Bennett University’s law school founding dean and former Nalsar Hyderabad and NLSIU Bangalore professor Prof VC Vivekanandan has been appointed as the new vice chancellor (VC) of HNLU Raipur.
His appointment follows the resignation of previous VC Prof Sukh Pal Singh in October of last year, following student protests and hungerstrikes against his administration.
His successor, Vivekanandan, is a 1993 Bangalore University LLB graduate with a 2004 masters from Acharya Nagarjuna University, and a 2006 NLSIU Bangalore PhD.
From 2001 he has been MHRD IP chair professor at Nalsar Hyderabad, between 2009 and 2010 he was dean of Rajiv Gandhi School of IP Law at IIT Kharagpur, and in 2017 he was the founding dean of the law school of Bennett University.
At NLSIU, he was for a time also professor of law, as well as head of its distance education department.
Vivekanandan also has industry experience: from 1992 to 1998 he was bureau head of the Dalal Street Journal and according to his Nalsar faculty profile, also “editor and publisher with Inde Global Communications”.
We are trying to reach out to Vivekanandan and will update the story if we manage to speak to him.
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*Meanwhile people in HNLU*
PS: Not that I am complaining.
Eg: Baxi is from Berkeley and not South Gujarat. Uday Raj Rai was (famously) from SOAS and not Agra (ask VVK, wink wink).
Only time will tell whether VCV matches what he is being touted to be. At NUJS, the VC selection was deeply affected by state politics. The state government very clearly conveyed the "son of soil" argument and Justice Talukdar did the rest to scare away good candidates.
I personally believe that SC is quietly making itself clear wherever the state governments aren't being obstinate. Sudhir at NLS and now VCV at HNLU. This may mean that a big (and hopefully pleasant) surprise is expected at NLUD.
If NLUD students get GSB or PJ or a member of the old guard then they only have themselves to blame. They don't have a CM hellbent on destroying institutions for populism etc.
NUJS still has a chance. Ask NKC the tough questions and don't let him get away with mumbles. He is doing a PIB. Also watch what he is doing and not what he is mumbling.
[quote]Prof. V.C. Vivekanandan has three decades of teaching and research experience in legal education and served NLS-Bangalore and NALSAR-Hyderabad between 1990 to 2017. He also was the Dean at Rajiv Gandhi School of IP Law at IIT Kharagpur between 2009-2010 and was the founding Dean of the School of Law at Bennett University at Greater Noida during 2017-2019.
He holds a Bachelors Degree, Master’s Degree and PhD degree in law apart from a Master’s and M.Phil . degree in Public Administration. Prof. Vivekanandan was appointed as the MHRD Chair Professor in 2008 -2009 and again from 2010 to 2017. During this tenure, he was also representing Government of India negotiations in SCCR meets at Geneva as an official delegate from 2013-2015.
He was an elected member of the At Large Community (ALAC) representing Asia Pacific region participating in the deliberations of the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) between 2008-2010 and later became a member of the Nomination Committee (NOMCOM) of ICANN between 2010-2012. He was the founder Director of the Legal Information Institute of India (LII of India) during 2010-12 as part of the Free Access to Law Movement (FALM)
He also served as the NWO-ICCR fellow at Maastricht University School of law and as Invited Scholar at the Institute of Intellectual Property at Tokyo in 2010 and 2015. He is also an adjunct visiting professor for SUNY Buffalo Business School since 2007 for their programmes
Prof. Vivekanandan specializes in teaching, research and advocacy of the fields of Intellectual Property Law and Internet Law. He also established the NALSAR Proximate Education at NALSAR University and headed the division between 2001-2009 and 2010-2017, which offered PG Diploma programmes of Patents, Cyber Law, Media Law and International Humanitarian Law. The division also ran a Master’s programme in Tax and Business Law for the probationers of the National Academy of Direct Taxes (NADT) Nagpur during 2008 to 2016.
He serves as Jury with CII on the selection of IP awards since 2015 and also served as a Jury with Pharmexil for IP awards in 2013-15.
He has key publications in National and International journals and has contributed to book chapters in International publications. He is also an invited speaker in reputed institutes in India and Abroad.
His non-law interests include music, cinema and travel.[/quote]
Really hope he doesn't put his self-interest over student interest, as was done by Sukkhu.
high fee and they wish a fair quid pro quo for their investment.
I have privileged to visit this University three times in last ten years. It has developed a good infrastructure. However, it needs a good academician and administrator to make it at par to other NLUs. I pray the God to bless the HNLU as it has a national responsibility to develop a Right oriented legal regime to protect rights of large number of poor tribal population in the State of Chattisgarh.
Prof. SK Gupta
Faculty of Law, B.H.U. Varanasi.
It falls somewhere in between Tier 1 and Tier 2.
Tier 1: NLSIU, NALSAR, NLUD
Between tier 1 and 2: NUJS, JGLS
Tier 2: NLUJ, NLIU, GNLU
Between tier 2 and 3: MNLU Mumbai, NLUO, RGNUL, RMLNLU
Tier 3: HNLU, CNLU, CNLU, DSNLU, others
Forgiving you for the fact that MNLU's first batch is yet to graduate(you clearly don't seem to know about a thing called as the Alumni Base), you place RML above HNLU! RML!!! XD Most of their recently graduated batch is jobless, the politics and lack of interest in academics there is appalling yet obvious but yet you commit such a folly. Satan is watching.
Tip: Go figure on Legally India or even LinkedIn where people who've graduated over the years are working in before your assumptions and please let me know how many of your Between tier 2 and 3 NLUs actually have made Partners in law firms(let alone the Tier Is). Forget about cracking Judiciary or working for the socially disabled, your ignorance won't consider it a "job". Tip: Try googling about Jaglag, Forbes 30 under 30(2015), the many Rhodes scholarships(among others), check who the founder of Vidhi, Spotdraft are before you come back crying over here again(if you have time left check how many very made Partners at firms like CAM, Indus, SAM or Khaitan). HNLU graduates have amazing reputations in their places of work, which is a fact you better accept before the world shuns you as a foolish man.
HNLU has the better placements, higher number of students who've cleared the judiciary and civil services, higher number of students who've gone to elite universities for llms, and a better campus to boot than any of the schools you've mentioned as Tier 2 (yes, even Mumbai). Even with the previous VC, HNLU was far superior to any of the said schools, and will continue to be because none of the others really have anything apart from the NLU tag (maybe except Mumbai).
The amount of ignorance is too damn high bruh!
https://www.nirfindia.org/2019/LawRanking.html
https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/nlsiu-students-criticise-delay-in-appointment-of-vc/article29402166.ece
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1) The hype of 7 figure monthly salary wa6a hype. A salesman's sale talk.
2) Having sold Bennett his suitability, the going got tough when told to do what he had sold he could. Ran to a safe haven as the corner office became too hot to handle.
3) HNLU in his perception offers earning opportunities in addition to salary which we can't fathom.
Or it is a combination of all three.