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https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/india/best-colleges/story/20090622-indias-best-law-colleges-739990-2009-06-10
Ajay Gudavarthy (JNU prof and ex-NLSIU/NUJS prof) in the Wire: "Menon transformed the situation in a rather dramatic fashion within a decade to create NLSIU in Bangalore, which was routinely referred to as the ‘Harvard of the East’."
https://thewire.in/law/obituary-n-r-madhava-menon-legal-luminary-conservative-humanist
My question is simple: Everyone says that NLSIU has always been referred to as the "Harvard of the East", but who exactly coined the nickname and when? Who is "they" that Rao is referring to? Also, does "East" mean all of Asia? If yes, is NLSIU regarded as superior to colleges from rich Asian countries like China, Japan, Singapore, HK, South Korea and Taiwan, which are ranked highly in QS? Or does "East" refer to India and NIRF rankings only?
NLSIU as the Harvard of East?
It is blasphemous to even compare NLSIU with even some good Asian University like NUS and Peking.
Harvard attracts students from across the entire world. NUS attracts people from entire Asia. NLSIU? ZILCH.
Research? Faculty? Don't get me started.
Faculty standards have been improved recently thou.
Apart from it's own graduates abroad- go anywhere else and people won't know what is NLSIU. Go to any international business center - people will think that it's a third rate law college unless you take an hour and mansplain about the greatness of NLS - Which will again make you look like MLM Fraud Marketing guys.
NLS has more Rhodes than Peking because latter isn’t part of the commonwealth.
Then you come along as 3.2, fail to read 3 and try to rebut 3.1. Context is very important my friend.
Yes, NLS has more Jessup wins than Harvard. I agree. But not more than NUS.
Also, NUS might be well-known but no one has heard of Peking University. Honestly, have you ever heard of anyone doing an LLM from Peking University?? Please, it sucks.
NLS as the Harvard of the East
NUJS as the Yale of the East.
One was supposed to be a school of law and another of 'juridical sciences'. Both were supposed to develop two different schools of thought, literally.
An irony where they are now.
Well, we all know what is the present standard of the Allahabad University and the universities/colleges in Pune. This should be a lesson for NLS. Getting too fixated with a tagline might just be the sure-shot road to perdition.