JGLS hires 64 more law faculty, 13 from NLUs, 2 assistant profs • Total 206 hires in 2020

Friday, 8 January 2021 By Legally India Law schools

Profs Aakanksha Kumar (l), Gowthaman Ranganathan join JGLS as assistant profs

JGLS Sonepat has announced the joining of another 64 faculty members to its law school in January 2021.

This is in addition to its previous round of 103 new law school hires in September 2020, and the 104 new teachers it had hired in February 2020.

In an internal announcement sent to students and faculty, founding JGU vice-chancellor (VC) Prof Raj Kumar announced the 64 hires in addition to 48 other faculty members hired for its non-law schools: “With the addition of new faculty members, JGU has 832 faculty members including 131 Academic Tutors and TRIP Fellows across ten schools.”

“It is also a fascinating achievement for JGU that 60% of our faculty members have international qualifications from the leading universities of the world,” he added. A total of 69% of all the new faculty members were women.

The latest January 2021 hires include a total of 112 new members across the entire Jindal Global University, of whom 65 are with the law school.

Out of those 65, two are assistant professors while the rest are lecturers (7), assistant lecturers (18) and more than half (37) are academic tutors and fellows under its Teaching & Research for Intellectual Pursuit (TIRP) programme, which it had launched out in July 2020 to provide academic career opportunities to graduates in the earlier days of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Two new assistant profs

The two assistant professors are Prof Aakanksha Kumar and Prof Gowthaman Ranganathan.

Kumar had most recently been an assistant professor at Nalsar Hyderabad. She is an 2012 HNLU Raipur LLB graduate with an LLM National University of Singapore, and has been a PhD candidate at NLU Jodhpur since 2016.

Ranganathan had been research assistant at the University of Texas immediately before joining JGLS and holds a 2010 LLB from NLSIU Bangalore and LLMs from Azim Premji University and The University of Texas at Austin, where he was a Fulbright-Nehru Scholar.

Even larger September 2020 recruitment

JGLS’ previous law school faculty recruitment of 103 from September 2020, which had been press released and widely covered at the time, also included two more senior hires: one full professor and dean of career services, Prof (Dr) Pankaj Gupta, and one associate professor Prof Courtenay Erin Morris.

The other September 2020 hires were spread across the assistant professor (11), lecturer (22), assistant lecturer (25) and academic tutor ranks (42.

See the full break-down of hires below for more details.

Across those two hiring intakes, 37 of the new faculty hires held LLB degrees from National Law Universities (NLUs) (which has always seemed a particularly interesting statistic to LI readers). Out of these 37, 10 were at lecturer seniority or above.

In addition to those numbers, 27 NLU graduates had been hired in February 2020.

By LLB college: 37 hires from NLUs, most from JGLS, Amity, CNLU

January 2021: 14 NLU LLBs, Amity on top

In the most recent January round of 64, the greatest number of recruits came from Amity University (a total of 9, or potentially up to 12 if including its parent, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University Delhi).

Delhi University provided another six recruits, while JGLS itself was the undergraduate alma mater for four.

National Law Universities (NLUs) contributed 13 hires, of whom the most senior ranks included two assistant professors and two lecturers, led numerically by:

HNLU Raipur (total of 3: includes one assistant professor, Prof Aakanksha Kumar, and one lecturer),
NUSRL Ranchi (2) and RMLNLU Lucknow (2),
one each from DSNLU Visakhapatnam, NLIU Bhopal (lecturer), NLSIU Bangalore (assitant prof Prof Gowthaman Ranganathan), NLU Delhi, RGNUL Punjab and TNNLU Tiruchirapalli.

September 2020 hires: 25 NLU LLBs, JGLS largest number

In the September 2020 batch of 102 faculty recruits, JGLS itself was top of the list of LLB alma mater, providing 9 hires, followed by CNLU Patna (5), DSNLU Vishakhapatnam (4), and three each from Aligarh Muslim University, Delhi University, GGSIPU, NLIU Bhopal, NLU Jodhpur, Pune University, Delhi University and NUJS Kolkata.

A total of 24 had completed their LLB degrees at various NLUs, notably:

5 from CNLU,
4 from DSNLU,
3 from NLIU Bhopal, NLU Jodhpur and NUJS,
2 from RGNUL Patiala, and
one each from GNLU Gandhinagar, HNLU, Nalsar Hyderabad, NLUJA Assam and RMLNLU Lucknow.

NLU Jodhpur provided two assistant professors (Prof Tariang Bdap Dkhar and Prof Julie Roy), while one assistant professor had completed an LLB from NLIU (Prof Chetna Shrivastava).

The lecturer ranks included one each from NLU Jodhpur, GNLU, NUJS, CNLU and NLIU.

Hires by position

As in September, the greatest number of hires are at the more junior end, which makes sense as the university has been expanding its online postgraduate programmes considerably and trying to keep up its faculty student ratio of around 8:1.

We have reached out for comment what the new BCI announcement that purports to scrap the one year LLM could mean, and will be publishing a fuller analysis and speculation shortly.

For reference about the below seniorities, JGLS’ “cost to university (CTU)” of a professor was around Rs 40 lakh per annum, while assistant professors were at around Rs 20 lakhs per annum, we had reported in February.

64 from January 2021

The faculty hires announced in January 2021 include:

2 Assistant Professors (AP),
7 Lecturers (L)
18 Assistant Lecturers (AL)
37 Academic Tutors (AT) & TRIPS fellows

103 from September 2020

The 103 new faculty members include:

1 Professor,
1 Associate Professor (Assoc Prof),
11 Assistant Professors,
22 Lecturers,
25 Assistant Lecturers and
42 Academic Tutors.

Full list of September 2020, January 2021 hires

Abbreviations:

Assoc Professor (Assoc Prof);
Assistant Professor (AL);
Lecturer (L),
Assistant Lecturer (AL),
Academic Tutor (AT) + TRIP Fellow

