GIVING TO JSW LAW

Invest in people. Strengthen justice. Shape the future.

The Royal Government sustains JSW Law’s core public mission. Philanthropy enables us to go further. Your support widens student opportunity, advances research, strengthens future-ready legal education, expands service to society, and helps secure the School for generations to come.

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A ROYAL VISION · A NATIONAL INSTITUTION

A gift to JSW Law is an investment in the people, ideas and institutions that will shape the future of justice in Bhutan.

JUSTICE

SERVICE

WISDOM

WHY GIVE

Public investment built the foundation. Philanthropy helps us go further.

As Bhutan’s first law school, JSW Law carries a national responsibility: to educate ethical and capable legal professionals, strengthen institutions, generate knowledge, and serve a country navigating profound social, technological, environmental and economic change.

PUBLIC SUPPORT

Sustains our public mission.

Government funding supports JSW Law’s essential operations and public mandate, including the academic foundation that allows our students to study and our faculty to teach, research and serve.

PHILANTHROPIC SUPPORT

Multiplies what is possible.

Philanthropy complements public investment. It creates room for innovation, student opportunity, research, global engagement, technology, service and long-term sustainability—areas where ambition often needs resources beyond annual operating budgets.

SEE THE DIFFERENCE

See what partnership makes possible.

Behind every programme, graduate, research project and public-service initiative are people who believed in the School’s mission. Images and short films can make that impact visible—showing donors not only what JSW Law hopes to do, but what partnership has already helped build.

From Royal Vision to National Impact

From students to legal professionals.

In September 2026, 27 students graduated from JSW Law, bringing the School’s total number of graduates to 139. The ceremony also marked the first graduating cohort of the LL.M./MLS in Climate Change and Environmental Law.

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Learning that reaches beyond campus.

Partnership support helps JSW Law bring legal education into public service. In 2026, the School and UNICEF Bhutan convened the third Child Justice Summer School, bringing justice-sector professionals together to strengthen child-sensitive practice.

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139

legal professionals graduated from JSW Law by September 2026

27

graduates in the Class of 2026 across LL.B., PGDNL and LL.M./MLS programmes

1st

graduating cohort of the LL.M./MLS in Climate Change and Environmental Law in 2026

WHERE YOUR SUPPORT GOES

Four ways your support advances the JSW Law mission.

Our RAISE Strategy 2027–2031 is built around Research, Academic, Institutional, Student and Service Excellence. Philanthropic support helps turn those commitments into opportunities, programmes and impact.

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Student Opportunity & Access

Externships, international moots, exchanges, research opportunities, hardship support, professional development and experiences that allow talent—not circumstance—to determine how far a student can go.

02

Research, Faculty & Knowledge

Faculty research, visiting scholars, fellowships, publications, conferences and specialised centres that develop knowledge rooted in Bhutan and relevant to the wider world.

03

Future-Ready Legal Education

New programmes and learning in AI and law, digital governance, climate and environmental law, business and trade, dispute resolution and interdisciplinary fields—including innovation through JusTICe.

04

Service, Access to Justice & Global Engagement

Clinics, public legal education, justice-sector capacity building, professional training and international partnerships that take learning beyond the classroom and bring Bhutanese experience into global conversations.

A PERMANENT FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE

Strengthen the JSW Law Trust Fund.

Established under the Royal Charter, the JSW Law Trust Fund gives supporters a way to invest in the School’s long-term strength. A growing endowment can provide dependable resources for student opportunity, outstanding faculty, research, specialised centres, library and digital resources, innovation and service—year after year.

Government sustains the core. The Trust Fund enables transformation and sustainability. Its purpose is not to replace public support, but to multiply what public support makes possible.

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Generosity today can strengthen JSW Law for generations.

✓Creates a permanent source of support beyond annual operating budgets.

✓Supports student opportunity, faculty excellence, research, centres and innovation over time.

✓Allows individuals, foundations, firms and friends of JSW Law to create a lasting legacy in legal education and justice.

BHUTAN FOR THE FUTURE

Bhutan is entering a new era. Legal education must help shape it.

Bhutan’s next chapter will require lawyers, policymakers, researchers and institutions able to work across technology, climate, commerce, investment, public policy and international engagement. Gelephu Mindfulness City reflects the scale of this ambition: a new model of development seeking to bring together innovation, sustainability, culture and human wellbeing.

JSW Law can help shape that future by preparing lawyers for emerging fields, producing applied research, strengthening professional education, developing responsible legal technology through JusTICe, and building partnerships that connect Bhutanese ideas and experience with the world—while remaining rooted in Justice, Service and Wisdom.

Law & Technology

Climate & Sustainability

Business & Trade

Global Engagement

Justice Innovation

SUCCESS STORIES

Success is the strongest case for giving.

These stories show the multiplier effect of partnership: opportunity for students, knowledge for Bhutan, and service to communities and institutions.

Opportunity becomes service.

Student experiences beyond the core curriculum—externships, moots, exchanges, research and professional exposure—help turn legal education into confidence, judgement and readiness to serve.

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Bhutan as a living classroom.

The Climate Change and Environmental Law Centre combines graduate education, field-based learning, clinics and applied research—placing students and scholars close to the communities and ecosystems affected by environmental change.

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Strengthening justice through service.

Through centres, clinics and professional programmes, JSW Law convenes practitioners and institutions around real justice challenges. The Child Justice Summer School is one example of partnership translating into stronger professional capacity.

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WAYS TO GIVE

Give in the way that best reflects your purpose.

You may give where the need and opportunity are greatest, build permanent capacity through the Trust Fund, or partner with us around a specific priority that reflects your interests.

FLEXIBLE SUPPORT

Give Where It Matters Most

Unrestricted giving gives JSW Law the flexibility to act when an important opportunity, student need or institutional priority emerges.

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ENDURING IMPACT

Build the Trust Fund

Create lasting capacity for excellence by strengthening a permanent source of support for the School’s mission.

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STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP

Invest in a Priority

Support student opportunity, research, a specialised centre, climate leadership, JusTICe, access to justice, global engagement or another agreed institutional priority.

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Giving from the United States: Support may be made through the JSW Bhutan Legal Education Foundation, a U.S.-based Section 501(c)(3) private foundation. U.S. donors should consult their own tax advisers regarding deductibility. For online giving, bank transfers and other giving arrangements, please use the School’s official Make a Gift page or contact JSW Law.

A PARTNERSHIP IN PURPOSE

Build the JSW Law Trust Fund.

It expands what students can experience, what faculty can discover, what the School can build and how widely it can serve. Over time, those investments strengthen the people and institutions that shape Bhutan’s justice system and public life.

“From Pangbisa to the world, we seek excellence with humility—building knowledge, opportunity and institutions in the service of justice.”

BE PART OF THE NEXT CHAPTER

Invest in an institution built to serve generations.

Give where the need is greatest, strengthen the JSW Law Trust Fund, or partner with us on a programme, centre or priority. Together, we can turn today’s generosity into opportunity, knowledge and service for generations.