JGLS Sonepat has announced the joining of another 64 faculty members to its law school in January 2021.
This is in addition to its previous round of 103 new law school hires in September 2020, and the 104 new teachers it had hired in February 2020.
In an internal announcement sent to students and faculty, founding JGU vice-chancellor (VC) Prof Raj Kumar announced the 64 hires in addition to 48 other faculty members hired for its non-law schools: “With the addition of new faculty members, JGU has 832 faculty members including 131 Academic Tutors and TRIP Fellows across ten schools.”
“It is also a fascinating achievement for JGU that 60% of our faculty members have international qualifications from the leading universities of the world,” he added. A total of 69% of all the new faculty members were women.
The latest January 2021 hires include a total of 112 new members across the entire Jindal Global University, of whom 65 are with the law school.
Out of those 65, two are assistant professors while the rest are lecturers (7), assistant lecturers (18) and more than half (37) are academic tutors and fellows under its Teaching & Research for Intellectual Pursuit (TIRP) programme, which it had launched out in July 2020 to provide academic career opportunities to graduates in the earlier days of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Two new assistant profs
The two assistant professors are Prof Aakanksha Kumar and Prof Gowthaman Ranganathan.
Kumar had most recently been an assistant professor at Nalsar Hyderabad. She is an 2012 HNLU Raipur LLB graduate with an LLM National University of Singapore, and has been a PhD candidate at NLU Jodhpur since 2016.
Ranganathan had been research assistant at the University of Texas immediately before joining JGLS and holds a 2010 LLB from NLSIU Bangalore and LLMs from Azim Premji University and The University of Texas at Austin, where he was a Fulbright-Nehru Scholar.
Even larger September 2020 recruitment
JGLS’ previous law school faculty recruitment of 103 from September 2020, which had been press released and widely covered at the time, also included two more senior hires: one full professor and dean of career services, Prof (Dr) Pankaj Gupta, and one associate professor Prof Courtenay Erin Morris.
The other September 2020 hires were spread across the assistant professor (11), lecturer (22), assistant lecturer (25) and academic tutor ranks (42.
See the full break-down of hires below for more details.
Across those two hiring intakes, 37 of the new faculty hires held LLB degrees from National Law Universities (NLUs) (which has always seemed a particularly interesting statistic to LI readers). Out of these 37, 10 were at lecturer seniority or above.
In addition to those numbers, 27 NLU graduates had been hired in February 2020.
By LLB college: 37 hires from NLUs, most from JGLS, Amity, CNLU
January 2021: 14 NLU LLBs, Amity on top
In the most recent January round of 64, the greatest number of recruits came from Amity University (a total of 9, or potentially up to 12 if including its parent, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University Delhi).
Delhi University provided another six recruits, while JGLS itself was the undergraduate alma mater for four.
National Law Universities (NLUs) contributed 13 hires, of whom the most senior ranks included two assistant professors and two lecturers, led numerically by:
- HNLU Raipur (total of 3: includes one assistant professor, Prof Aakanksha Kumar, and one lecturer),
- NUSRL Ranchi (2) and RMLNLU Lucknow (2),
- one each from DSNLU Visakhapatnam, NLIU Bhopal (lecturer), NLSIU Bangalore (assitant prof Prof Gowthaman Ranganathan), NLU Delhi, RGNUL Punjab and TNNLU Tiruchirapalli.
September 2020 hires: 25 NLU LLBs, JGLS largest number
In the September 2020 batch of 102 faculty recruits, JGLS itself was top of the list of LLB alma mater, providing 9 hires, followed by CNLU Patna (5), DSNLU Vishakhapatnam (4), and three each from Aligarh Muslim University, Delhi University, GGSIPU, NLIU Bhopal, NLU Jodhpur, Pune University, Delhi University and NUJS Kolkata.
