Ever since we kickstarted the IDIA project in 2010 with a visit to a government school in the small Himalayan town of Pelling, we’ve visited around 250 schools and spoken to more than 15,000 students on the wonders of law as a career option. This year, we plan to ramp up our sensitisation efforts an...
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IDIA(Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access)enthusiastically invites you to Run, Jog or Walk the Tata Consultancy Services World 10k Run [“TCS 10k”] on 17th May 2015 in Bangalore, to spread awareness and raise funds for underprivileged students to become leading lawyers and community advocates. W...
The following post was written by IDIA scholar Shivam. He is a student of NUJS, Kolkata and his team recently reached the semifinals of the prestigious Vis East Moot Court Competition. shivam-sharan It was 19th September 2014, when the result for moot internals at NUJS was released and I was selecte...
ArindamEdited Arindam Bhattacharjee, an IDIA Scholar from our first batch, is presently in his 4th year at NLIU, Bhopal, and has just secured a job at Khaitan & Co., one of India’s premier law firms! We asked him to share his thoughts on his commendable achievement and his journey over the last...
The circus of joining a law school began on May 31st, 2014. After thousands of refresh commands and 404 errors, the page appeared with my name and Tier-2 quality CLAT rank. A night of tears led to a month of bewilderment. After countless trips across India, it seemed that a certain city in the state...
“If you can meet with Triumph & Disaster, And treat those two impostors just the same…” As 2014 draws to an end & my FB Timeline is flooded with nostalgic statuses from friends, I reflect on the highlights of my law school life in 2014. An experience which shall remain most memorable is my...
After being in law school for four years, I know nothing about it. I don’t understand it, it’s either beyond my realm of understanding or beneath my capacity to generate some interest in it. Most lawyers that I have met are self consumed, ego-centric, perpetually and unreasonable stressed-out and pl...
-Radhika Agarwal “ I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine .” ― Bruce Lee A NALSAR alumnus had once told me that happiness is a difficult choice that one makes in a law school like NALSAR. At that time, I was unable to fully understand wh...
Five point someone in law school -Radhika Agarwal A few weeks earlier, I chanced upon a letter which had apparently gone viral on social networking sites. The letter which was written by the faculty of Barrowford Primary School in Lancashire contained an important message for its students; there are...
10 things that might help you get through law school -Radhika Agarwal (NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad) From being a high school graduate to a final year student in law school, I have come a long way… and while I am yet to figure out the road ahead, I do have a fairly good idea of what not to do...
The Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law, popularly known as IIT Law School, provides a unique academic environment which fosters the confluence of various technological fields with law. This year the school has decided to initiate an Annual Moot Court Competition. Along with this the sc...
Applying for the Rhodes Scholarship is a dream which most law students in India harbour, especially those who are studying in NLSIU or NALSAR. Often touted as “THE most prestigious” academic scholarship in the world, it is no wonder that it is also the most coveted among all the scholarships. I stud...
Studying at Law School gives me some insight how the Mooting (Moot Courts) work. Hence I share the same. A moot is a co-curricular activity at majority of the law schools in which the participants take part in mock trails which usually consist of extensive research, drafting of memorandum (AKA Memor...
It’s a product which we use everywhere and we will tell you the tricks to take the experience a notch higher! MS Office has become indispensable part of many of our lives (Open Source just died a silent death somewhere?) Though office on its own is pretty complete in itself I would tell you here of ...
After dealing with numerous tuition classes and solving dozens of questions, I finally got the chance and got alotted with an NLU. Even though I didn’t belong to a legal background and Law never being my option, some unforseen, some unfortunate and some fortunate circumstances led me to change my fi...
It’s MY Life- Law school and beyond… -Radhika Agarwal (NALSAR University of Law) “ Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own i...
LAW SCHOOL! The two words that become the mantra of every CLAT aspirant. You just have to get into one. All that hard work, those sleepless nights, the endless chase…it will all pay off when you get into ‘that law school!’, or so you think. You read up on every article about student life, take every...
NLU is not all about getting placed!! I cant understand why students from National Law Schools(NLU) have an inclination(strong one) towards law firms!! Not opposing the view that it has a fixed defined career(which has very little hopes for self improvement), a big fat cheque at the end of the month...
A reader, who wishes to remain anonymous, sent us a missive yesterday about his / her reality of job hunting while at one of the younger national law schools. It rang true and was rather interesting, so I thought it was worth sharing (I see that more or less the same letter has also been published o...
With another round of CLAT and AILET exams drawing nearer, thousands of students will now have to decide where they want to spend the next five years of their lives learning the law. Below is my own experience of making a choice that raised eyebrows, almost a year ago. The week preceding the 9 th of...