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A team from NLU Nagpur, comprising Aadi Jain, Divyanshi Sethi, Khushi Ruchandani and Anushka Gupta, one of the top 3 teams from India and among the top 15 teams worldwide, to qualify for the global rounds of the prestigious Nuremberg Moot Court Competition, is seeking sponsors in order to participate in the international rounds of the competition, scheduled to be held in Nuremberg, Germany, from July 24th to 27th, 2024.
The team is currently facing significant financial constraints. As students, it is beyond their individual means to fully fund this endeavor. They are actively seeking generous sponsorships from the legal community to help cover these costs and ensure their participation in the competition.
The estimated budget is INR 9 lac. Any contribution, no matter how small, would be immensely helpful and deeply appreciated.
Regards.
Band 2 is A1. Not A2.
Bhakta, Prashant, Yash and KCO folks in the next tier (just look at how they undercut their deals).
Suprisingly even Viplaw from Crawford, Mumbai has been doing solid work lately.
1. Professor's eligibility is PhD and 10 years of teaching, not 15.
2. There are many private universities in the country who pay even to their Assistant Professors far less than the UGC prescribed minimum scale.
Please note stipend is not paid to those who have secured the internship via references
Moreover, how can you say that 1 Year LLM is not good? All the prominent educational hubs in the world including UK, USA, Canada and Australia only has 1 Year LLM.
Why all NLUs still have 1 Year LLM?
Why the Prestigious Indian Law Institute, Delhi has only 1 Year LLM?
Why most of the prominent Deemed to be Universities like CHRIST, Symbiosis International and Private Universities like OP Jindal only has 1 Year LLM?
Here, BCI and BCI Trust - PEARL FIRST through IIULER is just misleading and deciving!
Perfect fit for Road, Transport & Highways ministry!
This makes me wonder, why isn't the legal fraternity, especially the younger lot, focusing on doing something innovative/imaginative with our law degrees? We all know this deep down in our hearts (at least I can presume this) that most of the law offices in the country are just legal shops which are floating in the market due to the motion of big transactions between organizations of higher echelons. And hardly these legal shops make the legal system any fluid for the organizations to settle their transactions/dispute expeditiously or without elongating the legal issues.
In such an ecosystem, the propensity to invent or innovate, develop upon ideas, for the overall betterment / progress of the legal system or the country in general, should have ideally been the point of emphasis. But instead, things really look dull and drubbing, where even the new chaps become helpless and settle down / or are forced to come to terms with unchanging/unproductive system in which we breathe. How do we deal with this?
No trolling please. Genuine query!!
1) Assistant Professor - LLM with UGC NET
2) Associate Professor - PhD with 8 Years of Teaching Experience + the required number of Publications (in Referred Journals, UGC CARE Listed/SCOPUS/Web of Science)
3) Professor - PhD with 15 Years of Teaching Experience + the required number of Publications (in Referred Journals, UGC CARE Listed/SCOPUS/Web of Science)
IIULER will also take candidates for Assistant Professor post who only has LLM with UGC NET. Please note that, those who are not having NET but only LLM will be considered to the post of Research Associates/Teaching Associates - They are not equivalent to Assistant Professor (both in Pay Scale and Experience)
Since IIULER is a Private University, they are having the right to offer their Scale of Pay to the Faculties (but it must not be less than the prescribed Scale of Pay by UGC from time to time) - As of the information provided in the IIULER Website, the Scale of Pay for the faculties is same as that of the minimum stipulated UGC Pay Scale
Even though IIULER is a Private University, they are NOT FREE TO SET THEIR OWN LAWS OR REQUIREMENTS. Being a Private University under Section 2(f) of the UGC Act, IIULER cannot the laws, rules and regulations enacted by the UGC for the appointment of faculties
So, the only question is What is the Logic of IIULER for barring one-year LLM candidates from teaching there? Then, why IIULER is only providing one-year LLM to the students? So, does it means that IIULER themselves are making their LLM Students INELIGIBLE FOR TEACHING!
1) There is not even a single remote database access at IIULER
2) IIULER is not owned by Bar Council of India - IIULER is owned by BCI Trust - PEARL FIRST (established in 2020) which is an INDEPENDANT and AUTONOMOUS BODY and is NOT A PART of BCI
3) Many people get confused that IIULER is a Public University - But in reality, it is just another PRIVATE UNIVERSITY established under Section 2(f) of UGC Act through the statue passed by the State Legislature of Goa (Act No.16 of 2021 by Goa State Legislature)
4) The Faculties at IIULER including the Vice-Chancellor are not approachable in nature
5) There is no Pro-Vice Chancellor, Registrar, Assistant Registrar, Controller of Examinations, Assistant Controller of Examinations, Joint Director, Director and Public Relations Officer (PRO) at IIULER
6) Even though IIULER charges the Highest Fees for LLB (Rs 12 Lakhs Per Annum including Residential Charges) and LLM (Rs 10 Lakhs Per Annum including Residential Charges), they are not providing any facility!
There was a market perception that the team has better culture. Seniors don’t shout and scream at you, or but talk nicely to you - that’s true. But the team has an ability to choke you with work and subject you to extreme deadlines which definitely don’t make it a sustainable place to work. Such situations wouldn’t have happened if partners stood up and pushed deadlines or managed their team workload better (yes this happens in other firms).
