Clearly the commentator is from NUJS. The university has got several excellent women faculty like Lovely Dasgupta for contract for example. However, nobody good who directly works in law and tech. There is Paramita Dasgupta, but her field is more IP and public health laws. I agree with your comments about the use of gushing adjectives. In fact, most of the people named would probably feel embarrassed to be the subject of such adulation, anonymous or otherwise. They are good teachers, some are even excellent researchers. Shameek, Anirban, Souvik and Aman are also approachable and kind to students. That much I too vouch for.

I don't think you have any knowledge of what quality publications means. Mazumder has authored a book on database protection law that was published by Springer back when such publication used to be a big deal. He's also a great classroom teacher and I speak from experience. Guha has got one of the highest number of peer reviewed and Scopus and web of science indexed publications among all NLU faculty, including collaborative publications in tech forums and interdisciplinary conferences. Based on his posts, he is also involved in the peer review boards of some of the top journals and conference forums in his field of studies. I have got friends in various IITs working on AI and many of them have worked with him in multiple projects. So clearly you are trolling.

If there were any, they would be named. They're not and therefore they're not named. Duh ! & What's the ratio of ladies to men in hard science ? Similar is the case with law. How many ladies to you see in tax, IPR or cyber, in comparison to International law, Human rights, gender rights ? The point is simple, ladies want to work in humanity and social fields. Men want to work in logical fields. That's why you'd see a lavanya rajamani in environmental law and these NUJS men in tech law. Obviously, exceptions are there.

It's great that you admire all these guys but anyone reading legally india would imagine that no women teach at law schools. Bro worship is a little nineties. Where are the ladies? I don't trust any gushing post that names five men, using words like impeccable. No one is impeccable.

I think it might just be NUJS. There are a bunch of professors who work in law and tech. Prof. Shameek offers a media law elective, which is banging, and also heads a new centre that is doing some good work; one of the only centres that actually works at NUJS tbh. Also, Prof. SKG, man, he's impeccable. He knows a ton and is also on editorial boards of journals wrt AI Ethics. He also offered an elective not very long ago on AI ethics. Then, the young Prof. Gupta. He works on stuff like esports, fintechs, etc. Prof. Gupta has some amazing command over his domain area, like really. I have spoken to him quite a few times, and the guy knows his shit in and out, which really helped me in some areas I was stuck in during internships. He was apparently offering an elective on fintech to the LLM batch; maybe he will offer us next year or so. Prof. Annie Mazum is very senior again and a brilliant teacher of IP and Cyberlaw. Like the guy. Even Dr. Srinivasulu is good with biotechnology law; he takes another compulsory subject on science tech and law ig. Has a stellar publication record. The good part about them is that each of them is very involved and interested in educating and making students learn. U can reach out to prof. aman, prof. shouvik, prof. shameek for clarifying concepts etc., and they will really go an extra mile to explain that and encourage you. They also expect good work from students tbh and keep an eye out for them. So it's not that u can clown ur way into working with them, but they are generally very kind and just amazing human beings eod.

Once you work in LKS tax, your career growth is dead. Coz there are handful of tax firms for lateral movement. Plus if you are just a lawyer and not CA, the chances of moving inhouse are also negligible coz 90% of companies prefer CAs in tax teams.

I feel someone who has worked in tax, can learn and work on any other law lot faster coz tax law is one of the toughest laws to read and interpret. Yet the perception in industry is someone who works in tax is utterly useless to do anything else.

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Indeed. You really should have, because you don't have any vision, and make the (very common) mistake of thinking from a short-term perspective. Feedback obtained from Legally India anonymous sources won't change that, so I can only wish you the best of luck in wallowing in your own short-termism and misery.

Multi lingual CLAT is not "inevitable" because none of the NLUs offer the degree in any language other than English. So those who want to study law in English will end up studying English at Class 11/12 level. The day MNLU starts offering BALLB in Marathi medium, things will change.

