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Academia is primarily about research output something which a lot of students here simply don't understand. Just search your Prof name on Google Scholar and see how many papers they have come up with, also look at their 'cited in' score to see how much others academics have relied upon them. Papers on SSRN don't really count for much, nor do the downloads on SSRN matter much. I am all for open access, but the industry perception is that peer-reviewed journals published by the likes of Wiley and Springer carry more weight. There is a reason when Tarunabh and Arun started Indian Law Review it was done under the aegis of Taylor & Francis.
So, going back to your comment, even Sudhir with all his pull just attracted a bunch of star Prof already working at other Indian universities. Nobody from outside India has come back to join NLS. Even in India, it will be difficult for the likes of Sudhir to poach talent from better-funded universities such as the SAU. In that sense, in recent times, Raj Kumar at JGLS and Ranbir Singh at NLUD have been much more accomplished.
Kumar has certain advantages over Singh and Krishnaswamy but then again he was able to snatch Stephen Marks, a distinguished Prof with tenure at Harvard and that is not something that you can just do on basis of money. For Singh, I consider him to a better administrator because he was able to navigate government channels exponentially better than Sudhir, and two he did not have Sudhir's advantage of having camaraderie with the candidates he intended to hire but still was able to attract top talent. Interestingly, neither Kumar nor Singh are the product of a NLU.
A term invented by few morons to make them feel special
Leaving jokes aside, most senior academics in India fail to understand the fact that one faculty shouldn't be made to teach too many courses together, that they need time off for quality research, and that there is something called specialisations. That usually require greater faculty number. People with an NLU background, foreign exposure etc. might appreciate that more readily. Which is not saying that nobody from TLC colleges can realise that at all.
Yes, he can be curt and not polite to everyone, but thats the trade-off. And a worthwhile tradeoff at that.
You should focus on the track record of people instead of their pedigree otherwise you are no better than the so-called TLC lobby.