze and acquire In-depth knowledge of law in theory and practice and thus can establish and ensure justice to the society and the peoples as social engineer, judges or human rights protectors.
PEO2 To relate the affiliation of the knowledge of law with other program with a view to preparing qualified human resources capable to study law on problem solving methods, case study methods, and present them in seminar, discussion, group discussion, mooting, mock trial and law clinic etc.
PEO3 To extend ability of analyzing legal methods and approaches.
PEO4 To produce professionally qualified skillful lawyers and judges.
PEO5 To develop the ethical sense of humanity and learning law for meeting the people‘s demand for access to justice.