Jindal Global Law School (JGLS) has launched its LLM programme a year ahead of schedule, hoping to attract professionals who want to gain the qualification in two years while working.
Around 100 students will be selected for JGLS’ LLM course on the basis of merit and results to a special Law School Admission Test (LSAT) in May that is different from JGLS’ undergraduate LSAT, explained Professor Raj Kumar, who is JGLS’ founding dean and vice-chancellor of its umbrella body O.P. Jindal Global University.
Kumar (pictured) said: “[The LLM] was planned in 2011 but we decided to do it early because we have got the necessary infrastructure and faculty. We have recruited 15 faculty members and the classes will begin in August 2010.”
Classes will be held on weekends and in evenings, with the degree being awarded within two years. The LLM initially starts with specialisations in international trade law, corporate law and intellectual property rights.
“We are very excited about this programme as it hopes to fulfil an important void in India to pursue LLM programmes,” said Kumar, “as part time programmes are not very reputed and it takes three years. We are offering a full time programme which can be completed in two years like any other regular LLM programme without quitting your job.”
“We would like lawyers, bureaucrats, diplomats, judges, journalists and other professionals who are having a full time job to undertake this course without leaving their jobs,” he added.
The course fees for the LLM are Rs 4 lakhs (around $8,500) per annum, with another optional Rs 1 lakh per annum for JGLS to provide all accommodation and meals.
The faculty will be shared with the undergraduate five- and three-year LLB programmes that were launched last year, with a current faculty to student ratio of 1 to 10.
However, Kumar insisted that JGLS would maintain a faculty to student ratio of no more than 1 to 15, which he said was three times lower than the minimum recommended by the Bar Council of India.
The launch of JGLS’ LLM programme follows last week’s launch of a full-time MBA programme by The OP Jindal Global University.
Kumar told Legally India: “There will be a lot of interdisciplinary work between the MBA and LLB.”
Legally India also asked Kumar to respond to readers’ comments of last week, particularly on whether JGLS’ faculty was the best in India, how the law school justified its comparatively high fees and whether the quality of students and LSAT takers was lower than it was at the national law schools that depended on the more popular Common Law Admission Test (CLAT).
Kumar said: “In addition to regular full time faculty members with global qualifications and experience who are working at JGLS, we have created an institutional framework in which distinguished professors from the top law schools of the world take up full time visiting appointments at JGLS. They are actively engaged in teaching, assessment, evaluation and mentoring of our students.
“In the current semester, a distinguished professor from Yale Law School [professor Peter Schuck] is offering a course on ‘American Society, Government and Law’ to our students.
“This arrangement that JGLS has adopted is fundamentally different from the practices adopted by many law schools in India, where visiting faculty members are largely engaged in giving occasional seminars and guest lectures to faculty and students and rarely teach a full fledged course.”
In respect of the fees he admitted that the fees were higher compared to other Indian law schools, although others had increased their fee in recent years and in comparison to the price of legal education in the US it was still cheap.
“Our mission is to promote global legal education in India and to provide better access to high quality education within our country. But even this fee is hugely subsidised to our students due to the endowment and philanthropic nature of this initiative, given the fact that what we offer to our students is extremely valuable in terms of the global educational opportunity and life experience,” he said, adding that the infrastructure was world class, faculty remuneration was attractive and over Rs 2 crores of scholarships were awarded in the last academic year, which he hoped would increase significantly in future.
He said that in the first academic year JGLS admitted 100 students out of 500 LSAT takers. “It is important to note that when the NLS Bangalore was started in July 1987, there were 150 students who took the admission test conducted by NLS Bangalore and 50 students were admitted. Over the years, the new National Law Schools were established and the number of students who started to take the entrance exams also increased.
“New institutions have a historical growth trajectory that needs to be kept in mind while making any assessment,” he added and noted that while LSAT was established in the US, it was new to India and he expected that more institutions would be adopting LSAT-India in future because it was based entirely on a multiple choice format in areas such as logical and analytical reasoning and reading comprehension, rather than CLAT’s general knowledge, legal aptitude and mathematics sections.
