The Law college, University of Peshawar is one of the first institutions that
started functioning with the foundation of the University of Peshawar in 1950.
It was originally envisaged as a separate Faculty of the University and was
later on elevated to the prestigious position of an independent Faculty in 1992.
With the reorganization of various Faculties of the University, it is now constituent
of the newly established Faculty of Social Science. The college is offering
both graduate and postgraduate programmes in law. Legal education is generally
provided through public sector universities, but confitionallly through if they
and also be private institutions that follow the curriculum and standards prescribed
by the higher education commission (HEC) in consultation with the Pakistan Bar
Council (PBC), a statutory body to regulate legal profession and legal education
in Pakistan.
The LL.B degree courses are adopted after a strenuous exercise; the courses
are proposed through a National Curriculum Review Committee (NCRC) of the HEC
in Law. The recommendations of the NCRC are then carefully examined by a joint
meeting of the representatives of the universities and the members of the PBC
(Legal Education Committee). Various academic boards and bodies of the University
then review the finally approved courses before they are ultimately adopted.
A consistent effort is made to improve the standards of legal education and
the curriculum is reviewed after every three years.