As a card carrying 'Sudhir fanboy', I will say that I know nothing about the impact on the MNLUs. However, I know what Sudhir should do about this for NLS. Like how the British and American law schools do for international students, introduce IELTS as an additional Secure English Language Test to CLAT and board marks as a measure of quality for people from Maharashtra to get admitted to NLSIU.

Agree. Previously, LI had extensively reported on how SJA had used RTIs to expose the lies of PIB relating to URC Report and later dogged pressure from SJA eventually got the "great' Lord Taluk admin to upload all the EC,FC, AC minutes and agenda notes. That was a massive treasure trove of data.

Even the SJA website had those uploaded. For reasons best known to SJA 2019-20 and its successors, they quietly accepted and supported NKC when he discontinued this practice. Now he freely manipulates and sanitizes the minutes (as alleged by the associate professor). I am told that a lot of AC and even FC matters no longer reaches the EC.

As regards the Annual Reports and Accounts....the GC meets once a year and that too just before the convocation. No one is interested to flip through the pages and its is assumed in good faith that the univ admin, including the VC, have done things right. That's how successive admins have buried embezzlement of UGC funds, inquiry reports etc.

Where is the intrepid SJA that uncovered multi-crore scams; triggered eviction of Registrar and VC despite powerful interests inside and outside EC; humbled the mighty AG (KD) and Lord Taluk into releasing EC, FC and AC records etc?

Also why hasn't the SJA ever archived the good fights?

Well, the SJA has moved to a different domain (www.sjanujs.org) but this site is as good as dead. It was last updated in Nov 2023. So more than the VC it's the lethargy of the present generation of students. They don't care about the institution: just interested in clearing the course with inflated grades by mediocre profs, then joining a firm.

Entry into the PhD programme in India isn't solely dependent on NET/SET. All NLUs conduct PhD entrance examinations of their own. The complainant did clear that from what I'm aware of. The VC is not the arbiter of who gets into PhD anyway. If he did that, that itself was unethical behaviour on his part and strengthens the case against him.

connections yes and im a delhi native. altho i dont wanna be dependent on the lawyer in my family too.. rest depends on results.

already spent like 1.16 lakh on preparing for this shit lmao.

i also wanna earn on the side, which might not be possible in a hectic life in pune?

besides, i heard from someone that people literally shifted from sls pune to noida. dunno how true tho

Which is what will happen at nalsar. Y’all are completely deluded on this site. It’s a polite / delayed resignation. Unless there’s a clear plan of when faculty will come back - you should assume they won’t. No one in their late thirties/early forties uproots their life for funsies.

Inspired form the earlier successful thread of law and technology. Are there any good scholars in India that are dealing with armed conflicts and law ? Which NLUs have decent international law professors ?

Specially with how things are going on in the world between Ukraine-Russia, Israel -Palestine, Egypt -Ethopia etc. Obviously you'll find a lot of international relations experts from premier institutions like JNU. But what about International law ? Isn't that supposed to be our domain to talk about?

Managing Partner of Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas Cyril Shroff recently called for concrete measures to open up the Indian legal market to international competition.

Unless this is done, lawyers in India would remain part of a "cottage industry" and it would be difficult for India to claim that it is a leading economy when there is no access to globalised legal services, Shroff said in an interview to ET Circle.

Shroff made the observation while responding to a question on the legal structure in India, its system and its future.

"The legal profession needs to be reformed drastically. The Chief Justice also last year, in a speech, mentioned that the legal profession today is an old boy's club. It should be open to all, but it is not. So I think three things need to be done there. One is, I think the market needs to open up. I think we need to open it up to foreign competition. It has become a joke, internationally. Every time an international lawyer sees me and talks to me - he says, 'still two years away, right?' That joke has been going on for twenty years or more," he said.

Shroff also emphasised that efforts to open the legal market in India should be transparent and fair.