A total of 24 had completed their LLB degrees at various NLUs, notably:
- 5 from CNLU,
- 4 from DSNLU,
- 3 from NLIU Bhopal, NLU Jodhpur and NUJS,
- 2 from RGNUL Patiala, and
- one each from GNLU Gandhinagar, HNLU, Nalsar Hyderabad, NLUJA Assam and RMLNLU Lucknow.
NLU Jodhpur provided two assistant professors (Prof Tariang Bdap Dkhar and Prof Julie Roy), while one assistant professor had completed an LLB from NLIU (Prof Chetna Shrivastava).
The lecturer ranks included one each from NLU Jodhpur, GNLU, NUJS, CNLU and NLIU.
Hires by position
As in September, the greatest number of hires are at the more junior end, which makes sense as the university has been expanding its online postgraduate programmes considerably and trying to keep up its faculty student ratio of around 8:1.
We have reached out for comment what the new BCI announcement that purports to scrap the one year LLM could mean, and will be publishing a fuller analysis and speculation shortly.
For reference about the below seniorities, JGLS’ “cost to university (CTU)" of a professor was around Rs 40 lakh per annum, while assistant professors were at around Rs 20 lakhs per annum, we had reported in February.
64 from January 2021
The faculty hires announced in January 2021 include:
- 2 Assistant Professors (AP),
- 7 Lecturers (L)
- 18 Assistant Lecturers (AL)
- 37 Academic Tutors (AT) & TRIPS fellows
103 from September 2020
The 103 new faculty members include:
- 1 Professor,
- 1 Associate Professor (Assoc Prof),
- 11 Assistant Professors,
- 22 Lecturers,
- 25 Assistant Lecturers and
- 42 Academic Tutors.
Full list of September 2020, January 2021 hires
Abbreviations:
- Assoc Professor (Assoc Prof);
- Assistant Professor (AL);
- Lecturer (L),
- Assistant Lecturer (AL),
- Academic Tutor (AT) + TRIP Fellow
January 2021 hires
Name | Position | LLB | Other degrees |
Prof Aakanksha Kumar | AP (assistant prof) | HNLU Raipur | LLM (National University of Singapore); PhD candidate (NLU, Jodhpur) |
Prof Gowthaman Ranganathan | AP (assistant prof) | NLSIU Bangalore | LLM (Azim Premji University); LLM (The University of Texas, Austin) |
Aveek Chakravarty | L | NLIU Bhopal | LLM (University of Turin and the International Training Centre of the ILO, Italy); PhD candidate (University of Turin, Italy) |
Sherin Sarah Philip | L | Indore Institute of Law Indore | LLM (University College Dublin, Ireland) |
Nawal M I Hend | L | Birzeit University Palestine | LLM (Penn State Law) |
Sana Javed | L | Pune University | LLM (Queen Mary University of London) |
R Saxena | L | University of Delhi | LLM (University of Pennsylvania) |
Shantanu Kanade | L | HNLU Raipur | MA (OP Jindal Global University); LLM (Leiden University) |
Shaurya Upadhyay | L | University of Delhi | LLM (London School of Economics, London) |
Pallavi Rajpal | AL | OP Jindal Global University | LLM (Queen Mary University of London) |
Shradha Prasad | AL | KIIT University Bhubaneswar | LLM (Queen Mary University of London) |
Monika Mulchandani | AL | GH Raisoni Law College Nagpur | LLM (Queen Mary University of London) |
Subhrajit Chanda | AL | Amity University | LLM (UPES, Dehradun); LLM (Nottingham Trent University); PhD candidate (GD Goenka University) |
Nikunj Kulshreshtha | AL | University of Delhi | BBA (M S University, Tamil Nadu); LLM (Queen Mary University of London) |
Apoorvi Jha | AL | OP Jindal Global University | LLM; Master in Global Sports Management (Instituto Superior de Derecho y Economía, Spain) |
