The objects of the University shall be:
(a) To evolve and impart comprehensive legal education including distant and continuing legal education at all levels to achieve excellence;
(b) To organize advanced studies and promote research in all branches of law;
(c) to disseminate legal knowledge and legal processes and their role in national development by organizing lectures, seminars, symposia, workshops and conferences;
(d) To promote cultural, legal and ethical values with a view to promote and foster the rule of law and the objectives enshrined in the Constitution of India;
(e) To improve the ability to analyse and present for the benefit of the public contemporary issues of public concern and their legal implications;
(f) To liaise with institutions of higher learning and research in India and aboard;
(g) To publish periodicals, treatises, study books, reports, journals and other literature on all subjects relating to law;
(h) To hold examinations and confer degrees and other academic distinctions;
* Amended vide Delhi Act 7 of 2009 published in Delhi Gazette on 22.6.2009.
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(i) To promote legal awareness in the community for achieving social and economic Justice
(j) To undertake study and training projects relating to law, legislation and judicial institutions; and
(k) to do all such things as are incidental, necessary or conducive to the attainment of all or any of the objectives of the University.