Legal Research Assistant at NLS Bangalore: Apply by Mar 16

About National Law School of India University

The National Law School of India University (NLSIU or NLS) in Bengaluru, established in 1986, is India’s premier law university, consistently ranked first by NIRF. It pioneered the five-year integrated BA LLB program, offers 3-year LLB, LLM, and MPP programs, and features a competitive NLSAT entrance.

About the Centre for Child and the Law (CCL)

The Centre for Child and the Law (CCL) is specialised multi-disciplinary research centre of NLSIU. CCL integrates research, direct field action, and teaching on various aspects related to child rights law. CCL uses law and adopts socio-legal strategies as tools for transformative social change to enable children to live with dignity. Our aim is to ensure social justice, human rights and quality of life for all children in India, with special focus on food and nutrition security, equitable quality education, care, protection and justice for marginalised and excluded children.

About the Opportunity

The Centre for Child and the Law at the National Law School of India University invites applications for the Research Assistant (Legal) position.

This is a full-time position based out of the NLSIU campus in Bengaluru. This role requires assisting on ongoing socio-legal and policy research, training and advocacy initiatives of the CCL, primarily under the theme of right to food and nutrition. The person will work closely with other colleagues at CCL.

Eligibility

Qualifications

• Essential: Bachelor’s degree in law
• Desirable: Master’s degree in law, and social science or related field

Experience

• Essential: Candidates with 1 to 3 years of work experience with focus on policy/socio-legal research
• Desirable: Experience of working in social development sector in research or training roles

Skills and competencies

Essential:

• Demonstrated skills in generating quality research reports
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team environment
• Ability to think and work logically and work precisely with attention to detail
• Willing to travel within and outside Karnataka

Desirable: 

• Excellent planning and prioritisation skills
• Ability to work in a team, contributing to both team and individual goals
• Good communication, organising and time management skills
• Experience in drafting will be an advantage

Responsibilities

• Undertake policy research on the issue associated with food security and child rights.
• Support ongoing research through development of tools for data collection and analysis.
• Write research reports based on qualitative and quantitative analysis.
• Support multi-stakeholder engagement as part of CCL’ work on supporting relevant state departments.
• Assistance in developing modules for training conducted by CCL and ensuring quality and rigour of the training programmes.
• Publish high quality research papers in peer reviewed journals and contribute to NLS blog and other such platforms.
• Support in organizing events and facilitating discussions with stakeholders
• Any other related tasks to support the ongoing work CCL.

Duration

2 Year

Location

University campus, Bengaluru

Last Date to Apply

March 16, 2026, at 5 pm

Application Procedure

Please use the Google form available here, and include the following documents:

• An updated CV
• A statement of purpose (500 – 800 words).
• One sole authored writing sample – published/unpublished
• Details of two professional references

For any queries, please write to [email protected]