Hey, can any person from nls answer these (preferably a first year) two doubts (it'd be really helpful to some of us making the decision between two colleges or some future aspirants battling the same thought)

Due to the 240 batch size that came with your batch, do you find the competition to moot or any other activity has increased massively? Compared to what you hear from people in other law schools?

Also, are moots/extracurriculars funded in nls? (I know they are in nlud, about 50% or more sometimes but have no idea about nls), thanks in advance!

Was israel "massacring" palestinians before october 6? please show us. And answer the question. Dont hide behind this revenge fantasy youve got going on. If you have a mature view of the situation- you should have some plan for jewish people in the only jewish state in the world. What do they do if tomorrow they declare a cease fire and hamas violates the cease fire again? Or do you not care about jewish lives?

1) israel has nukes. The international community and all is nonsense when you have the US and most western states standing behind you. You've presumably been to law school- you know international law is not magic words that prevents terrible things from happening. You presumably know international criminal law works on a post hoc basis. You also presumably know that the way the UNSC is composed right now- theres no real reason to believe theyd hold israel back in any instance. If it was genocidal racial bigotry- there wouldn't be a palestinian alive today. Explain to me why israel offered peace treaties 5 times in modern history if its about genocidal racial bigotry.

2)You're trusting numbers coming out of hamas? You're trusting narratives coming from hamas? You don't see any reason to be skeptical of that? do you want to buy this talking dog from me?

3) what territory? The territory israel gave up and retreated from? when they left gaza they exhumed their dead and took the graves with them. These people care about that miserable unhappy strip of land that has produced nothing? or perhaps you mean the wasted desert that is the west bank? The land israelis gave up to the arabs despite winning those wars to get peace? from where im standing- it seems apparent that israelis have tried to trade land for peace several times in modern history. It seems clear that neither hamas nor PLO have wanted that- explain to me why. explain why despite having control of gaza for the past 17 years theres so little development in gaza? why despite all the humanitarian aid that goes into that place do gazans not have a better governance system? why do their women not have rights? why do their children not get food and water let alone education? why do gay people get pushed off of roofs in gaza? what rights do religious minorities have in gaza?

"they just want to kill people" is a shockingly ignorant way of thinking about this terrible prolonged awful history. Get off of insta and read a book.

There is nothing to compare, really. NLUD is miles ahead of all other NLUs in the country now, and if the others want to learn from our best practices, then that's okay, but those state law colleges don't really have much for us to learn from. Nothing personal, they are the past, we are the present and future.

I saw a post here yesterday about someone asking for guidance to choose between UK colleges and NLUs where they also mentioned that they were thinking of doing a BA at Ashoka and then pursuing a JD from the US. I think this is an interesting path, however, I don't have the funds for an Ashoka degree rn. My CLAT rank this year will easily get me into NALSAR/NUJS. My parents suggest appearing for CUET and doing a BA from a good DU college to save some money now and then applying to US colleges for a JD. I realize the LSAT is an extremely difficult exam but I am determined to work really hard to ace it, I will literally spend the entirety of the next three years studying for it if that's what it's going to take. Now the question is, assuming I get a good GPA at college, have stellar extracurriculars, a great SoP, and an exceptional LSAT score, would my DU background hinder my chances of an Ivy League JD? Will universities reject my application because of my undergrad college? I might just be building castles in the sky but I really wanna get all the opinions and info I can to make an informed decision about my future. Also, are there people who have done this in the past? Comments on the other post mentioned one person who had gotten a Harvard degree after graduating from NUJS, are there more people who have done something similar?

Chambers Fintech rankings for 2024 are out.

Band 1 firms - CAM, SAM, AZB

Band 2 firms - Ikigai Law, Indus, Nishith Desai, Spice Route

Band 3 firms - Trilegal, JSA, AK Partners, Jerome Merchant, Samvad

Individual lawyers

Band 1 - Anu Tiwari, Anirudh Rastogi, Shilpa Mankar

Band 2 - Mathew Chacko

Band 3 - Aparajita Srivastava, Rohan Bagai, Rahul Matthan, Avimukt Dar, Vipul Jain, Vishnu Jerome

there are SLSP cults at the Partner and PA levels at Trilegal and KCO, which I have observed during my internships. Further, mid sized firms like IndusLaw, Argus and the likes are also dominated by SLS Pune alumni to a large extent. So, my fair say would be that they have an advantage as compared to other colleges if they tap into their alumni the right way. After I guess NLS, NALSAR, NUJS and GLC, Symbi (Pune) have some quite well placed in law firms; which in turn could aid in internships and ofc placements for students studying at SLSP. Therefore, yes, they can compete with NLU students.