Pratik Purswani | AL | Symbiosis Pune | BSc (Singhania University); MA (NALSAR, Hyderabad); LLM (Leiden University) |
Arshia Sana | AL | RMLNLU Lucknow | LLM (HNLU, Raipur); LLM (University of Westminster) |
Bhavya Tandon | AL | KIIT University Bhubaneshwar | LLM (University of Edinburgh) |
Ritesh Bajaj | AL | Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University Delhi | LLM (Maastricht University) |
Ashiv Choudhary | AL | University of Jammu | LLM (Queen Mary University of London) |
**Sanya Darakhshan Kishwar | AL | Central University of South Bihar | LLM (Penn State Law); LLM (University of Leeds) |
Smera Kumar | AL | Amity University | BA (University of Delhi); LLM (University of Kent) |
Isha Das | AL | Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University Delhi | LLM (University College London) |
Saksham Shukla | AL | Amity University | LLM (University of Bristol) |
Aj Agrawal | AL | RMLNLU Lucknow | LLM (SOAS University of London) |
Katyayani Sinha | AL | OP Jindal Global University | LLM (SOAS University of London) |
Aayushi Singh | AL | Symbiosis Pune | LLM (National University of Singapore); LLM (IHEID, Geneva) |
Poornima Hemant Narvekar | AT + TRIP | Shahaji Law College Kolhapur | LLM (TISS, Mumbai) |
SP Ezhiloviya | AT + TRIP | TNNLU Tiruchirapalli | LLM (TISS, Mumbai) |
Priyanka Biswas | AT + TRIP | Amity University | LLM (TISS, Mumbai) |
Akshata A Ahire | AT + TRIP | University of Mumbai | LLB (New Law College, University of Mumbai); LLM (TISS, Mumbai) |
Ajay Maherchandani | AT + TRIP | University of Mumbai | LLM (TISS, Mumbai) |
Utkarsh Mishra | AT + TRIP | DSNLU Visakhapatnam | LLM (NLIU, Bhopal) |
Bhanu Tanwar | AT + TRIP | NLU Delhi | LLM (NLU, Delhi) |
Manisha Priyadarshni Bhagat | AT + TRIP | NUSRL Ranchi | LLM (TISS Mumbai) |
Vishakha Sakharkar | AT + TRIP | HNLU Raipur | LLM (NALSAR, Hyderabad) |
Aditya Agrawal | AT + TRIP | KIIT University Bhubaneswar | LLM (NLU, Delhi) |
Deepayan Malaviya | AT + TRIP | Faculty of Law University of Lucknow | LLM (TISS, Mumbai) |
Shruti Sahni | AT + TRIP | UPES Dehradun | LLM (RGNUL, Punjab) |
Shashank Maheshwari | AT + TRIP | Amity University | LLM (NLU, Delhi) |
Vijay K Tyagi | AT + TRIP | University of Delhi | BSc (University of Delhi); LLM (ILI, Delhi) |
Hemendra Singh | AT + TRIP | RGNUL Punjab | LLM (NLU, Jodhpur) |
Shyamali Kumar | AT + TRIP | Nirma University | LLM (GNLU, Gandhinagar) |
Upasana Khattri | AT + TRIP | Banasthali University | LLM (NLU, Delhi) |
Priyanka Nair | AT + TRIP | Kerala University | BA (University of Delhi); LLM (NLU, Delhi) |
Paridhi Sharma | AT + TRIP | KIIT University Bhubaneswar | LLM (NLIU, Bhopal) |
Karan Goyal | AT + TRIP | Bcom LLB Punjab University | LLM (TISS, Mumbai) |
Priya Kumari | AT + TRIP | NUSRL Ranchi | LLM (NLU, Jodhpur) |
Kirt Agarwal | AT + TRIP | Amity University | LLM (NLU, Delhi) |
Shivani Kowadkar | AT + TRIP | BA (St Xavier’s College, Mumbai); MA (TISS, Mumbai) | |
Nandini Sharma | AT + TRIP | University of Rajasthan | LLM (NLSIU, Bangalore) |
Blessan M | AT + TRIP | IIT Kharagpur | BTech (Sathyabama University, Chennai); LLM (NLSIU, Bangalore) |
Nishtha Pant | AT + TRIP | Panjab University | LLM (GNLU, Gandhinagar) |
Prachi Tyagi | AT + TRIP | Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University Delhi | LLM (GNLU, Gandhinagar) |
Sanyukta Saxena | AT + TRIP | Amity University | LLM (GNLU, Gandhinagar) |
Sneha Hooda | AT + TRIP | University of Delhi | BSc (Amity University); LLM (NLU, Delhi) |
Saheli Chakraborty | AT + TRIP | Calcutta University | LLM (WBNUJS, Kolkata) |
