Totally agree. As an aspiring teacher, I have been really conflicted to join academia now seeing how poorly students talk. Imagine walking into a class after reading all this. Students have become teachers of their teachers. While no profession is above scrutiny, the manner in which educators are discussed betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of their role and challenges. Teaching itself is a life long learning process. But in online spaces and informal discussions here, we often see a growing tendency to reduce professors to caricatures: outdated, disconnected, or merely obstacles rather than enablers of learning. Such narratives fail to acknowledge the structural limitations within which they operate: e.g. underfunded institutions, overwhelming administrative burdens, or the ever-increasing expectation to publish at a pace that leaves little room for genuine intellectual engagement. I totally believe being mentored by many of the silent workers that while teachers are not infallible, they are indispensable.

Instead of anonymous posting, students and disgruntled faculty should formally complain if they have issues or are unhappy with their colleagues. Defaming people anonymously is cowardice.

Hi, as an ex student this is incredibly sad and heartbreaking. I have always raved about the autonomy GLC gave its student bodies and the benefits we reaped. AV’s behaviour is going tank the institution and her permanent position is a problem. Think students should try and arrange a protest/ think of ways of getting her to work with the student body instead of just promoting the two clubs you mentioned above. While spreading this awareness is a good idea, try fighting it.

Moreover, the National Law University Delhi (NLUD) has experienced a tremendous surge over the past two years, marked by some spectacular performances from the faculty, students, and administration. This has resulted in the establishment of a UNESCO chair, an International Arbitration chair, and various courses, such as the WIPO course and an insolvency course, which saw participation from all NLUs, including NALSAR and others.

Additionally, the university has set up an incubation center, an AI unit, and a SOAS project. We have also appointed four world-class faculty members, among other achievements. As an alumna of this university, I can confidently say that NLUD is on its way to becoming the undisputed number one law school in the country. Rather than chest-thumping, try to draw a bigger line.

If you're in a public role, you open yourself to the scrutiny of people. A person may have Post Doc from the best university of the planet, but it means nothing if they are unable to convey their knowledge to the students. A person may be an expert in the field, but s/he may be too much theory oriented for a law school.

It's good to debate and discuss openly, rather than talking in hush hush tones on WhatsApp groups.

Agreed! Asmita Vaidya is the ▮▮▮ stigma to this prestigious institution. When see the list of Principals on the wall near lift, you will automatically realise her ▮▮▮. ▮▮▮. And another stigma is ▮▮▮ (and I am deliberately not ▮▮▮).

The Principal ▮▮▮, she asks to get the bonafide application signed by all professors and if you don’t have adequate attendance bonafide certificate will not be issued. ▮▮▮ she don’t understand the very purpose of the bonafide certificate, why do you need professors sign, attendance for it?

▮▮▮ did not even allowed students to appear for Presentations and Vivas due to lack of attendance, and students were scored out of 20 and not out of 40. When we complained of the same to Principal, after begging to allow us to score properly, ▮▮▮ agreed to conduct internals for remaining 10 marks. ▮▮▮ she deliberately made it so difficult and conducted along with ▮▮▮ (another stigma). The questions asked had connection neither to the topic nor to the subject.

I am seeing students from Tier 2/3 colleges are scoring better than us. NLUs, ILS and other college students are performing better in competitions and winning them. Their college provides research platforms, mentors, they even conduct practice sessions before going to such competitions.

I came to GLC with lot of hope, but with my hope this institution is going down the line with speed of light. Whatever “izzat” is left is because of the meritorious students who are self studying for exams, self learning all the skills, trying to intern at good places, working their butt off to make it in this profession. All my batchmates/friends are fade up of these people. There are no good faculty left. And whoever is there, like Daswani sir and Pithawalla sir are also fade up of the principal, ▮▮▮.

Change in the administration and a competent Principal only will change the current situation.

1) about 9-10 people.

2) yes.

3) mostly around the subjects I had mentioned I would be open to teaching.

4) about 12 minutes.

5) Reasonable, fair - yes. The questions were sharp enough to test subject expertise. The challenge was more around the interview format and time. You cannot really prepare for the questions, but they were not technical pointed questions but broadly around the subjects.

6) no discussion on it.

7) no.

Don't think these are trivial questions at all.

