Law Schools

The Bar Council of India (BCI) has directed law schools to forbid their students from undertaking internships outside of their university vacations.

Nalsar Hyderabad elected its first ever female Student Bar Council (SBC) president last month in the first ever direct presidential elections at the law school.

The ministry of earth sciences has asked GNLU Gandhinagar and its director Dr Bimal Patel to draft two laws to regulate deep sea mining in India’s territorial waters and the Antarctic ocean, reported the Times of India.

Jindal Global Law School (JGLS) Sonepat now has more women in its faculty than men, claiming to be a more gender-equal law school than any other.

CNLU Patna’s class of 63 graduates this year has secured 17 named jobs, with only one through an internship via campus recruitments.

NLU Delhi bagged 16 Big Six law firm jobs out of 45 jobs secured by 73 graduates this year, through a mix of on campus and off campus interviews and pre placement offers (PPO).

Army Institute of Law Mohali placed 35 out of 80 students who graduated this year with the biggest chunk of the recruited class taking up corporate house roles, followed by Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) jobs.

RGNUL Patiala placed six out of 70 students who graduated this year with two law firms including Big Six firm JSA, a corporate house and an LPO.

Tamil Nadu National Law School Tiruchi has entered into a memorandum of understanding with NLU Delhi, signed by respective vice chancellors N Murugavel and Ranbir Singh, to exchange teachers and students. Murugavel said that Delhi faculty could teach the Tamil Nadu national law school’s students on specialised subjects, reported The Hindu.

Chickenpox has shut down HNLU Raipur until 31 August 2014 to get the disease under control. The 850 students have been told to go home until then, reported the Times of India.

NLSIU Bangalore’s class of 77 graduates this year secured 42 jobs - 30 through campus, 11 via pre-placement offers (PPO) and one off campus by a student’s own initiative.

NLU Delhi registrar Prof Srikrishna Deva Rao will be appointed as NLUO Cuttack’s vice chancellor (VC).