Sanskriti Kadiyan | AT + TRIP | CCS University Meerut | LLM (OP Jindal Global University) |
**Nimmy Saira Zachariah | AT + TRIP | University of Kerala | LLM (NLU, Delhi) |
Shalinee Vishwakarma | AT + TRIP | Dr DY Patil College of Law University of Mumbai | LLM (OP Jindal Global University) |
Srutee Badu | AT + TRIP | OP Jindal Global University | LLM (NLU, Odisha) |
Akriti Kaushik | AT + TRIP | Amity University | LLM (Symbiosis Pune) |
Tripti Bhushan | AT + TRIP | Amity University | LLM (HNLU, Raipur) |
Digvijay | AT + TRIP | University of Delhi | BE (Panjab University); LLM (SGT University); PhD candidate (OPJS University) |
September 2020 hires
Name | Position | LLB | LLM | Other Qualifications |
Prof (Dr) Pankaj Gupta | Prof; dean career services | CMA; Fellow of ICAI; MCom; PhD (University of Lucknow); GCPCL (Harvard University) | ||
Prof Courtenay Erin Morris | Assoc. Prof | BA (Cornell University); JD (University of Michigan) | ||
Prof Raphael Lorenzo Aguiling Pangalangan | AP & Associate Dean | University of Cambridge | BA; JD (University of the Philippines);MSt (University of Oxford) | |
Prof (Dr) Chisom Ubabukoh | AP | BTech (Federal University of Technology, Nigeria); MSc; PhD (University of Manchester) | ||
Prof (Dr) Sagnik Dutta | AP | BA (University of Calcutta); MA (University of Delhi); MA (SOAS University of London); PhD (University of Cambridge) | ||
Prof (Dr) Max Steuer | AP | Comenius University Slovakia | University of Cambridge | BA (Comenius University, Slovakia); MA (Central European University); PhD (Comenius University, Slovakia) |
Prof Christian Sopuruchi Godsfriend | AP | Imo State University | Nnamdi Azikiwe University and SOAS University of London | BL (Nigerian Law School) |
Prof Rajesh NVC | AP | MSc (IIT Kharagpur); MBA (IIM Calcutta); FPM candidate (IIM Indore) | ||
[Correction: Prof Aakanksha Kumar joined only later] | [AP] | [HNLU Raipur] | [National University of Singapore] | [PhD candidate (NLU, Jodhpur)] |
Prof Pragya Parijat Singh | AP | Delhi University | University of Cambridge | BA (University of Delhi) |
Prof Chetna Shrivastava | AP | NLIU Bhopal | University of Cambridge | BCL (University of Oxford) |
Prof Tariang Bdap Dkhar | AP | NLU Jodhpur | SOAS University of London | |
Prof Nishtha Khurana | AP | University of Delhi | University of Cambridge | |
Prof Julie Roy | AP | NLU Jodhpur | BCL (University of Oxford) | |
Mr Abhishek Rana | L | Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University Delhi | Queen Mary University of London | |
Ms Shachi Jain | L | Government Law College Mumbai | National University of Singapore | CS (ICSI) |
Ms Nishtha Singh | L | Army Institute of Law Mohali | NALSAR, Hyderabad | PhD candidate (NALSAR, Hyderabad) |
Ms Swasti Gupta | L | OP Jindal Global University | University of Hamburg and Erasmus University, Rotterdam | |
Mr Mazyar Ahmad | L | University of Delhi | University of Southampton | BSc (Nautical Science) (IGNOU, Delhi); MPhil (Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi) |
Ms Pauline L. Forje | L | Kingston University | Queen Mary University of London | |
Ms Ishita Kumar | L | NLU Jodhpur | SOAS University of London | |
Mr Raunaq Jaiswal | L | Bharti Vidyapeeth Deemed University Pune | OP Jindal Global University and Central European University | |
Ms Nandita Krishna | L | Christ University Bangalore | SOAS University of London | |
Ms Srimati Ghosal | L | BA (Hons); MA (Presidency University, Kolkata); MPhil (University of Cambridge) | ||