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Seriously Professor Raj Kumar, this is the best you could come up with. Come on. Its India you talking about Prof. Kumar not US. Your organization would just be just another money minting business due to the "endowments and philanthropic nature of this initiative".
In other words - if you have the dough - come to us.
Five years of quality infrastructure and faculty can go a long way in refining talent. And it's a wise man's move to wait and watch instead of shooting your mouth off prematurely.
One, why do all rich kids also have to be stupid? Most kids with successful lawyers as parents (e.g. 90% of currently successful lawyers) are not stupid. Nor are they great lawyers because they went to NLS in the first few batches or even now after cramming up and paying to score highly on CLAT.
And often rich kids are not stupid precisely because the parents had money to send the kids to an expensive private school. Look at the national law schools - a minority of students there went to some crummy village school.
Two, either you accept that the national law school system is at it is and will always stay so (flawed) or you welcome some new schools that try to improve and up the standard. It can only be good for everyone, even those that can not afford jindal...
Utter nonsense.
Please elaborate on how students can be judged as "bright", when Legal education is not imparted at school level? That's one of he things which gives the LLb course it's singularity, your academics in school really don't matter. The process of studying law itself gives you the confidence and intellect to survive in a mushrooming legal world. As far as LSAT is concerned I think is better than CLAT as it focuses more on the core abilities of a lawyer and not extraneous subjects like Maths. As is the case with IIT and IIM students NLS'ites are increasingly getting high-headed, which is pretty much understandable for a callow student.
And for all the talk about NLSes having bright kids.
Sure.
NLSes have been the most successful law schools in the country, be it moot courts, recruitments, research papers or being involved in other ventures outside the legal field. However, this should be seen in perspective.
Calling yourself the best law school among what was till recently half a dozen decent law schools is nothing to brag about.
Rather, its embarassing to hold yourself out as the elite of the elite when your competition is 6 law schools which have only seen 6-7 batches graduate so far.
Also, NLSes itself till recently didn't have more than 10,000 people give their law entrances and out of those numbers, the majority were there by default as they had not been able to get through enginnering, medical, mass communication etc where the competition STILL is more intense compared to law, despite the presence of more elite institutions in those fields.
Some might say that they have emerged as winners when faced with global competition which vindicated their stature that they are not competing with just 6 but an entire contingent comprising of the world's top law schools and that, in my opinion, is a completely valid assertion.
However, one should look at the bigger picture.
If 3 out of the just 6 decent/well run law schools in India fare so spectacularly, just think of how many more accolades Indian law schools can secure if the number of such well run law schools is increased considerably.
Enter JGLS.
I am not saying it is an elite institution yet. But to all the doom-prophesizing lawyers out there (a lot of who claim to be from NLSes), JGLS holds a lot of promise and the jury is still out and will be so for the next 5-7 years on whether the school can indeed be included in the small group of law schools in Indian imparting excellent legal education.
rich kids are not at all stupid, but if they have sense they would know which law school to go to right. Let them make a choice. Just hoping JGLS is not another money minting business.
Talk about what?
I think you echo my sentiments exactly when I say that the jury will be out for another 5-7 years before anyone can make a definitive statement.
Brag?
I never called NALSAR/NLS/NUJS an overnight initiative.
Rather, I said that it's a valid assertion that the above are elite institutions.
You sound hurt and angry. I hope you're ok. And oh yeah, all the best for the Class X board exams! Hope they don't make you too cranky!
nd yea, JGLS is a good concept, but the tuition fee is too high...affluence doesnt bring success....only rich students can afford to study in JGLS, and the poor ones who deserve to be there dont get a chance because of the financial constraint...JGLS should take an initiative and every year provide financial assistance to few selected students who are poor but deserve to study there...
I know people who would have got a seat in the IITs and opted for NLS or NUJS. I have my mates with similar credentials there.
Times surely have changed. And the reason is simple. You know that the pays you get after graduating from the top NLSs are say around 15-20% higher than even IITs. And if your interest lies not in maths and science, you go for the law schools.
But the love of law, debating and keen interest in social issues that make most students go to law schools!!
