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The police has arrested NUJS assistant registrar Siddhartha Guha, who has been dodging the police after an FIR was filed against him five months ago.
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NUJS Kolkata will appoint former Chief Justice of India (CJI) Altamas Kabir as an honorary professor by Monday, if no objections are received.
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The prestigious Rhodes scholarship this year was won by NLSIU Bangalore graduate Raag Yadav and NUJS Kolkata alumnus Amba Kak, alongside three non-lawyers.
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Dissenting member terms the majority finding of the committee ‘unreasonable and not acceptable’.
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As the Human Resource Development Ministry is planning new rules to allow the world’s top 400 universities to open up in India, sidestepping the current legislative deadlock around foreign universities entering India, reported the Wall Street Journal.
However, foreign educators told the India Real Time blog that they were not very enthusiastic on entering the country. “Being in India is quite complicated,” said one.
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Jindal Global Law School (JGLS) Sonepat expelled four students and suspended 12 others for bullying first-year students, reported the Times of India.
JGLS registrar YSR Murthy told the paper that the action was taken within 24 hours of the administration receiving the complaint of bullying, through an inquiry by a disciplinary committee. The law school also held an “open house” on Friday to sensitise students about the issue.
The suspended students will now appeal the suspension order before the law school’s vice chancellor.
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Prof (Justice) Avadh Behari Rohatgi – father of senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi – was posthumously awarded the SILF-MILAT Distinguished Law Teacher Award 2013 on 1 September, at the “fifth law teacher’s day” celebrated by the Society of Indian Law Firms (SILF) and NLSIU Bangalore founder Prof Madhav Menon’s Menon Institute of Legal Advocacy Training (MILAT).
Seedling School of Law & Governance Jaipur director Prof VS Mani was awarded the “SILF-MILAT Prof NR Madhava Menon Best Law Teacher Award 2013”, Amity University Law School Noida and ILS Law College Pune were awarded the “SILF-MILAT Institutional Leadership Award 2013”, NLSIU Bangalore Prof Ashok R Patil was awarded the “SILF-MILAT Education Innovation Award 2013”, and NLSIU’s Jessup 2013 winning team was awarded the “SILF MILAT Best Law Student Award 2013”, according to a press release from SILF-MILAT.
ILS Pune had also been felicitated by the BCI as one of India’s five “outstanding law colleges” in its golden jubilee celebrations in February.
The “law symposium” presided over by Supreme Court justice Madan Lokur raised a discussion on institutionalised structures that will help fulfil “the need for court mangers to focus on the twin issues of making judicial administration as well as support system administration in courts more efficient and litigant friendly in order to cut delays and speed up disposal of cases,” stated the release.