Ms Sanskriti Sanghi | L | GNLU Gandhinagar | University of Cambridge | |
Mr Lewis Njabulo Sibanda | L | University of South Africa | University of Sussex | |
Ms Dhyuthi Velugula | L | University of Kent | London School of Economics, London | |
Mr Avantik Tamta | L | WBNUJS Kolkata | University of Cambridge | |
Ms Aakriti Tripathi | L | CNLU Patna | University of Cambridge | |
Ms Raushan Tara Jaswal | L | Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University Delhi | University of Cambridge | |
Ms Anjali Sharma | L | BCom (Patna Women’s College);PGDM (Chandragupt Institute of Management Patna); FPM candidate (IIM Indore) | ||
Ms Oiswarjya Basu | L | University of Calcutta | SOAS University of London | |
Ms Manika Bora | L | BA (University of Delhi); MA (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi); MPhil (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi); PhD candidate (NIEPA, New Delhi) | ||
Ms Surabhi Singh | L | NLIU Bhopal | University of Toronto | |
Ms Avaantika Chawla | L | OP Jindal Global University | Leiden University | |
Ms Sarni Jain | L | BA; MA (University of Jammu); PhD (OP Jindal Global University) | ||
Mr Shoaib Latif Khan | AL | University of Kashmir | Queen Mary University of London | |
Ms Shreya Tewari | AL | RGNUL Punjab | London School of Economics, London | |
Ms Priya Garg | AL | WBNUJS Kolkata | BCL (University of Oxford) | |
Mr Animesh bordoloi | AL | NLUJA Assam | National University of Singapore | |
Ms M. Gopal | AL | OP Jindal Global University | University of Nottingham | |
Ms Pratibha Tandon | AL | Pune University | Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi | JSD candidate (Chicago-Kent College of Law) |
Ms Mitakshara Goyal | AL | OP Jindal Global University | University of Cambridge | |
Ms Dhruvi Shah | AL | Pune University | Queen Mary University of London | |
Mr Harsh Mahaseth | AL | NALSAR Hyderabad | National University of Singapore | |
Ms Trupti Panigrahi | AL | Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University Delhi | Queen Mary University of London | |
Ms Shubhangi Srivastava | AL | NMIMS Mumbai | Queen Mary University of London | |
Mr Mohammad Nasar | AL | Aligarh Muslim University | University of Kent | |
Ms Jayanti Singh | AL | University of Delhi | London School of Economics, London | BA (Hons) (University of Delhi) |
Mr Abhijit Saste | AL | ILS Pune | University of East Anglia | |
Ms Srishti Telang | AL | DSNLU Vishakhapatnam | Maastricht University | |
Mr Shivanshu Sharma | AL | Symbiosis Pune | Cardiff University | |
Ms Tusharika Narwal | AL | Symbiosis Pune | Cardiff University | |
Ms Diksha Sanyal | AL | WBNUJS Kolkata | SOAS University of London | |
Ms Virangna Dhillon | AL | OP Jindal Global University | Queen Mary University of London | |
Ms Danai Spentzou | AL | University of Athens | Queen Mary University of London | |
Mr Avineet Singh Chawla | AL | Punjabi University Patiala | Queen Mary University of London | |
Mr Subhrajit Chanda | AL | Amity University | UPES, Dehradun and Nottingham Trent University | PhD candidate (GD Goenka University) |
Ms Shradha Prasad | AL | KIIT University Bhubneshwar | Queen Mary University of London | |
Ms Monika Mulchandani | AL | GH Raisoni College Nagpur | Queen Mary University of London | |
Ms Pallavi Rajpal | AL | OP Jindal Global University | Queen Mary University of London | |
Ms Avantika Tiwari | AT | Faculty of Law Delhi University | Indian Law Institute, Delhi | BSc (Hons) (University of Delhi) |
Mr Pranjal Khare | AT | RGNUL Punjab | NLIU, Bhopal | |
