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Business World Article on MBA programs in business schools. The same applies to state NLUs as well. It is only in India we have standalone business schools and law schools. All top business and law schools worldwide are part of a bigger university system for a reason. Under the NEP, UGC is pushing all universities to have at least five disciplines by 2030.
This is why state NLUs never excel, but continue to range between mediocre and bad. Some NLUs have started offering newer programs and/or new departments (e.g. BA degree in NLS, Forensic Science department in WBNUJS, Management department in NALSAR, etc.) but these are too little, too late - no real impact.
Anyways the solution is not make more NLUs but increase the seats in the existing NLUs and also simultaneously add more course. Something which NLS seems to be doing correctly.
Just doing those things will get you to a certain place. But it wont make you competitive or rigorous as good multidisciplinary universities that also impose rigor. You realise the difference when you study at an Ivy or an Oxford. Their lawyers take courses in machine learning and design. They really learn in an interdisciplinary way- it's not just about tacking on a couple of social sciences articles to your lesson plan- it's about being able to learn entirely differently.
Even just something as basic as sociology. Indian law students hate the subject by and large and think they're burdened by learning it- but the truth is they just read some academic theory under the guise of sociology, they wouldnt know how to write or evaluate a sociological research paper, they wouldn't know how to interview a subject without getting argumentative or leading them on , they wouldn't know how to construct a survey or what a good sample size would be. theyre barely educated at anything beyond the law.
You have two courses in political science, and most people in Indian law schools don't know how to read a poll or what to make of a political science paper really. Don't even get me started on economics. Learning the coase theorem and supply and demand doesn't actually mean you understand the basics of how markets work or how countries develop.
So on a world stage- you really cannot compete with someone who had a good education in their BA and in their LLB. You won't get jobs at the World Bank, you won't get jobs teaching at Harvard law school, and you won't get jobs working at the UN. You barely even get hired by consulting firms because they want graduates who have been taught to use their brains and problem-solve rather than memorise and regurgitate case law. What most Indian law students end up doing- pushing paper at a law firm- is really all they are capable of doing. They're severely limited. A law degree is supposed to be a generalist degree that opens up all sorts of opportunities. But Indian law degrees are not that. Because there aren't good multidisciplinary universities.
It's hard to imagine something you haven't seen. That is probably why most Indian law school students dont understand what these sad excuses for social sciences courses are supposed to be imitating.