"It should be done in a fair and transparent way. We had a number of botched-up attempts to open up the profession and that's not going to happen that way. It has not opened up because it has just been botched up. There is no clarity - we don't even know who is taking that decision. A committee or a commission needs to be put in place to figure it out."

On the possible ramifications of opposing efforts to globalise legal services in India, Shroff added:

"Until we open up this profession to international competition, we're still going to remain a cottage industry. I am firmly of the view that we need more competition. You can't be the top country or one of the top economies in the world without access to global legal services - you are not going to create that confidence. Today, it (legal profession) has become a protection racket, in terms of all the lawyers associations and all - it is nothing but a protection racket."

Shroff went on to suggest that the time has come to allow lawyers in India to explore the business side of the legal profession in a better way.

"I think the business model needs to be turned around. We are the only profession or industry which is forced into a partnership model. I think it is time we should be allowed to look at a corporate model. Yes it is a profession; yes, its not a business. But I think the fact is that because there is also the element of business of law, there is a need for access to capital. For example, if we were to embrace big technology, where is all that capital going to come from? Only a corporate model will allow that. Secondly, just a business model in a pure, general partnership mode is basically a cash flow. And it has become a labour arbitrage. You are not really creating more long term value. We are too small for that," he said.

While calling for a complete revamp of the legal profession, Shroff further suggested that there needs to be shift in the way a lawyer's services are valued.

"The commercial model needs to change. The core for the last hundred years has been what's called the 'hourly rate model' - you charge for time. But the question is, does that really represent the value of what you get? It doesn't. And it creates a wrong incentive - it creates an incentive that 'why don't you just take your time and multiply the number of hours so you make more money?' The philosophy has to move towards more value-based compensation and AI is going to force that. You will get an answer out of AI in a matter of seconds - how are you going to charge for that? So these three things need to fundamentally change. I think somebody should look at it and revamp this profession from top to bottom. Otherwise, I think we are headed towards a big problem," Shroff said.

In the interview, Shroff also spoke of the need to ensure that laws are well-drafted and the potential use of technology in reducing delays that clog the judicial system.

He opined that while India has a world-class, sophisticated and intellectual legal system, efforts should be made to ensure that disputes are efficiently and promptly resolved.

"I think first there needs to be a deep focus in terms of just the laws that have been written, because the problem starts with ambiguous laws and the quality of many of them leave a lot to be desired...We need to figure out how to get quick justice. I think, at least in part, technology is the answer...A lot of the judicial bandwith is clogged up by process. A lot of that process could be taken over by technology. So I think we can end up saving a lot of judicial bandwith and time if we use technology wisely," he added.

https://www.livelaw.in/amp/top-stories/nujs-students-write-to-cji-requesting-removal-of-vc-due-to-allegations-of-sexual-harassment-by-associate-professor-258908

https://www.telegraphindia.com/amp/west-bengal/re-examine-sexual-harassment-complaint-lodged-against-vc-calcutta-high-court-directs-west-bengal-national-university-of-juridical-sciences/cid/2022532

Here’s my prediction on what happens in the next 30 days. Please save it.

- 28 May: The EC (which is basically an extension of the TMC and controlled by AG Kishore Datta) grants NKC an extension to continue as VC.

- 30 May: SJA condemns the decision. Meetings will be held with Rohit Das to discuss legal options (NUJS alum who is representing the complainant and who previously represented a petitioner who challenged the NUJS domicile quota in court, but later withdrew).

- 4 June: The TMC loses the Lok Sabha election in Bengal and suffers a big jolt.

- 10 June: A petition is filed in the SC against the extension granted to the VC. Sensing that the TMC is a diminishing force, the SC judges don’t side with the EC.

- 17 June: The TMC feels the pressure and drops NKC like a hot potato and proposes the appointment of an interim VC, who is a retired HC judge close to the government.

- 20 June. Students oppose this and instead ask the CJI to appoint an acting VC who is a retired SC judge

- 25 June: The CJI delegates the matter to Justice Dipankar Datta.

