Entrance Exams
Offering Colleges
Master in Energy and Infrastructure Law (MEIL) program aims at producing specialists in energy and infrastructure law with advanced professional knowledge and academic research skills. The MEIL degree is a Master’s degree in social sciences and will not qualify the graduates for Bar examinations or legal practice.
The course is designed for experienced graduates seeking advanced study and research opportunities on legal and regulatory issues related to energy and infrastructure projects, including hydro-power, highways, railways, tunnels, airports, industrial estates, foreign direct investments, infrastructure and construction contracts, and project finance.
Program Objective
- to train students with sophisticated legal skills and knowledge that significantly improve the way they serve their clients or organizations, helping them be recognized as experts in their field, and
- to enable them to conduct high-quality academic legal research projects in energy and infrastructure law and produce original research work in the form of a dissertation that can be published in a peer-reviewed law journal.
Salient Features
- Highly specialized to enhance sophisticated professional and academic skills and knowledge in energy and infrastructure-related legal issues.
- Flexible, convenient, and offered in a hybrid format (online and in person) at Kathmandu and Dhulikhel to suit the needs of working professionals.
- Courses will be offered by national and international leading academicians and professionals experienced in the subject areas.
- Interdisciplinary and innovative teaching and learning methods, with a combination of in person and online lectures, case studies, research, practicum and simulation exercises.
- MEIL program is open to non-law graduates but they can also interact with graduates of LLM program.
- Internship opportunities to gain practical knowledge.
- Limited number of teaching assistantship to highly meritorious students who wish to pursue an academic career in the future.
Eligibility
- Completion of a Bachelor of Engineering or Bachelor of Business Administration or Bachelor in Economics degree of Kathmandu University or any other equivalent undergraduate degree in Engineering or Business Administration or Economics with at least 50 percent marks in aggregate or a grade point average (GPA) of at least 2.5.
- Successful completion of the Entrance Examination
Curricular Structure
Program/Course Structure:
- Advanced Jurisprudence and Approaches to Legal Scholarships
- Advanced Legal Research Methodology Advanced Legal Writing and Seminar Energy Law and Regulation I & II Fundamentals of Infrastructure Law
- Urban Infrastructure Law
- Natural
- Resources Governance and
- Regulatory Theory
- Advanced Environmental and Climate
- Change Law
- Construction Law
- Public Procurement Law
- Law for Energy and Infrastructure Project Finance
- Negotiation Skills and Dispute Resolution
In addition to the required taught courses, students will complete a dissertation worth 12 credits. The dissertation will be an original piece of research work demonstrating the student's ability to engage in high-quality legal scholarship in energy and infrastructure law.