recently opposition politicians are saying that SC judges feel pressurised while giving judgements and I have seen a narrative being built that SC is not independent from government and government decides what judgment will come.
This has increased after the Arrest of Kejriwal and his cabinet ministers.

The batch in which this issue arose already knows the identity of the perpetrator as well as the victim. There had been witnesses to the incident as well.

Don't make the queerphobia incident anymore than it needs to be since it has already been cleared up. The principal issue in this case has been that of sexual assault/ rape. The reason why the fact finding committee was "bust" is because the victim, if there ever was, chose not to come out or even reveal the name of the offender to the concerned authorities. There has been widespread concerns of malicious intent behind sharing such post and that such a thing has not occurred. 210 students per batch and she still couldn't have come forward despite over arching support rendered by the student body, faculty, alumni and judiciary. This is the propaganda, quit bringing politics into it. All that was achieved had been to make the student community and parents feel unsafe. If this report had been a joke, fess up and cease this nonsense

True that the Committee did not find any direct evidence. No one came forward. But that was expected when there is a institutional culture of complicity and hushing up. If the AG is honestly circulating an anonymous Google link then maybe the direct evidence will be excavated.

However the Committee did report that there is evidence that there are institutional constraints, culture of fear et al that simultaneously create conducive conditions for such things to happen and also suppress complaints/due investigation.

Also please don't forget that Registrar did get scalped. Ofc it is a different matter that his replacement may not be any better.

I am a non-nepo kid practising IP law. I am very fortunate to have had a mentor (a professor during my LLM in IP in the UK) who helped me a lot. Thanks to this professor, I am working for a top foreign company in India and doing very well, both financially and in terms of exposure. It’s also a great workplace with a work life balance. In contrast, my life in a law firm, prior to my LLM, was very depressing: low pay, hectic work, not a single word of encouragement from my boss.

At NUJS, the SH matter involving an ex-▮▮▮ and ▮▮▮ has been going in the local court since 2014. Not concluding any time soon. The ex-▮▮▮ ▮▮▮ (suspended since 2014) appealed before the Cal HC when his services were terminated in 2019. That is going on as well.

Now we have an Associate Prof who alleges SH ▮▮▮. She has now gone to Cal HC following police and university inaction.

Nothing unusual in the timeframe. Even the Harvey Weinstein trial took 8 years or so and he got acquitted in the end. Sexual harassment cases require careful assessment of evidence and the need to give a fair hearing to all sides. In this case, there is a fundamental jurisdictional issue whether you like it or not: how can a university punish staff for acts committed outside campus?

https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/gujarat-high-court/gujarat-high-court-directs-gnlu-registrar-to-apologize-for-mishandling-rape-allegation-case-256488

https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/ahmedabad/on-allegations-of-sexual-harassment-queerphobia-hold-confidence-building-exercises-teach-inclusiveness-to-students-hc-tells-gnlu-9297804/

Gujarat HC probably doesn't know how hollow the SJA has become now.

Bhai cool dude banna tha, toh Entrepreneur bante. Computer Sc. leke kuch build karte. Suit pehn ke angrezi me gyan bhi dena hai, aur hero bhi banna hai.

Lawyer ho. Lawyer ki tarah serious dikho. Cool banoge toh client tumhe sasta rockstar nahi, Sasta ChatGPT samjhega aur kahega yeh toh main GPT se bhi karva lunga.

"When and where did things change so much that 'Go back to Poland' can be a slogan today? The current milieu has been building for some time, and via the same elite universities that now feel powerless to contain their wards and enforce house rules. Somewhere along the line, efforts to diversify faculty and infuse multiculturalism into syllabi - both admirable goals - became a single-minded pursuit of antiracism, anticolonialism, and gender and sexual orientation studies.

They were the guiding principles. This narrowing of the canon meant that only a certain kind of contemporary left learning was acceptable. Academic writing became obsessed with 'intersectionality' and 'de-centering Whiteness', robbing the room for complexity.

Professors of West Asia studies have been at the forefront of decolonising higher education, a worthy objective if done mindfully but not as indoctrination by other means. The Hamas attack showed how far things have lurched. Joseph Massad, professor of modern Arab politics at Columbia University, seemed to relish the attack. Writing on Oct 8 in The Electronic Intifada, he used words such as 'astonishing,' 'stunning,' 'astounding,' and 'awesome' to describe the 'takeover of settler-colonies' by Hamas. Cornell professor Russell Rickford called the Hamas attack 'exhilarating' and 'energising,' but later apologised."

https://twitter.com/seemasirohi/status/1784949803958366420/photo/1

Wow such bootlicker!! Praising the most corrupt family of the past two centuries. Bofor scams? 2G Scam? Commonwealth scam? Harshad Mehta scam?

Suggest you google "UPA 9 years, 9 scam" to understand the sheer magnitude of scams perpetrated by Gandhis and their stooges. You will be foolish to think they were not the beneficiaries.

