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New nalsar vc sdr says he'll poach faculty from nls and jindal in his first ever open house. Can he do it?
From NLSIU and JGLS unlikely, from other NLUs possible. It's more realistic to offer visiting faculty positions. Sudhir has done that with several JGLS faculty. Such positions should also be offered to alumni who are doing well in practice.

My only request is not to invite the typical human rights/gender studies/race studies/caste studies left-liberal woke crowd. We are tired of it. Students need lectures on topics that will help them get a job, like M&A, tax, competition, tech, IP, arbitration, energy law etc. Even a labour law lecture on the practical aspects of labour law litigation is very useful. Such lectures add a lot more value than a lecture like "A Marxist-Queer Critique of the Hidden Brahminical and Transphobic Hegemony in the Case of [insert random Supreme Court case from 1970s here]."

#GiveUsJobsNotJargon
The quality of first years has really fallen since Dhanda stopped teaching legal methods, hasn't it. Really unfortunate that you think nalsar's purpose is to get you a corporate job and not teach you different perspectives through which you could analyse the law itself
Teaching different perspectives is fine. That includes perspectives which will also help the students apply the law outside the university. Those need not be mutually exclusive.
Do you really think you are speaking on behalf of all the students here when you mention human rights/gender studies/race studies/caste studies? Not everyone here is interested in becoming a corporate slave.
Every year since Nalsar started, there are people with this refrain. Do you know how many of them come back and give the corporate lectures they wanted? Zero. The only person who actually taught commercial law loved all the critical, feminist courses as a student. Feel free to be the change you want to see in the world after you graduate. Until then, people will teach what they want to teach and you can take from it whatever you like. It's not like they're being paid a huge amount to be doing work they hate.
The opposite is more likely to happen in the coming few months. NALSAR has already lost 10 faculty members in the last one year. Some left for better paying opportunities, a few preferred going back to their hometowns and there are definitely some teachers who left due to FM being dislodged and a prolonged interim administration last year. In this environment, quite a few among the relatively good teachers whom we still have are likely to go to other places. Even as a 4th year BA, LLB student, I know that at least four of our faculty members have applied to NLSIU and some others have offers from newer private law schools. SKDR is facing an uphill task.