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Now blogging live: RMLNLU 2014 International Media Moot

MPL5-HSF-logo-200 RMLNLU Lucknow is blogging its SCC Online International Media Law Moot Court Competition live from today! Blogging has already started and will continue until Sunday (2 March). Follow the blow-by-blog account of 26 teams fighting for mooting glory. Update: Amity Law School Delhi is...

Bar Exam VI results now actually available over hidden link

The results for the sixth All India Bar Exam (AIBE) are now accessible, according to Legally India reader reports.

Update: All India Bar Exam VI results promised for tomorrow (28 Feb)

The results for the sixth All India Bar Exam (AIBE) should have been published on the official website, having been scheduled to have been announced yesterday, 25 February, but candidates have reported no success in accessing their results so far.

NLU Jodhpur improves MPL game with ULC moot win over Nuals

The home of Indian mooting
The home of Indian mooting
NLU Jodhpur bested Nuals Kochi to win the ULC Bangalore moot on Sunday and take third place in the Herbert Smith Freehills sponsored Mooting Premier League season 5 rankings.

NUJS sexual harassment guidelines to be released soon post Ganguly, Kumar allegations

NUJS Kolkata vice chancellor Ishwara Bhatt announced at the law school’s convocation that its guidelines to protect of interns from sexual harassment would be published on its website soon, reported the Telegraph . The report added that Bhatt promised that if an intern’s employer does not take actio...

GNLU director Bimal Patel's term renewed after rosy report says NaMo should give Rs 25 cr

bimal and dholakia
bimal and dholakia
GNLU Gandhinagar director Dr Bimal Patel will continue as the law school’s director for another five years, according to a press release which stated that GNLU’s general council had renewed his term that had expired in November.

GNLU VC calls press con for long-awaited review commission report by third member

The long-awaited report by the GNLU Gandhinagar review commission’s third member, has completed his review of the college, with vice chancellor Bimal Patel announcing a press conference about its findings tomorrow.

Rajasathan HC hears CLAT transparency PIL but rejects plea for NLU Delhi to join CLAT

The Rajasthan high court on Friday issued notice to all national law universities part of the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) core committee, the Bar Council of India and CLAT 2014 convenor GNLU Gandhinagar, in a public interest litigation (PIL) filed for transparency in the exam’s answering process.

Ex-BHU Prof BC Nirmal wins NUSRL Ranchi VC-ship

Prof BC Nirmal
Prof BC Nirmal
Former Banaras Hindu University (BHU) Prof BC Nirmal has today joined NUSRL Ranchi as vice chancellor, almost five months after the last VC demitted office.

Who won this weekend’s 4-moot bonanza of DMH, KLA, GIMC, Surana? NLU-J, NLSIU, NLIU return heroes

The home of Indian mooting
The home of Indian mooting
Cashing in on the weekend of four grand moots including India’s best and India’s second oldest, some law schools managed to upset the Herbert Smith Freehills sponsored Mooting Premier League (MPL) season 5 pecking order, while others held fort.

NUJS RTI response fudges Skype interview rejection ahead of hotly anticipated EC meet tomorrow

RTI Response
RTI Response
A Right to Information (RTI) response confirmed that the vice chancellor (VC) Prof Ishwara Bhatt claimed that he rejected interviewing an academic candidate via Skype because candidates would have to give a demonstration class, which has been contradicted by the former VC Prof MP Singh and college sources.

Ranbir wastes no time, signs up Luthra’s Prof Anil Rai under NLU Delhi Act fast-track

Anil Rai
Anil Rai
Former Luthra & Luthra Delhi corporate partner Anil Kumar Rai will be joining NLU Delhi as a visiting professor.

Nalsar makes it to Jessup Worlds as NLSIU gets qualification hattrick

The home of Indian mooting
The home of Indian mooting
NLSIU Bangalore and Nalsar Hyderabad will join NUJS Kolkata and NLU Delhi in the race for the 55th Philip C Jessup international moot trophy among 550 law schools from 80 countries at Chicago in April.

NUJS high drama: After anti-VC petition activist students pore over financials for EC, demanded registrar resignation

NUJS Kolkata
NUJS Kolkata
NUJS Kolkata students have been collecting evidence of possible administrative malfunctioning at the university…

NLU Delhi, NUJS secure Jessup Washington seat after North India qualifiers

The home of Indian mooting
The home of Indian mooting
NLU Delhi disturbed NLIU Bhopal’s status quo as leader at the Herbert Smith Freehills Mooting Premier League season 5 and qualified for 55th world rounds of the Philip C Jessup moot, after winning the moot’s North India qualifiers this weekend.

NLSIU overtakes NLU Delhi after besting at KK Luthra

The home of Indian mooting
The home of Indian mooting
NLSIU Bangalore replaced NLU Delhi at second spot of the Herbert Smith Freehills sponsored Mooting Premier League table for Season 5 yesterday, after besting Delhi to win the tier 4 KK Luthra Memorial criminal law moot.

Breaking: Prof Venkat Rao reelected as NLSIU Bangalore VC

Venkat Rao
Venkat Rao
Professor Venkat Rao has been re-elected as NLSIU Bangalore vice chancellor (VC) for another term of five years.

Nirma prof’s RTI reveals 117 Indians in prison abroad despite serving sentences

Moonka
Moonka
A Right to Information request to the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) revealed that 117 Indian prisoners are languishing in foreign jails even after completion of their prison sentence.

NUJS alumni start ‘loss of confidence’ petition against VC, seek CJI intervention

NUJS petition
NUJS petition
NUJS Kolkata alumni have launched an online petition calling on the university’s chancellor to set up a review commission and inquire into, review and remedy falling standards of the law school.

Local TV channel fined for ‘misleading’ broadcasts of Nalsar girls

Nalsar Hyderabad girl students stand vindicated after the News Broadcasting Standards Authority (NBSA) fined Sakshi TV Rs 1 lakh for broadcasting a “flawed, one-sided and misleading story” on them when they filmed them outside a local pub in April, reported Gulte . The students had slammed it as voy...