"Let's not forget LIBRARY"

"The man was a pioneer of dedicating his wealth for public use instead of passing it on to his children"

I mean its perfectly fine to not like BJP. But just for THAT...don't pass statements that make it seem your brain has left your top floor and gone for a walk.

- Stalled economic reforms and zero legal/judicial reforms in the past year under Modi

- Overpopulation: too many people for too few jobs

- No end to Gaza and Ukraine conflicts

- Possibility of high tax/low-growth Congress government in India with Rahul as PM, as BJP's middle class vote bank is not turning up to vote

Are we headed for doomsday, in terms of placements?

We are portrayed as beasts for calling for the removal of dogs on campus, but the truth is that we love animals. We are deeply concerned about deforestation and feel terrible at the plight of tigers, elephants, rhinos, cute baby monkeys and orangutans etc. We oppose cutting down forests for industry.

However, that doesn’t mean we support the prevalence of vicious dogs on campus who bite teachers and students. These dogs are a threat to society. They need to be removed and in some cases even taken down.

It’s time we have a mature conversation about this instead of smearing the other side.

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

- on behalf of students of a reputed law school

By ”affected by” I mean cancellation of classes and possibly recruitments by law firms. By “involved with” I mean being a part of the protests, whether anti-Israel or pro-Israel. Also, any worries of visa cancellations or blacklisting by law firms?

There must be many Indian LLM students in the US right now, but we haven’t heard on social media from any of them, so very curious to know what’s going on.

Quoting the above comment:

"Just send the message on WhatsApp number. Max to max, you can get scold; [sic] whereas, you will have atleast [sic] some chances of getting an internship if you draft a well crafted message for WhatsApp. One person secured placement on Day Zero just like this in AZB in 24' batch even though she already secured vacation [sic] at HSF."

She was lucky. It could easily have turned out much worse. Very bad advice for the following reasons:

1. Dreadful encroachment on the partner's personal life.

2. Calling out romanticism: Stop acting like a vacation scheme at HSF (or anywhere) is some sort of golden stairway to the stars, please. Future trainees are selected from vacation scheme cohorts, so there is the possibility that she would not get a TC out of it even then, if they believe she isn't worth selecting. This means that her career prospects could have been impacted a few months down the line, if her behaviour had made a bad impression. Plus, there may be other reasons (e.g. visa problems) why the candidate may not be able to participate in the VS, only strengthening the case against such antics.

3. Classic case of short-termism: Do you really think such behaviour will be forgiven/forgotten that easily, if it gave offense in the first place (which it easily could have)? What if our person from 2024 batch (in the hypothetical where her antics gave offense) later gets involved in her UK career in India-related work that involves that partner/that firm? You think they will be pleased to work with her, however prestigious a firm she might be working at? Or even worse, suppose she decides to come back, either immediately after the TC or a few years' worth of PQE in England, in which case this foolhardy behaviour could impact her (hypothetical) post - HSF career prospects in India. Please don't adopt this reckless attitude when stuff you do in high stakes situations can come back to bite you later in life, sometimes years afterwards.

for the love of all that is holy, do not do this. It feels immensely violative if a random kid knows your phone number - unless that phone number is on their law firm website. Use the official channels they provide - else it is a blacklist.

Best way is to interact with their content on linkedIn and share your thoughts

HNLU isn't too expensive anyway (2nd cheapest NLU after RML). It's easily one of the most value-for-money institutions, and your parameters to judge should be value-for-money not absolute fees. HNLU can get you into a well paying corp and DU can't. The RoI is therefore not even comparable, it's a joke.

Doing litigation is definitely greater RoI if you become successful. This is an if. If you like to gamble, go for it. But nothing stops you from doing lit after HNLU either.

Is there a single party in India that is truly secular? I have no religious beliefs or affiliations and it seems to me there is no one to vote for. BJP opts for Hindu appeasement and Congress for Muslim/other minority religions appeasement. Is there no secular, and solely pro-development party?

Given the chaos occurring frequently at GNLU causing it to be considered as a meme NLU due to administration issues, who had been the better administrator, Shantakumar or Bimal Patel, especially with regards to taking necessary actions in improving student life, and holding professors to a certain standard?

Mods, please post this

Find firms with a high attrition rate, if just getting placed in a tier one firm is your only priority. Go for a 3 month internship with firms like Saraf which offer long term internships, work tooth and nail if all goes well you might be able to get a job. Secondly, all of these things are very luck dependent, you might feel like you are all prepared for the big dance but just the night before you might end up with a broken leg, your mentor might leave on the last day of your internship or your partner might leave the firm, so be prepared for such situations. Keep a brave heart, give your best in this 2-3 months, if it works out great, if it doesn’t don’t lose hope start with anything you can find be it an average litigation chamber in Delhi, just don’t sit around wasting time. Remember kid, this is a marathon not a 100m race, no matter where you are if you are serious in 5 years you’ll be churning gold.