It is great that you want to start writing. But as a 4th year T1 law student who has published in several blogs and journals, I would suggest you write articles for now. Research papers would require in-depth research on the topic and is time consuming and not worth it honestly at your stage.

If you are into corporate law, read up articles on Indiacorplaw, IRCCL, NLS BLR, CBCL. They have categories of blogs. Find out which category intrigues you the most and choose a topic on that category and write an article. The word limit for all these blogs is 1500 words so it won’t take up a lot of your time. The more you read and spend time on these websites, the more you will get equipped in legal writing.

Nundy only plays to the media. No substance whatsoever. Have seen her making arguments that make absolutely no sense and make you want to say WTF! She hogged the front seat all through the same sex marriage arguments even though her arguments were mere moments long.

Menaka is far better. Humble. Knows how to carry a point and carry it with intelligence.

JSD knows his stuff but tends to get carried away at times. He needs to rope in the right wing bit.

Hegde is good but needs to reel in a bit.

There is nothing predatory. You very well know that someone is hitting on you and you all take advantage of it.

I concede that there are actual innocent girls who get gaslighted by predatory seniors but they are a minority whose case you generalize to explain the situation, which isn't the case, in reality.

All I can think of is quitting my job. I don't have a back up job right now. How do I stop myself from losing it and resigning? What do you people do to keep going?

Note:

1. I am working in a company. They're paying peanuts. So money isn't a motivating factor. Also, I am no longer doing what was in my JD.

2. I am aware that law firm jobs can be worse but I am not looking for a comparison.

Note from Mod: - This should not turn into a traditional LI battleground where the alumni usually rip each other’s head off. Kindly keep it civil and polite. If we see any distortion in regard to your ‘positive comparison’, we will not allow that post to exist in the first place. Thank you.

As a guy at a T1 in Mumbai I have seen this happen time and again. Brilliant women associates and senior associates do work hard and get promoted to junior partner and even equity eventually. These women are burning the midnight oil and often have no romance or even a partner in their lives. Even seen some junior partners get married only to get divorced 5-6 years later. I think the single women who are career focussed are happy with their lot, I don’t think they feel there is anything lacking in their lives. At least that is what they say. Some are willing to get married but don’t want kids. This tends to be a dealbreaker for a lot of guys in India. So they don’t end up getting a life partner or getting married. Not saying this is a good/bad thing. Just stating observations.

Ladies and gentlemen, since we are not having a leaderboard anytime soon from LI (and it’s mods), I have decided to start a comparative discussion and series on several tier-1 NLUs and top private universities. This will be a healthy comparative series and it will follow a deliberation on usually two colleges to explore the ‘FUN’ banter. Kindly keep this space non-toxic and the every comparative series will have the code-name ‘The tier-1’ saga in it. To avoid repetition and hatred, a discussion/comparison will be conducted only once a week. This will keep the competitive attitude among tier-1 colleges alive in LI and will also maintain this saga’s anonymous nature.

Mods kindly feature it.

Perfect for all these stupid NLU/other colleges comparison:

I thought the actual path requires you to either take a circuitous walk or take an auto? Has that changed now? And no, location and connectivity-wise, NUJS is still better, because it is located right in the middle of the city. However, in terms of size and amenities, NLUD campus is way better though. I have visited both, though I am not from either, so it's an impartial opinion.

I came across a social media post by an NLU student. Not sharing the link or her name as I don't want to bring unnecessary attention to her. Rather, I just want to highlight a disturbing point she is raising. She says that predatory 3rd/4th/5th year boys in NLUs are preying on fresher girls. She says they approach them on the excuse of offering advice with studies, internships etc and then exploit them and gaslight them.

Just wondering if y'all agree with this comment and how prevalent it is across NLUs? Are such cases underreported because girls are afraid or ashamed to come out? Also, what can be done to prevent it? Counselling? Disciplinary action?

