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More than 800 GNLU Gandhinagar students are moving onto a new 50 acre campus, which once swimming pools and sporting facilities are finished next year will have cost up to Rs 150 crore.
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Justice AK Ganguly said that a South Asian human rights commission should be created with India taking the lead, in his keynote speech at the OP Jindal Global University workshop on knowledge sharing on sub-regional human rights mechanisms.
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Dr P Ishwara Bhat, chairman and professor of the law department of Mysore University, has been appointed as the new vice chancellor of NUJS at the university’s executive council (EC) meeting today.
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Exclusive: The former vice chancellor of Symbiosis, a Cochin University professor and an NUJS Kolkata professor are in the running to take over from Mahendra Pal Singh as NUJS Kolkata vice chancellor.
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Jindal Global Law School (JGLS) has tied-up with the Infrastructure Development Finance Company (IDFC) to teach project finance and infrastructure law as an elective to students and provide placements.
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Exclusive: Current NLU Delhi vice chancellor Professor (Dr) Ranbir Singh will be honoured with this year’s Society of Indian Law Firms (SILF) Madhava Menon law teacher of the year award, while the Goa-based Salgaocar College of Law has been chosen for the institutional excellence award.
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Exclusive: NUJS Kolkata vice chancellor Mahendra Pal Singh, who is due to retire on 30 November to pursue personal legal writing projects, said his successor should have a strong academic background while also having to be deal with infrastructure and other problems at the college.
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Exclusive: NLSIU Bangalore graduate and 2010 Rhodes scholar V Niranjan has bagged the prestigious Vinerian Scholarship after topping 140 students in Oxford University’s Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) – a “simply outstanding” course, in his words.
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Exclusive: At least 41 final year NUJS Kolkata students in a 2012 graduating batch of around 95 have secured office-based jobs, including three training contracts abroad and numerous offers from Amarchand, Trilegal, Luthra and AZB and Bharucha.
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India Today magazine has ranked Nalsar Hyderabad as the best law school in the country followed by NLSIU Bangalore in second spot, with the magazine citing the college’s two consecutive wins in Legally India’s Mooting Premier League (MPL) as a factor.
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RGNUL Patiala’s 2011 graduating students are only now starting to secure the first ‘desk jobs’ after serious delays now being rectified by the college’s new vice chancellor, who only recently joined from HNLU Raipur.
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Jharkhand’s new National University of Study and Research in Law (NUSRL) Ranchi could become one of the best law schools in India in the next two to three years, predicted NUSRL’s dean-in-charge of faculty Alok Kumar Gupta.
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National magazine Outlook India has ranked four national law schools as India’s best law colleges followed by two private Pune schools but following a spat with the magazine last year, NUJS Kolkata declined to provide data and was not included in the list while NLU Jodhpur re-entered this year in fourth place.
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Exclusive: Sixty-five Amity Law School Delhi graduates have secured ‘desk job’ offers out of a batch of 136 students, with 11 additional law firm jobs still to be confirmed after interviews.
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Exclusive: At least 13 students in the very first graduating batch of RMLNLU Lucknow will be joining desk-based jobs, with three securing has placed out of which three were pre-placement offers (PPOs).
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Jindal Global Law School (JGLS) has arranged a reciprocal student exchange programme with New York's Cornell Law School starting in 2012, also agreeing on other joint initiatives.