President Droupadi Murmu advised the legal professionals to use technology as a tool for professional advancement and also as a means of social justice. Appreciating the contribution of the faculty-members and the entire team of the university in helping the students reach a major milestone in their life and career, she said she could understand the sense of fulfillment among family-members who have been helping and encouraging students. She was speaking at the 21 convocation of NALSAR University of Law in Shamirpet here on Saturday.
“I admire the efforts of NALSAR in taking care of issues concerning disability, access to justice, prison and juvenile justice, and legal aid. I am happy to note that NALSAR has set up an Animal Law Centre. It reminds me of my tenure as the Minister for Department of Fisheries and Animal Resources Development in Odisha nearly twenty years ago,” Murmu said.
“I had realised that there must be wide-spread efforts to sensitise people about the protection and welfare of animals. I expect the younger generations to protect animals and birds, trees and water-bodies as necessities for the well-being of humanity. NALSAR’s Animal Law Centre is a good step in that direction,” she said.
Murmu said she was glad that this university was also focusing on Artificial Intelligence as an area of study. In the global legal scenario, jurists and judges are seized with the matter of consulting with algorithms for evaluating parties in a dispute. As future le.