January 2021 hires

Name	Position	LLB	Other degrees
Prof Aakanksha Kumar	AP (assistant prof)	HNLU Raipur	LLM (National University of Singapore); PhD candidate (NLU, Jodhpur)
Prof Gowthaman Ranganathan	AP (assistant prof)	NLSIU Bangalore	LLM (Azim Premji University); LLM (The University of Texas, Austin)
Aveek Chakravarty	L	NLIU Bhopal	LLM (University of Turin and the International Training Centre of the ILO, Italy); PhD candidate (University of Turin, Italy)
Sherin Sarah Philip	L	Indore Institute of Law Indore	LLM (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Nawal M I Hend	L	Birzeit University Palestine	LLM (Penn State Law)
Sana Javed	L	Pune University	LLM (Queen Mary University of London)
R Saxena	L	University of Delhi	LLM (University of Pennsylvania)
Shantanu Kanade	L	HNLU Raipur	MA (OP Jindal Global University); LLM (Leiden University)
Shaurya Upadhyay	L	University of Delhi	LLM (London School of Economics, London)
Pallavi Rajpal	AL	OP Jindal Global University	LLM (Queen Mary University of London)
Shradha Prasad	AL	KIIT University Bhubaneswar	LLM (Queen Mary University of London)
Monika Mulchandani	AL	GH Raisoni Law College Nagpur	LLM (Queen Mary University of London)
Subhrajit Chanda	AL	Amity University	LLM (UPES, Dehradun); LLM (Nottingham Trent University); PhD candidate (GD Goenka University)
Nikunj Kulshreshtha	AL	University of Delhi	BBA (M S University, Tamil Nadu); LLM (Queen Mary University of London)
Apoorvi Jha	AL	OP Jindal Global University	LLM; Master in Global Sports Management (Instituto Superior de Derecho y Economía, Spain)
Pratik Purswani	AL	Symbiosis Pune	BSc (Singhania University); MA (NALSAR, Hyderabad); LLM (Leiden University)
Arshia Sana	AL	RMLNLU Lucknow	LLM (HNLU, Raipur); LLM (University of Westminster)
Bhavya Tandon	AL	KIIT University Bhubaneshwar	LLM (University of Edinburgh)
Ritesh Bajaj	AL	Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University Delhi	LLM (Maastricht University)
Ashiv Choudhary	AL	University of Jammu	LLM (Queen Mary University of London)
**Sanya Darakhshan Kishwar	AL	Central University of South Bihar	LLM (Penn State Law); LLM (University of Leeds)
Smera Kumar	AL	Amity University	BA (University of Delhi); LLM (University of Kent)
Isha Das	AL	Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University Delhi	LLM (University College London)
Saksham Shukla	AL	Amity University	LLM (University of Bristol)
Aj Agrawal	AL	RMLNLU Lucknow	LLM (SOAS University of London)
Katyayani Sinha	AL	OP Jindal Global University	LLM (SOAS University of London)
Aayushi Singh	AL	Symbiosis Pune	LLM (National University of Singapore); LLM (IHEID, Geneva)
Poornima Hemant Narvekar	AT + TRIP	Shahaji Law College Kolhapur	LLM (TISS, Mumbai)
SP Ezhiloviya	AT + TRIP	TNNLU Tiruchirapalli	LLM (TISS, Mumbai)
Priyanka Biswas	AT + TRIP	Amity University	LLM (TISS, Mumbai)
Akshata A Ahire	AT + TRIP	University of Mumbai	LLB (New Law College, University of Mumbai); LLM (TISS, Mumbai)
Ajay Maherchandani	AT + TRIP	University of Mumbai	LLM (TISS, Mumbai)
Utkarsh Mishra	AT + TRIP	DSNLU Visakhapatnam	LLM (NLIU, Bhopal)
Bhanu Tanwar	AT + TRIP	NLU Delhi	LLM (NLU, Delhi)
Manisha Priyadarshni Bhagat	AT + TRIP	NUSRL Ranchi	LLM (TISS Mumbai)
Vishakha Sakharkar	AT + TRIP	HNLU Raipur	LLM (NALSAR, Hyderabad)
Aditya Agrawal	AT + TRIP	KIIT University Bhubaneswar	LLM (NLU, Delhi)
Deepayan Malaviya	AT + TRIP	Faculty of Law University of Lucknow	LLM (TISS, Mumbai)
Shruti Sahni	AT + TRIP	UPES Dehradun	LLM (RGNUL, Punjab)
Shashank Maheshwari	AT + TRIP	Amity University	LLM (NLU, Delhi)
Vijay K Tyagi	AT + TRIP	University of Delhi	BSc (University of Delhi); LLM (ILI, Delhi)
Hemendra Singh	AT + TRIP	RGNUL Punjab	LLM (NLU, Jodhpur)
Shyamali Kumar	AT + TRIP	Nirma University	LLM (GNLU, Gandhinagar)
Upasana Khattri	AT + TRIP	Banasthali University	LLM (NLU, Delhi)
Priyanka Nair	AT + TRIP	Kerala University	BA (University of Delhi); LLM (NLU, Delhi)
Paridhi Sharma	AT + TRIP	KIIT University Bhubaneswar	LLM (NLIU, Bhopal)
Karan Goyal	AT + TRIP	Bcom LLB Punjab University	LLM (TISS, Mumbai)
Priya Kumari	AT + TRIP	NUSRL Ranchi	LLM (NLU, Jodhpur)
Kirt Agarwal	AT + TRIP	Amity University	LLM (NLU, Delhi)
Shivani Kowadkar	AT + TRIP		BA (St Xavier’s College, Mumbai); MA (TISS, Mumbai)
Nandini Sharma	AT + TRIP	University of Rajasthan	LLM (NLSIU, Bangalore)
Blessan M	AT + TRIP	IIT Kharagpur	BTech (Sathyabama University, Chennai); LLM (NLSIU, Bangalore)
Nishtha Pant	AT + TRIP	Panjab University	LLM (GNLU, Gandhinagar)
Prachi Tyagi	AT + TRIP	Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University Delhi	LLM (GNLU, Gandhinagar)
Sanyukta Saxena	AT + TRIP	Amity University	LLM (GNLU, Gandhinagar)
Sneha Hooda	AT + TRIP	University of Delhi	BSc (Amity University); LLM (NLU, Delhi)
Saheli Chakraborty	AT + TRIP	Calcutta University	LLM (WBNUJS, Kolkata)
Sanskriti Kadiyan	AT + TRIP	CCS University Meerut	LLM (OP Jindal Global University)
**Nimmy Saira Zachariah	AT + TRIP	University of Kerala	LLM (NLU, Delhi)
Shalinee Vishwakarma	AT + TRIP	Dr DY Patil College of Law University of Mumbai	LLM (OP Jindal Global University)
Srutee Badu	AT + TRIP	OP Jindal Global University	LLM (NLU, Odisha)
Akriti Kaushik	AT + TRIP	Amity University	LLM (Symbiosis Pune)
Tripti Bhushan	AT + TRIP	Amity University	LLM (HNLU, Raipur)
Digvijay	AT + TRIP	University of Delhi	BE (Panjab University); LLM (SGT University); PhD candidate (OPJS University)

