NLSIU Bangalore
At least 21 law graduates have topped the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) main exam, obtaining between ranks 14 and 1209
V Arun Roy, a 2002-batch NLSIU Bangalore graduate and Tamil Nadu Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, has taken charge of the Tamil Nadu-based National Law School Srirangam as acting vice chancellor (VC).
The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2015 has published the long-awaited full list of university allocations that take account student’s preferences.
Three graduates from NLSIU Bangalore - K S Bharath Kumar (2001 batch), Nerale Veerabhadraiah Vijay (2001) and Nerale Veerabhadraiah Bhavani (1999) - will become Karnataka district judges, alongside advocates Vijayakumar Malasiddappa Anandashetti and Ravi M R, reported Bar & Bench.
They will be sworn in on 8 June.
NLSIU Bangalore 1998 graduate Bhavna Thakur has joined the Everstone Capital Advisors in Mumbai as the fund’s head of capital markets and exits.
NALSAR, NLU Jodhpur, JGLS and NLSIU, which represented India at the world rounds of the 56th Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot, made the country proud with two teams breaking into the last sixteen (one finishing as quarterfinalist), seven speakers finishing in the top 100 oralists and three teams winning top memorandum awards.
NLU Jodhpur has extended its lead in the Mooting Premier League (MPL) 6 sponsored by Herbert Smith Freehills after winning 30 points at the Vis Vienna moot that saw strong Indian performances.
NLSIU Bangalore’s 2016 batch successfully closed its first round of campus recruitments yesterday (2 April), one day after NLU Delhi, managing to secure 33 jobs already for 48 students taking part in campus recruitment activities.
With NLSIU Bangalore winning the Oxford IP moot, the difference between NLU Delhi and NLSIU has now been reduced to 1 point in the Mooting Premier League (MPL) 6 sponsored by Herbert Smith Freehills.
In the mooting stakes NLU Delhi is still on top, as NLSIU Bangalore now stands at the second spot leaving NLU Jodhpur in third spot. NLU Orissa has climbed up to 5th spot followed by Nalsar Hyderabad and NUJS Kolkata.
The team from NLSIU Bangalore bested NLIU Bhopal to clinch the winner’s title at the 14th edition of Amity National Moot Court Competition held at ALS Delhi from 20th to 22nd Feb, 2015.
The team from Jindal Global Law School bested Nalsar Hyderabad to win the national rounds of 56th Philip C Jessup Moot Court Competition held at Christ University Bangalore.
The Ministry of Consumer Affairs has sanctioned a grant of Rs 1 crore to NLSIU Bangalore to build a “centre for mediation for the protection of consumers”, headed up by consumer law and practice chair professor Ashok R Patil, reported The Hindu.
In 2013 Legally India had reported that NLSIU had received Rs 8 crore from the University Grants Commission (UGC) to upgrade its facilities.
The team from NLSIU Bangalore defeated CMR Law School in the finals of fifth Christ University National Moot Court Competition.
NLSIU Bangalore and Nalsar Hyderabad final year LLB students Mansi Sood and Sanya Samtani are, respectively, among nearly 85 scholars selected by the Rhodes trust, for its Oxford University class of 2015.
A Delhi University sociology student and one economics student and one Bangalore medical student are the other Indians selected for the class. The five Indian's who have made it to this year's Rhodes class include four women.
Samtani’s profile on Oxford’s website states:
“Her primary area of interest lies at the intersection of public international law, constitutional law and critical theory. Having been a teaching assistant for public international law and constitutional law, she envisages a career in academia. Whilst in NALSAR, she served as senior editor of the NALSAR Student Law Review; editor of the Indian Journal of Intellectual Property Law, having edited a special issue on the Global South, and student editor of ILSA's International and Comparative Law Quarterly. Furthermore, she has been on the organizing committees of the NALSAR Film Festival and the NALSAR Inter Varsity Debating Championship.”
Sood's profile on the website states:
"Her interest lies in commercial law, with a primary focus on arbitration and intellectual property law. Currently serving as the Chief Editor of the National Law School of India Review, Mansi has helped in organising the Annual Symposium for the past three years. She has participated in several national and international moot court competitions and recently won the 5th International ADR Mooting Competition at Hong Kong. Besides mooting, Mansi also enjoys parliamentary debating and writing. A trained Kathak dancer, she likes to play sports, particularly badminton."
Last year law students from NLSIU and NUJS Kolkata won the Rhodes.
Hat-tip to Lawctopus for first breaking the news.
EDIT 1 December 2014: Due to an incomplete list of profiles uploaded earlier on the Rhodes class link, this story had erroneously stated that only three Indians - all women - were selected for the class of 2015. This has now been corrected.
Nalsar Hyderabad performed better than all national law schools, including NLSIU Bangalore, in finding placements for its 2013-14 graduates of its class of 2014, according to Legally India’s new rating of law schools recruitment results.
HNLU Raipur has won the 8th Nalsar Justice Bodh Raj Sawhney Memorial Moot Court Competition 2014, besting NLSIU Bangalore.
NLSIU Bangalore’s class of 77 graduates this year secured 42 jobs - 30 through campus, 11 via pre-placement offers (PPO) and one off campus by a student’s own initiative.
NLSIU Bangalore has asserted its three-year mooting dominance at the end of the fifth MPL season.