Dhirubhai Ambani University School of Law (DAU SoL) on Saturday hosted the IndusAcX Summit 2025: The Industry–Academia Exchange at its Gandhinagar campus. The event brought together over 200 leading voices from the legal profession, industry, policymaking and academia.
Held as part of Dhirubhai Ambani University’s silver jubilee celebrations, the Summit was conceived as a flagship national platform to promote meaningful collaboration between industry and academia, aligned with the vision of Viksit Bharat 2047.
The Summit also marked the completion of the first year of operations of the Dhirubhai Ambani University School of Law (DAU SoL), India’s only law school exclusively dedicated to Executive and Continuous Interdisciplinary Legal Education. The School focuses on capacity building for working professionals through industry-aligned Executive Development Programmes (EDPs), as well as LLM, and PhD programmes across emerging legal and regulatory domains
IndusAcX Summit 2025 brought together senior advocates from the Supreme Court of India and various High Courts, industry leaders, policymakers and academics from across the country. The Summit was inaugurated by Justice Hemant Prachchhak of the Gujarat High Court. Dr. GK GoswamiIPS (Retd.), Founding Director of Uttar Pradesh State Institute of Forensic Sciences (UPSIFS), Lucknow, was the special guest of honour.
Speaking on the occasion, Prof. Dr. Avinash Dadhich, Founding Director of Dhirubhai Ambani University School of Law, said, “IndusAcX Summit 2025 was conceived as a platform where industry experience and academic rigour could meaningfully intersect. The response we received from the legal fraternity, industry and policymakers reaffirms the need for such structured dialogue to address contemporary legal and regulatory challenges.”
The day-long programme featured 15 academic and industry panel discussions and research paper presentations, alongside a high-level industry conclave and a certificate presentation ceremony for participants of the School’s Executive Development Programmes.
By enabling sustained engagement between industry and academia, IndusAcX 2025 reinforces DAU School of Law’s vision of developing institutionally grounded, practice-oriented legal and policy leadership for India’s next phase of economic and social growth.