September 2020 hires

Name	Position	LLB	LLM	Other Qualifications
Prof (Dr) Pankaj Gupta	Prof; dean career services			CMA; Fellow of ICAI; MCom; PhD (University of Lucknow); GCPCL (Harvard University)
Prof Courtenay Erin Morris	Assoc. Prof			BA (Cornell University); JD (University of Michigan)
Prof Raphael Lorenzo Aguiling Pangalangan	AP & Associate Dean		University of Cambridge	BA; JD (University of the Philippines);MSt (University of Oxford)
Prof (Dr) Chisom Ubabukoh	AP			BTech (Federal University of Technology, Nigeria); MSc; PhD (University of Manchester)
Prof (Dr) Sagnik Dutta	AP			BA (University of Calcutta); MA (University of Delhi); MA (SOAS University of London); PhD (University of Cambridge)
Prof (Dr) Max Steuer	AP	Comenius University Slovakia	University of Cambridge	BA (Comenius University, Slovakia); MA (Central European University); PhD (Comenius University, Slovakia)
Prof Christian Sopuruchi Godsfriend	AP	Imo State University	Nnamdi Azikiwe University and SOAS University of London	BL (Nigerian Law School)
Prof Rajesh NVC	AP			MSc (IIT Kharagpur); MBA (IIM Calcutta); FPM candidate (IIM Indore)
[Correction: Prof Aakanksha Kumar joined only later]	[AP]	[HNLU Raipur]	[National University of Singapore]	[PhD candidate (NLU, Jodhpur)]
Prof Pragya Parijat Singh	AP	Delhi University	University of Cambridge	BA (University of Delhi)
Prof Chetna Shrivastava	AP	NLIU Bhopal	University of Cambridge	BCL (University of Oxford)
Prof Tariang Bdap Dkhar	AP	NLU Jodhpur	SOAS University of London
Prof Nishtha Khurana	AP	University of Delhi	University of Cambridge
Prof Julie Roy	AP	NLU Jodhpur		BCL (University of Oxford)
Mr Abhishek Rana	L	Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University Delhi	Queen Mary University of London
Ms Shachi Jain	L	Government Law College Mumbai	National University of Singapore	CS (ICSI)
Ms Nishtha Singh	L	Army Institute of Law Mohali	NALSAR, Hyderabad	PhD candidate (NALSAR, Hyderabad)
Ms Swasti Gupta	L	OP Jindal Global University	University of Hamburg and Erasmus University, Rotterdam
Mr Mazyar Ahmad	L	University of Delhi	University of Southampton	BSc (Nautical Science) (IGNOU, Delhi); MPhil (Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi)
Ms Pauline L. Forje	L	Kingston University	Queen Mary University of London
Ms Ishita Kumar	L	NLU Jodhpur	SOAS University of London
Mr Raunaq Jaiswal	L	Bharti Vidyapeeth Deemed University Pune	OP Jindal Global University and Central European University
Ms Nandita Krishna	L	Christ University Bangalore	SOAS University of London
Ms Srimati Ghosal	L			BA (Hons); MA (Presidency University, Kolkata); MPhil (University of Cambridge)
Ms Sanskriti Sanghi	L	GNLU Gandhinagar	University of Cambridge
Mr Lewis Njabulo Sibanda	L	University of South Africa	University of Sussex
Ms Dhyuthi Velugula	L	University of Kent	London School of Economics, London
Mr Avantik Tamta	L	WBNUJS Kolkata	University of Cambridge
Ms Aakriti Tripathi	L	CNLU Patna	University of Cambridge
Ms Raushan Tara Jaswal	L	Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University Delhi	University of Cambridge
Ms Anjali Sharma	L			BCom (Patna Women’s College);PGDM (Chandragupt Institute of Management Patna); FPM candidate (IIM Indore)
Ms Oiswarjya Basu	L	University of Calcutta	SOAS University of London
Ms Manika Bora	L			BA (University of Delhi); MA (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi); MPhil (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi); PhD candidate (NIEPA, New Delhi)
Ms Surabhi Singh	L	NLIU Bhopal	University of Toronto
Ms Avaantika Chawla	L	OP Jindal Global University	Leiden University
Ms Sarni Jain	L			BA; MA (University of Jammu); PhD (OP Jindal Global University)
Mr Shoaib Latif Khan	AL	University of Kashmir	Queen Mary University of London
Ms Shreya Tewari	AL	RGNUL Punjab	London School of Economics, London
Ms Priya Garg	AL	WBNUJS Kolkata		BCL (University of Oxford)
Mr Animesh bordoloi	AL	NLUJA Assam	National University of Singapore
Ms M. Gopal	AL	OP Jindal Global University	University of Nottingham
Ms Pratibha Tandon	AL	Pune University	Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi	JSD candidate (Chicago-Kent College of Law)
Ms Mitakshara Goyal	AL	OP Jindal Global University	University of Cambridge
Ms Dhruvi Shah	AL	Pune University	Queen Mary University of London
Mr Harsh Mahaseth	AL	NALSAR Hyderabad	National University of Singapore
Ms Trupti Panigrahi	AL	Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University Delhi	Queen Mary University of London
Ms Shubhangi Srivastava	AL	NMIMS Mumbai	Queen Mary University of London
Mr Mohammad Nasar	AL	Aligarh Muslim University	University of Kent
Ms Jayanti Singh	AL	University of Delhi	London School of Economics, London	BA (Hons) (University of Delhi)
Mr Abhijit Saste	AL	ILS Pune	University of East Anglia
Ms Srishti Telang	AL	DSNLU Vishakhapatnam	Maastricht University
Mr Shivanshu Sharma	AL	Symbiosis Pune	Cardiff University
Ms Tusharika Narwal	AL	Symbiosis Pune	Cardiff University
Ms Diksha Sanyal	AL	WBNUJS Kolkata	SOAS University of London
Ms Virangna Dhillon	AL	OP Jindal Global University	Queen Mary University of London
Ms Danai Spentzou	AL	University of Athens	Queen Mary University of London
Mr Avineet Singh Chawla	AL	Punjabi University Patiala	Queen Mary University of London
Mr Subhrajit Chanda	AL	Amity University	UPES, Dehradun and Nottingham Trent University	PhD candidate (GD Goenka University)
Ms Shradha Prasad	AL	KIIT University Bhubneshwar	Queen Mary University of London
Ms Monika Mulchandani	AL	GH Raisoni College Nagpur	Queen Mary University of London
Ms Pallavi Rajpal	AL	OP Jindal Global University	Queen Mary University of London
Ms Avantika Tiwari	AT	Faculty of Law Delhi University	Indian Law Institute, Delhi	BSc (Hons) (University of Delhi)
Mr Pranjal Khare	AT	RGNUL Punjab	NLIU, Bhopal
Ms Vishakha Srivastava	AT	CNLU Patna	NALSAR, Hyderabad
Ms Ashima Sharma	AT	Army Institute of Law Mohali	GNLU, Gandhinagar	PhD candidate (GNLU, Gandhinagar)
Ms Aparna Venkatachalam	AT	New Law College University of Mumbai	TISS, Mumbai	BA (University of Mumbai)
Ms Kshama Pandey	AT	Faculty of Law Banaras Hindu University	NLIU, Bhopal	BCom (Barkatullah University, Bhopal)
Mr Satish Kumar	AT	CNLU Patna	NLIU, Bhopal
Ms Shrishti Khare	AT	Dr Harisingh Gour University Sagar	NALSAR, Hyderabad	PhD candidate (NLIU, Bhopal)
Ms Akansha Yadav	AT	University of Allahabad	NLIU, Bhopal
Ms Tulika Singh	AT	KIIT University Bhubaneswar	NLIU, Bhopal
Ms Pushpita Dutta	AT	Mody University Sikar	NLIU, Bhopal
Ms Priyanka Kushwah	AT	Nirma University	NLIU, Bhopal
Mr Aqa Raza	AT	Aligarh Muslim University	Aligarh Muslim University
Ms Meemansa Singh	AT	JSS Law College Mysore	TISS, Mumbai
Ms Sanjana Singh	AT	DSNLU Vishakhapatnam	NLIU, Bhopal
Mr Ajmal K Ayoob	AT	Aligarh Muslim University	TISS, Mumbai
Mr Piyush Kumar Mishra	AT	DSNLU Vishakhapatnam	NLIU, Bhopal
Ms Manudeep Kaur	AT	Punjab University	OP Jindal Global University
Ms Merilin Jacob	AT	Mar Gregorious College of Law Trivandrum	OP Jindal Global University
Mr Vikas BM	AT	School of Law SASTRA University	OP Jindal Global University
Ms Stuti Lal	AT	CNLU Patna	OP Jindal Global University
Ms Ananya Singh	AT	OP Jindal Global University	OP Jindal Global University
Ms Nishtha Kohli	AT	UPES Dehradun	OP Jindal Global University
Ms Paarth Naithani	AT	RMLNLU Lucknow	OP Jindal Global University
Ms Pranav Narang	AT	OP Jindal Global University	OP Jindal Global University	BTech (ECE) (DAVIET, Jalandhar); PG Diploma in IPR and Patent Management (GIIP, Delhi)
Ms Sujata Newton	AT	KLE Society’s Law College Bengaluru	OP Jindal Global University
Ms Anuja R	AT	School of Law SASTRA University	OP Jindal Global University
Ms Natalia Sunil Poojari	AT	Dr DY Patil College of Law	OP Jindal Global University
Ms Kriti Bhatnagar	AT	NMIMS Mumbai	OP Jindal Global University
Ms Himani Singh	AT	UPES Dehradun	OP Jindal Global University
Ms Poorvi Srivastava	AT	University of Lucknow	OP Jindal Global University	BCom (University of Lucknow)
Ms Shikha Patel	AT	Government Law College Mumbai	OP Jindal Global University	BCom (Mithibai College, University of Mumbai)
Mr Nishant Sheokand	AT	OP Jindal Global University	OP Jindal Global University
Ms Rupali Bansal	AT	The NorthCap University Gurugram	OP Jindal Global University
Ms Deepa Walia	AT	Punjab University	OP Jindal Global University	BA (Hons) (Punjab University)
Mr Vishal Kumar Rai	AT	Law College Dehradun	OP Jindal Global University
Mr Rajat Shukla	AT	Bharti Vidyapeeth Deemed University Pune	OP Jindal Global University
Mr Deepam Rangwani	AT	Pune University	OP Jindal Global University
Ms Swati Yadav	AT	Delhi University	TISS, Mumbai	BA (Hons) (University of Delhi)
Ms Kriti Bhatnagar	AT	NLIU Bhopal	GNLU, Gandhinagar
Ms Bhavya Singh	AT	CNLU Patna	CNLU, Patna
Mr Anurag Sharma	AT	DSNLU Vishakhapatnam	NLIU, Bhopal

