The Supreme Court has published revised rules regarding its selection of judicial clerks, for the first time allowing non-national law school students from applying.
The new rules, published on the Supreme Court’s website today, state that applicants can come from any law college accredited by the Bar Council of India (BCI), as well as specifying the application process in detail. Download PDF
In early 2014 the SC had filed a letters patent appeal against a Delhi high court judgment in a writ petition that had ruled the apex court’s national law school bias unlawful. The Supreme Court said that the restriction was its prerogative and told the court it had formed a committee to discuss revision of the rules.
The next hearing in the SC's appeal is on 13 January. The Delhi high court judgment had resulted from the petition of an AIL Mohali student who was not eligible to apply for a judicial clerkship in the SC. One of the lawyers for the petitioner commented: "Whether she individually gets a clerkship or not her zeal to go to court and challenge the process has ensured many from any law college in India will get a shot at atleast becoming a law clerk."
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while the CLAT may not be as tough as the LSAT, it is still pulls out the generally more intelligent ones on that particular day. Most non N law school students would have tried to get into the N ones as well, but were not able to. so, you have to give some credence.
This in no way means all students at non N colleges are sub par. Im just talking of the average ones from both places.
in terms of the gap between the N and the non-N colleges. I know that the N colleges, are themselves having problems with getting and retaining quality faculty, I would be pleasantly surprised if the faculty quality in the non N colleges would be better than the N ones.
On plagiarism of projects. yes, it happens. at times you are able to get away with it. Some strict professors alsso do flunk students for doing so. However, it still gets the unmotivated student (the motivated will do well anywhere) to haul up his/her ass and prepare something which makes sense- original or not. at the end of the day, a law school is trying to teach you how to read law instead of law itself. so even a plagiarised project (50 of them) go some way than none.
just saying.
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