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- Tarunabh Khaitan, Lavanya Rajamani and Dev Gangjee: Professors at Oxford
- Rohit De: Assoc Prof at Yale (History).
- Surabhi Ranganathan: Senior Lecturer at Cambridge
- Prabha Kotiswaran: Prof at King's College.
- Shyam Balganesh: Prof at Penn
- At least 5 to 10 others who I have missed.
It begs the question as to why other NLU alumni seem to be predominantly teaching in lower ranked colleges, even after degrees from similar institutions as those above. Is it because the world's top law schools only hire from NLSIU?
Anyways, it's not like it's just NLS folks who are ruling the roost, they do have a discernible advantage. From the top of my head, I can think of Akshaya Kamalnath who is at Australian National University and is a NALSAR grad. I cannot think of many not because they don't exist but because it is not my field. I am sure fellow academic would be able to pinpoint many others.
- Middle class job mentality
- Lack of role model professors
- Lack of role model alumni
- Lack of culture of research and value given to research: free marks for projects
Harvard University
University of Oxford
University of Cambridge
Yale University
Stanford University
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Columbia University
New York University (NYU)
University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
National University of Singapore (NUS)
The University of Melbourne
University of Chicago
The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney)
The University of Sydney
UCL
King's College London
The Australian National University
University of Toronto
Georgetown University
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/university-subject-rankings/2021/law-legal-studies
This is the answer. Nothing more.
NLS keeps on posting on LI that they have had placements from DB, ITC, HUL, etc and then about professors. The thing is that all of this ceased to happen before 2015. As the competition has increased, NLS has fared not so good, I wouldn’t call it bad because that can never happen. But NLS has not performed to the standards that it was known for. In my elder brother’s time, there was only one tier 1 which was NLS and everything else was tier 2. Now that students have started choosing NALSAR/NUJS/NLUD/JINDAL /FOREIGN EDUCATION over NLS, it has lost its pool of the top cream and has not performed to the standards it was known for.
So maybe instead of exerting your superiority based on what your alumni did when you held monopoly, go and actually do something and post about contemporary achievements? You lost the race to NLUO, NUSRL and Symbiosis in Jessup. Not just this year, you haven’t been doing good in any moot, so maybe just calm down and do something.
Magic Circle and Rhodes have plateaued, with others also getting a few every year. Not like anyone’s going to London from NLUO lol. UPSC success now undisputed, only NLUD is even in the running frankly. So, really nothing much has shifted downwards, at the same time the most rigorous and qualified facility and admin leadership at any university in India leave alone NLUs. Sudhir, Mrinal, Aparna, Arun, Saurabh. Even the MCS faculty advisor is now Raag, a Jessup winner.
Keep yourself away from us, we don’t want to be included, we are doing good and don’t have to cite our upsc achievements i am sorry.
So the reality is this: NLS seems to find each parameter that other colleges try to cite as their USP, and then top/are it the highest tier in that (be it Jiggles and faculty quality, litigation and TLCs, consulting/investment banking where it has only been NLS, corp placements which it was always on top, academia same story). So the takeaway is that whatever one wants to do with a legal education in India, Law School is the best place to be. Has been on many fronts for years, but now with Sudhir at the helm, it is the case on ALL fronts now.
So the takeaway from this is my cucumber. Are we talking about the NLAT Sudhir?
All on permanent tenure, or on tenure track. Jiggles’ fly in fly out recent NLU grads biding time for foreign PhD admits don’t compare. As for NLUD, post the latest exodus, the bench strength is dwindling very fast to NALSAR levels. If new admin in Dwarka is not careful, it might fall down to NUJS levels.
[Moderator note: This is incorrect, NUJS releases its figures and they look fairly similar in break-up to others https://www.legallyindia.com/lawschools/nujs-secured-119-mostly-pre-covid-placements-for-2019-20-batch-64-in-highest-pay-bracket-17-lit-17-future-cse-judges-20210412-12029 ]
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I would like to kindly point out that, the law both procedural and substantive are totally different compared to Indian laws.
The people who you have listed did not become faculty right after their NLSIU degrees. They only qualified to become faculty because they pursued advanced degrees in Oxbridge and ivy league schools.
One will be misled that NLSIU alumna became faculty just after NLSIU degrees! Even a Doctoral from NLSIU cannot become faculty elsewhere outside India as the laws are different!
The next thing I would like to point out is that, law degrees are required to obtain a 'certificate of practice' from BCI after qualifying in AIBE.
There are tens of thousands of cases pending in Indian courts! The fundamental reason why NLS were started is to attract the best minds in the country to pursue law degrees and bolster the ever burdened Indian judiciary!
Plausibly, the question should be reframed, as to how many NLS, alumna, entered the Indian judiciary, became advocates, judges and legislators in States and Union.
For example, many a US Presidents were/are alumna of Oxbridge and ivy league law schools!
For example, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama are recent examples!
Their service to their country is glaringly evident.
While the service to the nation from NLS alumna is conspicuously absent.
NLSIU opened in 1989, has even one alumna joined legislature and assisted their homeland.
As a percentage how many alumna have entered litigation? We know that income is less in litigation!
If earning was the sole criterion, why even bother to study law. The NLS students are definitely capable of qualifying CAT and obtain MBA's and earn.
Further, has any alumna entered UPSC! And reached secretary level!
I would point that the writer is living in a euphoric fantasy land. India needs efficient, and dedicated litigation lawyers to assist the entire country and judiciary to reduce the backlog of cases and not boasting of going abroad or joining corporate jobs.
Don't forget, NLS graduates are subsidized by tax payers money in the hope of getting back.
NLS have gone the IIT, IIIT, IISc way, a platform for exporting talent and 'brain drain'