Comments

Guest 8 Jan 2021, 11:17

+41 -12

It seems jindal law school is the next Lovely Professional University. At this rate their faculty intake will certainly out number their student intake.

Guest101 9 Jan 2021, 20:34

+12 -6

Your comment is in poor taste. When 30-40 percent faculty positions lie vacant in premier institutions like IITs, IIMs and DU, Jindal is a success story. Every NLU except top 3 has serious faculty shortage and posts lying vacant. They need to learn from this.

Guest 10 Jan 2021, 08:30

+11 -6

Learn what? Fill up the posts with random greenhorns with no experience and then charge a bomb from the hundreds of students without giving them the assurance of even a decent job?

Alumni 10 Jan 2021, 12:03

+9 -3

You are assuming that the so called "greenhorns" won't turn out to be good teachers. Perhaps some of them may not be, but considering they chose to teach, can we not assume that some of them might also "educate" students? I wish them all these new teachers the very best!

Guest 10 Jan 2021, 12:18

+4 -1

Not at all. Law of averages dictates that at least some of them would, actually. However, that's hardly a good recruitment policy. The students paying lakhs are signing up to be taught by the marquee names, not the greenhorns.

buns 10 Jan 2021, 12:46

+11 -2

The LI comment ecosystem is amazing. Half the crowd drools over NLU alumni saying they should take over NLU admins. When NLU alumni go to Jindal for good pay, suddenly they're greenhorns and whatnot.

Guest 10 Jan 2021, 13:42

+2 -0

@ buns 1.1.2: LOL. Very true.

Guest 10 Jan 2021, 14:22

+1 -0

Err...logic dictates that there would be experienced people and greenhorns both among NLU alumni. You wouldn't compare the likes of Mrinal, Aparna or Siddharth with most of the names in this list, would you? People tend to think that an LLB from an NLU and an LLM from a foreign university (just for the sake of disclosure, I have got both) turns one into god's gift to the academia. Newsflash, it does not. Chances are that you would become somewhat more open-minded and aware of the needs and wants of the students (that too depending on your social awareness) and perhaps more inclined to learn, that's all.

CuriousBilly 8 Jan 2021, 11:20

+0 -0

Will so many people be retained when BCI rules are enforced?

50 kids per class in LLM. which means - 100 new students in two (2) years.

As opposed to the hundreds who have now been enrolled solely in the online program. Guess that upGrad LLM will also go?

At the least, a very expensive litigation awaits.

Hmm 8 Jan 2021, 12:11

+4 -0

JGLS student intake for LLM is very limited. It is unlikely to have any impact at all.
Also, can they interpret class more like sections?
And, both Haryana Private University Act and the recent IoE status gives JGLS a lot of leeways when it comes to following the rules. Doubt they will go litigating against BCI, as a private institute they would avoid pissing off the regulator, they would rather argue that they are exempt from most of the nonsense that is going around.

Kian, you should do a piece with some of the veterans, asking them what they think of BCI's recent move. Would love to see if any of the law firm biggies will offer an opinion.

Guest 8 Jan 2021, 13:57

+3 -0

I agree. It's strange why LI is silent month BCI notification. It is no excuse to say that other websites have covered it. As you suggest, Kian can d her thing like interviewing veteran lawyers -- perhaps Senior Advocates who themselves have one-year LLMs, such as Pinky Anand, Menaka Guruswamy, Akhil Sibal etc.

Guest 8 Jan 2021, 12:14

+13 -5

Kian, maybe you should do a better diligence about the background of these faculty instead of simply relying on the data that JGLS has provided to you. For example, [...], whom you have mentioned to be an LLB graduate from NUJS, is actually an LLB graduate from Calcutta University who has done her LLM from NUJS. There might be many other such 'errors' hidden in this list. Jindal's PR machine has been known to play fast and loose with data accuracy before, but you should not publish it unless it has been verified.

kianganz 8 Jan 2021, 12:37

+7 -1

Thanks for sharing, have just double-checked the original data and that was actually an error on our part, which had been introduced during data entry / analysis.

Have now corrected the figures in the article and will check if any similar errors may have inadvertently crept in.

Guest 8 Jan 2021, 13:57

+7 -8

Lol, Jiggles trolls downvoting comment 3 that consists of nothing but facts!

Down vote... 9 Jan 2021, 04:12

+2 -2

Actually that comment has more up-votes than down-votes. The only thing lesser factual that needs down votes is this forced reply of yours.

Guest 9 Jan 2021, 05:00

+0 -1

It wasn't a popularity comparison, O Wise Guru. Why would anyone downvote a factual comment anyway unless they find the truth difficult to digest?

Guest 8 Jan 2021, 12:40

+4 -1

It's very likely that at least some JGLS faculty would like to teach at NLUs in certain cities because of family reasons, but are kept out by the TLC mafia. The fact that Sudhir could hire so many alumni shatters the myth that only money matters.

