The private universities are not going to give up their cash cows of indi entrance exams. They don't really care about hardship caused to aspirants, since to them, it is plain and simple business. Even a public university like NLUD hasn't actually done that yet. Nor have the traditional state and central universities.
At this point, all law entrances should be combined into one including lsat, slat, blat. This will help students in not only having a more streamlined preparation also along w the fact that they dont need to spend on individual entrances so much. Along with this it will also help bringing all private universities such as jindal within the national rankings. Jindal is doing fairly well and can also give a healthy competition to the nlus faculties considering in many there have been no new inductions from last several years for eg NLSIU. Rather than promoting stress on students all universities should come together to alleviate this stress and promote a better legal education in the country and perhaps reach international ranking frameworks. Only two universities namely Jindal and NLSIU have been on the QS rankings and others should follow suit and increase the standard of Indian legal education
Given that the current Delhi government is trying to arm twist the University into accepting a lot of conditions for the release of grants, including 85% reservation for Delhi students (thankfully this hasn't happened yet, nor funding stopped), it seems unlikely that KDR will want to give up a regular flow of funding.
Plus a GC/EC meeting took place only a few weeks ago and this was not on the agenda, neither raised separately so seems unlikely.
Honestly, this should've happened long back. It is an unnecessary burden on aspirants to prepare for an entrance with a different pattern per se, but particularly after all the exposés on AILET by Lawctopus et al, as well as last year's mishaps and technical issues, this just had to be done. While it's unclear why NLU-D would lay down their cash cow, it's going to be much more beneficial to people because it did.
The news is true. Confirmed from multiple faculty members at NLU Delhi. NLU Delhi will most certainly join the CLAT Consortium for CLAT 2022. Justice N.V. Ramana (the next Chief Justice of India) is also keen to see NLU Delhi joining the other NLUs. This was bound to happen after the SC's decision in the NLAT case last year. Prof. Srikrishna Deva Rao is doing the sensible thing here. Faizan Mustafa has also recently put out a Youtube video about CLAT 2021 where he explicitly says that NLU Delhi will in all probability be joining the consortium for CLAT 2022. All in all, this is actually a good development from the standpoint of law aspirants.
I am just curious. Who are the "reliable sources" from whom this information was obtained? Not asking for names or anything but just the designation. Also, @Kian, are there any updates on the NLUD domicile case that's pending before the Delhi HC?
I don't know how much good this would do for NLUD though. CLAT has been such a poorly organised exam and it's doubtful if that'll ever change. NLUD might be better off staying away even though students will end up having to take two exams. Crazy times.
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According to our sources there might be something afoot but if so it would be very early days and is currently completely speculative, as the original comment also makes clear.
Quick question, do you think the people who get into NLUD through a separate entrance exam just vanish if the exams are made the same? The same number of "meritorious" candidates would still exist in both situations
Why would SKD want to kill off NLUD's cash cow? Although given his erratic behaviour since taking over, I would not put anything past him, including this.
Badly hit? You really think that people who join a law school with the highest CLAT ranks become the best lawyers on/after graduation? They actually don't. There's hardly any real difference between CLAT rank 100 and 200 when it comes to the first years. What matters is what you do and how you are guided in course of those 5 years.
Huge news if true. Both NALSAR and NUJS will be badly hit. Around 30% of NALSAR rankers will leave for NLUD, while absolutely no one excepting people in Bengal will opt for NUJS. The big challenge, however, will be overtaking NLSIU. I think it can be possible in another 10-15 years.
Breaking news! Just heard from fairly reliable sources that the VC of NLUD has proposed an entry into the CLAT Consortium from the next year onward. This would mean that AILET might not be held from 2022 anymore, and NLUD too would induct students on the basis of CLAT. This would have an interesting effect of student choice for the existing NLUs. Although why NLUD is giving up its cash cow of an exam after having done all the hard work over a decade, and having established a brand of its own, is anybody's guess. You read it here first!
Plus a GC/EC meeting took place only a few weeks ago and this was not on the agenda, neither raised separately so seems unlikely.
I don't know how much good this would do for NLUD though. CLAT has been such a poorly organised exam and it's doubtful if that'll ever change. NLUD might be better off staying away even though students will end up having to take two exams. Crazy times.