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Listed 20 institutions in no order or ranking but any of them can develop you academically if you are committed.
Some of the institutions don’t offer 5 year law like IIT or a law degree itself like JNU but provide good research environment and ecosystem where you can utilise your full potential.
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2. I will personally admit, on the VC's behalf, that he probably could not do as much as he would have liked either in constitutional law or law and philosophy. But that's because being a full time university administrator, while also teaching, is hard. In the western universities it is possible to continue a research career in his position equivalent, (a) because VCs don't teach in those places (I know this first-hand, having been to one such); and (b) the nonsense of Indian higher-ed (VCs having to deal with politicians who aren't even sixth class pass) isn't there in many societies outside of India. Building the type of Humboldtian-style research culture he aims for takes time and his record may, if looked at objectively from what an Ivy/RG counterpart's CV might look like, is very possibly underwhelming. That's because Indian universities' teaching loads (including those at NLS) are higher compared to counterparts elsewhere in the world. Can you produce the research output of a George Letsas while having the teaching and other loads of a standard Indian academia contract?
3. The PhD supervisor of a person is a very important connection of theirs to "name-drop" (read: simple mention) in connection to them. Why should Paul Craig's supervision of Sudhir be irrelevant compared to the fact Joseph Raz did DPhil (same final degree as Krishnaswamy under craig) under supervision of HLA Hart? Why would all obituaries of Raz (a 1000 times better academic than anybody at any Indian law school), including the London Times one, mention supervision of him under Hart and those defending Sudhir not his being supervised by Paul Craig? Supposedly, Raz's life and CV were now indicating that the fact he studied under Hart was no longer relevant, but evidently, those who actually matter didn't seem to think so. So you are holding Sudhir to a standard - that too, a double standard - that even Raz is not held to. Considering the miserable state of Indian legal education (well below 6/10 on a 10 point scale), we should be dancing for joy at the mere fact that an ex Paul Craig student was attracted back to our country to serve as a legal educator. And you are not doing anything to raise that base standard, may I just note. As he himself has said, during his time, there was a "distinct sense" that NLSIU kind of law schools were not really on the "higher education map" in India, let alone abroad. Sudhir has not only made sure beyond any scope for reasonable doubt that it is very much on the Indian map, but has also put it on the map globally. Just because you are attending some law college that opened its doors yesterday whose position is such that it is attracting NLSIU BALLB top rankers without LLM or PhD or work ex as teachers and you are having wet dreams in which its name overtakes NLS's doesn't mean anything to me, frankly.
NLS seems to be the only option. Any others? Nalsar, Nujs and Nlud seem to have become reduced to corporate law factories.