➣ 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.

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