An investigation is needed to identify the corrupt VCs resistant to hiring alumni.

Guest 8 Jan 2021, 13:12

+6 -2

In terms of numbers, the alumni whom Sudhir has hired is not really that high though, right? 5 to 6. As you rightly said, there will always be people willing to come and teach at NLSIU, NALSAR, NUJS, NLUD etc. But apart from the red tape issue that you referred to, also consider that these places hardly hire on a regular basis and have to jump through a lot more procedural hoops when they do. For instance, JGLS doesn't require UGC NET for most of the new entrants. NLUs can't waive that for permanent positions anymore. Then the advertisement, panel formation, reservation issues, the list goes on. However, it is quite possible for a proactive VC to cut through many of those obstacles if he's willing and has the ability to bend the rules for the benefit of the institution. The total number of faculty in all the NLUs combined would still be less than JGLS' faculty strength alone, that also plays a role. Even when the NLUs increase their student strength, they hardly create commensurate faculty positions immediately.

Guest 8 Jan 2021, 14:55

+7 -0

Adding to what 4.1 said, there is also little benefit of any of the NLUs expanding like JGLS has been doing. Like it or not, the popular attraction of the NLUs still remains and is going to remain for the near future their ability to provide most of their students with jobs (at least the first 7-8 NLUs). JGLS does not bother about that, which is why it can take 800 plus students every year without any quality control as such. If an NLU tries to do that, where will those students get the well-paid jobs from? The market won't support it.

Guest 8 Jan 2021, 17:30

+4 -0

Spot on. Placements are all that matters. But remember that JGLS students are often wealthy and well connected enough to get good placement without university backing.

Guest 9 Jan 2021, 05:34

+0 -0

They still don't get those though, at least not even 5-6% of the whole batch.

Guest 8 Jan 2021, 12:42

+2 -0

Kian, we are more interested in the BCI LLM controversy. Please ask the JGLS VC if JGLS is exempt because of IOE status. If yes, then it's unfair to NLUs.

Guest 8 Jan 2021, 12:48

+4 -6

How shameless are Nalsar trolls posting on LI? Just a few days ago they were including this lady's name to beef up their alumni faculty count, knowing fully well she has left. It seems they have no more than 1or 2 NLU alumni faculty, lower than NLSIU, NUJS, NLUD, NLUJ, NLIU and GNLU.

NALSAR 5th year 9 Jan 2021, 12:34

+3 -0

@Guest: I had posted a few days ago to mention the names of the newly recruited faculty members at NALSAR. This was based on the most recent set of interviews conducted in November 2020. In response to other comments, I had followed up with another comment to admit that we do have a serious problem with faculty attrition. It was in that context that I had mentioned the name of Ms. Aakanksha Kumar along with several others who have taught for short periods at NALSAR and left the institution between 2016-2020. No one was invoking her name to 'beef up their alumni faculty count'. She had joined in June 2019 and left by May 2020. It seems that you have misunderstood my comments.

If we look at the current faculty composition at NALSAR (academic year 2020-2021), there are 7 full-time teachers who have undergraduate degrees from the NLUs. You can visit the NALSAR website and you will find the following names:
1) Sudhanshu Kumar - CNLU (2011)
2) Sidharth Chauhan - NLSIU (2008)
3) Vivek Mukherjee - NLIU (2015)
4) Chinmay Deshmukh - NLUJ (2015)
5) Sahana Ramesh - NUJS (2015)
6) Prerna Bijoy - NUSRL (2018)
7) Niharika Salar - NUSRL (2019)

You can visit the campus and talk to the teachers to confirm this information. We do not need to resort to 'shameless trolling' on any forum. It is enough for us to present facts in a balanced manner.

Guest 9 Jan 2021, 12:50

+3 -0

Agree with 6.1. With the added caveat that while the 7 mentioned might be working here full time, but all of them do not hold permanent positions. In case someone again accuses us of providing misinformation to 'beef up' any count.

NALSAR 5th year 9 Jan 2021, 14:48

+0 -0

Out of these 7 teachers who have LLBs from NLUs, only 2 are in permanent positions (Sudhanshu Kumar, Sidharth Chauhan). The other 5 are currently teaching in contractual positions. So there is a good chance that some of them may leave NALSAR if they get better service-conditions at other law schools or funded PhD admissions abroad. In any case, FM has to do much more to attract and retain talent. I guess with Prof. Amita Dhanda's retirement, people like Prof. Vasanthi, Neha Pathakji, Sudhanshu Kumar and Sidharth Chauhan have to step up to identify good teaching talent and persuade them to join NALSAR.

There were two NALSAR BALLB alums who were teaching before our batch joined in 2016, namely Manav Kapur (2012-2015) and Ajey Sengai (2013-2015). There might have been some others in the pre-2012 period that I am not aware of.

Guest 9 Jan 2021, 12:51

+3 -0

It seems a little bit strange that not a single NALSAR alumnus is currently teaching there, though there are such people teaching in other NLUs and Indian universities. Possibly coincidence, but a strange one nonetheless.

Old NALSAR 10 Jan 2021, 08:58

+3 -0

Thanks to the old VC, for many of us the campus only bring back trauma. So not a strange coincidence that many of us choose to stay away from that campus for our own sake more than anything else.

Guest 10 Jan 2021, 09:16

+0 -1

If no alumnus wishes to try to help their alma become a better place, then the fault shouldn't be only that of the VC alone (though he can bear the lion's shate). The overall education provided possibly missed some important components.

Guest 8 Jan 2021, 12:51

+8 -1

Here's the real story. These hires are done to lower the student faculty ratio to hack into QS rankings and debut at a high position in NIRF, whenever JGLS applies.

Guest 8 Jan 2021, 13:58

+3 -2

True, I also have a theory. Please correct me if I wrong. The people who are being hired at JGLS would find it very difficult to move to other institutes because other places wont offer them salary at par with JGLS. The result would be they would be stuck with strange designations in jgls. Off course they can move out but would have to satisfy with lower salaries and outside jgls all places would want them to have NET for teaching. JGLS is suicidal for young teaching aspirants.

Guest 8 Jan 2021, 14:43

+6 -0

Err...how exactly does your analysis merit your conclusion? If those people clear NET while they are working at JGLS (and getting a salary much more than their NLU counterparts), then they can go back to the NLUs if and when they want. If they want the money and research facilities, then they can stay at JGLS. If they want the designation and better classroom teaching experience, then they can go to the NLUs. How is this bad for them? In fact, if anything, JGLS is providing an option young people who have finished a foreign LLM to earn extra money to pay off educational loans etc. quicker, while they prepare for UGC compliance like NET after coming back to India.

Jiggles 9 Jan 2021, 05:14

+1 -1

JGLS pays peanuts to its faculty, especially at the entry level. Salaries are slightly better, at Associate and Professor Level.

Guest 9 Jan 2021, 06:28

+2 -0

Peanuts compared to what? Tier one firms? Entry level salary for some of these RAs with 1 year work ex and a foreign LLM is 15.6 lakh p.a. not including quarters, medical plan and research funding.