Having said this, I do feel that the fee is high. But I also understand that the fee at Harvard and Yale is also high. The question is how JGLS provides value to this high fee. I know that the faculty are of outstanding academic standing. But what about jobs for the JGLS graduates? How is the return on investment going to be? Is the job market available? These are more serious questions that the pedantic debate that is taking place between whether JGLS is better than NLS Bangalore. This very question does not make sense. How can we compare a law school which is 23 years old to a law school which is around 4 months old? Yes, for a law school which is 4 months old, JGLS has created nothing short of a revolution. But there is a long way to go. We should encourage JGLS to get more scholarships to students so that many more bright and brilliant students can afford to study at JGLS. My biggest criticism of JGLS is its fee structure which makes it difficult for the middle class in India to study. But if you can manage to go there, then it is a question of making an amazing opportunity to work well for you.
Having said this, I do feel that the fee is high. But I also understand that the fee at Harvard and Yale is also high. The question is how JGLS provides value to this high fee. I know that the faculty are of outstanding academic standing. But what about jobs for the JGLS graduates? How is the return on investment going to be? Is the job market available? These are more serious questions that the pedantic debate that is taking place between whether JGLS is better than NLS Bangalore. This very question does not make sense. How can we compare a law school which is 23 years old to a law school which is around 4 months old? Yes, for a law school which is 4 months old, JGLS has created nothing short of a revolution. But there is a long way to go. We should encourage JGLS to get more scholarships to students so that many more bright and brilliant students can afford to study at JGLS. My biggest criticism of JGLS is its fee structure which makes it difficult for the middle class in India to study. But if you can manage to go there, then it is a question of making an amazing opportunity to work well for you.
Personally, as an academic, the most important thing about any University or a Law School is the quality of its faculty. JGLS by far is the best law school not only in India, but probably in Asia today as far as the faculty is concerned. All the rest can be easily built including infrastructure; good students and reputation.
But I also wonder why there is so much threat perceptions that is prevailing among the commentators. It seems to be these commentators are either students and graduates of National Law Schools or may be faculty members. This need not be the case. India need a lot more good law schools and there is no need to feel threatened about the establishment of world class institutions of excellence.
My big fear is as to how JGLS will sustain this amazing reputation that they have acquired globally. I travel around the world and every major law school in every part of the world want to establish collaborations with JGLS. I know Harvard and Yale have already established a range of collaborations with JGLS, but there is rush for other law schools to follow suit. JGLS may do well to determined what is in their best interest as far establishing collaborations are concerned.
I suggest that the people who are making ill informed criticisms about any institution in these websites should refrain from doing so.
JGLS better than NLS? LMFAO. I would be surprised if people prefer it over even Amity!
i wish JGLS all success
most ppl from NLSIU/NALSAR/NUJS are middle-class and are from vernacular towns. how many ppl from big cities and good schools get into these colleges? i have my doubts. the resentment against JGLS is just middle-class mentality. JGLS students have been to expensive private schools and speak much better english than ppl in the top 3 law colleges.
Moong Dal Rs. 85
Udad Dal Rs. 78
Channa Dal Rs. 85
JinDal Rs. 7,00,000
Any other comparison is superflous
1.) what is the main aim of Jindal ?
A policy institution or exceptional law school producing great scholars and thinkers.
2.) Why do we need to compare them with Nls/Nalsar ?
Let the students of Jgls prove their worth not faculty.
3.) Such a high fee structure in a country like India . Is it feasable ?
It will reduce the catchment area of Jgls.
Suppose there are 10000 people who apply for Nls/Nalsar/Nujs and 200 got selected of which 30 are rich and 170 from decent backgrounds. Now it can be inferred that out of these 200 at least 195 are deserving .
Now if there are 1000 people who apply for jgls of which 99% belong to rich background. Suppose, 80 are selected of which 50 are deserving according tho their standards. Still can we say jgls has better quality?
The point here is no matter how good your faculty is be a little realistic...... untill and unless you don't have a large catchment area the bridge between nls and jgls is gonna widened only.
No hard feelings for anyone!!!
GUYS PLEASE BE REALISTIC.
