If the Supreme Court is serious about examining the legality of the bar exam, it should also examine whether the award of the contract to ITES Horizon by the BCI was illegal, or worse…

talks shop”)Legally India asked the vice chancellors of all 17 national law universities some questions about their law school and why law aspirants should come there. Here’s the first in our series of national law schools, in their own words.

Sunday’s All India Bar Exam’s (AIBE-IX) results will be released tentatively before 15 April, the Bar Council of India (BCI) notified on its website today.

Senior advocate KK Venugopal was appointed a friend of the court in the 13-petition challenge to the Bar Council of India’s All India Bar Examination (AIBE) listed today, before a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court.

NLIU Bhopal placed 48 out of 89 graduates in its batch of 2015. 11 Companies, including one NGO, recruited 19 graduates and 12 domestic law firms hired 20 graduates, with 10 students joining three Big Six firms. Five graduates joined two legal process outsourcing companies (LPO).

Students at Jindal Global Law School (JGLS) Sonepat were expatriated home from campus on Sunday in a giant operation involving 20 buses and more than 20 cars, with 800 students opting to return home and 500 staying on campus following riots by the Jat community in Sonepat and other parts of Haryana.

Jindal Global Law School (JGLS) Sonepat has battened down the hatches as a riot rages through local and nearby districts, caused by members of the Jat community seeking caste reservations.

Nalsar Hyderabad and NLU Delhi have issued statements, signed by students and alumni, in solidarity with the students of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). Update : Another statement signed by more than 400 law school students and alumni is circulating. The list of signatories is here . Full tex...

NLSIU Bangalore is vying for the University Grants Commission’s (UGC) approval to award its public policy course students, the degree for which they took admission to the law school in 2014. The law school has time until August.

NUJS Kolkata will be closed for the student body for 10 days, starting today, due to the outbreak of chicken pox on campus. Faculty and administrative staff will continue working.

According to Hindi local tabloid Pradesh Today, NLIU Bhopal’s home-state, Madhya Pradesh, would allocate Rs 10 crore to begin construction of the state’s “first law university” in March.

The BSc LLB degree – NLU Jodhpur’s LLB offering which included papers from the Bachelors-in-degree papers – was scrapped permanently for lack of demand.

NLUO Cuttack and NLU Delhi’s “quality-status” reports submitted to the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) are fundamentally similar, with two pages in NLUO’s 241-page report copied verbatim from two pages in NLU Delhi’s 282-page report.

GNLU Gandhinagar has sent out a press release that on the occasion of yesterday’s Republic Day (26 January), it celebrated “with great zeal and fervour” and “unfurled the national flag and addressed the GNLU fraternity and students who gathered to celebrate”.

Delhi University’s (DU) Faculty of Law is still not in the clear 15 months after the Bar Council of India (BCI) first threatened to permanently de-affiliate the 92-year-old establishment for inadequate infrastructure.

Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2016 convenor RGNUL Patiala has already allotted dates for taking up candidates’ question-paper error representations and to publish a revised answer key, in the CLAT 2016 calendar which was officially announced online.

Chinese authorities have pledged to reform the country’s qualification system for those who want to enter the legal profession. A statement jointly issued by the general offices of the Communist Party of China’s (CPC) Central Committee and the State Council on Sunday said the system will be improved...

NLIU Bhopal denied responsibility for, and knowledge of, senior advocate Indira Jaising allegedly being turned away from the law school’s gates yesterday, when she reached there to address an inaugural session on gender sensitisation hosted by a goverment agency.

The 2016 Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) will be conducted by RGNUL Patiala on 8 May 2016 from 3pm to 5pm, according to a notification on the law school’s website.