Wow 9 Jan 2021, 07:10

+3 -0

Is it true? Are u suggesting that JGLS is paying around 15 Lakhs to its fresh recruited assistant profs?

Guest 9 Jan 2021, 07:51

+1 -0

I am not even talking about assistant profs. A friend of mine is in this list, with the actual designation SRA. Foreign LLM, about a year's law firm work ex. That's the offer being given to that person. As someone else mentioned, it's a matter of negotiation.

Guest 9 Jan 2021, 06:39

+2 -0

Err...no. Salaries are also very good at entry level. It depends on the package you have negotiated and your qualifications. There are some assistant professors earning more than associate professors.

2 cent 8 Jan 2021, 14:10

+6 -7

Ideal situation: Real practitioners teach at-least 20-30% of the course. This is most essential to develop the skill of analysing and applying laws in the real world. See afterall, no client/business guy wants to pay even a penny for reproduction of legal provisions.

What JGLS seems to be running after is padding up the locker room and the dug out with folks who have LLMs and are doing PHDs. Most of them have no or very less practical experience. Whatever work experience they have also gets substantially diluted in the process of obtaining a foreign LLM and PHD which takes anywhere b/w 2-5 years. By then they lose the edge and the laws have also changed to a large extent.

Yes these guys have great CVs, but they are not practitioners and their students may only be slightly better-off, but no where close to graduates in other fields (Engineering, Medicine, Architects, etc.) who have basic employability/practical skills from the day they graduate.

This is what all Law Schools need to achieve and not just become youth retirement jobs for most who dont want to go through the gruel of practicing law and just want a cushy teaching job.

Guest 8 Jan 2021, 15:31

+4 -1

This was exactly that I was thinking a few days back. Also, if you think about it, the contribution of law faculty members across the law schools in India from Bangalore to Sonipat have zero contribution to larger policy debates in India. We have just heard of Faizan but even he is confined to NDTV and moves with a specific ideology. Sudhir got associated with Facebook but even he isnt that much of a role model. We dont actually have a disruptor in legal field who we can look up to.

Guest 8 Jan 2021, 17:28

+2 -0

Shamnad, Anup, Mrinal etc among the younger generation.

Guest 9 Jan 2021, 03:49

+1 -0

What has Mrinal disrupted exactly over the last few years? Genuine question, I am aware of the achievements of the other two.

Guest 9 Jan 2021, 04:13

+5 -3

Prabhash Ranjan.

Guest 9 Jan 2021, 05:30

+2 -0

Shamnad to a certain extent but even he was never out their.

Remaining two are just doing their work and are invisible.

You remember lgbt lawyer from nls, guruswamy. She was commendable but even she faded away and is reaping the benwfit of 1 case.

Looking for someone like ramjethmalani. The man was a showman and made legal profession something to look up to. Indira jaising is also assertive and has reach.

But nothing big...

Guest 2 12 Jan 2021, 04:58

+0 -0

As in one of them is heading and running what is probably the most successful centre in an India Law School (and probably among the top ones across universities in India). It has a staff of over 60 people across three cities and represents over 70% of death row prisoners in India.

Combines in-depth research, lit and CLE. So maybe not as visible but probably focusing on actual work rather than building his own personal profile.

Guest 12 Jan 2021, 05:26

+1 -0

You hit the nail on the head. Unless people behave like rockstars these days and spend half their time and resources on PR, the common perception is that they are doing nothing worthwhile. That's what majority of LI commentators would lead you to believe.

JGU Insider 8 Jan 2021, 14:12

+2 -0

1. Badap isnt hired as Associate Prof.
2. Aakanksha Kumar is hired as Asstt Prof, NOT Associate Prof. Her name is on both Sept.and Jan lists?

kianganz 8 Jan 2021, 14:44

+1 -0

Thanks for pointing out, typos / figures in the story have been corrected.

curiousboy 8 Jan 2021, 15:45

+0 -1

Hi, Can someone plz tell exactly what amount does Jindal pay to its newly recruited Lecturers? Also, at what rate does it increase?

I am seriously looking for a career in academics. Need to know if academicians are paid well

Guest 8 Jan 2021, 16:53

+0 -1

dude you are spamming all the comment boxes with same query.

Guest 8 Jan 2021, 17:27

+2 -0

I teach at JGLS and can tell you this: pay varies according to your background and how you negotiate, even within the same scale. Factors include NLU backgrounds prior work ex, publications and a foreign LLM. Also, beyond pay you get accommodation at Jindal city etc.However, Sonipat is not a nice place!

Guest 8 Jan 2021, 17:33

Troll

+2 -4

I can't believe that Nalsar people have the audacity to downvote comment 6. You people posted on LI claiming you have many NLU alumni faculty and your list included the lady in question. Now LI tells us she is joining JGLS. It's clear you people lied and are now downvoting comments exposing you.

Guest 9 Jan 2021, 05:01

+0 -4

She still retains the NALSAR position. Gone away on lien.

Guest 9 Jan 2021, 06:42

+1 -0

Not true. Her name is not on the NALSAR website. Yet another NALSAR PR troll lying and making inflated claims about NALSAR faculty! You people have one of the fewest NLU alumni faculty among leading NLUs.

Guest 9 Jan 2021, 07:22

+1 -0

I am confused. Why would someone make any inflated claim about having more NLU faculty? It is not as if being from an NLU makes you a better teacher!

NALSAR 5th year 9 Jan 2021, 13:14

+2 -1

Please see my response to comment 6 above. At the moment, there are 7 full-time teachers at NALSAR who have undergraduate degrees from the NLUs. I have mentioned their names and undergraduate institutions for your satisfaction. I had mentioned the name of Ms. Aakanksha Kumar as an example (along with several other individuals) in a completely different context where I was in fact admitting that we have a problem with faculty attrition. So no one was lying. It seems that you need to improve your reading comprehension skills.

Guest 21 Jan 2021, 04:58

+0 -0

Hey. What is a TLC? Sorry, newbie here.

Guest 21 Jan 2021, 05:46

Troll Contested

+0 -1

Tender Loving Care.

Guest 21 Jan 2021, 07:25

+0 -0

@Kian: Don't contest these facts. Cambridge dictionary actually uses the acronym TLC to mean exactly this.

kianganz 21 Jan 2021, 05:56

+0 -0

I believe it stands for Traditional Law College (TLC), a term generally used on these forums to refer to law schools that are not national law universities (NLUs). Most TLCs, like GLC Mumbai, Delhi University, etc, would be older than NLUs.

However, I'm not sure whether older private law schools, such as the Amity's, Symbi's, etc are also considered to be part of the TLC umbrella?

Guest 21 Jan 2021, 06:57

+1 -0

Hi Kian. In my view Symbiosis, JGLS and Amity should be called PLCs (Private Law Colleges). So the three categories are NLUs, TLCs and PLCs. The quality and prestige within all the three categories can vary, e.g. NLSIU is much higher than CNLU, DU is much higher than Mysore University, JGLS is much higher than Lloyd Law College.

