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While hiring professors they ask only two questions.
1) Do you speak Marathi?
2) Have you previously worked with DU?
Moreover, there is a lack of transparency in the hiring process of faculty members, adding to students' concerns about academic quality.
Administrative inefficiency is another persistent issue. Students representing the college in competitions face months-long delays in receiving reimbursements. The administration also shows no initiative in supporting the student-run Internship and Placement (IP) Cell. There has been little to no assistance in organizing placement drives, and the Vice-Chancellor has repeatedly failed to attend meetings with potential recruiters, including Tier-1 firms.
The college's leadership, particularly the Vice-Chancellor, has come under serious criticism. There has been virtually no engagement with students, and multiple instances of moral policing have been reported. An anonymous email circulated within the college alleged caste-based discrimination by the Vice-Chancellor, leading to the abrupt removal of the Registrar. Additionally, faculty members who disagreed with the Vice-Chancellor’s practices have allegedly been forced out of the institution. Lastly, there is no clarity or update on the development of the permanent campus, leaving students uncertain about their future learning environment.
The college is currently facing a wide range of structural and administrative issues that significantly hinder the academic and personal well-being of its students. Basic infrastructure remains inadequate, with classrooms lacking proper ventilation, functional air conditioning, and fans. There is also a severe shortage of classrooms, disrupting the regular conduct of classes. The library facilities are practically non-existent, with many crucial online databases remaining inaccessible due to expired subscriptions that the administration has failed to renew.
Students residing in hostels face equally troubling conditions. The two hostels are located 3–4 kilometers away from the academic block, with no hostel mess facility available. Additionally, hostel residents face arbitrary restrictions on their use of common spaces, contributing to a stifling living environment.
Mental health support on campus is grossly insufficient. There is a severe shortage of psychologists, with students often waiting up to three months to secure an appointment. Even when slots are available, sessions are scheduled post-6 PM, which requires students to commute from the hostel to campus, which is more than 4 kms of travel without any travel facilities available from the college.
IndusLaw - Book Antiqua, 11
Trilegal - Calibri 11 for Emails, Times New Roman, 11 for documents.
NB: I am not snobbish or overly particular like some university managers (though I should be, ideally), and view textbooks or the 'text, cases and materials' type of book written or contributed to with equal value.
2. Provide a list of peer reviewed (refereed) journal articles you have published, spanning the duration of your academic career. Hopefully, the journals you have published in will include, but not be limited to, some at least of the following: Indian Law Review, Dublin University Law Journal, Law Quarterly Review, Modern Law Review, Public Law, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Cambridge Law Journal, I.CON (International Journal of Constitutional Law), Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, etc.
NB: Articles published in NLU law journals or their U.S. counterparts (yes, even Harvard Law Review and Yale Law Journal) should not be included in your list, because that is the benchmark you are holding Sudhir to - it's only fair that that's how you get assessed.
NB II: Pre-prints (as long as they have been accepted for publication) stored on repositories such as SSRN or the universities' 'Research Online' type databases (Durham RO, for example) are also to be counted as being of interest.
3. Lists of the above-requested items available on your personal website or as part of an online CV included with your uni profile are definitely to be counted as an acceptable form of response.
Some background first:
First-year BA LL.B. students are just starting out. Most of them are stepping away from the comfort and protection of home for the first time. They’re younger, more impressionable, and often deeply affected by even the smallest gestures of recognition. So, when the spotlight falls only on older students while the younger ones—who actually need more support and encouragement—are left out, it feels incredibly unfair. Unless there’s a really strong reason, there’s no justification for sidelining the younger lot.
Now, about those remarks like “tin foil hat” and “What an utter ▮▮▮ you are”—I’d like to introduce you to someone: AP.
That AP has devoted her life for the welfare of the children with disabilities, and she has secured a number of favorable orders from the Court of Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities for the education of children with disabilities, including acid attack victim, and free education for children under RPwD Act (the case is ongoing).
