If budget is not a concern, go for JGLS. Otherwise, I would advise doing the MPP at NLSIU instead. LLM programmes in NLUs are simply not respected and NLU LLM grads are actually looked down upon, including from NLSIU. But the MPP programme is respected and has had very good placements, as the MPP students are from "brand name" colleges like Stephen's, LSR, Ashoka etc.

That depends on what you plan to do after your LLM. If you want to become a law faculty, then the MPP won't be enough. You'd still need an LLM. If that's not what you are looking for, then I guess it's okay. APU's LLM had a decent start under Sudhir. TERI also has got a good specialised LLM. The new Daksha Fellowship has also had a decent start.

Dude, at least read the comment properly responding to it. You are a lawyer/law student after all! The guy clearly said 'law faculty'. And he is absolutely correct. You need an LLM to teach law as a full time professor in any Indian law university. Give propaganda a rest. Nobody said the MPP programme is a bad one. Sheesh!

@Kian: Which fact of 2.1 has been contested exactly? That you can't teach law without an LLM? That's part of both BCI and UGC regulations. Feel free to check for yourself. And do you know a single professor in India not having an LLM?

Here is a Youtube video carried by Finology Legal where Sidharth Chauhan (NALSAR Hyderabad) gives a good overview of LL.M. programmes in India. It seems that a lot of people in the Hindi belt are following this particular Youtube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj9ljOU0bXc

For LL.M. programmes, one should primarily go by the faculty expertise available at an institution, especially in terms of the quality of supervision for research work such as seminar papers and the LL.M. Dissertation. Apart from that, one should also look at the possibility of specialisations and how those tie up with an applicants' career goals. The following programmes are worth considering (not necessarily in the following order):-

1) School of Policy and Governance, Azim Premji University (Bangalore) - LL.M. in Law and Development
2) Tata Institute of Social Sciences (Mumbai) - LL.M. in Access to Justice
3) TERI University (New Delhi) - LL.M. in Environmental Law
4) South Asian University (New Delhi) - LL.M. in Comparative Law/International Law
5) Indian Law Institute (New Delhi) - LL.M. in Human Rights/Legal Research, leading up to Ph.D.
6) Jindal Global Law School (Sonepat) - LL.M. in Corporate & Financial Laws, LL.M. in Environmental Laws
7) NLSIU (Bangalore) - LL.M. in Human Rights Law, LL.M. in Business Law
(the quality of their LL.M. courses has improved considerably with the recent faculty hires)
8) NALSAR (Hyderabad) - LL.M. in Corporate & Commercial Laws, LL.M. in Public Law & Legal Theory
(the other specialisations listed in their brochure are non-starters)

I would suggest that recent law graduates should choose LL.M. programmes from these options. There is no point wasting your time and money at other institutions which simply do not have the faculty expertise, library resources or networking opportunities to support postgraduate legal studies.

Neither NLS nor NALSAR has got good commercial law faculty anymore to teach in those specialised Masters programmes. NLS has only got Rahul who is overworked and Sahana who is a decent teacher despite being green, but is not taking LLM classes regularly. NALSAR has got nobody.

Do LLM only if you want to take academics. To continue in academics, you need to clear the UGC NET and Ph.D. There are high chances of absorption into the institutes where you do your LL.M. as faculty if you prove yourself in class by taking teaching assignments. They may even offer you researcher positions till the time you finish your Ph.D.