Ms Vishakha Srivastava | AT | CNLU Patna | NALSAR, Hyderabad | |
Ms Ashima Sharma | AT | Army Institute of Law Mohali | GNLU, Gandhinagar | PhD candidate (GNLU, Gandhinagar) |
Ms Aparna Venkatachalam | AT | New Law College University of Mumbai | TISS, Mumbai | BA (University of Mumbai) |
Ms Kshama Pandey | AT | Faculty of Law Banaras Hindu University | NLIU, Bhopal | BCom (Barkatullah University, Bhopal) |
Mr Satish Kumar | AT | CNLU Patna | NLIU, Bhopal | |
Ms Shrishti Khare | AT | Dr Harisingh Gour University Sagar | NALSAR, Hyderabad | PhD candidate (NLIU, Bhopal) |
Ms Akansha Yadav | AT | University of Allahabad | NLIU, Bhopal | |
Ms Tulika Singh | AT | KIIT University Bhubaneswar | NLIU, Bhopal | |
Ms Pushpita Dutta | AT | Mody University Sikar | NLIU, Bhopal | |
Ms Priyanka Kushwah | AT | Nirma University | NLIU, Bhopal | |
Mr Aqa Raza | AT | Aligarh Muslim University | Aligarh Muslim University | |
Ms Meemansa Singh | AT | JSS Law College Mysore | TISS, Mumbai | |
Ms Sanjana Singh | AT | DSNLU Vishakhapatnam | NLIU, Bhopal | |
Mr Ajmal K Ayoob | AT | Aligarh Muslim University | TISS, Mumbai | |
Mr Piyush Kumar Mishra | AT | DSNLU Vishakhapatnam | NLIU, Bhopal | |
Ms Manudeep Kaur | AT | Punjab University | OP Jindal Global University | |
Ms Merilin Jacob | AT | Mar Gregorious College of Law Trivandrum | OP Jindal Global University | |
Mr Vikas BM | AT | School of Law SASTRA University | OP Jindal Global University | |
Ms Stuti Lal | AT | CNLU Patna | OP Jindal Global University | |
Ms Ananya Singh | AT | OP Jindal Global University | OP Jindal Global University | |
Ms Nishtha Kohli | AT | UPES Dehradun | OP Jindal Global University | |
Ms Paarth Naithani | AT | RMLNLU Lucknow | OP Jindal Global University | |
Ms Pranav Narang | AT | OP Jindal Global University | OP Jindal Global University | BTech (ECE) (DAVIET, Jalandhar); PG Diploma in IPR and Patent Management (GIIP, Delhi) |
Ms Sujata Newton | AT | KLE Society’s Law College Bengaluru | OP Jindal Global University | |
Ms Anuja R | AT | School of Law SASTRA University | OP Jindal Global University | |
Ms Natalia Sunil Poojari | AT | Dr DY Patil College of Law | OP Jindal Global University | |
Ms Kriti Bhatnagar | AT | NMIMS Mumbai | OP Jindal Global University | |
Ms Himani Singh | AT | UPES Dehradun | OP Jindal Global University | |
Ms Poorvi Srivastava | AT | University of Lucknow | OP Jindal Global University | BCom (University of Lucknow) |
Ms Shikha Patel | AT | Government Law College Mumbai | OP Jindal Global University | BCom (Mithibai College, University of Mumbai) |
Mr Nishant Sheokand | AT | OP Jindal Global University | OP Jindal Global University | |
Ms Rupali Bansal | AT | The NorthCap University Gurugram | OP Jindal Global University | |
Ms Deepa Walia | AT | Punjab University | OP Jindal Global University | BA (Hons) (Punjab University) |
Mr Vishal Kumar Rai | AT | Law College Dehradun | OP Jindal Global University | |
Mr Rajat Shukla | AT | Bharti Vidyapeeth Deemed University Pune | OP Jindal Global University | |
Mr Deepam Rangwani | AT | Pune University | OP Jindal Global University | |
Ms Swati Yadav | AT | Delhi University | TISS, Mumbai | BA (Hons) (University of Delhi) |
Ms Kriti Bhatnagar | AT | NLIU Bhopal | GNLU, Gandhinagar | |
Ms Bhavya Singh | AT | CNLU Patna | CNLU, Patna | |
Mr Anurag Sharma | AT | DSNLU Vishakhapatnam | NLIU, Bhopal |
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50 kids per class in LLM. which means - 100 new students in two (2) years.
