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First year: Agnidipto Tarafdar, Legal Methods
Second Year: Shameek Sen, Consti
Third year: Atul Alexander, PIL
While there are other brilliant teachers out there particularly for contracts and corp law, I found it difficult to connect with these. I believe that in pursuit of excellence they alienated a large part of the batch.
On the other hand three teachers that I have listed did a lot handholding and had a goal of increasing our knowledge instead of persuing utopian excellence in an extremely small chunk.
Prof. Ram (as we call him) is easily one of the best teachers interacting with Indian law students today. He is deeply knowledgeable in fields such as Political Philosophy, Jurisprudence and Comparative Law. His lectures reflect great depth and he encourages students to ask questions at every point. Even if you offer an underdeveloped opinion or erroneous information in class, he will find a way to incorporate that into his explanations and gently correct you. He is a very patient listener and gives carefully thought out feedback on written assignments. I have also found him to be very humble and respectful towards his colleagues and students alike. Some of his former students from NLSIU (where he taught in the 1990s) have been interacting with us at APU and they all have great things to say about him.
2. Nanditta Batra - slightly impatient & lot of students don’t like her because she used to give lengthy projects, but I think she genuinely wants to push students to be the best version of themselves, and actually think and research what they write in the paper. She’s super supportive of her students and probably bit too idealistic.
I’m sure there are other teachers also who are brilliant, but most students are very laid back about studies and try to avoid it as much as possible. So I suppose after a point even the other teachers have stopped trying to make classes interesting.
1. Lovely Dasgupta for Contracts. She does not have an exactly student-friendly attitude and often comes across as sarcastic, but really knows her subject and can explain it too. The huge caseload provided by her is a bit of a bummer, but overall it works for learning the basic principles.
2. Shameek Sen for Constitutional Law. Good classes for discussion, brainstorming if you are into it. The teacher is also patient.
3. Saurabh Bhattacharjee for Labour Law, Law and Impoverishment. The best of the lot. Amazing teacher! Painstakingly thorough, provides great feedback, very good control over the subject, teaches the students to ask the right questions. I can go back to his classes again and again.
4. Anirban Mazumdar for Copyright Law. A little intimidating, but covers the fundamentals really well. Could focus on international and comparative issues more, maybe. Overall a good classroom experience.
5. Ruchira Goswami for Gender and Law. She's a teacher of sociology, but I have only studied this elective with her. Very good delivery and explanations inside classrooms, kind to the students. Encourages you to ask questions. I have heard from seniors that she used to be even better, but was suffering from some health issues when she had been teaching us.
6. Sandeep Bhat for Outer Space Law. Excellent knowledge of the subject, possibly one of the authorities in that discipline in the country, lucid explanations. Heavy disciplinarian, keeps pushing the students. He also offers Trade Law, but I did not take that elective. Several foreign scholars in space law speak of him highly too.
7. Shouvik Guha for Corporate Law. Patient, kind, good knowledge of the subject, will keep explaining from different angles until you get the point, focuses on concepts and procedure both, which was useful during internships for me. Offers good one-to-one advice outside classroom too on several issues including career choice, mental health issues, problems faced during internships, moots. If you can convince him that you really need help with something, he usually obliges. He also offers an elective on Project Finance, covers some of the basic concepts well in a limited manner. I have heard about his Harry Potter and law course and AI and law course since having left NUJS, but can't really speak for those myself.
8. Sanjay Kumar for Tax. He occasionally faces a language issue, but has solid knowledge of the subject if one can overlook it. I found the subject boring TBH, but the classes were interesting once I started paying attention.
Other than these people, I have heard good things about Agnidipto Tarafder for Privacy Law, Anuradha Roychowdhury for M&A, though I didn't take those papers myself. Some people think Faisal Fasih was also decent for criminal law, but I was not very convinced. It could be because I never liked the area much.