Five Indian teams booked their tickets to Oxford and four qualified from the national rounds to participate in the Leiden-Sarin International rounds in Dubai after the selection rounds for the Oxford IPR Moot and the Leiden-Sarin International Air Law Moot respectively.

Only 377 applicants out of 22,267 have not completed their bar exam forms correctly, while only 38 have not received their study materials, according to Bar Council of India (BCI) records released today.

Exclusive interview: HNLU Raipur vice-chancellor Paramjit Singh Jaswal of less than three months formally announced to students that he would join RGNUL Patiala as its new vice chancellor for personal reasons. He told Legally India that he would continue being part of the HNLU family and would face new challenges at RGNUL.

Breaking: The Bar Council of India (BCI) said yesterday that all 22,267 applicants for the all India bar exam have been sent their preparation papers and that the first exam go ahead as planned by 6 March 2011.

HNLU Raipur’s students will try to convince vice chancellor professor Paramjit Singh Jaswal today to stay at the college, after he was appointed to join RGNUL Patiala as its new vice chancellor after less than three months into his new job at HNLU.

Jindal Global Law School (JGLS) and US Michigan law school have held a virtual classroom hosted in India, with “seamless” state-of-the-art video technology allowing students to participate in real time.

ILS Pune defeated Nalsar Hyderabad in the finals of the Surana & Surana South India rounds of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot and won the best memorandum award for a whopping thirty points to boost ILS’ MPL ranking from sixteenth position to sixth.

Outlook India defended itself against the criticisms in last year’s complaint by NUJS Kolkata professor Shamnad Basheer and two students against Outlook and India Today for publishing allegedly error-riddled and misleading law school rankings. Outlook revealed the details of its complex weighting system of ranking but declined to publish further information, in what the NUJS complainants called a ‘lackadaisical manner’.

Newcomer NLU Delhi earned a whopping thirty points to lead the MPL 2 standings after defeating the veteran NUJS Kolkata mooters in Sunday’s finals of the Surana & Surana Jessup North India Rounds.

George Washington University defeated NLU Delhi to win the K.K. Luthra Memorial Moot Court Competition, 2011. With a total of 41 points, NLU Delhi has now jumped to fourth position in the MPL 2 season standings.

A fourth-year law student from NLSIU Bangalore has penned a novel called “Join the Bar” in the vein of Chetan Bhagat’s IIT-based fiction “Five Point Someone” and narrates three law students’ lives and experiences during their study of law. The 20-year old Brajesh Rajak whose book will be published b...

The Bar Council of India (BCI) has finally announced the much-awaited schedule of this year’s edition of its moot court competition, which will be an international moot for the first time.

Exclusive: The Bar Council of India (BCI) has again declined to disclose detailed information in respect of its contract with the company running the postponed all-India bar exam, following an appeal to an earlier right to information (RTI) request.

However, the BCI has now reversed its response to the original RTI and claimed that it did in fact solicit tenders from competing service providers - Tata Consultancy Services, Sify and Imaging Solutions - before it awarded the contract to Rainmaker.

“If blackening of one’s name is the price for there to be a proper space law moot court competition, then I shall pay it,” declared former Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Asia Pacific regional organiser Ricky Lee in an fiery public statement. A little while later he set up a rival space law moot promising to eclipse the original.

Legally India’s team MPL looks behind the scenes of the spat and the future of the Manfred Lachs and other space law competitions.

Law minister Veerappa Moily said the government had finished a Bill to set up a new National Commission for Higher Legal Education and Research, which would replace the BCI as the regulatory body responsible for legal education, recognition of law colleges and a unified law school curriculum.

[[Institute of Law, Nirma University, Ahmedabad]] has launched its first national moot court competition, the [[ILNU National Moot Court Competition]]. The event is scheduled to be held on 26th and 27th March, 2011.

NUJS Kolkata has announced the 2011 CLAT (Common Law Admission Test) with radical changes, including distribution through the Indian post office network and the ditching of static general knowledge and legal knowledge questions. Meanwhile, the law school diversity project IDIA has pledged to fund admission fees for all students in need.

Colleagues, students, friends and family are mourning the tragic loss of recent Nalsar Hyderabad graduate and legal campaigner Fatehpal Singh who passed away on Friday following a road accident last week.

NUJS Kolkata won the Oxford International Media Law Moot - India Competition after defeating NLSIU Bangalore in the finals, taking both colleges to third and fourth in the Mooting Premier League second season.

Nalsar Hyderabad has proposed a regular full-time course for paralegals to widen the scope of legal education to include non-LLB professionals for imparting functions of mediators, conciliators, negotiators and counsellors.