The School of Law (SOL) was established in the year 2005 with an objective of imparting legal education through Open and Distance Learning system. The school strives to ensure high quality education and research through innovative, multi-media learning-teaching pedagogy focussing on learning practical aspects of law, acquiring legal skills and scholarship. The School aims to create awareness about legal rights and responsibilities in the emerging world order.

➣ To design, develop and offer skill-oriented Law and legal programmes through multi-medium having potential demand among learners and various stake holders.

➣ To impart knowledge, skill and attitudinal changes based capacity building Training programmes at different levels and standards on key legal issues.

➣ To conduct legal awareness programmes on law and legal aspects for the benefit of common man through Teleconference and Interactive Radio sessions.

➣ To undertake need based legal Research studies with a primary focus on Laws affecting weaker and vulnerable sections of the society

➣ To undertake consultancy services on request/our own initiative to facilitate the users and stake holders on the legal issues/problems faced by them in their day to day affairs.

➣ To use the ICT and Multimedia Technology in design, development delivery of the programme on offer.

➣ To undertake quality research in the emerging areas of law.

Recognising the importance of legal education and demand for the programmes in Law through open and Distance Learning, IGNOU constituted a Five Member Committee in the year 1994 under the Chairmanship of Prof N.R. Madhava Menon, an eminent legal educationist. This Committee suggested for developing professional programmes in Law including programmes in Paralegal Education, Court Administration, Law and Office Management, Legal Aid administration, Occupation-based and Management-Oriented Legal Education for middle and top-level personnel in government and industry. The UGC Curriculum Development Centre in Law (CDC), set up in 1990, under the Chairmanship of Prof Upendra Baxi, an eminent jurist, also underscored the importance of Distance Education in Law as an inclusive legal education for wider participation in legal profession, judicial appointments and government law offices.

The School of Law organised a brain-storming session in June, 2007 to prepare a roadmap for the legal education in India. The important recommendations of the session enabled SOL to plan and develop a range of programmes in domestic laws such as Cyber Law, Criminal Justice, IPR, Para Legal, Consumer law, Business Laws and also international domain Law such as Human Right, Humanitarian Law and Human Trafficking etc.

The 21st century is quick paced, technology driven, innovation and development situated economy, driving towards need for rapid changes in legal and social landscape. It is more imperative to understand law rather than just securing information around a framework of rules that oversees a society. In such a scenario, it is fundamental for educational institutions to investigate unused roads and attempt multidisciplinary approach and tools for skill-building of the prospective learners .The school of Law, IGNOU aims to be a school of par excellence in imparting providing legal education, creation of legal awareness to Common Man on regular basis through open distance learning and online platforms, imparting training through capacity building programmes and undertaking legal Research and Consultancy Services.

Prof. Gurmeet Kaur, Director, School of Law
Indira Gandhi National Open University
Block-G, Zakir hussain Bhawan, Academic Complex
Maidan Garhi, New Delhi-110068

School of Law
Indira Gandhi National Open University
Block-G, Zakir hussain Bhawan, Academic Complex
Maidan Garhi, New Delhi-110068