AP is someone the Vice-Chancellor of NLSIU knows. She comes from a struggling, working-class background and has had to break through countless barriers just to access education. Her story mirrors what’s described in this article: Outlook India – Why Transgender Children Are Often Forced to Drop Out of Schools.
Not everyone is born with a golden spoon. AP has had to fight for everything. Raised by a single mother who only studied till class 8, she was already used to being denied opportunities. So, when she was rejected from a college at DU, it didn’t come as a surprise. That’s what happens when someone dares to live outside society’s norms—they’re often punished for things they can’t even control.
Let’s ask a hard question:
“How is a child born in poverty with a Disorder of Sex Development (DSD) supposed to ‘fix’ herself just to be accepted by society—or get into college?”
AP cleared CUET-2024, and applied to the BA Programme at the University of Delhi because that’s what her financial situation allows. She’s also cleared CLAT-2025 with a rank that might get her into NLSIU, but with fees nearing half a million rupees, it’s just not realistic. That’s why she’s aiming for DU again. But here’s the thing—the university hasn’t responded to the Court’s notice about her denied admission. Worse, the principal has shown outright contempt for her. And her RTI? No reply in over 90 days. Just more proof of how deeply rooted this discrimination is.
Now, AP has taken her case to the Supreme Court under Article 32, challenging the exclusion of the judiciary from the jurisdiction of the Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities—based on an order passed in March 2025 on a related complaint.
“In the case of AP, the CCPD refused to initiate legal proceedings against SCLSC, citing a lack of jurisdiction over the judiciary for enforcement of RPwD Act. However, the she contends that the judiciary must be compelled to
implement the RPwD Act through the Chief Commissioner and the State Commissioner (please refer to the SCPD of NCT of Delhi and CCPD orders regarding the denial of legal aid by the SCLSC and Delhi HCLSC).”
Here’s a quick timeline of AP’s legal efforts:
1. She first filed a complaint with the Chief Commissioner regarding CLAT’s high application fee for PwBD candidates.
2. The Court turned it into a suo motu case and issued notices under Sections 75 and 77 of the RPwD Act, 2016.
3. The Consortium of NLUs replied with an affidavit saying they would reduce the fee to match the SC/ST rate.
4. They refunded ₹500 to PwBD candidates via the original payment method.
5. But—they never explained the refund publicly or individually.
6. AP filed a rejoinder, asking them to be transparent and publish a notification. They did not respond.
7. As a result, AP’s efforts were erased. No one acknowledged the change came because of her. That’s a violation of both moral values and the RPwD Act, 2016.
8. So why is this connected to NLSIU?
Here’s the link:
9. Back in 2023, after withdrawing a case meant for filing before the Supreme Court (through SCLSC’s lawyer) in a contempt petition, AP sent an email to NLSIU.
10.In it, she didn’t hold back. She said:
- 2023 NLSIU’s student profiles reek of elitism.
- On 23 July 2023, she wrote:
"You’re the Chancellor of NLSIU, and honestly, I don’t think you should’ve taken that role. The university shamelessly showcases only its upper-class students. It exists for the elite. You highlight students who ride horses, do Model UNs, have lived in several cities, studied in posh schools, and play music as a hobby—as if they’re the only ones who deserve to be seen."
On 30 April 2025, the Consortium of NLUs issued a notification referencing SLP (Civil) Diary No. 22324 of 2025 in the matter of Siddhi Sandeep Ladda v. Consortium of National Law Universities and Another. This notification, while necessary, appears designed to give public recognition to Siddhi Sandeep Ladda[the case titled is unnecessary] —who comes from a privileged family of lawyers.
By contrast, AP comes from a family illterate. In Siddhi’s case, no less than four advocates appeared before the Apex Court, including Senior Advocates K.K. Venugopal and Gopal Sankaranarayanan. Meanwhile, AP submitted a legal aid application on 31 October 2024 to the SCLSC for enforcement of her fundamental rights under Articles 15(1), 17, and 21, read with Sections 3, 4, 6, and 32 of the RPwD Act, 2016. She has received no response to date.
