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NLS students sit 6-8-hour online end-term exams on schedule as Covid had cost just 4 days of classes
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Scoop: Though much longer than a standard exam, the exams are also open book.
Jindal takes full advantage of IoE status but some NLUs might also manage
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NLSIU Bangalore alumni have donated money and organised the air travel home of 174 migrants stuck in Mumbai due to the Covid-19 lockdown, reported LiveLaw.
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RGNUL Patiala’s finances and its vice-chancellor (VC) Paramjit Jaswal‘s tenure has been under scrutiny from the state’s Higher Education Department, with multiple sources strongly suggesting that Jaswal may have tendered his as-yet unaccepted resignation in response.
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However, the GNLU students have reached the limits of what they alone can achieve and are keen to help other law schools start a wider movement
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Scoop: Around 90 existing PhDs at NLS to be examined for current status of studies
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NLIU Bhopal students studying employment law have started a website, telephone helpline and initiative to assist migrant labourers with some of the difficulties they face during the Covid-19 lockdown.
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NUJS Kolkata’s Journal of Regulatory Studies has released a special issue with 18 articles about the pandemic and related legal and policy issues, in possibly the first such publication by an Indian law school’s journal.
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NLSIU Bangalore vice chancellor (VC) Prof Sudhir Krishnaswamy has been appointed to a novel Facebook content oversight board that seeks to help solve the US-based advertising behemoth festering content moderation problems, as first reported IANS.
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“I had always made it a mission to mentor students to the extent I can,” says Debolina Saha. “What I noticed over these years, there were brilliant students who had everything on their CV. The only thing they didn’t have was a brand name of top school or university.”
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Exclusive: The devil may lie in the many details in the epic nine-day row over apparently homophobic course materials that had been shared with students as part of their sociology course...
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The 2020 National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) that ranks law schools has been postponed, as reported by the Hindustan Times.
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As many law schools have transitioned to online learning, more problems have continued to emerge
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GNLU Gandhinagar alumni have written an open letter to Netflix about a new TV show it is shooting about “unruly students” at a fictional Gujarat National Law Academy, provisionally entitled Law of the Jungle.
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The Consortium of National Law Universities (NLU) has extended the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) date to 24 May 2020, with the application deadline extended to 25 April 2020.