Jindal Global Law School (JGLS) has tied-up with the Infrastructure Development Finance Company (IDFC) to teach project finance and infrastructure law as an elective to students and provide placements.
Under JGLS’ memorandum of understanding (MOU) with IDFC, IDFC would teach a two-hours-per-week elective course on infrastructure law for around 25 LLM and three-year LLB students every semester starting from now.
JGLS dean Raj Kumar said that infrastructure law had not seen a lot of academic attention in India to date. “With IDFC coming on board we can offer a full-fledged elective – we are looking at least at a two credit course [of two hours a week].”
“We are looking at a seminar or conference on infrastructure law - the study of public finance and issues from an academic institutional standpoint is less [explored in India,” he added. The course would also be opened to five-year LLB students from next year.
IDFC would also offer internships and hopefully eventually placements to JGLS graduates, with one of the aims of the collaboration also being to improve practical legal skills that would be useful in law firms’ or companies’ infrastructure practices, acknowledged Kumar, adding that the course would include a segment on how entire green power sector agreements and projects were put together, how road and power projects started and how the various financial institutions and government players interacted.
“IDFC has such amazing expertise in this field,” he said.
IDFC general counsel Rajeev Uberoi said in a statement: "IDFC’s endeavour is to be a leading knowledge source for the infrastructure sector, through participation in policy and law.”
JGLS also entered into MOU with New York’s Cornell Law School, White & Case and other colleges and bodies over the last year.
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Is this a Joke?
What an idiot!
Are u mad? Seems you are from Amity
Both are same!! Amity noida and amity delhi
Quoting o:
Both are same!! Amity noida and amity delhi
both are in the same campus else that this nothing is same between them.
anyway, it's not worth going to this college. better to save the money and use it for an LLM in the US or UK. one should do an LLB from an NLU for much less.
I believe that there is space for all kinds of colleges to co-exist. Every National Law School is not like NUJS which has good faculty inspite of lower salaries for professors. Jindal has more or less attempted a brave new experiment with regard to legal education, modelling it on higher salaries for professors as received by Universities abroad. Only time will tell if the Indian legal education fraternity accepts this endeavour or if this concept works in India. Of course, the fee structure makes it inaccessible for many, but with the aid of the several scholarships, fellowships, studentships, fee concessions and loans, the financial burden of such a course is mitigated to an extent. I'm sure that the University will eventually build its efforts in ensuring greater accessibility, as it is already working towards achieving that goal.
of course, a two credit course isn't aiming for too much to begin with, i'm assuming. fundamentally not different from other 'workshops' conducted by magic circle firms/large indian firms in several of the older NLUs, except that i haven't heard of any such dealing with infrastructure or project finance yet. the last thing to be noted is that when i joined work i was told that very little in project finance law is teachable theoretically; it is a point of interest on a CV like any other, but not much more.
one reason to take it of course is to figure out what practice area one may have an interest in. the NLUs, symbiosis and JGLS by updating their curricula are thus doing recruiters a favour by not saddling firms with unhappy children who thought law was all trials and glamour.
Quoting wanderer:
Seems your from you JIggles only:P
for some context - i'm a graduate (2009) from a top-3 NLU (if rankings count for anything). i graduated in the top 30% of my class and have a job with what is normally considered a very large and prestigious law firm and yet i find that the learning curve is intimidatingly steep. i work with people from non-NLUs and new NLUs and frankly cannot tell the difference. enjoy your sense of superiority while it lasts, because it's not going to last very long.
It is rather amusing to noitce that Dysgenics can be spotted everywhere.It is fascinating to observe that the human race is losing sight of its archetypal Mok'nathal, bottom up beginnings and is wrapping itself up in a big, greasy burrito of ignorance. Ay, tis truly sad, Mr. Orwell, to see the moths spiral into the flame day after day, but tis inevitable.
We breed faster than intelligent conversation and die faster than fleeting passion. So ambiguous. So sombre in the mid-moonlight.
But there is one granule of wisdom erupting from the entangled vault of human memory that could stop us from haunting the dark corners of our suffering.
"Life is but a dream."
We are far removed from the melody, but we know that it exists. We are seperated from home, but we can conceptualize a road back. We are not alone in the universe, we are one with it.
Oh, and Jindal is a pretty cool college to study in. It has its ups and downs but then again, what doesn't? It feels good to be part of something new. :)
Sorry to infringe on all the legalase but all you naughty boys and girls will be getting lumps of coal for Christmas.
Remember, respect people's opinions and the world is a much better place.
Yours musingly,
Santa Clause
XMAS LOLB (Hons)
North (of Flag) Pole
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