As always, the gates of justice appear to open only for the rich, English-medium students from elite urban backgrounds—while students from rural, vernacular-medium backgrounds continue to be excluded and denied justice, with no consequences whatsoever.
AP strongly feels that some people have an unfair edge over her—and others like her—when it comes to exams like CLAT and CUET. The system seems rigged in favour of those who have more money, better connections, and access to resources that others simply don't. These advantages include:
(a) Getting into expensive coaching centres
(b) Buying paid mock test series and fancy prep books
(c) Having parents who are well-educated and can help with studies
(d) Studying in top private schools from a young age
(e) Being part of the CBSE and NCERT setup—since CUET is based on NCERT content, anyone outside that circle is automatically at a disadvantage when it comes to getting into a good college.
AP wants to make it clear that she’s never had access to any of those things. She’s never gone to a coaching centre, never joined any paid test series, and never had special study help. Her mother only studied up to Class 8,(peon) so she couldn’t help much with academics. And AP has never studied in a private or elite school or any school at all—not even once in her life.
2. This envy is clearly a result of two things: (i) Sudhir's past - his western education and experience, which many people like you believe you have some sort of birth-right claim to (when you have nothing of the sort); and (ii) the things he's doing which any good university leader would do - faculty poaching, among others!
3. Obviously average people can be critical of him. I am one myself! I have never been to Oxford, and don't really want to go there. But please be critical in good faith. Your admission about your question was clearly an admission of bad faith. You asked what made Sudhir better than others, not out of a genuine sense of wanting to know the answer, but to make snied remarks about him. You know what? You should be ashamed of yourself. Anyone else would have left the profession after this online bullying. Somebody should get hold of these moderators and tell them some home truths about the biases they display. So yes, I am happy to admit to being a snob, if the other way of thinking involves tolerating bullying and trolling of a patriot and a good scholar. Now go ▮▮▮.
2. Even the best scholars in the world cannot operate properly in an environment that does not encourage good scholarship. This is what he's trying to change at NLS, so that people like himself will be able to write and research rigorously in the law at that institution.
3. No 'future hypotheticals' involved. NLSIU is making excellent progress. It takes time and effort to change from a place that primarily saw itself as providing vocational education/teaching to a Humbolttian university, where research-led teaching is taking place - because that massive transformation is what he's working on. Bar some jarring notes (sex-segrigated halls of residences by default, for example), NLS could almost be a good western uni at this point.
4. Encouraging to see new pedagogical techniques, such as greater focus on public law and legal theory. There are many good unis in the west (King's College London, Queen Mary and LSE being paradigmatic examples of this) who have dope jurisprudence faculty, but who choose (for their own reasons) to waste the talents of those faculty (e.g., take LSE's decisions to have some really good scholars in private law theory researching there, but not offering much in the way of teaching of private law theory to undergraduate or postgraduate students). As universities in the west continue to disappoint by falling into structural traps and making textbook mistakes like that, Sudhir's doing the job of observing the mistakes they make and doing his best to provide a meaningful alternative: ensuring, for example, that all his university's PhD students have funding, where in some universities outside India, people are increasingly having to partially (or even fully!!) self-fund their PhDs.
Please provide me with a detailed explanation of how the university you work at/you have graduated from does anything even remotely like this, and what that is.
Extremely cringe this.
By the same person no less. Haha
She does some data work, per insiders, she is one of the few decent ones.
This is because JSA, Trilegal are founded as merit based 'western' firms where they hate conflicts.
Jyoti Sagar (founder) and family doesn't have even a single share in the JSA partnership for the same reason. Same with Trilegal - it was started as a professional non family non region non caste merit based firm.
Anywhere else - NOBODY CARES.
Most Indian firms are based on family, caste ties, region etc - AZB, SAM, CAM etc.
As long as you are not in JSA or Trilegal. Do anything as you like.
Note :- I've 3yr of experience in litigation & have 2 offers but far from my location (Mod please put it on top)
Also heard ▮▮▮'26 ▮▮▮ chap got PPO with CTC 26 Lakhs PA, can't believe !
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