I am not a fan of NKC. I think he's a terrible VC whose whole appointment was done in an arbitrary and opaque manner. However, on this matter, I am inclined to support him because I think there are glaring deficiencies in the complaint (to say the least). I also have questions about the bona fides of the students. The present lot have no interest in working for the betterment of the college. In fact, they have worked or lower the academic standards of NUJS so that they can pass with high grades awarded by "particular" mediocre profs. Also, why was the CJI never approached when it came to matters of corruption and maladminsitration?

Dear lovelies of law frat,

I am a fifth-year T2 NLU student about to start an internship at AZB. Which office—Delhi, Noida, or Mumbai—would be the best choice in terms of maximizing my chances of receiving a callback? Additionally, could anyone recommend a few good partners to work with, as I want to avoid toxic environments (too much to ask)?

People who are already living in Mumbai, having offices or near Lower Parel, please tell me what your living arrangements are in the following order-

1. Flat/Home/PG

2. 1/2/3BHK

3. Single/Shared and how

4. Rent

5. Locality

For example you can say that you live in a sharing flat of 2 BHK with 1 flatmate for 35000 rent near Mahalakshmi cross road.

You seem to imply that just because she was an ISC topper, that she should have the sacred right to be a T1 NLU topper and also go on to Harvard/Oxford. Nothing could be further from the truth - 5 years at law school changes many people, and many of the school prodigies lose their way in academics

Yes.

1) from my experience and those of people I know : Jgls, nalsar , nujs , nlu delhi have serious grade inflation problems that can and might lead to devaluing the degree. They should look at whether grade curves/ average/median gpas have remained stable since inception or no

2) nls has a curve that they make evaluators stick to now. Something like only 15% of the class can get the top two grades or something. It’s not a perfect system - but it’s a check.

3) Indian law firms ? They’re basically factories for law clerks - they’ll take anyone from the top places for a few years - the test will be to see who advances to SA and beyond.

LLM - you need top 20 % to have a hope at funding , unfunded positions are easy to get. Law firm HR has very different needs than llm admissions officers. The HR in firms don’t even often check to make sure you’ve gotten your degree- I know more than a couple of people who don’t have degrees and continue to work at their job post graduation, and one who was found out. The admissions officers have to be careful who they are spending money on- they have an informal system that ranks foreign universities and - they will prefer someone from a better school with a poorer grade than someone from a worse school with a good grade- all else being equal. People with poor class ranks from top law school get into ivies, Stanford, Berkeley, Michigan, Chicago, Oxbridge all the time. But people with good ranks from middling unis don’t get in precisely because the admissions officers have no faith in the degree.

Consider that your friend is coping. Many people go to top law schools - all of them have been exceptional students in school, all of them were school toppers and got great board marks and quizzed and debated and MUN ed, and we’re school leaders. Someone has to be at the bottom of the law school class - and that usually depends on the person who is burning out that term or the person who isn’t working as hard as others at exams and papers.

Most teachers are happy to give students good grades when they’re earned- if you’re correcting like 60-140 papers 3 times a term - you’ll see a lot of nonsense written and you’ll be thrilled to award points when it’s deserved. So if someone really deserves better grades - most teachers would usually fight moderation policies to make that happen. Sometimes we just fall short and our best efforts fall short.

If someone is giving judiciary and his/her family member had a criminal record previously ....but he/she protested against his/her family member for doing wrong and if he/she with continous effort save someone's life will she/he eligible for becoming a judge . (he/she has a no criminal record)

Hi, I've been applying to law firms as a fresh graduate out of the 2024 batch. Argus Partners is one of the places I'm considering applying to. Could anyone give me more of an insight into their pay structure for the Kolkata office and the Delhi office and how Argus is in general?

