I recently cam across this blog post [ https://annas-archive.org/blog/ai-copyright.html ]

It argues for shorter terms of copyright protection from the existing ones which extend to decades beyond the authors death. Some of the points they raised were interesting and thought provoking. I was wondering what thoughts other lawyers had on this subject. I might not agree with the national security issue, but generally considering that internet in the present form did not exist when these terms were agreed upon do you guys feels there is a need to change the length of the protections (at least going forward).

I am a junior law student and have been called ugly by mostly everyone in my batch and noone talks to me really. This is an NLU. Does being objectively unattractive create bias and issues when considering hiring prospects in litigation or corporate law firms? I have faces issued with project presentations where i am always scored a 0 regardless of my performance and get rebuked by classmates and professors for no reason on the regular.

pls guide how the hell do i get it i need this!

what’s the procedure like? or should i cold mail? i’m ready to do anything atp i just want to know what works. are they looking for merit/ academics? do connections work? i have interned at a tier 1 before. i want the noida office, either disputes or tmt. HELP A BROTHEr and dump any info you have pls, any insight is appreciated. thanks

Somehow MoGo, FM could paper over all the evidence that SJA had presented before them during their time in the NUJS Review Commission. Maybe that's what gave PIB and gang the confidence because they stumbled on that very evidence when it came before the EC subsequently.

Btw, you may want to check how MoGo got and lost the chair at NLS.

Agree. I think the argument is that the matter proceeded in a pre-determined manner, given a judge saying something in a interview something different than judgment (which he allegedly wrote). Ergo, does this become ground of his recusal and if yes, rehear the case. The point you need to remember is Arun Mishra's judgment, where he led a CB constituted to hear a reference from his own bench, and despite a very strong ask from one side, he didn't recuse (probably even passed an order to that effect, if memory serves me right). So recusal was within judge's own assessment. For other grounds of pre-meditation, including incorrect understanding of facts, not sure it would work since the review had also been dismissed. Lastly, if you do file curative and manage to admit it and also, win, do you really think a Court would now order to raze the temple constructed now? So it would only serve to be a moral victory. Just PoV. But would really like someone to tell me if I'm right or not (student here).

a) publish high quality research articles only in scopus journals

b) present at conferences and network with profs who mighe be your post doc host/supervisor

c) look for post-doc opportunities in your second year, if targeting EU/UK focus on funding like Marie curie, BA etc.

d) write to professors in the US, as their system is a bit different, they have uni based funding

e) shadow people who have taken the path that you want to take, find out what they did and try to better them

Why is the point they are trying to make so hard to understand? They have realised, based on their previous data about the LI activity of the one whose comment was marked as 'trollish', that s/he is not interested in engaging in constructive conversation. The contribution of this person to this thread continues the same trend! Now let's see if you have the brains to actually try disagreeing with that view, or if you'll just go away grumbling and continue with the agenda of what Sir Keir Starmer KC, the British prime minister, called 'a competition of victimhood'.

No clue what that means. I am only putting across my perspective, and not debating or trying to win a point. Clearly the quality of managers is so bad that they are not even clear about their expectations and therefore all they do is shout back and blame the juniors by saying that the juniors are not capable of learning. They are happy to tell the juniors that law firm is not a school and the juniors should act in a professional manner. However, most of the times these seniors behave like school masters who expect the juniors professionals to ask for their leave before leaving office everyday even if you have no work. They even write off juniors for BO. That is the brand of professionalism they are professing.

Context: https://theprint.in/ground-reports/new-british-boarding-schools-latest-accessory-indias-rich/2753964/

Sure. IITD, IIMA, NLSIU, Campion will always be at the top. But these are just the top 1%. What about the 99% others? Gradually losing out to expensive, international-style private schools and colleges?

I am currently in my third year, and have done pretty decent internships till now alongside being semi-finalist in a decent moot court competition. I have worked with dispute lawyers mostly, and I am confused as to which field of law should I choose as my career. I dont have any strong financial backup with me, and I had took an ed loan of 8 Lakhs, please suggest me how can I choose a field of law to practice in, so that I can plan my internships accordingly.

MS is not only not paying bonus / increment on time but is also ▮▮▮. There was a PA in disputes at 24 lacs pa and a SA with 8 years of work experience at 23 lacs pa. He has also hired associates at 12 lacs pa in capital markets and competition teams and thereafter hired A0s under them at 18.5 lacs pa. ▮▮▮

Let me point out a genuine and fundamental issue with this firm. MS wants all the communication routed through him. He wants to approve the sabbaticals, he wants to approve promotions, he wants to approve the bonus amounts and increment amounts, he wants to approve even if somebody takes WFH.

WHY DOES HE WANT TO APPROVE EVERYTHING ON HIS OWN. DO THE PARTNERS TAKE APPROVAL OF MS WHILE GIVING WORK AT 11 PM IN THE NIGHT? DO THE PARTNERS TAKE APPROVAL OF MS FOR MAKING ASSOCIATES WORK ON A WEEKDAY? DO THE PARTNERS TAKE APPROVAL OF MS FOR REJECTING LEAVES OF AN ASSOCIATE? NO RIGHT. THEN FOR WHAT GOOD REASON MS WANTS APPROVE IF SOMEBODY WANTS TO TAKE WFH?

