Hi, I am an LLM aspirant, who is interested to pursue a career in academics. I wrote CLAT PG 2025 and I am getting a three digit rank. I want to specialise in Constitutional law if possible which college should I opt for. (I am from Kerala). Can any of you let me know which college should I prefer, my goal is primarily to teach. Thanks in advance.

Don't. Literally don't. No point in going there. Placements have gone down the drain, again. 2022, 2023, 2024 pumped the numbers a bit, 2025 batch has reduced everything to dirt. Co-curriculars, serious lack of funding. Academic, it's becoming a hub for DU faculties who want a NLU tag. Rangin and Ved gives new headache everyday.

Congratulations and welcome to the college!

There are some people badmouthing NLUJ here

Trust me on this when i tell you, it will be the best decision you will take - there will always be some losers who couldn’t handle college life who will be bad mouthing it

You are coming to one of the most prestigious NLU in the country so make the best of it

Some pointers as an NLUJ Senior

Take BBA over BA if you want better CGPA (incase CGPA matters to you as BA is low scoring comparatively)

Make sure you’re in top 20 and atleast in top 30 if you want a stress free life in case you want to end up in a law firm as it virtually makes it a 100% chance you will get places in a tier 1 law firm

Now coming to the fun part - The campus is big and beautiful- through infrastructure wise not the best (new vc is working on it)

If you are a sucker for sports, it will be the best NLU in the country for you. NLUJ leads in almost all law school fests as it has great sports infrastructure and culture

It also has the best Mooting and ADR culture in the country currently so make sure you take guidance from your seniors especially from BO’26

Academic pressure has reduced dramatically since new VC - you will have 3 CAs instead of 4 plus we dont have classes on saturdays anymore

However please keep academics at the top of your priority

Party culture is again great- however, please be careful to not get into alcohol and avoid drugs

I have noticed a lot of time first years go in the wrong direction when experience such freedom and independence for the first time - be mindful as there will be seniors actively trying to make you drunk at parties (ofc with no bad intention its just a culture where seniors make juniors drink, you can say no if you dont want to)

Liquor Parties happen mostly at SDL/ Kokum

People hangout a lot at laxmi or noksh etc for snacks suttas etc

Basically University has everything you need, its how you make it

Another advise for you would be to not do things just to fit in- its okay to be in FOMO rather than doing things and regretting it later

I have seen some juniors getting into smoking up (ganja etc) and now are addicted.

Make good friends who are smart and have personality too and are ambitious plus know the difference between right and wrong- falling into the wrong company can also be detrimental

Baaki you have a lot of parties, you can go to city and visit all the historical places jodhpur is famous for

There are loads of good restaurants and cafes around the city

There is no hostel timings so you can hangout in campus as long as you want

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/nlsiu-to-introduce-new-ba-hons-programme-for-2025-26-on-tuesday/article68965008.ece

https://news.careers360.com/nlsiu-bangalore-launch-ba-honours-for-upcoming-academic-session-2025-2026

Ha, ha. For anyone who thought NLS was a law school, it is now going to offer a regular BA program with an annual fee of ₹4.54 lacs per annum excluding mess. Where is NLS headed? It is a case of how to destroy a good university.

It is on track to offer Class 11 and 12 high school education in a few years - NLS High School, competing with NPS and DPS.

I'd encourage you to go off and start up by yourself to understand. As a junior getting paid without having any responsibility to source work your attitude often can be "oh why do I have to do this? Why can (s)he just not say no?".

As someone that has to source all the work to sustain your own pay and a team that's constantly yearning for more money, you have to get more work and so you cannot afford to say no or push back.

Interesting. So money makes up for everything? Assuming you are an associate, and your firm pays you 50k a month more, do they have a right to give effs about your mental health? If that was the case, the highest paying firm would attract the best talent and face no attrition. You very well know that’s not the case.

Also, partners don’t get paid for the hours or taking the stress but the experience. The same way a mason works harder than you but doesn’t get remotely paid than lawyers.

