GNLU Gandhinagar
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.
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.
GNLU gets Microsoft IPR chair: GNLU Gandhinagar will soon become the sixth national law university with an intellectual property rights (IPR) chair after NLSIU Bangalore, Nalsar Hyderabad, NLU Jodhpur, NLIU Bhopal and NUJS Kolkata. While each of its five predecessors have IPR chairs set up by the Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD), GNLU’s IPR chair will be funded by Microsoft India. At GNLU’s IPR chair, in addition to a chair professor there will be two assistant professors. The MHRD has 18 IPR chairs in various universities and IITs across India [TOI]
Singapore law firm regulators to merge: Singapore’s dual regulation – different regulators for domestic and foreign law firms – could merge into a single body following the recommendations of a committee headed by Singapore’s chief justice [Channel New Asia]
US bench changed over Facebook request: A judge in the US was taken off a marital dispute he was judging, after the litigating wife’s lawyer alleged that the judge had saddled his client with “most of the marital debt” and had given the husband a “disproportionately excessive alimony award” after his client did not accept the judge’s Facebook friend request [WSJ Blogs]
Aligarh law professor jailed over sex harassment: The suspended chairman of department of law Aligarh Muslim University, Professor M Shabbir, was sent to jail after his bail plea was rejected in a case of alleged sexual harassment by a female law student [TOI]
The Common Law Admissions Test (CLAT) to be conducted by GNLU Gandhinagar on 11 May 2014, opened its doors to applicants on 1 January 2014.
The mooting bonanza weekend starting 17 October and ending yesterday saw 17 law schools creating a flutter in the season 5 rankings.
NLIU Bhopal won the 13th edition of the Raj Anand moot court competition and GNLU Gandhinagar won the fourth edition of the SLCU National Moot.
At least 50 CLAT 2013 candidates were reshuffled to different colleges two weeks after the first results were first released.
GNLU visitor orders third MIA review commission member to report in three months.
Nuals Kochi drops behind RMLNLU Lucknow and CNLU Patna but seven oldest national law schools stay top.
Two senior GNLU faculty members rebut some of report’s allegations, which apparently lay untouched for five months.
Amarchand has emerged as the most aggressive Indian early recruiter hiring 36 fourth-year law students across 10 colleges.
The high-powered expert commission questioned disciplinarian administration at the college.
GNLU Gandhinagar has drawn the plan for India’s first on-law-school-campus “Indian Legal History Museum”.
The museum will depict 2,500 years of Indian law’s history in “pictographic, sigillographic and paleographic mode” visuals, according to DNA India.
“Dharmashastras, Smritis, Sutras and Neetis”, the development of judicial precedents, Muslim law codes, and the constituent assembly debates, will be exhibited in a law gallery, through quotations on justice, and through various installations. Plans were still at an early stage, the college's director Bimal Patel told the paper, but did not confirm further details.
Symbiosis Law School Pune beat GNLU Gandhinagar in the finals of the GH Raisoni Moot in Nagpur from 22 to 24 February 2013.
The High Court of Gujarat on Friday reversed most of its October 2012 decision that had favoured five GNLU Gandhinagar students who were forced to repeat a year at the university, however, it agreed with the earlier ruling that unexplained “goodness marks” required by the university to pass a year were illegal.
Two moots last weekend: The Tier 4 Surana Corporate Law Moot and the Tier 5 ULC Bangalore Moot, seeing an all-Gujarati final and newbie winners respectively.
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. Two marks for “goodness” were a pre-cursor to getting a hall-ticket to appear in the end-semester exams at the university until now.
Justice K S Jhaveri observed in his judgment that the rule can be “a tool in the hands of the Faculty Members, which could be used by them at their own whims and caprice”.
The court also quashed the cap of seven years for a student to graduate from GNLU from the date of his or her admission in the university [Express/Order]
GNLU Gandhinagar trumped NUJS Kolkata to win the ninth edition of India’s oldest tax moot - the Nani Palkhivala Memorial - on Saturday.