Email: sol@ignou.ac.in

School Board Member of School of Law

  1. Prof. Gurmeet Kaur (Director) Chairperson
  2. Prof. Suneet K. Srivastava, Member
  3. Prof. Anand Gupta, Member
  4. Prof. Mansi Sharma, Member
  5. Prof. Sandeep Singh Rawat, Member, Professor, SOCIS
  6. Dr. Devesh Kumar Mishra, Member, Associate Professor, SOH
  7. Dr. Ramesh Yadav, Member, Associate Professor, SOJNMS
  8. Dr. Priyanka Suryavanshi, Member, Associate Professor, SOCE
  9. Prof .Vijay P. Tiwari, Member
    Professor of Law
    Chairperson, CGPLS, Co-ordinator, IQAC
    Head, Center for Child Rights
    Maharashtra National Law University
  10. Prof. Monica Chawla, Member
    Professor of Law
    Head of the Department, Punjabi University
  11. Prof. (Dr.) Sanjeev Kumar Chadha, Member
    Professor of Law
    Head, Department of Law, School of Legal Studies
  12. Prof. (Dr.) Bharti, Member
    Professor of Law
    National Law University Delhi
  13. Prof. Dharmendra Kumar Mishra, Member
    Professor of Law
    Faculty of Law, Banaras Hindu University
    Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
# Type Meeting No. Meeting Date/Time Venue Minutes Appendix
1 BSOLS 1 2006-04-04 Conference Room,Block-08,IGNOU 01-SBM-SOL
2 BSOLS 2 2006-10-06 Committee Room,F Block, Tagore Bhavan,IGNOU 02-SBM-SOL
3 BSOLS 3 2007-06-05 Conference Room,Block-08,IGNOU 03-SBM-SOL
4 BSOLS 4 2007-12-14 Conference Room,Convention Centre,IGNOU 04-SBM-SOL
5 BSOLS 5 2008-04-29 05-SBM-SOL
6 BSOLS 6 2008-07-18 Committee Room,F Block, Tagore Bhavan,IGNOU 06-SBM-SOL
7 BSOLS 7 2009-02-16 Conference Room,Convention Centre,IGNOU 07-SBM-SOL
8 BSOLS 9 2010-05-03 Conference Room,Convention Centre,IGNOU 09-SBM-SOL
9 BSOLS 11 2011-11-11 Conference Room,New VC Block ,IGNOU 11-SBM-SOL
10 BSOLS 13 2012-11-09 Conference Room,SOL BLOCK-G ,IGNOU 13-SBM-SOL
11 BSOLS 14 2013-05-31 Conference Room,New VC Block ,IGNOU 14-SBM-SOL
12 BSOLS 15 2014-04-29 Room No-2 ,Convention Centre,IGNOU 15-SBM-SOL
13 BSOLS 19 2018-11-16 CONFERENCE ROOM,BLOCK-G,SCHOOL OF LAW,IGNOU,NEW DELHI 19-SBM-SOL
14 BSOLS 20 2019-08-30 CONFERENCE ROOM,BLOCK-G,SCHOOL OF LAW,IGNOU,NEW DELHI 20-SBM-SOL
15 BSOLS 21 2020-08-21 CONFERENCE ROOM,BLOCK-G,SCHOOL OF LAW,IGNOU,NEW DELHI 21-SBM-SOL
16 BSOLS 22 2020-11-23 VIRTUAL MODE 22-SBM-SOL
17 BSOLS 23 2021-08-31 VIRTUAL MODE 23-SBM-SOL
18 BSOLS 24 2021-12-22 VIRTUAL MODE 24-SBM-SOL
19 BSOLS 25 2022-04-28 VIRTUAL MODE 25-SBM-SOL
20 BSOLS 26 VIRTUAL MODE 26-SBM-SOL
21 BSOLS 27 2023-05-26 VIRTUAL MODE 27-SBM-SOL
22 BSOLS 28 2023-07-22 VIRTUAL MODE 28-SBM-SOL
23 BSOLS 29 2023-11-08 CONFERENCE ROOM SCHOOL OF LAW (SOL),IGNOU,NEW DELHI 29-SBM-SOL
24 BSOLS 30 2024-03-15 VIRTUAL MODE 30-SBM-SOL
25 BSOLS 31 2024-06-04 VIRTUAL MODE 31-SBM-SOL
26 BSOLS 32 2025-01-03 VIRTUAL MODE 32-SBM-SOL
27 BSOLS 33 2025-02-06 33-SBM-SOL
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1
Designation: Director
Specialization: Law
Academic Level: 14
Joining: 07-11-2005
, gurmeetkaur@ignou.ac.in, directorsol@ignou.ac.in
2
Designation: Professor
Specialization: Law
Academic Level: 14
Joining: 17-11-2005
, suneetkashyap@ignou.ac.in
3
Designation: Professor
Specialization: Law
Academic Level: 14
Joining: 12-04-2006
, anandgupta@ignou.ac.in
4
Designation: Professor
Specialization: Law
Academic Level: 14
Joining: 08-05-2008
, mansisharma@ignou.ac.in
5
Designation: Assistant Registrar