NLU Jodhpur
NLU Delhi is now on 99 points in the Mooting Premier League (MPL) 6, sponsored by Herbert Smith Freehills, managing to remain just 11 points ahead of NLU Jodhpur.
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 team from NLU Jodhpur comprising of Rohan Tigadi, Sanjana Srikumar and Sagar Gupta has won the South Asian Rounds Price Media Law Moot Court Competition.
NLSIU Bangalore has asserted its three-year mooting dominance at the end of the fifth MPL season.
The margin between NLU Jodhpur and NLIU Bhopal is negligible this year, according to an analysis of the preferences of candidates taking the 2014 Common Law Admissions Test (CLAT).
Traditional NLU Jodhpur recruiters Amarchand Mangaldas, Luthra & Luthra and Trilegal hit campus again on 2 April, in addition to Khaitan & Co, to make 12 job offers to the class graduating in 2015.
NLU Jodhpur finished as finalist against the University of California at the 18th Stetson International moot world rounds in Florida, as Nalsar Hyderabad meanwhile broke into the 55th Philip C Jessup’s top 16 at Washington DC.
Now liveblogging: 5th NLU Antitrust Moot Court Competition! After some temporary technical delays, the NLU J liveblog is now fully going and ready for the finals of NLU Delhi vs Symbiosis Pune. Check it out!
Meanwhile, also ongoing today are the finals rounds of BVDU Pune's New Law College Justice PN Bhagwati 4th International Moot on Human Rights (with a live video stream!!): Catch RGNUL Patiala vs SLS Noida, live.
NLU Jodhpur bested Nuals Kochi to win the ULC Bangalore moot on Sunday and take third place in the Herbert Smith Freehills sponsored Mooting Premier League season 5 rankings.
Cashing in on the weekend of four grand moots including India’s best and India’s second oldest, some law schools managed to upset the Herbert Smith Freehills sponsored Mooting Premier League (MPL) season 5 pecking order, while others held fort.
NLU Jodhpur is liveblogging its sports fest! The Yuvardha III kicked off yesterday with its opening ceremony and will continue from today until Sunday, 29 September. Click here to check out the fantastic blow-by-blow account legal eagles' sporting prowess.{jcomments off}
KIIT Bhubaneshwar and NLU Orissa are leading twelve law schools that have opened their Mooting Premiere League (MPL) season 5 accounts with wins and citations in the Henry Dunant India rounds, the Surana Information Technology (IT) moot and the Bar Council of India (BCI) moot.
Prof chair-snatching: Academicians and students sign online protests against the arbitrary removal of Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) chair professors NS Gopalakrishnan and Yogesh Pai from their positions at CUSAT and NLU Jodhpur respectively, assigning no reasons [Spicy IP/Live Law]
No slack in rape sentencing: Supreme Court turns down now-married rape victim's suggestion of compromise with her attacker who was convicted 10 years ago and has completed three years in jail [NDTV]
Ragger suspended: A GLC Ernakulam student was suspended for ragging his junior who had refused to pay him Rs 50 for entering the college boys' hostel [TOI]
Lawyer mass arrest: 15,000 Allahabad high court and other Bar Association lawyers were arrested on Monday after their protest against the proposal to set up a Western UP bench of Allahabad HC. All the lawyers were taken to Police Lines from where they were later released [TOI]
Poll for jail: The Rajya Sabha has passed the Representation of the People (Amendment and Validation) Bill, 2013 negating the Supreme Court verdict that disallowed politicians to contest polls from jail [Firstpost]
Maritime moot enthusiasm, Lachs optimism and glorious winners!
Electric Jaising-Misra court: Additional solicitor general Indira Jaising appeared yesterday before justice Gyan Sudha Misra for the Union of India (UoI) in the Ishraat Jahaan fake encounter case. When Misra asked for Jaising’s authority to appear, Jaising said she was there for the UoI on the home ministry’s instructions, and added: “I am not here to show off myself”. “When we are asking you some questions, why is it that you are feeling some electric shocks?” retorted Misra, warning Jaising about contempt proceedings, at which point she apologised [Telegraph]
Jodhpur job score: NLU Jodhpur placed 61 out of a class of 90 students graduating this year, with Amarchand Mangaldas and Trilegal each hiring eight students. Majmudar & Partners hired six, JSA four, and legal process outsourcing (LPO) company Pangea3 picked up five. Gujarat State Petronet, Sebi and ONGC hired four each [Bar & Bench]
RMLNLU permanent #fail: RMLNLU Lucknow’s new VC Gurdip Singh has done away with repeat exams for students who fail, in order to improve ‘quality education and discipline’ [TOI]
What CJI tells PMO: Correspondence between the Chief Justice of India and the Prime Minister of India is not exempt from the purview of the Right to Information Act 2005, the Central Information Commission has held [BS]
Cal green tribunal wilts: Kolkata, the city where India’s first green tribunal was launched, is on the verge of losing its green tribunal to Guwahati or Ranchi [TOI]
Third degree on LPO: The Australian Law Students’ Association is calling for greater practicality and less theory in their law school curriculum so they can compete with legal process outsourcing (LPO) companies encroaching on what was traditionally the domain of lawyers [Lawyers Weekly]
NLU Jodhpur will appoint University of Delhi (DU) Law Centre II head Poonam Saxena as its new vice chancellor (VC) to succeed outgoing VC Justice NN Mathur.
NLU Jodhpur’s vice chancellor (VC) search committee submitted a shortlist of five names to the university’s chancellor 12 days ago.
At least 50 CLAT 2013 candidates were reshuffled to different colleges two weeks after the first results were first released.
Nuals Kochi drops behind RMLNLU Lucknow and CNLU Patna but seven oldest national law schools stay top.