As opposed to the hundreds who have now been enrolled solely in the online program. Guess that upGrad LLM will also go?
At the least, a very expensive litigation awaits.
Also, can they interpret class more like sections?
And, both Haryana Private University Act and the recent IoE status gives JGLS a lot of leeways when it comes to following the rules. Doubt they will go litigating against BCI, as a private institute they would avoid pissing off the regulator, they would rather argue that they are exempt from most of the nonsense that is going around.
Kian, you should do a piece with some of the veterans, asking them what they think of BCI's recent move. Would love to see if any of the law firm biggies will offer an opinion.
Have now corrected the figures in the article and will check if any similar errors may have inadvertently crept in.
An investigation is needed to identify the corrupt VCs resistant to hiring alumni.
If we look at the current faculty composition at NALSAR (academic year 2020-2021), there are 7 full-time teachers who have undergraduate degrees from the NLUs. You can visit the NALSAR website and you will find the following names:
1) Sudhanshu Kumar - CNLU (2011)
2) Sidharth Chauhan - NLSIU (2008)
3) Vivek Mukherjee - NLIU (2015)
4) Chinmay Deshmukh - NLUJ (2015)
5) Sahana Ramesh - NUJS (2015)
6) Prerna Bijoy - NUSRL (2018)
7) Niharika Salar - NUSRL (2019)
You can visit the campus and talk to the teachers to confirm this information. We do not need to resort to 'shameless trolling' on any forum. It is enough for us to present facts in a balanced manner.
There were two NALSAR BALLB alums who were teaching before our batch joined in 2016, namely Manav Kapur (2012-2015) and Ajey Sengai (2013-2015). There might have been some others in the pre-2012 period that I am not aware of.
What JGLS seems to be running after is padding up the locker room and the dug out with folks who have LLMs and are doing PHDs. Most of them have no or very less practical experience. Whatever work experience they have also gets substantially diluted in the process of obtaining a foreign LLM and PHD which takes anywhere b/w 2-5 years. By then they lose the edge and the laws have also changed to a large extent.
Yes these guys have great CVs, but they are not practitioners and their students may only be slightly better-off, but no where close to graduates in other fields (Engineering, Medicine, Architects, etc.) who have basic employability/practical skills from the day they graduate.
This is what all Law Schools need to achieve and not just become youth retirement jobs for most who dont want to go through the gruel of practicing law and just want a cushy teaching job.
Remaining two are just doing their work and are invisible.
You remember lgbt lawyer from nls, guruswamy. She was commendable but even she faded away and is reaping the benwfit of 1 case.
Looking for someone like ramjethmalani. The man was a showman and made legal profession something to look up to. Indira jaising is also assertive and has reach.
But nothing big...
Combines in-depth research, lit and CLE. So maybe not as visible but probably focusing on actual work rather than building his own personal profile.