Guest 8 Jan 2021, 17:43

+1 -4

A professor from NLUO, who did his BALLB from a TLC and the two-year LLM at NLSIU is supporting the BCI LLM notification. Since most NLU profs are from such a background (barring Sudhir and his new hires), it's likely that NLUs will back the BCI, except NLSIU.

https://theprint.in/opinion/scrapping-one-year-llm-smart-but-bcis-common-post-grad-entrance-is-a-problem/581261/

Guest 9 Jan 2021, 03:57

+2 -0

Let's accept that the one year LLM as run in India has mostly been a joke. Very little quality control, no time for dedicated research and dissertation, neither industry oriented nor focused on academic rigour, no teaching experience provided and so on. The two year LLM at least used to give a whole semester to come up with a decent dissertation. However, the solution cannot be to go back to the two year system and introduce ridiculous measures for foreign equivalence like making the foreign LLM holders work as 'internee faculty' for the additional year. The Indian LLM students would study in the second year and the foreign LLM students would teach, all to reach the same qualification? Absurd.

The proper and more difficult solution would have been to revamp the Indian one year LLM, make it more rigorous, have a proper entrance exam focusing on research and teaching aptitude, and not simply remain a way for students from non NLU background to get an easy NLU stamp. But since when has the BCI ever taken a sane decision? They just want to enter the entrance exam market now to rake in the moolah.

ConfusedwithTitles 8 Jan 2021, 20:36

+0 -0

What's with JGLS's titles? Are Non-foreign LLM folks given AT? What's it supposed to mean?

Guest 9 Jan 2021, 04:57

+1 -0

It comes along with the title deed of 1 decimal plot in Sonipat. They would start their House of Lords soon enough. Right before NIRF debut.

Guest 9 Jan 2021, 05:21

+1 -1

If JGLS is exempt from the BCI LLM notification because of Eminence status, then it means that the Modi govt is giving privileges to a private law school but denying them to NLUs.

Kian, why can't you just call up the JGLS VC and Sudhir and ask them what the deal is???

Guest 9 Jan 2021, 06:43

+0 -1

"Friends, Welcome to Legal Awareness Web Series"

Interesting how the bar is set to judge the quality of academicians in India.

Anti-Boomer 9 Jan 2021, 07:32

+1 -0

One thing is very clear: The new BCI notification is written from the prism of an old,obsolete,regressive male Professor!

Guest 9 Jan 2021, 07:52

+3 -1

Take away the professor, and you just described all BCI office bearers.

Agent of Chaos 9 Jan 2021, 14:06

+6 -0

The word is that the new BCI Rules on Postgraduate Programmes have been pushed by Dr. V. Vijayakumar, the present VC of NLIU Bhopal and former Registrar of NLSIU. He has always been hostile to NLU alums coming back to teach. After Ranbir Singh's retirement, VVK is now the senior-most VC in the NLU system (in terms of age, he is 67 now), so he is using his seniority and position in the Bar Council of India's Legal Education Committee to push these poorly thought out rules. The agenda is very simple. To create additional barriers for the younger people who have pursued LLMs abroad and are interesting in teaching. This would directly help the insecure and incompetent VCs in recruiting their lackeys who will be beholden to them and will never question their authority. If these rules are enforced, many of the brighter NLU graduates who have gone to study abroad will be seriously discouraged from joining Indian law schools. This will lead to a bigger brain drain rather than the retention of good teaching talent.

I hope that the sensible NLU VCs such as Faizan Mustafa (NALSAR), Shanthakumar (GNLU), Poonam Saxena (NLU Jodhpur) and V.S. Elizabeth (TNNLS) will realise what is at stake and push for necessary amendments before these rules are enforced. Of course, there is a good chance that BCI's competence to regulate postgraduate programmes will be challenged in court. If enforced in their current form, the new BCI Rules will take us back by 10-15 years.

Guest 9 Jan 2021, 14:46

+0 -0

@16.2: You are 100% correct. B&B, LI etc lack the guts to call him out.

Guest 9 Jan 2021, 16:09

+1 -1

Word is that an 'expert committee' led by no other than NL Mitra himself had recommended this. For those who don't know, Mitra was working with Menon himself in setting up NLUs like NLSIU, NUJS etc. and did so for NLUJ himself.

Guest 9 Jan 2021, 17:46

+1 -1

Nonsense. Manan Mishra, Bihar lawyers lobby and TLC mafia are responsible.

Guest 10 Jan 2021, 04:34

+0 -0

This is accurate. A committee headed by Mitra had submitted a list of recommendations to the BCI back in early 2018. Those had been presented as Draft Regulations on the BCI website throughout 2019 and 2020. Mitra himself had confirmed that to multiple people. Of course, BCI supported this part of the recommendations wholeheartedly, leaving a lot of progressive points behind.

Anti-Boomer 9 Jan 2021, 07:39

+4 -1

The quality of an Indian LLM was never good. Those who are claiming that two year LLM were producing quality academicians are lying or they simply don't have any idea about quality education. Quality of a teacher does not depend upon prolonged LLMs. This BCI notification is a clear indictment of UGC,BCI and older generation of Professors.

Guest 9 Jan 2021, 08:05

+0 -0

Some people would start downvoting or criticising comment 17 by citing examples of good law teachers with Indian LLMs. To them, I would say this: those people would have been good teachers regardless. The LLM programme did not do any value addition to their ability as a teacher. Anecdotal examples cannot be used to establish the quality of a general programme. There are several people who turn out to be bad teachers even with foreign LLMs, but just like the first category is in minority, so is the second.

Guest 9 Jan 2021, 07:48

+0 -0

Just in: India''s ''Institutions of Eminence'' can now set up campuses in foreign countries

https://www.outlookindia.com/newsscroll/indias-institutions-of-eminence-can-now-set-up-campuses-in-foreign-countries/2007191

JGLS has close ties with Afghanistan, Tanzania and Mozambique (where the Jindal group has a major presence) and has a regular intake of students from these countries in the LLM. Offshore campuses here are possible, perhaps operating from a floor of the Jindal group offices in these countries.

NALSARite 9 Jan 2021, 11:12

+6 -6

Unfortunate that NALSAR couldn't retain Aakanksha Ma'am. She's really good and very helpful. Hope she enjoys her time at JGLS!

Guest 9 Jan 2021, 12:44

+1 -2

The YouTube videos of Sanya Talwar (LiveLaw girl) have more views than Faizan Mustafa's videos and are more informative.

Guest 9 Jan 2021, 12:59

+8 -2

Similarly, there have been papers written by students in Indian journals that have been cited more than some of Sudhir's SCOPUS publications. Do you have a point here?

Guest 9 Jan 2021, 14:57

+0 -0

Jindal is excluded from the new LLM regulations if I go by LI's earlier report. LI's report clearly says that NLUs are governed by BCI while Jindal reports only to an empowered experts committee of the central government. See quote below. However, the CLAT Consortium will not challenge the BCI because the TLC lobby runs it and they are resistant to NLU alumni joining as faculty with foreign LLMs. That is the reason behind this. It was prompted by Sudhir's recent flood of NLU hires, which made the TLC lobby insecure.

[quote]For JGU and JGLS, the IoE status would not include funding, but would provide freedom from regulatory frameworks, said Kumar. “The [IoE] empowered experts committee is responsible for [IoEs]” and JGU would be “reporting to that committee”.