Ok now your comment is indeed stupid. Please get a vocabulary beyond "catchment area". Secondly that's really not the point, It's not about what kind of students you admit it's about what you do with them in your college. How you shape them into top notch legal eagles. Please don't whine if you cannot afford JGLS and demoralize the rest of the aspirants. As stated my many I really dig the idea of JGLS it is really good for people who can afford it. And btw a comparison between JGLS and the rest of the NLU's is baseless and if you indulge in it, it only shows that you wear happy smiles pajamas at night and have flower printed pink shirts in your wadrobe.
wow its not only a law colg its a magic institution................
jgls jindabad.....................................
nw its upto u guys to draw da inferences...;-)
this thread is a nonsensical thread...i dont think jindal can be compared even to amity or symbi... comparison to NLS/NALSAR/NUJS is senseless... nywaz, i wish JINDAL a bright future!
JINDAL GLOBAL LAW SCHOOL IS NOT ONLY A LAW SCHOOL BUT ITS A REVOLUTION, IT IS A MAGIC SCHOOL, ANY DUMBASS CAN ENTER THIER AND THE EXCELLENT FACULTY WILL GROOM THEM AND WHEN HE COMES OUT HE WILL BE A RHODES SCHOLAR, LORD DENNING........
PLEASE
PLEASE
PLEASE
DO NOT COMPARE JGLS WITH NLSIU/NALSAR
THESE COLLEGES ARE PEANUTS.... INFRONT OF JGLS
JGLS SHOULD BE COMPARED WITH HAWARD.... YALE AND IN 7 YEARS TIME I PROMISE TO YOU ALL....
JGLS WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE EXTINCTION OF NLSIU/NALSAR.......
THESE COLGS ARE WORTHLESS................
whichever law school you come from, Amity Law School does not brag about its achievements. The students are good and are doing equally well as any other law school or college. If you have any doubt about that you are free to have an open debate here.
about jgls, stop being insecure and focus on your future instead!
If only you could spell "Harvard" correctly.
2. But this is true NLS/NUJS/NALSAR have been performing consistently well and can be termed as "Big Three" in the legal education in India. But other law clgs are doing pretty well too. I have friends in Amity & GLC who have good jobs.
3. I myself is in final year in a national law school. Of course the environment and milieu here is very impressive. It is extremely competitive here. I know lot of national law products who chose law inspite of getting through AIEEE/PMT et al. As a matter of fact I am one of them.
4. These days many national law school students go for post grad, litigation and not only for high paying corporate jobs.
5. JGLS might do pretty well in future but they must have proper planning for that. Faculty and students have to work together pretty hard for that. But the fees are exorbitantly high. 40/45 lacs??? I could have completed my LLB from top UK Unis with that amount (either through LNAT or direct admission to GDL & then 3 yrs LLB course). Faculty, infrastructure and facilities are quintessential no doubt, but this is insane. Fees have to be less. This is India and not US, for God's sake. I wonder who all are studying there (no offence)
6. Best of luck to all of us. We all should work and look forward for a br8 future. All the best to JGLS as well.
where is it located?
Accordong to Financial Times annual MBA 2010 ranking a 10 year old Institute (INDIAN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS) ranked 12th in world where 50 years old IIM stands no where even in top 100 in the world!
So it is absolutely rubbish to compare a law school on the basis of their establishments !
I am neither a Nlsian or Jindalite (not for or against any)
but just need that my nation should have good system of education good law schools!
As if any institute is moving ahead on a global path then why some of you acting like politicians ?
There is need for Jgls to have more fellowship and scholarship programme as hardly total in 5-6 is not at all enough !
I been to Nls,nalsar,Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law,Jindal global law school and Fac of law D.U- i really found that no institute can compare jindal in any faculty and infrastructure as these two are the backbone of any good institution
and rest is the students!
And why don't you just realise that scoring well in a test like CLAT only makes you a good test taker (thank god for LST, eh?) and NOT necessarily an intelligent student. And you only need a decent IQ level, reasonable language skills and good teaching to excel in Law. Just because you all knew a few people who turned down IITs for NLS does not mean that in absolute terms, your IQ levels are on par with the IITians. Please don't kind yourselves, you're not exactly studying Theoretical Physics here!
Now, would JGLS be an institution to be reckoned with in the future? Only time would tell but until then, why don't you NLSites worry about your Magic Circle job apps (I mean, one really must make the most out of a subsidised education, no? And who cares about the Indian tax-payers' money as long as I have my plush office in Canary Wharf) and let these newbies be?