This is from clat 26× rank and i am confused between whether to chose gnlu or wbnujs

So here is the thing i live in gujarat

I have my sister studying in GNLU in final year,

She is placed at CAM( She is telling nujs placements are not good , its a declining nlu, there are funding issues with wb govt and on comparison gnlu is growing nlu, gnlu has better infrastructure than nujs)

What are your opinions about it

Hi everyone, i have an upcoming internship at Phoenix legal. I’m currently in my 4th year looking for advice on the dos and don’ts to do here for possible conversion or call. Any and all advice would be extremely helpful.

If someone could also sher some light on the kind of work they do in the Gen Corp team.

Thanks!

Hey seniors , Greetings. I am getting a rank of 1XX in clat I am confused about which college to select NLS or Nalsar ? Also, I come from a very poor background, and my parents don’t have money, and I I’m gonna take an education loan for the fees. I would like to know if it is worth it. Also, I want a college for corporate perspective and not litigation. Also, I would be getting enough marks to fetch me a seat in NLUD and I am from Northeast, so what should I do? Should I choose NLS ,NALSAR or NLUD?

this! Partners are scanty and would want to squeeze the most of their limited resources when they very simply have the option of adding on to the manpower. Maybe don't be some thirsty about this few lakhs and you'd get better work delivered to you timely, with everyone on your time having a work life balance

The Supreme Court on Monday (December 9) issued a show cause notice to the Secretary of the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) for non-compliance with its judgment directing the appointment of Pankaj Srivastava, a 100 per cent visually impaired candidate who cleared the Civil Services Examination (CSE) in 2008.

This is a significant and emerging area, especially in light of the recently published book "Nexus" by Harare. It raises pertinent questions about whether law schools are prepared to address this issue. Are they offering enough relevant courses and developing adequate capacity in this regard?n this regard?

i have to choose honours subject soon but I'm really confused between ipr and tax. I'm good at both subjects. I want to prepare for judiciary as well. tax or ipr would be my backup plans. i feel like tax is good but at the same time it feels other would prefer ca or cs and it would be hard to get a good job here. And ipr is good too but I feel like too many people are choosing for ipr and I have no idea if there are even enough job opportunities out there. i don't know if they will even pay well- both in tax and ipr

He just ran one centre at NLU D for death penalty. I dont think he contributed to the running of the university. Not an administrator. A good professor, getting money through a center. So yes, NALSAR will get funding but he wont be seen on campus much. Good in subject but sad stopped teaching much.

Hi, I am a 2nd-year student at a Tier 1 NLU, and I have poor grades and I do not venture out much at extracurriculars. I want to build my CV by doing internships, and I have done a few good on-site internships, but I want to be engaged with good online internships with firms and advocates as well. The problem is with the few openings at Lawbhoomi or other sources, they hardly ever reply back. I feel discouraged but I still look out for online internships(the ones that are worth it). I follow all the things that are required, but I still do not get any callbacks. I will be grateful for any suggestions.

No, but more often than not they are quite open to letting interns work with other teams as long as their original team is kept in the loop. Then if you're asking for another internship with the firm you can let them know that you're interested in interning in a different practice area.

In Clat 2025 I got AIR OBC rank 7330, AIR GENERAL TELANGANA rank 1228, AIR OBC(D) TELANGANA rank 101, AIR WOMEN OBC rank 3319, AIR WOMEN rank 22293 and AIR GENERAL rank 37014. I didn't get invited to admission counselling. Is it possible to get admission in NALSAR through vacant seats or should I try for other universities and exam?

