Exclusive: Jindal Global Law School (JGLS) has agreed with Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario to send one student per year for a semester to the Canadian University and up to six students to the college’s UK-based summer school, as well as entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Toronto’s Osgoode Law School of York University.
The Haryana-based law school will send one student in January 2011 to Ontario, which has been funded by independent donor Andrew Best. In summer 2011 the two colleges have also planned for four to six JGLS students to attend the UK-based Bader International Study Center summer study program run by Queen’s University.
Queen’s vice chancellor Dr Daniel Woolf said: “Jindal is a very new university and Queen's a much older one but the two institutions share the same aspirations with respect to global education. We welcome this latest step in Queen's engagement with India.”
On 25 October JGLS also entered into an MOU with Osgoode Hall Law School of York University with a a view to “continued research and conference collaboration, student and faculty exchanges, as well as executive education opportunities”, said JGLS in a statement.
The two colleges had held a joint conference in late October in Toronto, which was funded by the Canadian Government, with a second conference with JGLS and York University now having been scheduled for March 2011 in New Delhi.
JGLS dean and Jindal Global University vice chancellor Prof Raj Kumar said that this would enhance Indo-Canadian research dialogue and inter-jurisdictional
educational opportunities, with both countries having to act as bridge builders.
“This is real stuff [and] substantive relationships are being offered. I am really excited about it,” he said, adding that other law colleges in India too should look into collaborating more deeply with foreign universities: “Anybody can do it.”
JGLS had forged ties with three US law schools over the past months.
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A FOOLS PARADISE ....HUH
The job that IITs, IIMs and now NLUs do quite well is to separate the wheat from the chaff...the value-addition during the years spent in these institutes is negligible.
The separation process though is not fully efficient - many duds/crammers do manage to join the elite univs. and many very valuable grains get thrown out with the chaff.
Institutes like JGLS hope to take some middling quality raw material (at least till they carve out a distinguished name for themselves, and through superior faculty and teaching, hope to turn out super products.
All the best to them!
2. Australia is not known for good educations worldwide but known for 3rd rated student of upper middle class or business class ...as admission is easy and cheaper than Europe and USA.
In India it will take 30-50 yr for development of good private institution as here large number of talented (studious) student belongs from middle class or lower middle class..where education is the only source to excel in life (on its own) ..and do better..and they takes admission in Govt. institutions on the other side rich guys when not able to compete with them educationally ion competition try to excel through dads money.........conflict of talent and money....these historical friction remain there till end civilisation ....
each will co-exist..advantageous always try to suppress disadvantageous people.......and people with merit from disadvantageous sections of society will work under and for people (much less talented, and most of them,,,,,,,) from advantageous sections
So guys from NLU's dnt worry you will join one or other firms or otherwise jobs manned by rich people with ...........(less talented). so if net result is that you have to work under .....
As on previous threads, any positive comment is attacked, not on factual grounds but by denigrating the poster. Play the man rather than the ball. If the facts are not on your side attack the credibility of the witness. The same philosophy seems to be in play here with one poster attacking LI as being in the pay of Jindal.
If positive items and news about the NLS are not being published, don't blame LI. Blame your managements for not taking the trouble to keep LI informed. This appears to corroborate the points made by several posters that while NLS students may be very bright, the faculty and administration are below par. Which NLS was it that went on strike against poor living conditions?
Incidentally, an article on the BCI's inspection of Law Schools stated "Only Jindal Global Law School (JGLS) in Haryana and Dr Ambedkar Government Law College Pune had their accreditation unequivocally approved without any conditions." Now is the BCI also in the pocket of Naveen jindal or has LI misrepresented the facts?
So what's the problem here? With 913 law schools in India, one more is not going to materially affect the job prospects of NLSites, especially as they claim to be head and shoulders above the rest.
IIM Faculty - Hundreds of them
NLU faculty - Ghanta.. ( How many published in HLR, Stan LR even jointly?) Scr** all self proclaimed NLS gods...