2. Aakanksha Kumar is hired as Asstt Prof, NOT Associate Prof. Her name is on both Sept.and Jan lists?
I am seriously looking for a career in academics. Need to know if academicians are paid well
However, I'm not sure whether older private law schools, such as the Amity's, Symbi's, etc are also considered to be part of the TLC umbrella?
theprint.in/opinion/scrapping-one-year-llm-smart-but-bcis-common-post-grad-entrance-is-a-problem/581261/
The proper and more difficult solution would have been to revamp the Indian one year LLM, make it more rigorous, have a proper entrance exam focusing on research and teaching aptitude, and not simply remain a way for students from non NLU background to get an easy NLU stamp. But since when has the BCI ever taken a sane decision? They just want to enter the entrance exam market now to rake in the moolah.
Kian, why can't you just call up the JGLS VC and Sudhir and ask them what the deal is???
Interesting how the bar is set to judge the quality of academicians in India.
I hope that the sensible NLU VCs such as Faizan Mustafa (NALSAR), Shanthakumar (GNLU), Poonam Saxena (NLU Jodhpur) and V.S. Elizabeth (TNNLS) will realise what is at stake and push for necessary amendments before these rules are enforced. Of course, there is a good chance that BCI's competence to regulate postgraduate programmes will be challenged in court. If enforced in their current form, the new BCI Rules will take us back by 10-15 years.
www.outlookindia.com/newsscroll/indias-institutions-of-eminence-can-now-set-up-campuses-in-foreign-countries/2007191
JGLS has close ties with Afghanistan, Tanzania and Mozambique (where the Jindal group has a major presence) and has a regular intake of students from these countries in the LLM. Offshore campuses here are possible, perhaps operating from a floor of the Jindal group offices in these countries.
For JGU and JGLS, the IoE status would not include funding, but would provide freedom from regulatory frameworks, said Kumar. “The [IoE] empowered experts committee is responsible for [IoEs]” and JGU would be “reporting to that committee”.
This means JGU would be allowed to “offer flexible programmes”, such as a “one year’s master, MPP [master of public policy], dual degrees much more easily, joint degrees”, explained Kumar. “It’s pretty much a carte blanche, so long as internal merit and integrity is maintained, but there are no existing restrictions or regulations that become applicable, so long as the institution follows own rules and regulations and practices it adopts for sound practices.”
The vision of the IoE empowered experts committee was very clear, according to Kumar, in being about “giving freedom and autonomy to high performing institutions” according to objective criteria, to achieve certain goals within specific timeframes.
Meanwhile, law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad had told parliament two months ago that there were no plans to give more central funding to national law schools, flying in the face of hopes that the centre may step in and support national law universities (NLUs) suffering from growing fees and - in some cases - apathy amongst administration and teachers.
Prasad had said: “There is no proposal before the government to nationalize National Law Universities.”
He had responded to a question posed by member of parliament Maneka Gandhi, of “whether the Government proposes to nationalize the National Law Universities (NLUs) and providing them the same status as accorded to other National Institutes”.
Furthermore, Prasad washed the government’s hands of Gandhi’s contention that the centre had any role in the academic standards and funding to solve problems besetting NLUs, saying that “the management of NLUs is done by them and the academic curriculum and standards is decided by them in consultation with the Bar Council of India”.
www.legallyindia.com/lawschools/jgls-iit-kharagpur-du-recommended-as-national-institutions-of-eminence-as-gov-t-says-nlus-won-t-get-central-support-20190803-10772
If you think that is unfair, then take it up with Modi, stop spreading lies about JGLS.
www.telegraphindia.com/india/govt-to-educational-institutions-regular-appointments-to-only-60-teacher/cid/1803416
www.barcouncilofindia.org/about/legal-education/national-legal-knowledge-council/
Kian, if you're reading this, can you find out???
www.barcouncilofindia.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Draft-Rules-of-Legal-Education-2019-1.pdf
They were talking about getting 1 year foreign LLM holders to do an one year MPhil to be eligible. That has now been changed to 'teaching internship' of one year.
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