You’ll get very biased answers on here because the platform is populated by new naloos. Honestly, what are y’all even thriving on? CLAT isn’t the behemoth you think it is. Go and prepare to lose your Jessup trial, while you slog for your next six hour exam that won’t teach you jackshit about the world.
DU CLC is cheap and great place to get a professional degree for anyone who wishes to turn their career around. Around a few decades ago, NLUs didn’t exist at all and neither did the now-famed five year degree. Globally, most places offer the three year degree and people do great for themselves. If you look at the Supreme Court and many HCs, you’ll find it populated by DU law grads or people from Stephen’s or GLC. That’s because they’re old and prestigious; and have been commanding respect since before the granddaddies of the current NLU VCs were even born. Not everyone has the means to pay for an NLU degree either and at 18, many people don’t actually want to devote half a decade to law.
It’s not good to pit institutions against each other, we’re good but we know the mettle of DU CLC too. They might not have the best grants from the government or infra or legal clinics, but if you were to tally the number of Rhodes scholars, people who won other scholarships, or are established lawyers in the country, you’d find good ol’ DU beating all NLUs combined.
Hi, the short answer would be "it depends on what you want to do".
To give some background, I'm not from CLC but from LC-1. I also got through Jindal and GLC but chose DU for reasons which seemed reasonable at the time. However, over time I have developed an interest in transactional law and the transition seems extremely difficult now.
If you are looking for placements directly after college or even internships through college, please forget about it. Law faculty has pathetic infrastructure, most experienced faculty has moved to other places, and large class sizes make any kind of quality control a joke.
In so far as repute and clout are concerned, it won't help you land any internships or placements per se. The only positives about law faculty are: 1. its teaching methodology through case-law (which is available online free of cost and which to my understanding has been adopted by various colleges now) 2. its proximity to the various Courts. Should you choose to get into litigation, you will be able to manage your litigation internships during college semesters without too much stress. 3. you will get to interact with a wide variety of individuals coming from all socio-economic backgrounds. Now this specific point does not help you with anything except teaching you how to deal with possible clients (litigation) and perhaps helping you develop "contacts"/network should you choose to get into litigation. As evident from the video posted above, it is a battleground for student politics and you will get to see a lot of entitled folks from the political class as well.
The only benefit of the clout/repute you would get is the one-off employer who might give you a chance on the basis of your college. But that would not be the standard rule. You would have to work hard to get anywhere.. way harder than students at other colleges (even non-NLUs) which have tie-ups for internships or functioning placement committees.
Having said that, if you are someone who is disciplined and can make that extra effort (on top of managing exams which are again horrendous with no uniform standard of evaluation-imagine checking 2500+ copies), you would have more options and time to explore internships and work opportunities.
DU CLC is cheap and great place to get a professional degree for anyone who wishes to turn their career around. Around a few decades ago, NLUs didn’t exist at all and neither did the now-famed five year degree. Globally, most places offer the three year degree and people do great for themselves. If you look at the Supreme Court and many HCs, you’ll find it populated by DU law grads or people from Stephen’s or GLC. That’s because they’re old and prestigious; and have been commanding respect since before the granddaddies of the current NLU VCs were even born. Not everyone has the means to pay for an NLU degree either and at 18, many people don’t actually want to devote half a decade to law.
It’s not good to pit institutions against each other, we’re good but we know the mettle of DU CLC too. They might not have the best grants from the government or infra or legal clinics, but if you were to tally the number of Rhodes scholars, people who won other scholarships, or are established lawyers in the country, you’d find good ol’ DU beating all NLUs combined.
To give some background, I'm not from CLC but from LC-1. I also got through Jindal and GLC but chose DU for reasons which seemed reasonable at the time. However, over time I have developed an interest in transactional law and the transition seems extremely difficult now.
If you are looking for placements directly after college or even internships through college, please forget about it. Law faculty has pathetic infrastructure, most experienced faculty has moved to other places, and large class sizes make any kind of quality control a joke.
In so far as repute and clout are concerned, it won't help you land any internships or placements per se. The only positives about law faculty are:
1. its teaching methodology through case-law (which is available online free of cost and which to my understanding has been adopted by various colleges now)
2. its proximity to the various Courts. Should you choose to get into litigation, you will be able to manage your litigation internships during college semesters without too much stress.
3. you will get to interact with a wide variety of individuals coming from all socio-economic backgrounds. Now this specific point does not help you with anything except teaching you how to deal with possible clients (litigation) and perhaps helping you develop "contacts"/network should you choose to get into litigation. As evident from the video posted above, it is a battleground for student politics and you will get to see a lot of entitled folks from the political class as well.
The only benefit of the clout/repute you would get is the one-off employer who might give you a chance on the basis of your college. But that would not be the standard rule. You would have to work hard to get anywhere.. way harder than students at other colleges (even non-NLUs) which have tie-ups for internships or functioning placement committees.
Having said that, if you are someone who is disciplined and can make that extra effort (on top of managing exams which are again horrendous with no uniform standard of evaluation-imagine checking 2500+ copies), you would have more options and time to explore internships and work opportunities.