About CLRS

Making the law legible for students, practitioners, and everyone it touches.

The Centre for Legal Research and Studies is more than an online learning platform. It is a place for intellectual growth and skill enhancement, committed to demystifying complex legal concepts and making them accessible to professionals, students and the general public alike.

Who we are

Academic rigour, taught by people who practise.

Legal education has a habit of stopping at the textbook. A student can finish a module on data protection and still not know how to draft the notice, read the authority, or hold a position under questioning. CLRS exists to close that distance.

We blend practical training with academic rigour, so that what a learner takes away is usable: courses designed to bridge the gap between textbook knowledge and real-world application, and taught by practitioners rather than narrated over slides.

The Centre works across four connected activities. We teach certificate courses. We convene a national conference with a peer-reviewed paper track. We run short, skills-focused workshops. And we publish a diamond open-access journal of international law. Each one feeds the others: the questions raised in a classroom become conference panels, and the strongest scholarship reaches print.

8
conferences convened
since 2023
2
certificate courses
running now
74
lessons and
readings written
1
peer-reviewed journal
ISSN 3049-1940
What we do

Four activities, one purpose: to deepen legal scholarship and practice.

I
Certificate courses

Cohort-based and self-paced certificate courses, assessed and certified, taught by practitioners.

Browse catalogue →
II
National conferences

Keynotes, panels and a peer-reviewed paper track, with an open call for papers.

See the programme →
III
Practical workshops

Short, intensive sessions on drafting, legal research and moot preparation.

View the schedule →
IV
Peer-reviewed journal

The CLRS Journal of Global Justice & Governance, on international law, free to read and to publish.

Read the journal →
How it works

Straightforward from enrolment to certificate.

  1. 1
    Choose a course

    Every course lists its curriculum, duration and instructor in full before you pay, and free preview lessons let you read the material first.

  2. 2
    Enrol in minutes

    Create an account, pay securely, and the course opens immediately. No waiting for approval.

  3. 3
    Learn at your pace

    Video lectures, reading material and downloadable resources, with your progress saved as you go and private notes on every lesson.

  4. 4
    Be assessed and certified

    Sit the final examination and earn a certificate carrying a verification ID that anyone can check against our records.

Faculty

Taught by people who do the work.

Gyan Prakash Kesharwani
Gyan Prakash Kesharwani
Advocate, LL.M. (IP Law - NLUJ) Chairperson, VidhiAagaz
Teaches 2 certificate courses
Dr. Pooja Dasgupta
Dr. Pooja Dasgupta
Editor-in-Chief, PenAcclaims
Ms. Anuniti Pandey
Ms. Anuniti Pandey
Senior Legal Executive, Shriram GIC Limited

Course teaching sits alongside a wider panel of practitioners and academics who review abstracts and speak at CLRS conferences. See the full panel.

Contact

Write to the right desk.

Each of these reaches the people who handle that work directly, so you are not waiting for a message to be passed along.

Prefer to talk? Call +91 8959 00 8954.

Start where it suits you

Take a certificate course, present at a conference, or submit to the journal. Free preview lessons let you read the material before you pay for anything.