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12 J. Indian L. & Soc'y VII (2021)

handle is hein.journals/jindlas12 and id is 1 raw text is: JOURNAL OF
INDIAN LAW AND SOCIETY
Volume XII(1)                                                  Monsoon
FOREWORD
Professor Dr. Mahendra Pal Singh
Professor Emeritus, University of Delhi
Research Professor Jindal Global University
The Journal of Indian Law and Society (JILS) is one of the two prominent
law journals of the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata
(NUJS). The other one which has been appearing since 2008 in four issues,
annually, is NUJS Law Review. Until 2007, when I joined NUJS in December
as its Vice-Chancellor, the students used to bring out a small issue of a journal
annually consisting of a few writings from the students and a few others either
by faculty members, or other legal luminaries not necessarily connected with the
University. Considering the journal as an important aspect of legal education, I
encouraged the students interested in running the journal, to engage in research
and writing as well as to take the full responsibility of researching, writing,
editing, and publishing the journal quarterly, with initial meager financial
support from the University. After entertaining and expressing initial doubts in
their ability to bring out four issues of the journal annually without any support
from any faculty member or anyone else, they decided to go ahead with that
task which acquired special recognition not only within the University but also
in other law schools and legal circles. As more and more students started getting
attracted towards this activity, all of whom could not be accommodated in one
journal, they decided to start more of such legal journals of which JILS acquired
the maximum prominence even without any financial or any other kind of
support from the University. All credit goes to those enterprising students who

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