This means JGU would be allowed to “offer flexible programmes”, such as a “one year’s master, MPP [master of public policy], dual degrees much more easily, joint degrees”, explained Kumar. “It’s pretty much a carte blanche, so long as internal merit and integrity is maintained, but there are no existing restrictions or regulations that become applicable, so long as the institution follows own rules and regulations and practices it adopts for sound practices.”

The vision of the IoE empowered experts committee was very clear, according to Kumar, in being about “giving freedom and autonomy to high performing institutions” according to objective criteria, to achieve certain goals within specific timeframes.

Meanwhile, law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad had told parliament two months ago that there were no plans to give more central funding to national law schools, flying in the face of hopes that the centre may step in and support national law universities (NLUs) suffering from growing fees and - in some cases - apathy amongst administration and teachers.

Prasad had said: “There is no proposal before the government to nationalize National Law Universities.”

He had responded to a question posed by member of parliament Maneka Gandhi, of “whether the Government proposes to nationalize the National Law Universities (NLUs) and providing them the same status as accorded to other National Institutes”.

Furthermore, Prasad washed the government’s hands of Gandhi’s contention that the centre had any role in the academic standards and funding to solve problems besetting NLUs, saying that “the management of NLUs is done by them and the academic curriculum and standards is decided by them in consultation with the Bar Council of India”.

[/quote]

https://www.legallyindia.com/lawschools/jgls-iit-kharagpur-du-recommended-as-national-institutions-of-eminence-as-gov-t-says-nlus-won-t-get-central-support-20190803-10772

Guest 9 Jan 2021, 16:10

+2 -1

Given your logic, NLSIU should also defy this, since it is now headed by Sudhir and has got several alum faculty. So why aren't they issuing a statement condemning it? Sudhir is now stuck with his own stance that NLSIU is a BCI creation. So it has to obey what BCI says.

Guest 9 Jan 2021, 17:45

+2 -0

Yes, Sudhir has shot himself in the foot. He claims NLSIU is a class apart because of BCI support and this was argued in the Karnataka HC case. WILL HE NOW BACKTRACK?

Guest 10 Jan 2021, 08:48

+0 -0

I request people to stop spreading confusion about the BCI LLM rule change. The position is very clear: NLUs, DU, Symbi etc can only offer 2 year LLMs but JGLS can offer a 1 year LLM as well as an online LLM, since JGLS is an IOE. In terms of recognition, a 1 year LLM from JGLS is equivalent to a 2 year LLM from an NLU/TLC.

If you think that is unfair, then take it up with Modi, stop spreading lies about JGLS.

Guest 10 Jan 2021, 09:12

+1 -0

No, it isn't. If JGLS uses the IoE option to keep offering the one year LLM and the BCI doesn't specifically address it, then any Indian university is free to not recognise such degrees for its recruitment or PhD purposes. At the most, it would be treated like the foreign one year LLM which means those graduates would have to work somewhere for a year as internee faculty before qualifying.

Hmm 11 Jan 2021, 05:45

+0 -0

Why would JGLS run away from 2 years LLM programme? 2 year programme means money for them. They would happily embrace that.

Guest 10 Jan 2021, 09:31

+0 -0

Kian, I hope your friendship with Sudhir and Rajkumar will not stop you from asking them about the BCI LLM notification. They have tough questions to answer.

Guest 10 Jan 2021, 12:06

+0 -0

Time to name and shame the VCs who are anti-alumni.

Guest 12 Jan 2021, 09:12

+0 -0

All the appointments are prima facie illegal, going by the latest BCI notification on LLM degrees. Will LI have the guts to state this?

Guest 12 Jan 2021, 12:48

+0 -0

If you read the notification, it clearly doesn't apply retrospectively. Only to the degrees that would begin sessions from now. Not even the ones that are going on at present.

Guest 13 Jan 2021, 04:03

+0 -0

BREAKING NEWS: Modi govt says IOEs only need to have 60% permanent faculty, rest can be guest lecturers. So this explains how JGLS hires so many junior lecturers and improves the student:faculty ratio. This helps in QS and NIRF ranking. I request LI to look into this.

https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/govt-to-educational-institutions-regular-appointments-to-only-60-teacher/cid/1803416

Guest 13 Jan 2021, 06:25

+0 -0

Majority of the Indian institutions follow that model only, exploiting the contractual faculty in the process. Nothing new about it.

Guest 21 Jan 2021, 07:54

+0 -0

Kian, it looks like JGLS is openly defying the BCI and continuing to offer 1 year LLM programmes. You should cover this news despite JGLS being your advertiser, because it is illegal and also unfair to NLUs. JGLS is claiming that it has IOE status, but the IOE rules do not supersede the powers of the Bar Council.

Guest 21 Jan 2021, 10:53

+0 -0

Why only JGLS? CLAT 2021 has also been announced. The Consortium has not mentioned anything about the one-year LLM either.

Guest 21 Jan 2021, 10:56

+1 -0

Actually, BCI has never been given power over LLMs to begin with. Their forte is undergraduate legal education, whatever is needed for practicing as a lawyer. They are now claiming jurisdiction over from UGC. That remains to be sorted out first before any of the existing programmes is nixed. And if JGLS continues to 'defy' BCI, there is nothing preventing the BCI from withdrawing their recognition of the LLB degrees of JGLS, is there? So it's not as if that the BCI lacks power and needs 'advocates' for its cause.

Guest 21 Jan 2021, 13:30

+2 -0

Kian here's a mystery for you to solve. During Gopal Subramanium's time, NL Mitra, Ranbir Singh and C Rajkumar had appeared before the BCI's Committee on Reform of Legal Education, along with Saikrishna Rajgopal and Dayan Krishnan. The Committee ultimately recommended 1 year LLMs. So which VCs colluded with Manan Mishra to overturn this? Can you find out? Faizan Mustafa has publicly opposed the BCI on this, while Sudhir wants a 1-year LLM and has a 1-year LLM himself. Rumours are pointing towards the VC of another NLU.

http://www.barcouncilofindia.org/about/legal-education/national-legal-knowledge-council/

Guest 21 Jan 2021, 15:16

+0 -0

NL Mitra himself had recommended against one year LLMs as part of another committee in 2018-19. This is confirmed, because I heard it from him only. The draft BCI Legal Education Regulations that had been on the BCI website since then reflected that too. Although that committee had also made several other prescriptions that BCI is conveniently sitting on. There could have been other ex or current VCs of NLUs in that committee too.

Guest 21 Jan 2021, 15:18

+1 -0

Any VC who does not want faculty with foreign LLMs would be in favour of this, since those people cannot be expected to hang around doing 'internships' for a whole year after coming back to India. They would surely flock to places like Jindal instead.

Guest 22 Jan 2021, 07:00

+0 -0

So the question is this: who are the current members of the BCI Committee on Legal Education?

Kian, if you're reading this, can you find out???

Guest 22 Jan 2021, 08:04

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For those who did not know of this:
http://www.barcouncilofindia.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Draft-Rules-of-Legal-Education-2019-1.pdf
They were talking about getting 1 year foreign LLM holders to do an one year MPhil to be eligible. That has now been changed to 'teaching internship' of one year.

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