NLSIU and NUJS student must now file a #NationaliseNLUs petition before the SC. Other NLUs welcome to join, especially NALSAR which faces a 60% quota. The petition should be accompanied by protests.

I have zero sympathy for NLSIU students and alumni. They never stood up when other NLUs were suffering from political interference. [...]

Is this a sign of the new VC's situational awareness that a highly relevant and controversial Bill gets tabled by the State Cabinet keeping him entirely in the dark (I am accepting in good faith his version of him not having seen the Bill yet), while he's busy monitoring the IP address of student usage of Internet? Road to Rhodes is paved with this sort of intention, is it now? I bet even less savoury and qualified people like RVR wouldn't have been caught so unaware!

First they came for CNLU. We did not speak up as we are NLSIU, not CNLU.
Then they came for NUJS. We did not speak up as we are NLSIU, not NUJS.
Then they came from NLSIU. There was no one left to speak for us.

Can anyone explain why 90% of the faculty at NLSIU are from south India? Other NLUs are more diverse, including NALSAR.

www.nls.ac.in/faculty-directory/

I urge current NLSIU students and fellow alumni to avoid jumping to conclusions on this issue. There is a very high likelihood that the intake for the 5 year BA,LLB programme will be increased from 80 to 120 from the coming academic year. This will be confirmed when the breakup of seats is notified on the CLAT Consortium website. With the increase in seats from 2020-2021, the enforcement of a 25 per cent domicile quota (30 seats) will not reduce the existing number of general seats. These developments will serve two purposes. First, the additional fee collections (paid by 40 more students in 2020, 80 in 2021, 120 in 2022, 160 in 2023 and 200 in 2024) will help in addressing the existing budgetary deficit. Second, the domicile quota can be cited to seek more funds from the State Government to meet the annual recurring expenditure. As pointed out in another comment, a Karnataka domicile quota will not change the profile of the incoming undergraduate students. There is not much that the new VC or the Alumni Association can do if the State Cabinet has resolved to do this.

I just want to provide some factual clarification without getting into controversial discussion about the domicile quotas. I just checked some of the brochures, including those issued by NLSIU (probably the old version is being made available), NALSAR and NUJS. The seat intake distributions provided do not follow any common pattern, which is adding to the confusion. For example, all three NLUs provide horizontal reservations to the PWD candidates of around 5%. However, while the NUJS list shows those seats separately (with the horizontal declaration), NALSAR or NLSIU lists don't. As a result, the latter lists show ostensibly more seats in the general category, whereas in reality, students from general category can avail of those seats across all 3 NLUs. Similarly, NLSIU is not providing any OBC quota at all and hence is ostensibly in violation of MHRD and UGC norms, for which it has already been called out by the concerned authorities including a few other NLUs. Same goes for the EWS quota, with neither NLSIU nor NALSAR providing it at present (despite it not going against the questionable 'merit' that one associates with general seats or lack thereof with the reserved seats, because surely it is the closest thing to the 'quota on economic grounds' that all privileged people shout themselves hoarse in favour of?). Universities are supposed to provide these reservations, regardless of whether they are providing domicile quota or not. By not doing so, they do not ascribe to any higher status, nor 'national' character. That's plain wrong. Basically, if all the NLUs abide the law and provide for all the quotas that they are legally supposed to by the Centre (forget state and domicile etc.), then the so-called All-India General 'merit' seats would drastically reduce than what is being shown in the brochure of many as window dressing.

On a note of levity, if having domicile quotas make the NLUs 'less national', then shouldn't having foreign national and NRI quotas make them 'more international' by that same logic?

Sudhir Krishnaswamy and Faizan Mustafa are playing with fire by not implementing EWS and OBC quota. This is cheating in order to scoop more merit seat students. A complaint can be made both against NLSIU and NALSAR as an institution and against the two VCs.

