NUJS Kolkata defeated Nalsar Hyderabad and orated with panache at HNLU Raipur’s fifth Justice Hidayatullah Memorial national moot on Sunday, soaring to second spot in Mooting Premiere League (MPL) 4 standings, sponsored by Herbert Smith Freehills, right behind Lachs world round winners NLSIU Bangalore.

GNLU Gandhinagar students will now neither face a one-year detention on failing exam papers, nor will they have to secure ‘goodness’ marks in addition to 40 per cent passing marks in semester exams. The Gujarat high court quashed those rules in a PIL filed by nine detained students of the law school...

Nalsar Hyderabad defeated HNLU Raipur to post its first Mooting Premier League (MPL) 4 win early on- the fourth RLC Saquib Rizvi Memorial national moot - on 30 September at Rizvi Law College Mumbai.

NLSIU Bangalore students will now have a 7 pm curfew on leaving campus, agreed Bangalore University (BU) authorities and the NLSIU management yesterday.[ TOI ] The measure comes in the wake of Saturday’s alleged rape of a second-year NLSIU student by seven to eight unidentified persons in the forest...

GNLU Gandhinagar trumped NUJS Kolkata to win the ninth edition of India’s oldest tax moot - the Nani Palkhivala Memorial - on Saturday.

Karnataka State Law University (KSLU) disallows LLM degree-holders from colleges not affiliated with it, from being appointed as law teachers in the university, if they have obtained their LLM degree after year 2011. Local community president alleges that KSLU is itself not recognised by the BCI and...

KIIT Law School Bhubaneshwar opened its Mooting Premier League (MPL) 4 account after winning the sixth Edition of the Bodh Raj Sawhney Moot Court Competition at Nalsar Hyderabad against RGNUL Patiala.

Live blog from Saturday: NLIU Int’l Mediation Competition (by NLIU) NLIU Bhopal student Surabhi Singh is running a live blog on Legally India of NLIU Bhopal’s International Mediation Competition on Saturday and Sunday (13 and 14 October). Click on through to follow 29 teams duke out – sorry, mediate...

at NLU Delhi”) Exclusive: NLU Delhi placed five students from its first ever batch, which will graduate in 2013, in three Indian and one UK magic circle law firm in its ongoing recruitment efforts. Ten other law firms have expressed interest in conducting recruitment interviews for the batch of 2013 in the coming academic semester.

The duration of the LLM degree course in India will be halved to one year after the University Grants Commission (UGC) agreed with amended regulations last month but said it did not get around to discussing the actual guidelines to implement the new course.

A Right to Information (RTI) request has revealed that the Bar Council of India (BCI) entered into a wide-ranging letter of intent (LOI) with legal industry services provider Rainmaker in 2010, not just to conduct the All India Bar Exam (AIBE) but also to cross-promote other products of the company. However, according to Rainmaker, the majority of that LOI was never implemented.

Breaking: The Bar Council of India’s (BCI) new contractor has launched a standalone website for All India Bar Exam (AIBE) takers to register for the next exam that is scheduled for 25 November, with fees for the exam having been hiked by around 50 per cent to Rs 1,950 for first time examinees.

Breaking: NLSIU Bangalore defeated the National & Kapodestrian University of Athens yesterday to win the World finals of Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot, repeating its 2009 feat.

Project Cloud’s latest competitions and calls for papers, including IP, MLS moot, environmental law, Utrecht & international journal.

The fourth season of the Mooting Premier League sponsored by Herbert Smith began this month with top law schools notching up early wins this season.

Mumbai University’s law colleges have still not updated their course-curriculum in accordance with the year-2008 legal education regulations of the Bar Council of India (BCI). This was discovered when a law student of the university filed right to information requests to the university. A Mumbai Uni...

Does the consumer’s right to be heard and redressed really exist in practice? NLSIU Bangalore students find out by using fairness creams, belly fat reduction gels, allegedly 24-hour-effective deodorants, and anti-dandruff shampoos, and then emailing the companies’ customer care departments asking so...

The Bar Council of India (BCI) said it would reconsider its May resolution making it compulsory for law teachers to pay a recurring fee of Rs 3,000 to the regulator, by possibly decreasing but not completely scrapping this fee.

Dear final year students worried about not cracking BigLaw: Do you want to build a diverse work profile, show the confidence to go solo a few years on, have senior lawyers as friends and not just colleagues, and maintain work-life balance while you’re at it? Give small law firms a shot and continue ...

The latest state government nominee to NUJS Kolkata’s academic council and executive council rejected the offer of honorary appointment to the posts after his nomination generated allegations of political favouritism in the legal community at large. It was suggested that Suvaprasanna, an artist with...