MS needs to understand that he is not individualy working with each associate. He is not aware of working hours, mental condition, IQ, bandwidth, work history of each of the associate. In most situations, it is the reporting partner, who knows this information. Yet MS wants to have a final say on each and every important decision in respect of each individual associate's. THIS IS THE FUNDAMENTAL ISSUE.

Give more freedom to partners. Let the partners choose who should get the well-deserved WFH, and who should not. Let the partners decide who should get the bonus and what percentage. Let the partners decide the increments.

What's happening is - Reporting partners suck the blood out of associate's life. But when associates ask for bonus, increments, wfh, or any leeway, etc, the reporting partners point towards MS' cabin and tell them to approach him instead. That's wrong.

Not required. In case you want to do Litigation, a LLM from Harvard, Stanford, Cambridge, Columbia, NYU or Berkeley would be more suitable. Oxford and Yale are strictly academic masters and unlike the others mentioned here - which are suitable for both practitioners, aspiring academics, or an individual who wants to dabble around both, Oxford's BCL is supremely rigid. The BCL does, however, have value in Barrister Chambers in U.K. alongside a LLM from Cambridge or LSE.

No. Not unless you want to do that litigating in the UK or to go into academia. And then, it has to be only a part of your CV, because the expectations on that regard are so high now that a BCL in isolation won't cut it, has to be topped up with an MPhil and DPhil or other good PhD (see the profiles of people with Indian law degrees who have followed the barrister pathway in England). Hell, I know a guy (Singaporean, not Indian to be clear) who did LLB at Durham (and was highly ranked there) and BCL from Oxford, who still had trouble getting pupillage in barristers' chambers specialising in public law, until he did an MPhil topping up the BCL. That degree is so theoretical and on such a high level of abstraction... that it would be really weird for an Indian litigator to do it. If you were to go back to India as a litigator with just a BCL under your belt, it'd be like you couldn't get into academia (ie, failed to get into the MPhil/DPhil) and came back to pursue your backup career choice.

SJA protested this time apparently at the instigation of some faculty members of allegations by NKC in BB interview hold true. And what have those protests achieved, that included a farcical gherao? The VC had a chummy all nighter with his own. He turned it around to his advantage ( just wait for the new SC order) and will be waltzing in the EC meeting on Oct 16. SJA ultimatum of Oct 31 and other juvenile plans will come and go. The SJA deliberately ceded the vantage positions its predecessors had eked out. It needn't be fixed in a sniping position. But remain vigilant and not become a willing tool of a corrupt admin. The SJA must go now for failing to lead with evidence against NKC.

AC composition is set by the Act, which was conceived and drafted by Dr M. Ofc he should have known from his NLS experience that Prof numbers will go up and flood the AC but he probably knew he wouldn't stick around till then.

Two things must change. The SJA and far reaching changes in WBNUJS Act. The latter is structured to be VC centric while students get treated like lambs ready for.....

Direct your questions to the search committee, the EC and then the CJI. You could do the same for PIB as well. The point isn't about a contested past (NKC apparently won a case in Cal HC and his lawyer then was a former law minister and father of JA). The reason NKC could send the univ down a corrupt path is because SJA wasn't vigilant and instead cutting deals. But why blame SJA? What did we do when SJA was being complicit and even now? Has SJA suffered any meaningful consequences?

Why not RTI for a copy of the inquiry report? And while you are at it and mining the web, why not RTI the univ for copies of Procurement, Work, Building, IT committees minutes and agenda notes.? Also the univ hasn't been honest with uploads of FC, EC, AC records. The links draw blank on several FC minutes. And agenda notes are missing for the entire NKC period. Our alums had extracted 19 years of agenda notes and minutes of all EC, FC and GC minutes. What stopped our dear SJA folks to continue down that road and noy become conniving fellow travellers of NKC.

Difference between failing upwards, Indian and western styles:

India (NKC): A guy fakes his CV but becomes the leader of the equivalent (in law terms, for India) of an ivy league university, decreasing the university's relevancy on the global stage from a status of "rising star with potential to give the best in class a hard time" to "local college that can be dismissed out of hand".

Western style: Minouche Shafik, a person who, despite lots of privilege, has many genuine accomplishments to her name, becomes VC of LSE (after a stint as a Deputy Governor of the British central bank, the Bank of England). Makes a right little mess of handling teachers' strikes at LSE and fails upwards (or perhaps sideways? difficult to say) to Columbia, where she messes up handling of protests in such a way as to make both the pro-Israel and anti-Israel camps angry.

I rest my case.

Noojies should be a little humble about their arrogance. Let's not forget how 10 years back they were shouting that NLUD would never compare to them and today, NLUD is absolutely a far superior institution to NUJS and is ranked higher by literally every law aspirant and nearly everyone else with even an inkling of knowledge about NLUs.

Think it's gonna happen for sure.

https://www.businesstoday.in/amp/india/story/well-bring-down-50-reservation-wall-ahead-of-bihar-elections-2025-rahul-gandhi-makes-big-reservation-promise-495538-2025-09-24