The legal education committee of the Bar Council of India (BCI) yesterday published a notification on its website inviting suggestions for improving legal education, one month after a group of 80 Indian law teachers petitioned to the regulator to “consult more meaningfully” with legal academics while framing legal education policies.

Exclusive: NUJS Kolkata banned a third-year student from representing the college in external activities this academic year, after a first-year student alleged he was ragged by his senior.

In RGNUL Patiala’s second graduating batch more than 53 per cent were placed after the largest part of the batch joined court practice and many others secured law firm positions through internships.

NUSRL Ranchi is ready to move from its present campus space of five classrooms in BIT Mesra’s Polytechnic clinic to its own 63-acres Nagri Village site after six students of the law school won a land dispute with the local village community in the Jharkhand high court on Tuesday, bringing the stalled construction of the university’s campus back on track if it manages to fill its funding gap.

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Exclusive: NLUO Cuttack did away with its recently launched LLM-and-PhD integrated-degree offering, before the two students who enrolled in it could be awarded the qualification. The students, who enrolled in September 2011 and had completed only one semester of the course, were transferred to the two year LLM degree instead.

Exclusive: The Bar Council of India (BCI) reconfirmed that the fourth All India Bar Examination (AIBE) will be held on 25 November with no chances of postponement. The council will conduct the exam internally and has hired Noida-based IT implementation and delivery company ITES Horizons for additional help, because none of the tendering third party agencies to conduct the exam could be finalised.

Exclusive: Three weeks after what was presumed to be the suicide of NUJS Kolkata final year student Wasim Iqbal, a psychotherapist is now set to begin serving as counsellor at the law school after notification on Tuesday.

OPEN Magazine investigates the alleged cover up in the tragic early-August death of RMLNLU Lucknow student Satnam Singh Mann, where six have been arrested with two, including a policeman, charged with murder. OPEN excerpts: “This is nothing but an effort to save the real culprits of the murder of Sa...

This is the final analysis of how in 2011-12 law students raised the bar for Indian global mooting ambitions, how they fought domestically for the Mooting Premier League crown and what we can expect in MPL 4, now sponsored by Herbert Smith.

Breaking: The next All India Bar Exam (AIBE) would be held on 25 November 2012, announced the Bar Council of India (BCI) today.

NLU Jodhpur second year student Vatsal Vasudev wins a place among the top three out of 230 entries from colleges across 70 countries that participated in a speech writing contest. The contest was organised by the United Nations Academic Impact in association with Brookings Institution. The challenge...

The tenth Nalsar Hyderabad BALLB convocation saw female students bag 33 out of 36 gold medals, including eight each by toppers Sonakshi Sawhney and Chand Chopra [The Hindu]

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RMLNLU Lucknow fourth-year students decided not to submit their complaint application against the university to Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav. In the application, the students had complained about poor quality placements, administration and faculty in the university to Yadav. In an inf...

RMLNLU Lucknow students wrote to Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav yesterday, complaining about poor placements of the batches graduating in years 2011 and 2012, generally poor campus placement efforts, lackadaisical administration, a lack of professionalism of the university’s assistant r...

80 Indian law teachers from 32 Indian and three foreign universities addressed a petition to the Bar Council of India (BCI) yesterday, urging the regulator to “consult more meaningfully” with legal academics while framing policies related to legal education.

Exclusive: The Bar Council of India (BCI) passed a resolution again this year to allow graduates who have not yet passed the All India Bar Exam (AIBE) – which was facing “practical difficulties” but may be held in October or November - to practice in courts for six months, provided they give an undertaking.

NUJS Kolkata’s administration implied that the death of Wasim Iqbal, an NUJS fourth-year student who fell from the terrace of the hostel last week (13 August), was not a suicide, contrary to “unsubstantiated and factually incorrect news reports”.

GLC Mumbai student Nivedita Nathani was hit and killed by a car on Thursday night, when crossing the road on her customary after-dinner walk near the NCPA arts centre at around 11pm. The 19-year-old driver took Nathani to hospital where she died of head injuries. The driver was arrested for culpable...