KU School of Law
In addition to providing quality education to our students, we give priority to building strong partnerships with concerned stakeholders and the communities that surround us. We are dedicated to sharing our expertise and bringing about reform in the areas of law and justice.
Our Engagements
Awareness building: Nepal is considered one of the human rights friendly countries as it has guaranteed various fundamental rights including the right to education, health, housing, social justice, equality, etc. in its Constitution and has also adopted various international human rights treaties. However, community people specifically women, children, and marginalized ones have no idea about these rights. Due to the lack of awareness of rights and remedies, many illiterate and poor women, girls, and marginalized persons remain silent when they become victims of discrimination and violence. So, the KUSL students conduct orientation programmes to make the community people aware of their rights and available legal remedies guaranteed by the Constitution and the international laws.
Legal counseling and service: The KUSL provides community people with free legal counseling as per their demand. It is also planning to establish a legal clinic with the aim of providing poor and underprivileged persons with valuable legal advice and support without seeking any professional fee.
Contribution to law-making: Nepal’s new Constitution, 2015, has adopted a federal system replacing the erstwhile unitary system of governance. The Constitution has devolved executive, legislative and judicial power to local units including Municipalities and Rural-municipalities. But, local units struggled/are struggling to formulate necessary laws due to the lack of law-making understanding. The federal government provided them with some sample laws but those were not sufficient. So, the KUSL conducted programmes to make the local government officials acquaint with democratic law-making processes. It also supports local governments draft their laws and by-laws as per the latters’ request.
Bill Review and discussion: In Nepal, law and policy-making process has been one of the opaque processes where general people are rarely consulted. The KUSL reviews the bill tabled in the Parliament and discusses them with concerned stakeholders, and provides expert comments to the concerned bodies. In the past, we reviewed various bills and disseminated them to the public. This process helps make the law-making process more transparent, participatory and people oriented.