Anon logic: let us be extremely salty and cry about it while throwing shade onto the CLAT exam, while completely ignoring the fact that AILET is far worse in many ways, it's exam patterns are highly irregular and does not follow the own format set by the "greatest NLU ever"

Hey,
I am 3rd Year student of Tier 3 NLU, willing to intern at in-house legal team of companies. Need to know how to approach them and are they worth it?.
Tried to mail a career@xyz of several companies but received no reply. What would be the best way to approach them (via LinkedIn or through mail)..
Any leads/suggestions will be highly appreciated

AILET was atrociously different and complicated for no reason as compared to CLAT. I was confident for NLU-D given my performance in CLAT ( top-50 rank) but highly doubt that I will do as well. I’m feeling a bit weird and undeserving of NLS and don’t know what to think. Maybe I shouldn’t go maybe I just got too lucky and should go to some local college instead. I’m flummoxed. Getting around 80 in AILET General 😭😭 as opposed to 97.5 in CLAT. It’s quite embarassing

I have stayed in Mumbai for over 2 years and learnt this with trial and error:

Don’t stay in a Mhada building. Try to find a decent building, slightly old so you can save on rent. The space, sunlight, furniture - all matter when you come back home tired after an exhausting day at work. It’s the one place you can unwind and be yourself. You can skip fancy buildings with swimming pools as you won’t be using that (personal choice tbh). Get a gym membership.

You’re in the business of being “constantly available”. Don’t compare with Partners who travel from far. They probably have ancestral home there/ have more time flexibility. Stay within 1 hour travel of your office. Try to share flat with some other working professionals. You’ll have people to talk to outside law.

Staying alone is a bad idea - dealing with loneliness; no one has spare keys; no one to share house responsibilities + manage maid - when you have urgent deliverables, or late nights

However finding decent flatmates can be a challenge if you don’t know people in Mumbai. Difficult but it is possible. All the best!

Are you seriously comparing a PhD in theoretical physics with a PhD on SMELL in LITERATURE and how smell is apparently a colonial/patriarchal construct or whatever??? Are you serious????

Bro, theoretical physics lays foundations for practical experiments that can revolutionise mankind. Case in point: Peter Higgs did a PhD from Kings College London that led to the discover of the Higgs Boson 50 years later.

Hey LI users,

It is with immense pleasure and confusion I have come here to ask your opinions on choosing between these 2 esteemed law universities, NLSIU and NLUD.

A little bit info about me, I dropped out nluo this year to retake clat and ailet and thankfully I cracked both. I am from East India (most people would call it north) and I always dreamt of NLSIU. But there is a new equation playing into this dilemma now, my gf could not get into nls (also her first choice) but got into nlud so now my NLS fanboy-ing era has come crossing down to rationality and I am rethinking my choice.

To weigh out some objective pros and cons, nls has much more hectic academics but also superior faculty quality and brand name compared to nlud. I primarily aim for corporate placements so historically nls would have been a better choice but given the increased batch size, both could fare not far behind each other. Nlud is closer to my home but that doesn't influence me much as I love bangalore city much more. Nlud has also scrapped off year-loss/detention policy so ye life at nlud most probably would be much more chill compared to Nlsiu. I plan to go abroad in future too but again in law firms only so NLS has edge there also I feel.

Now to the subjective part, I love my gf a lot, even tho we have started dating very recently I want us to last forever so ye :)

Kindly help your junior here. I would be extremely glad.

Thank you

Few students are really interested in death penalty jurisprudence in terms of making a career, so it’s not a huge loss as far as career-linked academics is concerned. But it does continue the exodus of tier 1 NLU-foreign educated alumni ever since Ranbir Singh left , so a loss in terms of image and reputation, which in turn could deter such people from joining in future and make them look towards NLSIU.

NLUD really needs an NLU alum like VC, like NLSIU.

Hahaha. Reminds me of when I first started out, and left at 7.30 PM if I was done with work.

Eventually once partners noticed, they started loading me with work with unrealistic deadlines so I'd be forced to stay in the office for long - this was the time when we only had desktops to work on and had to commission laptops for offsite due diligence.

Yeah cool, but a lot of these hardships could be avoided if you chose to make 2.5 crore instead of 3 crore by getting a couple of additional resources or taking on so many mandates and suffocating your team.

