It became a five-year, full-time course of study with 42 modules (subjects) to be taken by students. New system of higher education brought the fulltime legal education course, which is the Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree, in 1965.

Significant reforms were accomplished by the Higher Education Law of 1964. The Revolutionary Council took over the State power in 1962, and established a Committee to reform legal education. The BL degree consisted of a two-year course of study. At that time, Faculty of Law (Department of Law) was separately founded and offered the Bachelor of Law (BL) degree on those who passed the BL Examination. British Government passed the University of Rangoon Act in 1920 through which the University of Rangoon was founded and has come into existence.Īccording to Section 31(a) and (b) of the University of Rangoon Act, the University was organized into Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Science, Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Education, Faculty of Law, Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Agriculture. Rangoon (Yangon) College was founded as an affiliation of Calcutta University (CU), India in 1884-1885.

Legal education has begun in Myanmar since 1878 under the administration of British Colonial Government.

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