That post received support across all age groups, and let me tell you why:

- it was drafted by a lawyer who is THE GO TO AOR for almost every high stake matter @ the SC;
- it was exceptionally well drafted! - did no one notice the immaculate English on display (screams that only meritocracy wins at Karanjawala & New Delhi);

- it is only those who align with THAT who stand a chance of getting her support in return, ie. a counsel brief for arguing any of her matters;

- don't miss this part - if you miss her call just because of it being a weekend, she’ll move on to someone else. I say - Fair enough!

Kid. Change your mindset. Are you expecting definitive working hours in litigation? So client comes to you or your boss for urgent bail at 11 pm which has to be filed next morning. Do you propose to tell the client, dude I am too chill. This is not my working hours right now?

This urgency in the profession can't be changed. It is the need of the client who is stuck in a problem.

You think it's toxicity. It isn't. Its your mindset. If you dont understand what litigation is, better leave it.

See, this is something that the university should make provisions for. It cannot possibly be that expensive to arrange. The single-greatest perversion of the urban life in India begins in the mutual degradation of travelling in poor quality transit, private or public, not to mention the daily haggling with native dons in their auto-rickshaws.

I'm a I year student at a tier 3 NLU, where the condition of placements, without sugarcoating, is in dire condition. I still haven't completely abandoned hopes for corporate, though. The thing is, I'm completely clueless regarding internships as to how one is supposed to plan his/her internships. For some reasons, I wasn't able to do any internship in the first internship break after the first semester. Are people supposed to intern at courts first, before moving on to firms and others or something like that? I get no clues from my seniors. Some of my batchmates talk about applying for a firm with a stipend but I'm yet to understand why and how a first year would be accepted by a firm! Are centres such as the Centre for Communication Governance of NLUD or CCL or CEERA of NLS worth it? Where should I apply for an internship for the upcoming semester break (which will be my first internship) for May- June?

Kindly give your valuable suggestions.
Regards.

Join a think-tank only if you want to go down the policy/academia/higher education route. Good exposure and work culture but a lot of negatives as well (Oxbridge/Ivy/kids of bureaucrats cabal). Think tank pay is doable if you don't have a massive education Ioan or family to support, but don't have very high hopes of world-changing research. Please get into this with a clear plan of action and more importantly plan your next steps strategically, esp if middle class and not from generational wealth/social capital. Getting back to law firms after is going to entail pay and experience discounting. . You'll learn it's the same people everywhere, T1s or Vidhi. Good luck!

1. There were five in mine.

2. Yes, mine had Poonam Pradhan Saxena in it for instance. Not sure if she's involved at NLSIU in some visiting capacity at present though.

3. Not really, though I was asked questions from the subjects that I have taught.

4. Around 40 minutes.

5. It was fairly standard. Some of the questions didn't make any sense and it was clear that the people asking them didn't know much about the subject themselves. However, nobody was openly hostile or sarcastic or anything of the sort.

6. I was told that they would pay 7th CPC and some additional incentives for indexed publications, along with some contributory allowance for children's education.

Overall, I did expect the quality of the interview to be better, given the names involved. However, it was not bad considering my experience at some of the other NLUs.

Aretha does some great work. If you're looking - highly recommend also looking at

Bombay Law Chambers (though not sure if they have a delhi office)
Goyel & Goyal (not that much M&A - very high amount of VC)
Vertices (though pay seems to be much lower for the amount of work they do)
Burgeon Law (high volume VC work)

“Justice must not merely be done but it must also be seen to be done. The behaviour and conduct of members of the higher judiciary must reaffirm the people’s faith in the impartiality of the judiciary. Accordingly, any act of a Judge of the Supreme Court or a High Court, whether in official or personal capacity, which erodes the credibility of this perception has to be avoided.”

Source: Restatement of Values of Judicial Life << https://www.scobserver.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Restatement-of-values-of-judicial-life.pdf >>

Guys only AS is leaving. Not others. They might go for fellowships or sabbaticals which is normal.