So boo hoo, my heart breaks for you milord. Now show your empathy and hire more people pls, or grow a spine and push back on clients expectations.

I have been reading a lot in forum about how admin has become very problematic to the point that students have been feeling caged. This has kind of made me anxious and hesitant. The hostels not being able to accommodate people, serious ragging issues and confrontation b/w the admin and students. Is it still worth it considering it's the only "good nlu" I have in hand when I'm a dropper already. Because at the end, what matters the most to me is a decent, not-so toxic environment with good placements and internship opportunities.

Response:

Yeah, understandable mate, we can almost feel the frustration fuming from here in the jungle. NLU-D students might justifiably have concerns about declining standards, especially when your comment itself highlights key issues.

1. Location & Its Limitations:

Nothing changes the fact that NALSAR’s location isn’t as conducive to legal education or as strategically significant as Delhi. Moving to the relatively isolated depths of Telangana feels like trading the corridors of power for the wilderness.

2. The CLAT Factor:

Admission through CLAT has proven unreliable. Given recent trends, it’s clear the consortium isn’t funneling the very top talent into NALSAR, impacting its ability to retain prestige.

3. Institutional Challenges:

I respect NALSAR’s achievements but can’t ignore how inter-course politics and brain drain have visibly impacted its quality over time.

4. NALSAR’s Stagnation vs. NLU-D’s Promise:

NALSAR has devolved into a local Telugu institution with Telugu professors, a Telugu Vice Chancellor, and regional affiliations, straying far from its national vision. Meanwhile, NLU-D offers better faculty, superior research opportunities, DJS and UPSC success rates, smaller batch sizes, and strategic long-term growth.

5. Anup’s New Frontier—Justice City & Sharimpet:

Anup has left his post at the Supreme Court to embark on a new “advocacy journey” in the untamed jungles of Telangana. His Death Penalty Centre is now based in Justice City, a sprawling legal oasis where justice roams free (and occasionally gets lost in the thickets). Let’s hope his advocacy doesn’t devolve into jungle trials complete with KKK-style rituals of “justice” under the moonlight. Sharimpet is likely his first big stop—a place where defendants might be “rescued” from execution one kangaroo court session at a time.

6. Ideological Narrowness:

My initial point was aimed at certain NLU-D students clinging to the Anupist worldview—narrow perspectives on law, institutional dynamics, and privilege—akin to tribalistic chants in the dark jungle pathways.

7. Best Wishes:

Best of luck to Anup and his cohorts as they navigate Justice City’s undergrowth and continue his advocacy efforts in Sharimpet. Perhaps they’ll discover some lost precedent in those dense legal vines.

For NLU-D students, this change shouldn’t feel catastrophic. Adaptation will always outweigh transient institutional shifts. NLU-D continues to stand as the better, forward-thinking choice for ambitious law students looking for opportunities, infrastructure, and long-term growth.

Based on my CLAT 2025 rank, I can likely get both NLSIU and NALSAR. Heard NLS is super hectic—does it leave time for other interests or activities? Also, is NLS’s brand value significantly better than NALSAR when it comes to international opportunities, like an MBA or other degrees abroad? What should I keep as my first preference? Would love your insights!

just a word of advice from an nluj alum.....ppl might disagree with me but LI is a genuinely great forum to anonymously scout for much needed info that you may not otherwise be able to directly/ personally ask. however in the future pls refrain from revealing any information by which you can be easily identified.

on a separate note - and to answer your question - nluj can be a great great place if you learn how to balance your time. tons of good times and partying, but at the same time tons of opportunities to really make something of yourself there. there will be certain cons at any and every institution, but whats important is what you make of what is given to you! pls dont be afraid to put yourself out there in terms of participating in intras or applying for positions that are opening up or anything else for that matter - i promise that it will pay you rich dividends eventually. there will be a lot to look forward to, and so heres to wishing you the best!