Just one point to make in the face of such concerted trolling and hate. For over the past three years since I have joined law school and been reading Legally India, some people here in the comments section appear to lose not a single opportunity to anonymously disparage NUJS and keep saying it is doomed (some are very transparent in terms of only doing so because they hate the government of the state where NUJS is located). Of course, none of them actually have the courage of conviction to do so out in the open using their real identities, fearing that the people around them would know their real toxic nature. However, in reality, during this relatively short period, the university has produced 2 Rhodes scholars, and is second to none when it comes to the number of graduates getting recruited by the best firms in the country (as the recruitment results public even here in LI clearly show) or the ones opting for higher studies in prestigious universities abroad or most other graduate outcomes. Contrary to a lot of anonymous comments, it has got just like other law schools, some good and decent faculty, some not so good ones, a lot of good peers and a host of excellent opportunities for the students who desire to excel and get a fine education. So clearly, the crystal ball-gazers predicting the doom of this university should probably consider alternate careers, because their current profession isn't really turning out to be a successful one. We have seen administrative upheavals and faced other problems, sure. A lot of other NLUs did so or are even now doing so, and despite all that, we are still going strong where it really counts. We will get over this too, contrary to the trolls' opinions and doomsday-prediction. Because it really does not matter what or who you used to be before you came to law school, what matters is what you make of yourself in these five years. That's what my university has taught me at least. I hope your respective universities have done the same to you, otherwise you are the ones who have probably lost out in terms of getting quality education. Cheers and keep it coming! We thrive in the face of criticism and would continue doing so.

What are the chances we would get to see a new tweet from the BJP IT Cell giving the CAA hotline number and claiming a missed call would get you a CLAT seat for free? I wonder how the supporters of this party can bear to even look at themselves in the mirror without cringing.

As someone who has studied at an NLU, occasionally taught at two and recruited from several others over the years, I think a CLAT aspirant may do fairly well with this choice (this is a personal list based on my experience and the info that I get from the current alumni, students and teachers and others may certainly differ from it):

1. NLSIU (the biggest advantages are still the reputation and the alumni base; I am not giving it any additional importance because of the new VC, what he does for the place still remains to be seen).

2. NALSAR/NUJS/NLUD (frankly, despite all the fanfare and vilification, there is still very little to choose between these three at present, with comparable opportunities provided to students in all; the locational advantage and infra that NLUD has gets balanced by its lack of well-placed senior alumni base) (I know this will be attacked by trolls immediately, but I am strictly speaking from the pragmatic perspective of a student's well-being, not anything else). If one wishes to opt for the Civils, then they should choose NLUD for the location alone. Similarly, law firm aspirants may choose NALSAR/NUJS for better alumni base and connections.

3. NLUJ/GNLU/NLIU (not much to choose between these three, although recently NLUJ and GNLU are going ahead in terms of their outreach programme, exposure and law firm connections and NLIU has been suffering from several controversies).

4. HNLU/RGNUL (RGNUL may even have a slight edge because of better location and infra).

5. NLUO/RMLNLU (I'd keep NLUO slightly ahead because of student crowd and enthusiasm alone, together with their moot obsession, which doesn't harm either).

6. NUALS (especially good for those intending to go for litigation, good procedural laws taught by several practitioners).

7. MNLU Mumbai, Nagpur (Doing good things, locational advantage; only reason I am keeping them behind the others is because they are yet to produce graduates and alumni base hasn't developed at all. They would surely go up in the years, although till where remains to be seen).

8. CNLU, NUSRL, MNLU Aurangabad, TNNLU (TNNLU has some decent faculty and is likely to go up the ranks in future, as may Aurangabad).

9. DSNLU, NLUJAA, DNLU (Indore) (The first two have been around for quite some time, yet to make themselves known that much apart from for controversies, DNLU has got an enthusiastic and influential new VC, who may be good for the new place)

10. NLU Uttarakhand, NLU Sonepat (basically this is a residual category)

I would actually suggest students to consider private law universities of repute like Symbiosis, KIIT etc. if they cannot make categories 1-8 (or even 1-7 depending on other factors). Of course, if they can afford Jindal, they can opt for it unless they get NLSIU (not that much of a gap between the ones in category 2 and Jindal anymore and of course the latter is miles ahead in infra, foreign exposure opportunities and funding).

Disclaimer: I am not actually partial towards any NLU. Theoretically, the top 4 categories can provide more or less similar opportunities to the students, while those from the other NLUs can also end up doing equally well with determination, planning and application. This is not a 'ranking' of the NLUs either. Strictly from a career perspective and graduate outcome, I'd say. Also, entirely personal opinion. I have no desire to show any NLU down, nor people studying there. Hope it helps one or more people who may be trying to make a choice in this year.