Macha, come to Pune. You will love Bengaluru. Having lived in Gurgaon, Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Pune, I can vouch for Mumbai anytime. However, being a foodie, I hate Mumbai for its overhyped shitty food. For that reason and to enjoy winters, I love Delhi. Gurgaon is not recommended for obvious reasons. Pune has been the worst city i have lived, even worst than my hometown - Kanpur (UP)! The good part of Bengaluru is that the traffic cops do their job (that's complete missing in Pune!). These are my personal views and I don't intend to hurt anyone's sentiment here. I respect your opinion towards your city, but i stand firm on my experience!

Any wonder so many Indians like Trump? You could give him lessons in what aboutary. Just because "all Indian cities" have accessibility problems means Bangalore should be forgiven for having them? I thank my stars I am living in London, where we at least don't get this kind of attitude.

Hi Bro,

It looks like you have had your fair share of experience with the Real-estate teams in most prominent law firms in Mumbai. Why don't you try for a Call-back at all these places? Tri, WG, DSK have good work. I don't think anyone pays that well except tri. WG is decent. Maybe Lodha and other groups are an option too.

Good luck :)

BUMP!

Can someone actually confirm if LKS has a history of rolling out offers before December, asking interns to continue till the end of the year (March/April) and then rescinding the offers later on? This would lead to a waste of our final year where we could be looking for other jobs instead.

NLS had the same rank before Sudhir too. He has hardly done anything to change that. Not that he has not done other things to help the university, he did. Faculty recruitment for example. Max number in a given time among law schools, regularly bringing in qualified people to teach.

It’s fine. It happens. Women cry just as much or even less than men get angry. Both are behaviours short of perfect professionalism, but you are human.

You could just pretend it didn’t happen, if that will be awkward - you can pop your head in when you are in next and say “ sorry about the crying last time- I’m embarassed- was having a hard day”

Don’t blow it up into a big thing.

1. Abandon the popular perception to the extent of pro Pakistan feelings. These guys are much more (in the British context) RW, meaning much more pro India. In fact, Congress will find it much harder to get along with Labour (as it currently is) than the BJP.

2. Don't be so 100% sure about Labour as it currently is being too much in favour of immigration. They have also been making worrying noises about bringing the numbers down (though the number that the OBR (Office for Budget Responsibility) gave for 2022 - 23 of net migration, 745000, is too high). They might be a bit less hostile to immigration than the current Tory administration (maybe more like Tories in 2020 - 2021). Watch out for Labour's manifesto. Even with Boris/Truss, the Indians were negotiating with a Tory party whose manifesto said they'd bring immigration down to "the tens of thousands", which is why they found it difficult (as Tories needed to show their people at home that they weren't being too flexible either). My observations of Keir Starmer's political technique indicate that he is likely to be pragmatic, in other words, for our people, sensible. He might compromise (to a limited extent) on work visas for Indians, allowing for the give-and-take that you have described. Or, he and his people might push hard on some other Indian weak point, forcing us to relent, re. foreign law firms. Remember, Starmer, the likely future prime minister, is a lawyer by training and a former Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). Therefore, he will be batting hard for the legal sector, something Conservatives in modern times (surprisingly for people who know anything about British conservatism) haven't been doing for some considerable time. If you do some research, you will find that they have made some really damaging financial cuts to the criminal justice system/prisons, and restricted legal aid hugely. This trend of throwing the British legal sector under the bus at home has also been reflected abroad in their reluctance to bat for the UK legal sector in the international space, something which will massively change from July 5.

1) No.

2) With eyes shut, go for GLC. It is awesome. You can intern throughout the year, they care hash about attending classes.

3) Maybe, but concentrate on your profile building and on GLC academics (whatever that may be) as well. If you think you can strike the balance, go for it!

Why can't we just shift to paper ballots, to prevent the possibility of tampering? Why does Modi insist on EVMs?

https://www.deccanherald.com/elections/india/lok-sabha-elections-2024-kapil-sibal-issues-checklist-to-verify-evm-tampered-or-not-during-counting-on-result-day-3039571