https://www.barandbench.com/news/mnlu-nagpur-faculty-write-vc-paid-only-half-salary-amid-funds-crunch-at-university

This is the actual letter by the admin to the faculty and staff.
https://images.assettype.com/barandbench/2024-03/7c5335dd-8c59-4d35-be0a-09d92509fcf9/MNLU_Nagpur_Circular_January_24.pdf

State NLUs are in shambles. They are in the news for:
- NALSAR for faculty attrition and admin apathy

- NUJS for sexual harassment FIR against a senior admin officer (apparently the VC)
- GNLU for rape and sexual molestation of girl students
- NLSIU is a JGLS in the making (humongous batch size and a 25% fee jump in 1 year)
- NLSIU for sexual harassment of a female student

- And the list goes on.......

I am not even talking about lower NLUs. This is the new normal in all NLUs.

Okay for all those wondering. The person who wrote the report says that 'there was no investigation' as the basis of the report in a press conference. Video here: https://twitter.com/abierkhatib/status/1765387508823499178

The sheer social and cultural impact of Gen Z has been awesome: Greta Thunberg, Malala, Zendaya, Billie Eilish, Kylian Mbappe, Haaland, Alcaraz, Swiatek, even Kylie Jenner as the world‘s youngest billionaire by solely leveraging the power of social media. Just incredible icons. Also the generation that ushered in true respect for all races and genders.

Gen Alpha has big shoes to follow!

Since you have been a part of the institute for one year, could you provide brief information on all of the following things:

1) Physical infrastructure

2) teaching quality

3) student quality & peer competition

4) college fests & college life

5) moot court facility

6) library and database collection

7) exposure to international stuff (student exchange programmes, summer programmes)
8) placement opportunities

ik you have only been a part of it for a year but kindly rate them all on a scale of 1-10

Idk. What to tell you. The numbers speak for themselves. Youve joined now so you might as well stick out the year. Ask around to find out how many people have left in the last year alone- that number will shock you. Ask around and find out how many of the faculty have terrible health problems because of sonipat, how the food on campus is not nutritious, how faculty do not really get to use gyms because students are always there, how accomodation in tulip and max are crumbling. and how shuttles to the university are over crowded during examination time which is a problem because even if max and tulip are only a little distance away walking around in sonipat alone- is a dangerous endeavour.

there is a widespread sense that increments are given to admin folks because theyre in the good graces of the administration even though they do fairly little work in terms of class prep or in terms of evaluation and student facing work. These decisions are never justified or transparent- they dont even explain to you why someone got a raise and someone didnt. Last year i heard of several people who actually had their salary amount changed in the salary adjustment email to less than what was agreed upon at the time of joining. The university might be paying more than some other universities- but it is no longer true that its the best paymaster for legal academics in india.

Faculty welfare and support is not really a priority at all for the university. and if you try to enforce rigor and have standards in your education you will be at the mercy of a student mob and an admin that dances to their tunes. the way administrators see this is -faculty take out salaries from university corpus

Don’t publish in unheard of blogs that nobody reads

Whatever you write, it’s important that it gets in front of people

Unless you are an academic

If you want to be a successful lawyer don’t listen to academics

Write on platforms where your potential clients or recruiters will read your content

That includes popular blogs and LinkedIn

Even twitter

ipleaders is standard go to website for legal information with massive distribution

It ranks on google on almost all legal topics

2.5 million monthly readers, gets you in front of potential clients as well

Don’t be myopic and elitist at the same time, bad for your career :)

Hey guys, just wondering if its career suicide to join NDAs fund team in 2024. Im currently in house at an AIF and i reaaaaaaaly want to join a firm. Rn NDA seems liek the most likely possible choice for me to join a firm. Have heard some interesting stories about the firm tho. have 1.6 years of PQE. LMK thanks :).