Finally people are speaking up. That’s all.
Moreover, Bar Council was the one who tarnishes the quality of 1 Year LLM Holders in their Regulation of 2019. In the BCI Rules of 2020, they stated that BCI will not support and allow 1 Year LLM Courses! Then why, IIULER by BCI Trust - PEARL FIRST is only offering 1 Year LLM? Where is there integrity?
Moreover, IIULER also has Teachers with one-year LLM. Ms. Aswathy Madhukumar is the perfect example. She completed LLM from Indian Law Institute (one-year LLM) and joins IIULER on February 2023. At that time, she does not completed her PhD as well! So, how she is appointed? Where is the said prohibition for one-year LLM Candidates?
In addition to this, appointment of Professors are not regulated by BCI but by UGC. If a person who is having a valid masters degree and qualified NET Examination, how can BCI prohibits their "application" for Teaching?
If BCI has any integrity, first make LLM at IIULER a 2 Year program! Without that, they are just making show-off infront of the general public that 1 Year LLM Holders are not having standard to join Teaching Profession!
So, I hope IIULER themselves are stating that their LLM Students are not eligible for Teaching!
One very big caveat is that we've introduced a 3 year LLB, and there's very little quality control. So we are getting typical local students. What this does is, that it essentially dilutes the quality of LLB students, as unlike 3 year BA students, the value of a BALLB and LLB ends up becoming same. That is my only concern.
Other than that it is a decent place to be. Mess Food is really good (ngl I'll miss it), you'll see a lot of posts/replies about strict admin, blah, blah, fact is they accommodate students to best possible extent. In my 5 years, we never had a attendance debar, there were scares. Project extension, etc is also given, generally admin is very considerate. At times they can be tough, but I guess that'll be everywhere.
Location wise also decent if you enjoy calmness of nature and all, you'll be in for a treat, with rivers and all. Basic facilities are available, imo.
Starting salary?
As considering Academia is a backup, so doing LLM from random college helps or from a NLU/ILI/ILS/GLC/DU.
Because, I'm putting it as a backup for pursuing Academia.
Jitna hai utne me khush raho bhai
But he should at least respond to the petition!
Lala acquires what Lala wants
Lala accepts what Lala is told
He can wash his sins and get clear of all charges.
I would actually blame you less. You have gotten into a bad habit. You should have displayed a greater sense of maturity and responsibility and reflected on this before, but at least you're doing so now, which is something, and something is always better than nothing. However, the fact that there has been no attempt to sanction you or threat of punishment for you for doing this is deeply disturbing.
The other comment's suggestion about returning to first principles and reflecting on your disposability is a good one and I would take it on board if I were you.
It is not good at anything.
Teachers are extremely poor at delivery. Most of my batchmates were smarter and more knowledgeable than them.
85% attendance is strictly followed. You don't get decent time for extracurricular activities. Extracurricular activities are must.
Fees is so damn high that only rich make it to clg. They're loaded with money so they don't care about career - hence, no challenging environment.
For job, you get no help. We've 2 at SAM, 3 at LKS, 1 at S&R, 2 at KCO, 1 at Trilegal, 0 at CAM and 0 at AZB placed from the recently passed out batch. I know all of them. They got selected based on calibre alone. Clg only made things complicated for them by bombarding with useless assignments, attendance, etc. In case you don't know, these are the biggest law firms in the country and the hardest to get into. Heard of Meta and Microsoft? SAM represents them. Trilegal represents OLA (ANI Technologies). AZB represents Google. You can estimate how great these firms are.
Around 190 (out of 240) candidates wanted to sit for placements but no good law firm came for placement.
Answer is NO from all the perspectives - job, judiciary, academia, etc. It does more harm than good.
Get info on SLS and NMIMS Mumbai. They've location advantage atleast. Location will help you with Internships.
Nirma charges 15L+ as fees and 5L is minimum expenditure of living in Ahmedabad for 5 years. Even if you end up landing a decent job which is highly unlikely in terms of chances, it'll take you 3 years to recover the money as most amount of money you earn will be spent on living expenditures as Mumbai and Delhi are extremely costly.
Never fall in their Trap!
Wadiya Ghandi
Gaggar and Partners
LKS
1.https://www.legallyindia.com/convos/topic/248998-nluo-placements-2023-how-are-they-really
2.https://www.legallyindia.com/convos/topic/266648-what-is-happening-at-nluo
3.https://www.legallyindia.com/convos/topic/369628-nluo-got-more-placements-than-nlud-for-2024-batch-is-it-for-real
But in last few years it has fallen behind Trilegal even though joinees at trilegal end up leaving more frequently. Simple answer - see the number of people who join KCO and leave in first 2 years you'll be shocked with the low numbers.
We are not happy with the lack of foreign exposure. It’s like our batch is collectively prone to being domesticated in Indian law firms and they are even happy with a 11 LPA package from Indus, not realising that their counterparts from certain other tier-1s are getting paid much more with a lower grade. Foreign law firms aren’t particularly fond of our college based on previous experiences of underwhelming candidates being sent to A&O/Linklaters.
A rusty domicile crowd is a huge problem which in fact generates the worst possible problems for our uni. The admin is even fed up of their tantrums producing antics left and right.
We may not have a protest going on, we may not have serious allegations against our admin, but the issues are there. It’s high time we fill this ‘void’. It’s making us feel really left out.