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Law school faculty survey: Please help make law teaching better & shine a light on a woefully underexamined area of Indian legal education

Say what you will about Severus Snape, but he definitely wasn't a good teacher
Say what you will about Severus Snape, but he definitely wasn't a good teacher
After overwhelming and very enlightening thoughts from all of you last month, we have taken all those and some of our independent research into account to put together a semi-definitive list of 14 questions on how to measure faculty quality.

AIBE 9 results late yet again: Timeline indeterminable, next week forecasted

BCI & its contractors : Delaying AIBE results succesfully since 2009
BCI & its contractors : Delaying AIBE results succesfully since 2009
The All India Bar Exam (AIBE) IX’s results are tentatively expected to be released next week, running one month behind schedule.

High court: Shameful how BCI remains mute spectator to sale of law degrees by bullcrap colleges

In a petition in which the Madras high court directed the Bar Council of India (BCI) not to enrol lawyers who were in the civil service, and to conduct more stringent pre-enrolment checks of law graduates older than 40, to ensure they went to a proper law college rather than having obtained a mail order degree.

Are law students caste-ist? NLSIU student calls out 5 incidents among co-students

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NLSIU Bangalore student-run magazine Quirk published a blog yesterday, which states that the law school’s student body often “degelimitises and demoralises” the section of its students which have gained admission to NLS through caste-based reservations.

‘Why take expensive CLAT coaching when we give mock papers for free?’ asks CLAT convenor. Another mock & admit cards coming soon…

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A mock Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2016 will likely be live on CLAT’s official website 3 May onward, with a new system to make the mock exam experience almost like the actual CLAT.

For first time (ever?) CLAT’s popularity declines, in face of competing IIT & medical admission tests

Law not sexy anymore?
Law not sexy anymore?
The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) experienced the slightest slump in popularity this year, for the first time since the exam was established. The clash of engineering (IIT) and medical (PMT) entrances, on 8 May, with CLAT 2016 pulled potential CLAT applicants away to the more popular entrances.

What makes a good law teacher? We need your help to find out…

Teaching how to get away with murder, optional
Teaching how to get away with murder, optional
Due to repeated requests, Legally India is conducting research on the quality of Indian law schools’ faculty.

Day Zeros: Demand from Amarchands divided offsets drop in 2017 recruitments from others [via Mint]

Graphic via Mint
Graphic via Mint
Both sides of the now divided Amarchand Mangaldas family empire have considerably increased their recruitments for 2017 from top law schools, many top firms have filled up their quota from recruits from top law schools already.

BCI springs into action, sends dress code resolution to all law schools: Prefer students to wear shirt & trousers

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The Bar Council of India (BCI) noticed the “gradually detracting” (sic) “standard of dresses by the students of law all over the country” and recommended all law colleges to devise their own dress codes “befitting the profession”, but “it would be preferable” if a dress codes of white shirt with white, black or grey trousers was followed.

NLS shortsgate prof: I neither apologised nor expressed regret to students

NLSIU Bangalore professor Dr V Nagaraj, the teacher who was accused by third-year students of criticising a female student for wearing shorts to a lecture and making inappropriate comments, said that contrary to two press reports citing anonymous students and an NLSIU student source quoted anonymously by Legally India yesterday, he had not apologised to the students.

NLS VC: Shortsgate controversy amicably resolved with Prof but apology status contested [UPDATE-2]

A press release by NLSIU Bangalore vice chancellor Venkata Rao sent to media today, stated that the “concerned professor and the students have amicably resolved the matter between them”.

Mooting drama part II: [UPDATE: Sastra happy to work on improving moot constructively]; NLIU agrees Palkhivala moot judging was weak, NLS mooter vows to get organisers changed

An NLIU Bhopal participant of the 12th Nani Palkhivala Tax Law Moot held at Sastra University School of Law Thanjavur, has added an open letter to that of NLSIU Bangalore and Nalsar Hyderabad, who had complained about the judging standards at the moot, as reported on Legally India yesterday.

NLU Delhi places 15 students after Day Zero: Cyril (and probably Shardul) top recruiters, Khaitan, Luthra, Trilegal take 6 [CORRECTION]

NLU Delhi has placed 21 students graduating in 2017 after its Day Zero

Luthra leads NUJS Day Zero; At least 41 Noojies get jobs; College hoped to hide figures from firms

NUJS Kolkata placed at least 40 fourth year students in seven big Indian law firms, confirmed the recruiting firms after the NUJS recruitment coordination committee (RCC) declined to disclose its statistics citing “university policy”.

NLSIU, Nalsar mooters slam new organiser of legendary Nani Palkhivala tax moot; Sastra returns fire

Participants from NLSIU Bangalore and Nalsar Hyderabad, in the 12th Nani Palkhivala Tax Law Moot, condemned the moot’s organisation for being allegedly fraught with “organisational failures”. The moot’s organiser, Sastra University School of Law Thanjavur, dismissed the allegations and advised the NLSIU and Nalsar team to “adopt a more sportive spirit towards moot court competitions”.

NUSRL students boycott exam to protest incompetent faculty & admin apathy

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NUSRL Ranchi students boycotted an exam today to protest the alleged lack of a competent teaching faculty to teach the psychology paper at the law school. The students allege that the faculty member appointed for the psychology paper is incompetent.

NLSIU 2017 Day Zero success: 33 placed as Shroff brothers pick up 17, plus 1 big-money A&O training contract

NLSIU Bangalore’s 2017-graduating batch placed 33 out of 53 participating recruitment coordination committee (RCC) members, out of a total batch of 81, on 2 April.

NLSIU in sexism row: 3rd years in shorts literally stand up to Prof over alleged dress-code-shaming

Shorts: Too sexy for NLS?
Shorts: Too sexy for NLS?
NLSIU Bangalore professor V Nagaraj allegedly shamed a student on Monday for wearing shorts to his lecture, and allegedly cast aspersions on the student’s character when she objected to the statements of the professor over her attire.

CLAT registration deadline extended to tonight for online applicants

The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2016 online application deadline has been extended till tonight. This extension does not apply to candidates registering for the exam through offline payment of registration fee. According to a notification on CLAT’s website : “This is for the notice of aspirants...