In the glorious history of our freedom struggle, lawyers of Belagavi District played a remarkable role. Distinguished lawyers and freedom fighters of North Karnataka realised the importance of legal education in North Karnataka. As there was no law college in North Karnataka, one had to go to Pune, Mumbai, Kolhapur or Chennai for legal education. This made legal education expensive and difficult to get. Thanks to the endeavour and enterprise of the founder members of Karnatak Law Society which was established in the year 1939, who kept before them an ideal of producing good lawyers, able administrators and astute politicians. In pursuance of this ideal, the Society established a law college in November, 1939. Today, the society enjoys the distinction of running the reputed colleges in this part of the country.
