Department of Law - University of Calicut was established in 2015 to offer two years LLM course with double specialization.

It is a constituent unit of the University of Calicut and the main objective of the department is to equip the students with sufficient skills to become excellent teachers and to advance & disseminate learning and knowledge of the law and legal and judicial processes.

This Law Department was established with a view to cater to the requirements of the legal profession, law teaching, research, and judiciary and it is expected that the students who study in this Department will eventually become legal practitioners, law teachers or engage in legal research or enter the judiciary in due course.

The opportunity to specialize in two areas of law is the main specialty of this programme. Apart from the compulsory core papers, the specialized branch of law includes criminal law, business law, human rights law, environmental law and intellectual property law. Various elective courses are also offered along with these core courses.

To make the study of law relevant to social needs and encourage focused research, the Department has introduced clinical legal education in the curriculum.

The department intends to provide adequate academic infrastructure - dedicated internet access, Wi-Fi Connectivity, online legal resources including Hein online, Westlaw India and Manupatra, a computer lab, besides a good collection of standard books and reports, both foreign and Indian.