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Yes, I'm talking of trains/metros.
There's a reason why places like Bombay and Delhi are filled litigating counsels
For law scopus is quite patchy and skewed towards international and interdisciplinary research. Many of the good core legal doctrinal journals - the ones that publish doctrinal analysis or case commentaries are absent or underrepresented. And then there are plenty of really low quality legal articles that get published in scopus listed journals which has nothing to do with law. They merely help inflate the citation counts without reflecting the scholarly value of that article.
Also any insight on Binsy or Smarika's team along the same lines would also be appreciated.
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My tier 1 NLU is infamous for how open you can be with substances, and it's led to the shared infrastructure of the campus becoming so gross that it's hard to describe it. People share the same bongs across a floor, and clean the bongs on the washroom floor. There's always a rotten stench wherever you go. Moreover, you can tell who abuses it from their face and body - they look half dead to be very blunt.
I don't care about the pros and cons of marijuana or whatever, but do feel a discussion on its moderation and some stricter enforcement is necessary. We're already in an odd time with the industry being more competitive than ever and AI just on the horizon, having the next generation of lawyers be degenerate junkies is sad.
Wishing them the best.
Pretty chill course, good one for the right.
2. Certain models, when they've been proven to work, need to be adapted rather than changed from the ground up or abandoned. Oxford, for example, has been using the tutorial system for hundreds of years (Cambridge uses the same thing, just that they call it 'supervision'). We know that that works. The markets continue to go to them. Similarly, the market continues to come to the NLUs. Employers remain enthusiastic to recruit from those universities. Therefore, why should we listen to you, of all people!?
3. This last part of your comment is very concerning and disappointing. It is the reason why I have always said many Indian universities should shut down (or if push comes to shove be forced to shut down) their law departments.
You are confusing issues. What has the quality of education got to do (or judgments about what you are doing with your education) with positions that people may choose to take (or not to take) on various issues?
There is an organisation called UK Lawyers For Israel (UKLFI). It counts amongst its members some of the best legal brains the British have at their disposal (and that's saying something, as you should know). You might not like the positions they advocate for, but would you dare to question the quality of their education!? Would you really say that these top-notch lawyers are somehow less top-notch because they have a different worldview from your own?
You wanna make sure this is not a double standard? UKLFI is not happy at the stated intention of the Labour administration of Sir Kerr Starmer, the current prime minister of the UK, to recognise a Palestinian state at the UNGA if Israel doesn't comply with certain conditions. They have even written to the Attorney General, Lord Hermer, to indicate that, in their view, recognition of a Palestinian state under such circumstances and in the way the government has been proposing to do it, might in and of itself be a violation of international law. Again, we may or may not agree with that position of UKLFI. But if their people go shooting their mouths off, questioning the quality of the education of Starmer or David Lammy (foreign secretary) or Hermer, is that justified? Are you really claiming that whether you are making the most of your education depends on what positions you adopt?
Your idea of education is really poor. The point of education isn't to enforce (or reinforce) ideological dogma. It is to help people think and argue better. Oscar Wilde put it best, when he said that the point of an Oxford degree was that it taught you to 'play with ideas'. I know enough about the way education works at many of the good NLUs (especially NLSIU) to confidently say that they are meeting Wilde's benchmark. Had Wilde been born now and attended, for example, NLSIU rather than Oxford, and had he had the same inner wisdom that no university can give but is topped up by what a good university education can give, he would have made the same wise statement about NLSIU. Sadly, it seems as though he could not have said the same about whatever university you attended; or, if you had indeed attended a good university, he would have reproached you for not having learned to 'play with ideas'.
My grandmother (my mum's aunt) used to say this beautifully. She used to say, regarding the JEE exam, "You failed Joint now? [the usual time people give it, when they are almost ready to be school leavers/are already so and are competing for places at universities] Very well, you'll be giving joint for the rest of your life because the toughness of life by virtue of failing joint is like going through, for the rest of your life, what it took to prepare for joint in one year". Her statement is equally applicable to CLAT, I feel. Sadly, we lost her to COVID-19. Sad not just for us as a family, but for the world, for losing someone with such great moral vision and clarity.
Any individuals who do freelancing as well would help.
Thank you!