Law schools

NLIU Bhopal students studying employment law have started a website, telephone helpline and initiative to assist migrant labourers with some of the difficulties they face during the Covid-19 lockdown.

NUJS Kolkata’s Journal of Regulatory Studies has released a special issue with 18 articles about the pandemic and related legal and policy issues, in possibly the first such publication by an Indian law school’s journal.

NLSIU Bangalore vice chancellor (VC) Prof Sudhir Krishnaswamy has been appointed to a novel Facebook content oversight board that seeks to help solve the US-based advertising behemoth festering content moderation problems, as first reported IANS.

“I had always made it a mission to mentor students to the extent I can,” says Debolina Saha. “What I noticed over these years, there were brilliant students who had everything on their CV. The only thing they didn’t have was a brand name of top school or university.”

The 2020 National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) that ranks law schools has been postponed, as reported by the Hindustan Times.

GNLU Gandhinagar alumni have written an open letter to Netflix about a new TV show it is shooting about “unruly students” at a fictional Gujarat National Law Academy, provisionally entitled Law of the Jungle.

The Consortium of National Law Universities (NLU) has extended the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) date to 24 May 2020, with the application deadline extended to 25 April 2020.

After having NALSAR’s largest fest, Carpe Diem, effectively cancelled due to the Coronavirus situation, the campus too was shut down by government order, with all students returning to their homes.

Indian law schools have been trying - and in some cases struggling - to convert tuition to online learning courses in the wake of most having shut down physical tuition to attempt to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19).

If you have any updates about your law school’s response to the novel coronavirus, please share these in the comments.

NLSIU Bangalore Masters of Public Policy (MPP) student Priyansh Khandelwal had drowned in a tragic accident, with his body having been recovered this morning.