Professor V.B. Coutinho, B.Sc. LL.M. Ph.D. has been teaching Law for over four decades. He has been the Principal University Law College, Bangalore, Dean Faculty of Law, Bangalore University, Vice-Chancellor, Gulbarga University and first Director of Legal Studies Bar Council of India. He is presently Vice-Chancellor of Garden City University, Bangalore.

Professor V.B. Coutinho has always combined his teaching of Law subjects with challenging administrative initiatives and has thus earned the goodwill of teachers, students and the society at large.

Lectures on Legal Theory are written keeping the interests of Law students in view. That, they may eventually be led to the vast reservoirs of knowledge which will help them to achieve greater success in the profession they choose for their career.