Btw, NLSIU has just been ***** in LawAsia... Hope, it answers that Old is not old anymore.. No hard feelings.. :P :P
Let the fittest survive. Charles Darwin will surely be happy then....
In this case, there definitely seems to be reader interest and I think such a collaboration was also important - we would have covered many other law schools that that do something similar.
Again, to reiterate, we will never take payment or other benefits in kind to write news articles or features about organisations. Our overall editorial judgment will always be the final decider.
Best regards
Kian
Regarding moots - JGLS is one year old. They have participated in one moot in Trivandrum with none of the team having more than three months of legal education. How many moots have you won with three months of legal studies under your belt?
Your acquaintance who informed you about the faculty preparing memos is wrong. Think logically for a moment. You have said that JGLS guys (not me as I am a parent not a student) "are [...] orators". Therefore, if they have not won then it is because of poor material and not presentation. If as you say their memos are prepared by the faculty then the implication is that your legal knowledge is more than that of the faculty at Jindal which is widely acknowledged to be excellent if not the best.
Kian has already addressed the issue of LI acting as Jindal's publicist so I won't comment further on that.
Yes. Jindal is expensive. However, what you should realise is that as a taxpayer, I am not only payng for my son's education but also contributing to yours.
#21: My batchmate left NLUJ after a year's study to come to Jindal. Besides, I know a couple of people who were getting into NUJS and one who rejected the NLUD offer to come here. Almost all of us rejected Symbi and GLC and other Nationals such as GNLU, RMLNLU, RGNLU and Bhopal.
Also, even though 20-30% of our students may be low rankers in CLAT, that does not show that they are meritorious. Since when has CLAT become the global parameter of checking IQ?
Nobody is contesting the fact that the NLS's are currently at the top and are centres of excellence but I don't see why there isn't space for Jindal. I am extremely satisfied with my legal education amongst all the mooting, weekly seminars, public lectures, research colloquiums etc. Which other University can get Peter Schuck to teach for a semester? A couple of my batchmates have letters of recommendation from him!
I see that #18 after alleging (again anonymously) that JGLS have their memos for moots written by the faculty (a very serious allegation) has done a bunk.
I must again point out to Kian that this anonymous posting works against having any serious debate and encourages posters to make tall claims and libellous allegations.
Please go through the link....its an interview by Rainmaker ...wherein Dr.Ranbir Singh displays the confidence in the quality of students in National Law Schools. Don't miss the part where he mentions that '' I am drawing 80 students from 8000 students ....
JGLS compare your 120 from 500....to 80 from 8000. And lets forget the case of NLU Delhi...if we talk about CLAT which saw 17k students this year....Not even a handful of you managed to be in the top 600... so please stop criticizing the merit that we people are not a part of.... we have slogged our way up....and will continue to do so....
And #26- Please think twice before calling other people's statements as hogwash. Past records from all these colleges compared with ours will show you that my statements are not unwarranted.My batchmate here will verify that he left NLUJ after a year of study( or two is it?). So please, please, please refrain from such allegations, it does not speak highly of you.
Also, remember, that I did not start this debate. Nor did I try to compare Jindal with the Nationals. We're growing slowly and steadily, moving up every round in each of the moots that we participate in, edging out quite a few top tier nationals as we move up. I am simply posting all this against the vitriol that has been consistently and unfairly been pouring out against my institution.
I urge everyone to refrain from making comments that just reflect the deep,UNNECESSARY and unfounded insecurity that you may have with respect to our institution. At Jindal, we're taught to respect all for everyone has loads to offer and we have a lot to learn from everyone. That's the sort of inter-institution collaboration that Jindal aims for, and has tried to achieve by inviting faculty from law schools across the country and the world, purely for exchange of knowledge at public lectures and seminars. There's space for all. I do not wish to defend my institution any further, but hope that my comments have been able to reflect the trust and belief that we as students have in this institution, whether or not others do as well.
What is important for people out there to know that I am Happy and also love my institution
My name is Mitra Arabandi and I am proud to belong to Jindal Global Law School
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