NLU Delhi has instituted a selection committee to look for a successor to vice-chancellor (VC) Prof Ranbir Singh, who started the law school in 2008 and is due to retire soon.
The position is likely to be a hotly contested one.
NLU Delhi has done well since founding when compared against other younger law schools (in part helped by generous funding from the Delhi government and the highly controversial decision to keep it outside the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT)).
Furthermore, its location in Delhi would allow the new boss plenty of hobnobbing opportunities with the political and judicial elites, which makes this one of the sexier NLU postings for pretty much any academic in India.
The three members of the selection committee are, according to authoritative sources:
- NLU Jabalpur VC Prof Balraj Chauhan (and former VC of RMLNLU Lucknow and NLIU Bhopal), who was nominated by NLU Delhi’s executive council (EC),
- NLIU Bhopal VC Prof V Vijaykumar is the nominee of the University Grants Commission (UGC), and
- Delhi high court Justice GS Sistani has been nominated by the university’s chancellor.
We understand that the selection committee is yet to meet.
Singh was re-appointed as NLU Delhi VC in July 2013 for a second five-year term, after founding the university in 2008.
He had been founding VC of Nalsar Hyderabad in 2008, and was professor at NLSIU Bangalore between 1996 and 1997.
We have not been able to confirm his last day in office (which, by the book, should have expired in mid-2018).
We have reached out to Singh for more information.
Update 23:12: Thanks to commenter @19 below for sharing the notification of Singh’s extension dated 20 July 2018: his term will basically expire any time before 23 September 2020.
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- Seniority must be secondary to academic excellence
- NLU alumni preferred
- International education/experience preferred
- Quality of publications more important than quantity.
If NLUD students are not careful, the college may well meet a similar fate. Remember that Sudhir Krishnaswamy and Rajkumar from Jindal are both trying to poach NLUD faculty anyway.
Prof. Singh got an extension last year, for another year. To the best of my knowledge, he is now in an interim position awaiting his replacement. Perhaps in a couple of months.
1. Jaswal from RGNUL
2. Venkata Rao from NLSIU
3. Sri Krishna Deva Rao from NLUO
4. Shashikala Gurpur from Symbi
5. Nandimath from NLSIU
6. T Ramakrishna from NLSIU
7. Ramesh from NLSIU
8. Ved Kumari from DU
9. Mrinal from NLUD
10. VK Unni from IIM Calcutta
11. Bharat Desai from JNU
12. Anurag Agarwal from IIM Ahmedabad
13. VC Vivekanandan, now HNLU VC
14. Amita Dhanda from NALSAR
15. Kamala Shankaran from TNNLS
16. Bimal Patel, now Gujarat Maritime University
17. Bajpai from NLUD
18. Maoj Sinha from ILI
19. Tarunabh Khaitan from Oxford, NLSIU alum
20. Prabha Kotiswaran from King's College London, NLSIU alum
And Section 33 is the overriding provision. "33. Overriding Effects: The provisions of this Act and the Rules, Statutes and Regulations made there under shall have effect notwithstanding anything inconsistent contained therewith in any other law or instrument having the force of law for the time being in force."
The students and alumni can actually use this to say that the UGC conditions are not binding. However, they have a lot of work to do. They will need to reach out to people who may be interested in taking up the position/ convince someone to apply and lobby inside the campus and also meet alumni.
And the NLUD prof will not join JGLS. They had open offers and would have done so long before. For them teaching good students instead of rich kids is more important.
Tier 1
1. NLSIU (zooms even higher under Sudhir)
2. NALSAR (distant second, but steady lead over NLUD due to expected faculty exodus from NLUD).
3. NLUD (slips into a distant third, hurt by faculty exodus, new VC will be the one expected, bad news)
Heading to Tier 2
4. NUJS (slips further with domicile quota and current VC, relying on past glory, desperately needs Nationalisation)
Tier 2
5. NLIU (overtakes NLUJ under new VC, but desperately needs Nationalisation and funding, facing competition from JGLS on placements)
6. NLUJ (also relying on past glory, VC not good, also competition from JGLS on placements, desperately needs Nationalisation)
7. GNLU (improvements under new VC, but still behind NLIU and NLUJ, competition from JGLS)
Tier 3
8. HNLU (improves under new VC, but still struggling with funds, needs Nationalisation).
9. MNLU Mumbai (gradually creeping up)
10. NLUO (stuck in a rut, desperately needs Nationalisation)
11. RGNUL (same as above)
12. RMLNLU (same as above)
13. NUALS (same as above)
Tier 4
14. MNLU Nagpur (gradually creeping up)
15. MNLU Aurangabad (gradually creeping up)
16. TNNLS (gradually creeping up)
17. DSNLU (struggling under Jagan Reddy, no Chandrababu to help)
Tier 5
18. CNLU Patna (struggling)
19. NLU Assam (struggling)
20. NLU Jabalpur (gradually creeping up)
21. HPNLU (struggling)
22. NLU Haryana (struggling)
www.hillagric.ac.in/aboutus/registrar/pdf/2018/GA/August2018/2018-08-28-Notification-42180-99-27.08.2018.pdf
Jaswal and SKD Rao are the frontrunners.
A) If quality is given more importance than the 10 year rule:
1. Mrinal @ NLUD
2. Nigam @ BML Munjal
3. Unni @ IIM Calcutta3. Various people teaching abroad at professor level, eg Tarunabh@Oxford, Prabha @ King's, Shyam@Penn, Surya Deva @Hong Kong, Neha@EUI, Shubhankar@Portsmouth
B) If the 10 year rule is followed:
1. Vivekanandan@HNLU
2. Desai @ JNU
3. Anurag@IIMA
Let's no unncessary say whatever. Let the students and alumni meet and see what happens.
Ex- Rgnul student
As for us not having a "claim" on alumni from other NLUs, I did not know that appointment process is being reduced to a childish game in your imagination. Grow the fuck up dude.
1. As a compromise, reduce the 10 year professorship requirement to 5 years and make the field open to people n their 40s. Make the point that Sudhir could become NLSIU VC only because MP Sigh fastracked hm to professor at NUJS.
2. Preference to people who are alumni of NLUs.
3. Preference to people who are graduates of universities overseas, or have done fellowships there.
4. List 20 people in India and abroad who fulfilled the criteria, around 15 to 18 being alumni.
5. Rule out NLU VCs who have faced protest at their NLUs. Then list all the NLUs where protests have taken place.
2. Name a few who have applied for NLSIU even, apart from Sudhir? There's no alumnus currently working in India or interested to work, who is senior enough. Shamnad could have been, but for the unfortunate accident. Mrinal isn't interested and in case, he's been professor for not even 5-odd years.
3. This one is not a bad idea, but to be frank, very discriminatory and prone to all sorts of challenge. But I think it can still be done.
4. There won't be that many unless your point one is accepted. Certainly not if point 2 is to be accepted too.
5. This is again a good idea. One may even argue that it's a logical exclusion for proven incompetence. The counter could be that if the concerned guy could settle the protests without outside intervention, then it should probably go in his favour, not against.
law.tamu.edu/faculty-staff/find-people/faculty-profiles/srividhya-ragavan
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