If AS wanted to really do something for students, he would have stayed. Else faculty just moves around to colleges seeking their benefits. Do something better with your life than making up news.

hi, 2nd year student here, from a tiny university, I mean no one knows the name, it's govt state kind of, so, and have mostly done 2 forum internships so far, and 2 3 online either research or writing based, etc. no publications as of such. I recently applied to a lot of internships, out of which I got selected in one for a law firm, not in my home town, and its in between regular months of college. Still, I applied since attendance is not really an issue in our college, and most classes are not even done properly. My concern is, is it a waste of time as a 2nd year law student, I have seen people applying to law firms from glc, and nlu's since 1st and 2nd year, I know 1st year is too young, but is it beneficial for me to do in 2nd year. I am also worried that in case I skip this, when I go to 3rd year in 6 months, I would have no good internships to actually apply elsewhere useful. (also I have lot of FOMO since non nlu, not good cllg) and had bad grades in the 1st sem, since took partial drop, and I am trying to do better and improve now

Beware of mono-causal explanations! If a country the size of India is in a particular state, then it is because of a multitude of reasons. An ideology can be a hindrance but so can be the general incompetence with which its conclusions are translated into policy. Did India fail because its leaders believed wrongly or because they were not good enough to do anything regardless of what they believed in? That may be a more fruitful question to ponder.

Thanks for your reply. Regarding your first paragraph, I agree with qualifications since it would be greatly surprising if anyone of any particular ideology can rationally disagree on, say, what constitutes good education and that teaching mathematics and logic in schools is part of such an education. I would also argue that a majority of reasonable disagreements are always over details/planning/execution and not over the essential consequence itself that is sought to be achieved.

Regarding your second paragraph, I will say that while it is certainly silly to always chalk up disagreements to reasons of ego, it is sillier still to ignore how petty and spiteful even the very best of persons can be when they realise they cannot agree with each other.

1. Size of the interview panel. 2. Anyone from outside of NLSIU on the panel? 3. Did they ask you to prepare subject curriculum for review/discussion during the interview? 4. Duration of the interview. 5. Did you find the entire process fair and reasonable and why yes/no? 6. Remuneration was pre-determined or open to discretion by NLSIU? Any pre-interview or post-interview discussion at the university that is interesting enough to share here?

There are some of the queries off the top of my head. Apologies if they seem a tad trivial. Thanks for your time.

Know two people who got internships at L&L and Saraf via this. The downside is that any partner who has the time for this (most, not all partners, would be extremely busy and receive at least 40-50 emails a day) will probably not have that much work. It's rare to find a good team via cold emailing, but good luck. Try emailing HR instead, especially if you have a strong CV.

I had a rather amusing experience of working across this team on one transaction, KCO comp team would often back track on its own comments/inputs, unnecessarily disagree with the suggestions made by other lawyers on the transaction, and then drum rolls please by the sixth or seventh round of comments on the draft, end up introducing the

Hi,

I am an average ranking student from a tier 2 NLU in my 4th year now. I want to pursue disputes and have done a few disputes related internships. However, im first gen and have only heard that etting placed in disputes is v hard?.

Is it true? what are some good firms which hire freshers in disputes?

would also love to know how to get into a counsel practice?

any related tips would help too.

Hello folx,

How is NLU Jodhpur faring these days? My nephew is preparing for CLAT and had asked for recommendations from me (NALSAR alum, mid 2010s batch). In our time, it was near the top of Tier 2 (with Tier 1 being NLS/NALSAR/NUJS, through my time though NLUD was clearly established as Tier 1 as well). NLU Jodhpur and GNLU were undisputed Tier 2 leaders (with NLIU having started to slip).

Of course, I may be outdated, but how is NLU Jodhpur these days? It did have a good corporate/moot/placement scene in our time - has it kept pace with the post-Covid era, or would it be better to advise something like Jindal)?

I did not call NLSIU VC a god. It is you who is suffering from pathological hatred of a person/university. It is you who is apparently on such good terms with NALSAR VC. Everyone here knows for a fact that you are engaging in bad faith since you cannot provide even the flimsiest evidence for any one of your claims.

While I agree with you whole-heartedly about the distasteful nature of such conversations, it is also true that those have always been a part of this platform. If anything, the platform has thrived on such gossip and trolling. Which is why such trolling passes regular muster of the moderators. LI never had such lofty goals as you are ascribing to it.

The only reason that GLC and NLSIU don't get affected equally because of fund crunch is because the latter charges huge sums of money from its students. The quality of education offered at the two institutes have got no bearing on the issue. You people should stop treating CLAT as one of your significant achievements in life, that's just embarassing. I write as someone who did clear the examination and study at an NLU, but one who does not perceive those who studied elsewhere as inferior by any means, because they really aren't.