NLIU Bhopal
NLIU Bhopal recently organised internal practice moots for the prestigious Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration moot with Arizona State University USA & Osgoode Hall Law School, Canada through video conferencing.
Legally India has today filed right to information (RTI) requests with India’s seven oldest national law schools, seeking full financial accounts, council meeting minutes and other information.
An NLSIU Bangalore team of first and second years defeated NLIU Bhopal in the final rounds of the Rizvi International Moot.
NLIU Bhopal bettered NUJS Kolkata in the final rounds of the second edition of the SLCU National Moot Court Competition, a recently added Tier 5 moot in the Mooting Premier League 3.
India’s first successful ‘SlutWalk’ aka ‘Besharmi Morcha’ to create awareness about sexual harassment was held and organised by law students amongst others in Bhopal on 17 July and will be followed by Delhi next on 31 July.
NLIU Bhopal's recruitment cell has successfully placed 33 students out of a batch of 78 with four to five pursuing LLMs in universities such as Oxford, Cambridge and the London School of Economics (LSE).
The NLIU Law Review is an endeavour on the part of the student body of the National Law Institute University, Bhopal to encourage and inculcate in the students a spirit of legal research and develop their interest further in unexplored areas of the law.
Defending Mooting Premier League (MPL) champions Nalsar Hyderabad earned fifteen points after winning the SP Sathe Moot, ILS Pune. Although it did not break at Herbert Smith, the other prominent moot that concluded last weekend, Nalsar continues to dominate the standings of the MPL 2 sponsored by Allen & Overy with a 15-point lead over second placed NUJS Kolkata.
The much-awaited Legally India Mooting Premier League (MPL) second season has arrived with NLIU Bhopal taking home the first points, defeating RGNUL Patiala in the North India finals of the Surana & Surana National Trial Advocacy Moot Court Competition on Sunday.
Khaitan & Co emerged as winner at NLIU Bhopal, winning the signatures of five final-year students on job offers as Trilegal, Lakshmikumaran and Sridharan, ICICI Bank and Pangea3 also turned up to recruit from the law school on the first day of its campus recruitment last week and Amarchand Mangaldas inviting 10 students for interview.
Indian weekly magazines India Today and Outlook India have both ranked NLSIU Bangalore and Nalsar Hyderabad as India's top law schools, while NLIU Bhopal and ILS Pune occupied third place in each respective ranking and NUJS Kolkata found itself in sixth and fifth place.
Nalsar Hyderabad is the undisputed winner of the first season of the Mooting Premier League (MPL) sponsored by Clifford Chance, after Legally India has confirmed citations and honourable mentions in the season's final Tier 2 events winning further points for NLSIU Bangalore, NUJS Kolkata and GNLU Gandhinagar and shuffling up the final ranks.
The recruitment committee of NLIU Bhopal has successfully placed 46 out of 48 students registered with its recruitment committee, as of today, while the remaining 27 of this batch have chosen active litigation and judicial services as career paths.
National Law Institute University (NLIU) Bhopal students have launched the first issue of their law journal called NLIU Law Review with the objective of increasing the academic standards and enhancing skillsets of students.
Government Law College (GLC) Mumbai struck back again after last month's KK Luthra victory by defeating the team from NLIU Bhopal at the MM Singhvi Bar Council of India Moot Court Competition.
Kerala Law Academy won the Stetson South India Rounds last weekend, qualifying for Florida's Stetson World Finals in March 2010 alongside runners-up New Law College Pune.
NUJS Kolkata has scored a double-whammy by winning the best team and best researcher awards at the first All India Corporate Law Moot Court Competition 2009 organised by National Law University Delhi, narrowly beating NLIU Bhopal, which bagged the best orator award.
Another week, another law school ranking: national daily Mint has ranked the large national law colleges in the top five positions, in its India's best colleges supplement it published today.
Mint has placed National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore in first, closely followed by Nalsar University of Law, Hyderabad and National University of Juridicial Sciences, Kolkata (NUJS).
The schools in the top three positions were unchanged since last year, and achieved 637, 627 and 619 points respectively in the rankings.
The runners up in fourth and fifth were National Law University, Jodhpur and National Law Institute University, Bhopal, which swapped places from their positions last year.
Mint's methodology used a combination of the rankings used by India Today magazine and Outlook magazine last week. Mint contacted faculty members and legal professionals with a questionnaire, asking them to rate each of intellectual capital, pedagogic systems and processes, placements, and "infrastructure and support systems".
Each category was weighted with intellectual capital being allocated 250 points down to infrastructure and support systems, which was worth 150 points.
The paper did not publish the sample size used.
Faculty of Law Delhi University came sixth; Government Law College, Mumbai jumped up the rankings to seventh; ILS Law College, Pune was unchanged at eight; Amity Law School, Delhi made it into the top ten for the first time at nine; and Symbiosis Law School, Pune closed the list at ten.
Click here for a PDF of the full ranking on livemint.com.
Have a look at India Today's and Outlook India's competing law school rankings, which excited heated debate from readers last week.