Bridging Legal Scholarship with Governance Realities
The Research Centre for Law and Public Policy (RCLPP) is envisioned as an autonomous research unit within the Faculty of Law, Centurion University of Technology and Management (CUTM), Bhubaneswar, Odisha. It is conceived to become a nationally recognised centre of excellence that bridges rigorous legal scholarship with evidence-based public policy.
RCLPP functions as an umbrella research centre — housing and coordinating multiple specialised thematic sub-centres over time, providing a common institutional platform for diverse but deeply interconnected areas of legal and policy inquiry spanning constitutional law, environmental governance, access to justice, human rights, IP law, criminal law reform, and international law.
The Centre is designed to produce high-impact outputs including Scopus-indexed publications, policy briefs, legislative drafts, and training modules for legal practitioners, while building collaborative networks with academic institutions, governmental bodies, civil society, and international agencies.
To be a nationally recognised centre of excellence in law and public policy research that generates transformative knowledge for just, inclusive, and sustainable governance.
Bridging Legal Scholarship with Governance Realities
RCLPP Institutional Tagline · Faculty of Law, CUTM
RCLPP operates across broad interdisciplinary pillars with targeted sub-areas, ensuring depth of scholarship alongside breadth of policy relevance.
RCLPP is designed with institutional infrastructure that enables world-class research, policy advocacy, and community engagement from day one.
Furnished workspace for faculty, visiting fellows, and research associates, with access to SCC Online, Manupatra, HeinOnline, Westlaw India, and a specialised RCLPP reference library.
A peer-reviewed, open-access working paper series under ISSN registration — serving as a pre-publication platform and policy-relevant legal analysis repository.
Annual National Conference on Law and Public Policy with proceedings published in Scopus-listed edited volumes, and co-hosted international symposia with partner institutions.
Specialised policy clinics focusing on legislative drafting, access-to-justice camps in rural Odisha, environmental governance audits, and digital rights campaigns with DLSAs.
A dedicated web portal hosting all RCLPP publications, legislative tracking databases, project updates, and an open-access repository of curated legal and policy documents for Odisha and Eastern India.
Formal collaboration with CUTM's Schools of Social Sciences, Economics, Computer Science, and Management to embed interdisciplinary perspectives across all research programmes.
Supervised research assistantships, policy mooting, and co-authorship opportunities in working papers and policy briefs for undergraduate and postgraduate law students.
RCLPP operates as an umbrella centre under which specialised thematic sub-centres are progressively established, each with a dedicated Coordinator and focused research identity within a unified governance framework.
RCLPP's launch follows a structured five-phase roadmap from institutional establishment to full operational autonomy, spanning Years 1 to 5.