Let and Let Live, for chrissakes!
You belong to a country that needs all the help it can get to progress and while none of you can actually make a tangible difference in the field of tertiary education, at least have the smarts to support those who can and are.
P.S. I am a rich kid and I got the best education money can buy. So what? If the so-called blue collar kid had been in my position, he would have done the same too. The world is NOT fair, get over it!
Grapes are sour for you too as you know you cannot afford Jindal.
they are providing full scholarships to selected students and i think everyone has heard of education loans........if you do really value studying at JGLS and the fee is all tht worries you i suggest you get a loan and stop cribbing!!!!!
if however you are also worried about JGLKS will fare well only time will tell - but well there are a lot of factors that should be taken into consideration - the faculty is the most important of them all and JGLS seems to have nothing but the best the law fraternity has to offer, the infrastructure is well planned and simply stunning, the study structure and methodology is awesome, the assignments, lectures, the whole study environment they have created - i envy the students studying there - they are getting exposed to so much right in the first year! so let us give JGLS a break, wish them luck with their endeavour n appreciate the good work they are putting into it instead of being judgmental at the drop of the hat about any and everything.....
1. how lucrative the business of education has become; and
2. how the 3-4 top national law schools are squandering their lead.
To begin with (1), education in india has mushroomed as a business. While the law does not allow institutes to be for-profit entitites, there are many ways to siphon off money, usually by subcontracting various 'services' and 'consultancies' to other entities owned or controlled by the promoter, or investing in 'trusts' that further invest in other businesses run by the promoter. The failure by the Central and State governments to regulate fees, develop more institutions and improve the infrastructure of the existing ones combined with the increasing number of studnts each year has made education a gold mine. The Jindals, being shrewd businessmen have only capitalised on this. Certainly they cannot be faulted - after all everyone wants to make money. What is at fault is the peculiar stand taken by successive central governments - who are well aware of this but refuse to take any action. Either the no-profit law should be implemented or scrapped.
(2) It is a shame that centres of excellence in legal education , i.e. the top few law schools have failed to capitalize on their chronological start, their government suport, theircatchment reservoir of government law officers and judges, and their solid Bar Council backing - as a result of which there are actually takers for private enterprises such as JGLS which charge fees for a non-infrastructure intensive course such as law than many other private engineering and medical institutes (by way of information the well known private institute Manipal University charges less than Rs. 2 lakh p.a. for engineering and less than double that for medical (the state run institutes all charge a paltry amount less than a lakh for medical). This is a real shame because these National Law Schools had many winning features - statutory establishments with the patronage of the State Governments and the Supreme Court combined with a very dynamicapproach towards preparation of academic courses - in short the 'assurance' of the Government that most of us find comforting, with the nimbleness of the private sector. Dr. Madhava Menon demonstrated how effective this could be when he founded the National Law School of India at Banglore and later the National University of Juridical Sciences at Kolkata - both outstanding experiments in legal education. Unfortunately these law schools may have become complacent if parents are still willing to send their children to Mr. Jindal's establishment (at a cost of a small fortune).
Being an investment banker by profession I have examined the fee structure and studied an estimate of costs for setting up infrastructure of the type expected at JGLS (taking into account the generous 'corpus' that Mr. Jindal has already contributed) and I believe charging Rs. 6 lakhs per year for an undergrad law degree is nothing if not fraud. Even the sum charged by the National Law Schools are quite high (costs there are approximately a lakh a year per student). Even Harvard Law School's (in the United States) basic law degree - the J.D. - equivalent to our B.A.LLB. costs on average 'only' Rs. 13 lakhs per year.
It is time the Bar Council or the UGC look into the basis for charging such an amount and where the sums are utilised. Quality education is welcomed, even when crafty businessmen promote it but not at the cost of making honest families give up their life savings when it does not reflect the true cost.
I'm an 18 year old girl who's in the first year batch of the 5 year BA LLB course at Jindal. I graduated at the top of my stream in my boards and I cleared all of my entrance examinations- NIFT Delhi, IHM-Aurangabad (after my interview with them, they begged my mother to let me join.), IHM-Delhi, Symbiosis Law and BBA, and the CLAT. I even cleared my LSAT in MERIT.