So legal writing and all is it’s own beast. You’ll learn all of it in legal methods and with five years of practice. Don’t jump the gun. It’s good for that learning to be spaced out and not rushed. What you can do - is do the foundations of legal education online course at nls. They take you through basics of writing and research. Many folks find that stuff helpful at the university level. Read “they say I say “ and walter Sinnott and Armstrongs “understanding argument “

1. They can't without other nations jumping into the fray which they haven't till now.

2. They are still killing the people. Just check the number of people who died on both the sides over the last two months. In fact, the IDF soldiers have already killed Israeli hostages too because of their indiscriminate firing and violence, for which they have issues 'apologies'.

3. They still want the territory and most of the resources intact, they just want to kill the people.

First sem ranks are rarely ever reflected in the final sem ranks (of course barring few exceptions). The batch ranks will keep shuffling for everyone. My first sem rank in a tier-1 NLU was ~35 with a GPA of 6 point something out of 10. I graduated with an ~8/10 CGPA and a top 5 rank. You'll be fine. Attend classes, focus on learning (i know we've crap faculties but try), and take exams slightly more seriously if you are really concerned about your GPA/ranks for whatever reason (scholarships, jobs, medals, etc.).

Because Datta himself is a scamster as are the people whom he represents, including the decision-makers in the state. If he had any self-respect, would he have taken up a post which nobody worth any morality and sense is not touching, and from which he had been ousted unceremoniously not so long ago?

There is this manager of a leading publishing house/legal database - she used to have a group and asked us to send such links so she could take action against the creators. She was so obnoxious and everyone else (especially from Non NLU universities) were so keen on impressing her they used to send so much content from around the web. All the links that basically went around the COVID batch were taken down subsequently.

First year Law student here.

A research paper on any topic requires thorough knowledge of that particular topic along with the field it is associated with. You can’t jump to a paper without have reviewed the existing literature/principle/law associated with it.

A fresher who hasn’t started law school is most likely inept at statutory interpretation and reading. Thus, I suggest you to read and explore various areas of law. You might discover rather niche and underrated areas which you might be inclined to take up as you progress into law school.

To conclude, the tangible benefits of reading about the Law outweigh the tangible benefits of writing a whole research paper at your current stage.

Note: I personally believe there exists no tangible benefits for writing a Research Paper before joining law school.

Except if you are preparing for Judiciary then you should do LLM, you get an extra increment.

I would say if you're preparing for Judiciary then avoid NLUs like NLS and NALSAR and go to others like RML (although it would be difficult since cutoff for RML is higher than NALSAR).

Note : I'm a 2023 graduate and a lot of my batchmates and friends are currently pursuing llm in aforementioned colleges, so I know.

1. There is nothing called women reservation

2.arrange marriage with a rich guy involves very high dowry brunt and be treated like a servant doing all the housework and face abuse.

Please keep your andrew tate bs with yourself. I know many of us can connect with our housewife mom's who didn't exactly enjoy a happy life with their husband's.

NLUD has one within a couple of km, NLSIU has one within 3 km that's a 5-minute auto ride away. NUJS also is going to have one, sometime in 2024. Construction is going on. As for the station's name, I doubt that counts for anything, but I think that's something only GNLU will have.

Okay so a little introduction- a dropper this side with a decent enough rank in clat 2024.

As you know, the first semester generally starts from late june or early july which means I have atleast 6 months of time with me if not more. Ofcourse I want to invest it wisely and learn a thing or two. One of them being legal writing. Idk why but it's something which intrigues me a lot. Anyway, it will be of great help if you all can share a few general tips regarding the first phase of writing a research paper/ legal journal. Be it how to choose a topic or what ideal format to follow. I know these are a vital part of my learning curve but still 💀.

I would go even further and say avoid Khaitan as well. No firm or lawyer in the city is worth joining. You will only get depressed. If you must stay in the city because of family reasons, consider joining a bank as legal officer, or ITC/Emami/Coal India. That's it. If you can't crack these, then think about teaching CLAT students. Or do an MBA at IIM or the IIT KGP business school (if you are smart enough to get in) and apply to corporates in the city.