Would really appreciate any help in this regards. Dont want to stay in house. very boring work, i want to join a firm so... Thanks

1. Malaika - Arjun = 12 years

2. Elsa Pataky - Chris Hemsworth = 7 years3. Katrina - Vicky = 5 years

No gives a shit and on the contrary everyone stans couple nos 2 and 3. Only jobless housing society aunties and uncles have a problem with such relationships (and they're younger equivalents in law firms: aunties-in-waiting/uncles-in-waiting). Do you really want to give up the person you like because of these toxic aunties and junior aunties/uncles-in waiting? What if this girl is the love of your life?

So just go for it... but do so politely, nicely, slowly and subtly. Invite her to a movie first. Many of the Oscar movies are showing in town, so that's a good excuse.

Very honestly only 5 or 6 students actually work hard and they manage to get jobs, rest of you dont deserve it and end up blaming the placement cell and college. The "college brand" cant hold you back if you are genuinely good(speaking from personal experience) work hard and you will be successful if not today then tomorrow. All the top nlus are great because of the people not the place. Strive to improve yourself and you will end up improving the college too!

Well, be 100% sure that she feels the same before confessing. Take small steps. I am sure that you guys must be chatting and sharing personal stuff by now and are comfortable with each other. Start flirting with her, go slow and see how she reacts, whether she flirts back or feels uncomfortable. Then, talk about your favourite places in the city, ask hers as well and see if you guys can visit those places together, observe her behaviour.

A rejection can be disastrous for both your mental and career health.

I wanted to pursue my PhD from an NLU for the tag, I am already teaching and I just need the degree. However with the recent news that I've read from GNLU, NLS, NUJS, NALSAR etc; I am doubtful of spending 3-6 years in these institutions. Should I completely avoid these institutions and aim for central universities like DU and BHU ? I can't go for IITs or IIMs as they require 2 year LLMs. The only reason for going for NLUs is that in a lot of universities, a doctoral from NLUs is given preference in appointments, seen it first hand, over other universities including DU. please advise ? Mind you I only need it from promotion to Associate Professor, not interested in deep research/research career, enjoy teaching more.

Whoa… this issue has blown up in the national media. The IIM girl has now blasted Piyush and said that he was trying to build his own PR by condemning her fir calling her employees “girls”.

https://www.news18.com/movies/shark-tank-india-3-pitcher-calls-peyush-bansal-worst-makes-shocking-comment-he-used-the-word-8806326.html

Dubai, they prefer either Arabs (Lebanon or Egypt), Whites (all foreign, local law firms have white lawyers)

I haven't seen Indians that successful. Some kerala mallu people do compliances work and other grunt work for local firms and companies.

International firms, they prefer to hire whites in Dubai more than London. Because dubai is already fully indian. Adding an additional Indian or Pakistani doesn't add international acclaim.

https://www.barandbench.com/news/sandeshkhali-calcutta-high-court-calls-for-removal-shahajahan-sheikh-zilla-parishad-pradhan

TMC suspended him under pressure. But the state govt is yet to act. Can SG explain the inaction of Dear Aunt?

I have 3 years PQE, 2 of which were in a litigation law firm and 1 in an in-house role in a financial services group.

The pay is okayish (not T-1 level, but not bad for in-house), and I’m moving up the chain pretty quickly due to a unique set of circumstances (which resulted in me being recently offered the role of looking after a group company since they liked my work). The exposure is fairly good for my position and is certain to increase post the coming review cycle.

Is it possible to transition to a tier-1 law firm with my profile? I can jump to other in-house roles (which I don’t want to since this is going well), but I feel the exposure of a big law firm will be far more helpful since it is obvious from our dealings with law firms I am lacking in quite a few areas, not to mention the future potential it offers.

I wish to stay in a corporate department, but I wouldn’t mind being involved in some litigation as well. Also, I come from a good college, so the college name isn’t as much of a barrier.

These people were pursuing their integrated LLM and PHD. The current VC awarded them full assistant professor contracts when 'coaxed' by the Great Banyan Tree. These people do not have NET, and since it was an integrated program, technically, until they finish their PhD, they cannot have the LLM degree as well. However, I have heard that they are good teachers.