I came to Jindal, of my own accord. Not by Default. Not because I didn't get in anywhere else. There are a lot of people here who got through NUJS and the like. Don't get me started on what they had to say about the institutions you defend. They came here to be part of the biggest thing to happen to education in India since the establishment of ISB. Your first argument is automatically proven hilariously invalid.
I know I am privileged, that my parents are well off, but I am one of the MANY students who got a generous studentship because I missed my deadline for applying for a scholarship I was eligible for in the first place. Many students here have been gifted scholarships- 100%, 50%, 25%, Studentships.
If you're going to hate on us and say that the school is a "money-minting scheme', I must say, shame on you, sirs. You are most misled.
Please make your way to the Campus. I shall personally mail you the directions. A day here should help you make up your mind as to what is really going on here- A revolution.
You can diss it, but you can't stop it. JGLS does not really care for the hate you spew, the 'disgust' and thinly veiled disdain. It exists to impart quality education, which I am sorry to say is not a can of subsidized, rationed Mustard Oil.
What in the name of Law did you expect? A Salvation Army store distributing a new concept of education for all?
It is EXPENSIVE, not because our Vice Chancellor(who we all have so much faith in, just so you know. What have you done in your life that can rival what he has achieved yet? At his age, he's CREATED everything in and about JGLS, after securing support from our Chancellor, Mr. Jindal. Come and take a tour, see for yourself) wants to make money, but because he has a vision that can revolutionize the way things are done in our country.
Tell me, do you really think a world class faculty from around the planet would migrate to India for something that would be minimum-wage in their country? or that the Indian faculty would drop everything and run to Sonipat, Haryana to teach "a bunch of stupid, rich brats"? No.
They need to be paid internationally competitive salaries, and they've been offered a chance to be part of something huge. Something new, a challenge that can change their lives for the better.
And you know who's paying for their salaries? We are. That's why the fee is so high. You can't expect Peter Schuck (please, please, make my day and Google him, haha) to leave his teaching at Yale and come here to teach us for free.
Calculate when JGLS will reach the financial break-even point. I don't see it happening for another 10-15 years. The school is spending more money than it's making. And even when it does reach the break-even point, I don't think it is going to go beyond it. In simple terms, this school will never make any profit, because they're always delivering more than what is expected and more than what is paid for by us. They'll just make enough to keep the standards higher than your 'big3'. So, please, enough of this insanity and sour grapes.
Of course, I also personally feel deeply affronted when me and my fellow batch-mates' mental capabilities are questioned. Like I said, come down here and interact with us. If you don't leave pleasantly surprised and maybe a little disgruntled that you were proven wrong, we'll just have to show you around the amazing campus and win you over with the brilliant infrastructure and architecture. :-)
Talking of the students, we have, well, DIVERISTY- of talents and ethnicities. Sportsmen, musicians, writers, poets, actors, photographers, film-makers, gymnasts, singers, chefs, painters, dancers, shooters, debaters and mooters infest this place. There is not a single person here who does not possess a talent, and there are very few professionally taught or mentored talents here.
Do you really want me to write down and make a nice list so you can know what are the REAL WORLD differences between a public law institute like NUJS or NLS Bangalore and JGLS?
Give us 5 years. You'll know that we're not just a pack of rich kids with snotty noses and empty cranial cavities.
Would you not take out 5 minutes from your routine to defend your alma mater against ridiculous, factually incorrect and obviously envious remarks, if you were in my place? What also stings is that people here talk about an institution they know little about.
(Also, the fees in NOT 7 lakh. It's 6. And only a handful of kids here are paying that much. Most of them have been given scholarships and studentships. )
It's called Libel. However, you are entitled to your opinions.
I only wish that you had not resorted to sexism, as is evident by the first sentence of your comment- 'this girl' does not need to be responded to by gender, you could have just said- 'this student' or 'this reader'.
Not very prudent.
