O.P. Jindal Global University’s Jindal Global Law School (JGLS) made history by hosting the 2026 Law Schools Global League (LSGL) Dean Meeting and Academic Conference, drawing elite deans from 24 universities across the globe. The four-day spectacle in Sonipat, centered on ‘Law and the Digital Future: Reimagining Global Legal Education,’ illuminated AI’s profound disruptions to legal paradigms, practices, and scholastic methods.
Affirming JGLS’s leadership in worldwide legal academia, the event united 40 visionaries, reinforcing the school’s convening power for scholarly exchange and strategic foresight. LSGL’s 32-member alliance champions borderless legal training via enriched research, curricula, and institutional strategies; its Dean Meeting sparks executive brainstorming, while the conference fuels academic rigor.
Inaugurated via a Constitutional Museum visit and welcome rites, the program featured Dean Professor (Dr.) C. Raj Kumar’s evocative ‘JGU Story’ oration, tracing the university’s triumphs in excellence, globalism, and public good.
Professor Raj Kumar proclaimed the hosting’s gravity: ‘Legal pedagogy must cleave to constitutional sanctity, legal governance, and planetary equity. Amid AI tempests, institutions must innovate to bolster democracy, democratize justice, and safeguard dignity.’ Global teamwork was deemed essential for breeding savvy, ethical legal titans.
Welcomes from Professor (Dr.) Deepika Jain et al. advocated tech-savvy inclusivity. Professor Jain posited, ‘AI’s essence is socio-political; law faculties must nurture Southern and anti-colonial lenses for equitable digital futures.’
Professor Raj Kumar chaired the opener on AI-era rule of law, with luminaries probing algorithmic justice’s moral contours.
Sessions spanned LSGL projects, geopolitical hurdles, and conference keynotes on AI-legal intersections, with panels dissecting practice, pedagogy, governance, and decolonial imperatives under expert moderation.
Dialogues pierced AI uncertainties, regs, classroom ethics, evaluations, justice access, geopolitics, and digital inequities, prioritizing equity-informed scrutiny.
The roster boasted stars from Edinburgh to UNSW Sydney, Mexico’s ITAM to Kenya’s Strathmore, epitomizing LSGL’s breadth.
Fruits included beefed-up exchanges, mobilities, and research pacts, embodying JGLS’s alliance ethos.
The LLM Fair connected 400 students to global LLM prospects, amplifying opportunities.
Co-Chairs Professors Atienza and Lozano hailed JGU’s foresight and JGLS’s vibrancy as benchmarks for impact.
Cultural immersions at heritage landmarks and art exhibits fused tradition with intellect.
This feat burnishes JGLS/JGU’s global credentials, steering enduring dialogues for resilient, value-driven legal evolution.