Recently they have given a full professor of Human Rights contract to someone who does not have a masters. Apparently the current VC and this fellow had previous political links.

Don't forget AG and his gems, like this one

https://thewire.in/rights/seven-years-on-jalpaiguri-child-trafficking-victims-await-justice

Do you mean professors or assistant professors? How can folks doing integrated LLM-PhD qualify as professors? Previously in NUJS, candidates pursuing PhD (barely in the first lap) were recruited as assistant professors. Some were given contractual positions and then "made" permanent or "eased" into permanent positions later.

Rumours are that he will seek a reappointment but given what all he has done in his tenure with more bad highlights than good he shouldn't be in that position. However he is a smart man so we never know if he gets reappointed. But would be demeaning to students who suffered due to his choice of words and actions. So someone new should join.

I just wanted to know if students get enough time to play games for 2 hours or freelance for earning side money because I have head that in Law schools students are busy with academics most of time . As currently I am doing freelance and playing games for 2 hours daily, so, will I be able to do this in NLUs and manage it with my studies as I want to stay at top of my class in academics.

If you guys can give your experience/opinion you are most welcome.

Relax guys. It is not an impending disaster if one faculty member is leaving, even if he is widely considered to be among the best teachers in India for Constitutional Law and Legal Philosophy. He was publicly lobbying for FM to get a third term (which did not happen) and has an old connection with the present NLSIU VC. Let us look at the bright side. SKDR has gone for fresh faculty recruitments since taking over and has added more than 20 teachers in the last one year alone. Many of them are new to the profession and will eventually grow into decent academics. There are also some experienced hands who have come from other law schools. Let us work together to rebuild the institution, instead of ringing alarm bells every month.

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This is not way the discussions relating to compensation can be undertaken. Please stop sending mass emails to the entire JGU community. If you have specific grievance relating to your compensation, please send an email to HR and that will be examined as per the university procedures and processes.

I request you to immediately STOP sending such mass emails to all faculty regarding individual compensation. These are not only matters of confidentiality but also based upon elaborate procedures and processes that were followed in a transparent manner. Notwithstanding that, if there are grievances on account of compensation, you should address them specifically to the HR.

Thanks for your understanding.

Best regards

Because the quality of students with respect to learning law i.e academics is too good. They actually attend classes deligently, whereas BA LLB Course students are just opposite. Faculties have a bit of notion for Adjudication and Justicing students because of their Quality and Interest in Academics.
No ways, Afterall, they got selected after fighting huge levels, CLAT + GD + Tests + Interview conducted by Bombay HC.

Look most women are also struggling to find a good match

Question is are you a desirable partner

Anyway, if you are asking this question here I bet you are an introvert and can’t ask out a girl because you are mortified of rejection

In this game the more people you ask out and more you are unafraid of rejection higher is your chance for success

Ask out a 100 girls, get rejected a hundred times, get over your fear of rejection

That will do you a world of good I say

Why? (This is coming from a big-time automotive enthusiast). I would blindly tell you that pretty much any car in the 25-40L segment is leagues ahead of an entry-level Mercedes (A Class/GLA). There really isn't any prestige associated with a tiny overpriced German vehicle. Further, the maintenance costs for a car of that nature is ridiculously overpriced.

You also haven't considered other things that happen at this age. Housing, Marriage, Long-term financial goals, or maybe personal expenditure (Medical, Family etc.). Things that are much more important than some pseudo-prestige that you crave.

This is the scene in almost all the NLUs now, including NLUD and NUJS. I speak from personal experience. NLS is faring a little better because of Sudhir's personal fastidious nature about academic rules and standards, but the huge batch size will eat into that soon and his term is also almost over.

I have seen interns say no when asked if they want to go to court. How can you work in disputes and want full table chair system. For White Collar enthusiasts, they should try working in Delhi for sure for sure.

But also, you did not have to bring the whole GenZ into it, some of us want to step out