The Human Resources Development (HRD) Ministry has told parliament that in August it had approved setting up an independent body dubbed India Rankings Society (IRS), which would “develop and evolve methodologies and system for ranking of higher educational institutions and based on such methodologies , rank and rate them under various categories, domain and sub-domain”, according to a report by ANI.
It’s not entirely clear, but it looks like this body would supplant / usurp the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF), which has begun doing a fairly transparent (if not perfect) ranking of (some) law schools for two years now.
Acknowledging NIRF’s role, which is part of the HRD, the ministry said in its parliamentary response:
Presently, National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) is being used for ranking of institutes on five broad generic groups of paramters namely -- teaching, learning and resources; research and professional practise; graduation outcomes; Outreach and Inclusivity; perception.
In any case, the next NIRF rankings are likely to be released in April of next year, since that process is presumably mid-swing and not yet ready for handover to a fledgling IRS.
Then again, it’s possible NIRF will just rebrand and move lock-stock-and-barrel under the new IRS umbrella...
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What an institution of eminence! Kian you may want to pursue this lead. A few years ago DU Law nearly lost its BCI affiliation because it was almost entirely run by ad hocs and there were capacity issues. Also there was corruption with infra dev etc. That somehow turned a corner with repeated Delhi HC interventions. There were issues of students having a run-in with Prof Ved Kumari and those frictions finally resulted in her resignation etc.
At some point in 2018 several ad hocs went to Delhi HC alleging irregularities in faculty recruitment. Don't know what came out of that but there were strong rumours of bias, favours being exchanged etc.
I think we have a story here on how these IoE, NIRF etc can often be upstaged by politics. Then again these were born of a certain politics.
1. Core procedural law and drafting; CPC, CrPC, drafting and pleading, clinical courses.
2. IPC
3. Tort and contract
4.Consti and admin law
5. Family law
6. Tax
7. Company law
8. International law
9. Labour
10. Environment
11. Human rights
12. Banking and finance
13. IP, IT and media
14. Competition
15. Trade
1. Core procedural law and drafting; CPC, CrPC, drafting and pleading, clinical courses.
NLSIU and NLUD (both have good practitioners visiting)
2. Criminal law (IPC, Evidence, CrPC, others)
NLSIU and NLUD (the criminal law professors at NLSIU are good and experienced, while Mrinal Satish is an expert on sentencing, rape etc)
3. Tort and contract
NLSIU and NALSAR (Both NLSIU and NALSAR teach the basics well)
4.Consti and admin law
NLSIU and JGLS (Sudhir@ NLSIU, MP Singh and Baxi@JGLS)
5. Family law
NALSAR (Amita Dhanda)
6. Tax
NLUD (NLUD has a centre for tax law)
7. Company law
NLUD (strong corp law focus at NLUD)
8. International law
JGLS (JGLS wins this clearly, with BS Chimni and G Eriksson)
9. Labour
NUJS (Only entry for NUJS on this list: NALSAR alum Sourav Bhattacharya is good)
10. Environment
JGLS (Armin Rosencranz)
11. Human rights
NLUD and JGLS (Aparna and Anup@ NLUD, while JGLS has a very high number of human rights profs)
12. Banking and finance
NLSIU (probably NLSIU for this one)
13. IP, IT/media
NLUD and JGLS (good set of profs in both places)
14. Competition
NLSIU (Rahul Singh)
15. Trade
NLSIU
16. Insurance
NLSIU
1. National Law School of India University
2. National Law University, New Delhi
3. NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad
4. Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
5. National Law University, Jodhpur
6. Jindal Global Law School, Sonipat
7. Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar
8. National Law Institute University, Bhopal
9. Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Patiala
10. Faculty of Law, University of Delhi, Delhi
11. The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata
12. Maharashtra National Law University, Mumbai
13. Dr Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow
14. Indian Law Society Law College, Pune
15. National University of Advanced Legal Studies, Kochi
16. Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur
17. Symbiosis Law School, Pune
18. Damodaram Sanjivayya National Law University, Visakhapatnam
19. Chanakya National Law University, Patna
20. National Law University, Cuttack
law.careers360.com/colleges/ranking
So, Rajiv Gandhi IIT at 4, Dehli Univ at 10, should be excluded.
NUJS, Kolkata is well above RGNUL, Patiala. Why so much hype for Patiala?
MNLU, Mumbai should be put below its present mark.
GNLU and RGNUL do good public relation job and publicity. So, their ranking is much based on perception.
CLAT choices of candidates should indicate something which is really happening on the ground.
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