Someone who teaches well and knows their subject inside out. These teachers don't give a damn about attendance or anything, they know their worth and students attend their classes to gain knowledge.

I had one such professor, he used to take open book exams and hardly any student, who flunked his classes, were able to get good scores. Completely practical exams, no theoretical bullshit, no rote learning. If you understand the concept, you can write just 2 lines for 10 marks, and he will give you 10; write 10 page shit, he gives you 0.

Why would you ask students what they want? this thread is a nightmare.

Its like asking patients what medicines they want- you might have a few who say- well that depends on the diagnosis and what the doctor recommends. Most people who will be vocal though will be addicts who want you to give them oxy/fenty without limit.

Academics in India need to gain a backbone. They live in a make believe world where there is no crisis of integrity going on. Once you spend any time among students and hear how they talk- its shocking.

Good question. I felt it would be good to get a perspective from students about what they want. When I was a law student, I had certain expectations from teachers and I have been carving myself as per those expectations. It's good to have a look at different perspectives. To be honest, I felt I would get more responses from law students- after all they often crib about the quality of faculty at LegallyIndia. But barring 3-4 responses, I haven't recieved anything useful.

NLS students will give you eyeballs and judge you if we think that you don't have the core knowledge. We get to know whether you are faffing or not right from 2nd year onwards (as in whether you really are authority on it or was given the subject to teach because no one else was there). A lot of us also want that you should be eloquent. There is a difference between a scholar and teacher at the end of the day though it seems like most in the university admin don't go by this. And yes most of us (currently in fifth year) are frustrated as to how we are taught so much of jurisprudence and hardly any black letter law. We had 2 courses on jurisprudence,the second course was statutory interpretation but Sudhir made it to juris, half of tax law was just jurisprudence on tax, crim law 1 was entirely jurisprudence on corporate crimes, LPD (subject itself is irrelevant) and even ethics was jurisprudence. However, most of us don't mind all this as long as you go easy on us in grades. But to be a Rockstar teacher like RS in corp law (though he isn't eloquent) you need to know inside out of the course, don't give bt wrt attendance and make a paper which everyone passes. And yeah some cringe people get offended by politically incorrect stuff.....most of us don't care, some us of will agree with what you said but won't stand with you when the woke will call you out because of fear of getting cancelled.