Conduct & Discipline

1. Code of Conduct

Code to Combat Sexual Harassment

Principles of Conduct

The Code of Conduct of the Law School has been drafted to promote and strengthen the objects in setting up the National Law School of India University.
The NLSIU Act places on the Director the responsibility and authority to maintain
discipline among the students. To fulfil this function, the Director has constituted the DARIC or Disciplinary Committee (DARIC means Disciplinary matters Advisory Review and Investigation Committee) which is responsible for conducting enquiries into any complaints of violation of the Code of Conduct of NLSIU.
These principles of conduct and related procedures are intended to best promote the purposes and mandate of the University with respect to the education of its students, including the proper maintenance of discipline among students. Each of us has the responsibility to reflect in our own minds on the object of the University and its pledge of value-based education and define for ourselves those personal values and behaviours that we each believe will assist in the realisation of these goals. At the same time it is the responsibility of the University to consider the minimum necessary conduct for achievement of these goals. These values are not static. They will need to be continually discussed and debated within the community and must evolve over time. The minimum commended core values of the University include the following:

• Truthfulness
• Non-violence
• Compassion
• Equal human dignity and equal status of all people
• Freedom of all, including their freedom of thought, belief and their freedom to dissent
• Pluralism and pluri-versalism
• Professionalism
• Safeguarding the interests of the community and avoiding harm to the community.
  

2. Rules relating to ragging
The University will deal sternly with any acts of ragging. “Ragging” means causing, inducing, compelling or forcing a student, whether by way of a practical joke or otherwise, to do any act which detracts from human dignity or violated his/her person or exposes him/her to ridicule or to forbear from doing any lawful act, by intimidating wrongfully restraining, wrongfully confining or injuring him/her or by using criminal force to him/her or by holding out to him/her any threat of such intimidation, wrongful restraint, wrongful confinement, injury or the use of criminal force”. Ragging is punishable under Sec. 116 of the Karnataka Education Act, 1983 (Karnataka Act No. 1 of 1995).

3. Sexual Harrasment (Prevention) Code
In compliance with the requirements of the Supreme Court of India and the University Grants Commission, Sexual Harassment on Campus is condemned and will be suitably punished as laid down in the Code to Combat Sexual Harassment adopted by the NLSIU in September, 2002. To implement the policy, the Director has appointed the Sexual Harassment Policy Advisor from amongst the Faculty. To facilitate enquiry and address the grievances arising from the violation of this Code, the Director has constituted the Sexual Harassment Inquiry Committee (SHIC) consisting of members of the faculty and an outsider experienced in dealing with such matters. Under the Code, Sexual Harassment is defined as ‘Unwelcome Sexual Conduct’ which includes any unwelcome sexual advances, unwelcome acts of physical intimacy, unwelcome requests for sexual favours including oral, textual, graphic representations of a sexual nature to a person, in a person’s presence or about the person.