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JSW Law Sustainability Fund

JSW School of Law is committed to ensuring its continued excellence and impact. As we embark on new initiatives and prepare for the transition to our new campus, our focus remains on sustaining and enhancing the quality of our educational programs and facilities.

Our sustainability efforts include:

  • Campus Development: Equipping our new campus with the necessary technology and furnishings to support our academic environment.
  • Operational Excellence: Supporting faculty research, academic events, and essential campus services.
  • Student Support: Funding opportunities for student activities and externships, ensuring enriching educational experiences.
  • Technology Upgrades: Enhancing our ICT infrastructure to improve learning and administrative functions.

We are dedicated to maintaining the high standards of our institution and appreciate the ongoing support from our community and partners. Your contributions play a crucial role in helping us achieve our goals and sustain our mission.

Click Here if you wish to give to JSW Law Sustainability Fund, please add the following code in the subject line, if using donorbox: JSF

If you are donating through other means, please let us know at giving@jswlaw.bt if your donation is meant specifically for this fund. Thank you!

 

Access To Equal Justice Is Essential: JSW Law’s Human Dignity Clinic Leads With Compassion

Thank you to the large group of supporters from higher education, government, non-profits, and the public sector who attended our second virtual webinar in the JSW Law Sustainability Series.  Focused on the critically important topic of Human Dignity, this was the very first event hosted from our new campus in Pangbisa, Paro!

On May 3rd, our welcoming host and special guest Azusa Kubota, the UNDP Resident Representative for Bhutan, emphasized that access to equal justice is essential to sustainable development, more important now than even before following a pandemic-related growth in inequality around the world.  She applauded JSW Law’s Human Dignity Clinic for addressing the lack of access to legal services among the vulnerable in Bhutan, and for nurturing future lawyers with purpose and a broad commitment to social justice.

The panel discussion explored the work of the Human Dignity Clinic, featuring Director Dema Lham as well as clinic students and clients in describing how such tools as legal advice, informal strategies, evidence-based solutions, and task forces have been deployed to advance the well-being of children in conflict with the law and persons with disabilities in Bhutan.  Confronted with a lack of awareness of their legal rights and a lack of funds for legal services, vulnerable people in Bhutan are often reluctant to come forward in the face of violations to their human dignity. 

One of the most important roles of the Human Dignity Clinic has been to include such members of society in developing guidelines, handbooks, and materials to improve Bhutan’s systems, hearing their concerns, incorporating their suggestions, and – most importantly – directly improving their access to justice.

Please view this short video on JSW Law’s Human Dignity Clinic to meet some of the young lawyers we are training, as well as their inspiring clients.

You can also click here to see the video of the entire webinar.

Thanks to the donors who have brought us to the halfway mark in response to the matching grant to our Sustainability Fund!  Please help us to meet the full match of $40,000 and click here to make your gift on-line today.

Many thanks and we hope to see you on our next webinar, to be organized by JSW Law students on the topic of cultural preservation on 29 June 2022, 7:00 PM Bhutan Standard Time, 9:00 AM EST.