See, for me, I do not think I am wasting my time here writing about my college- I do have a lot of work on my hands this weekend, which is the reason why I am not going home for holi as are a lot of other people - because we all are equally, if not more burdened with work as compared to your wonderful and "dynamic" NLUs. Also, because I care more about my readings, assignments, the moot memo I am working on than going home and playing with colors.
I am a firm loyalist and somehow, I do not feel pleased with what a few people here have to say. I am merely here to give them a REAL, different picture of what is going on.
Reading your last sentence makes me wonder if you consider seminars, projects, research papers to be exclusive of academics. No wonder your stuffy and dusty views of what an education really means are outdated.
At JGLS, all of these are a part of our Academics. And adding to that, we also have end of term exams and class tests.
I do not call my college a Mecca of legal education. This is another factual misrepresentation. Not that I'm casting aspersions on YOUR mental capabilities, but you might just want to not talk about something you're not familiar with in the first place.
Which is why I say, that please, do us all a favour and come here to the Campus. See it for yourself. And stop hating. We can do without your support, but it would be nice if Indians like us could stop being so insecure about be welcoming to change, instead of cowering from it.
I hope you infer that I am deeply disappointed by your childish attitude and your intellectual outlook- it does not speak well of the current legal minds in this country.
ps. I might be 18 but if I can be respectful to all in this forum and not take jibes, it would be best if you could find it in yourself to do the same. Gender-biased attitudes do not speak wisely of your dynamism and intelligence either, humbly speaking.
Just saying. :-)
And #56, correct me if I'm wrong, but it appears that non-Jindalites have spent at least equal time airing "gargantuan emotional treatise" on here rather than focusing on "working their ass out".
Earlier even i use to think like all non-jindalite ...........
But my visit to the global law school has change my views abt it!
i request atleast give one visit to the global school everything all misconception will diminish rather eliminated!
I will consider it an obnoxious to say anything without no prior knowlegde or else!
N the reception one receive at jindal by jindalites atleast to me is a was remarkable!
My wishe jindal a great success !
like the girl says, give them five years and then we'll talk. it shows an absolute lack of grace to be making my-dick-is-bigger-than-yours comparisons with a new kid on the block. now is a good time to remember nls's humble origins in light of its present greatness.
i wish all jindalites luck, and hope to kick your ass five years from now as well. ;-)
Does this not mean that that talks of global legal education with exorbitant fee sucks as the most conservative ban on 'same gotra' marriages is supported by the Chancellor. Talk big but when it comes to vote bank show your dirt...
Jindal Global University should not be affected by what the politics of the Chancellor who is an MP but an industrialist as well, by virtue of the University was established, not because of political values.
The school administration and functioning is objective and largely autonomous of the Chancellor, because of which the media itself has not dragged the University, it's students and faculty and administration into this dirty war of votebanks, politics etc.
No seriously? You mean to say that the entire faculty(these are scholars from Ivy Leagues and other noted educationalists from across the world) and the students(18, impressionable but seriously old enough to form their opinions) will share the same views as Naveen Jindal just because he is the Chancellor?We obviously enjoy that much academic freedom. Do you realize that Jindal is only involved with the University on philanthropic terms, while not interfering with academics? The latter is obviously taken care of by Prof C.RajKumar( Google him as well, I'm sure it will take you days to read his CV). In fact, all you JGLS critics sitting in your double rooms in the respective Nationals, PLEASE google Sreeram Sunder Chaulia.
Besides, with regard to the Khap Panchayat, please read the views of Professor Vik Kanwar on our FB page of the Centre for Public Law and Jurisprudence:
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/pages/Centre-on-Public-Law-and-Jurisprudence-CPLJ/283705045566
i read your comment with much interest and amusement.
there might be a revolution happening in jgls..no one denies it.. it is actually very heatening to see faculty being paid that big a salary, for once...at least it makes us all who consider academics a career option not lose hope.
but honestly, let us be honest and accept it, there is a subtle hint of arrogance in your tone when you write especially when you mention about how "what they had to say abou the institutions you defend"
the point, which you MUST always remember is this- each institution wil have its pros and cons. jgls may be doing some geat things..but there are certain "trappings" of an obvious wannabe class conscious institute it hasnt escaped-- if you are looking at attracting "world class faculty" why rquire them to have LLMs ONLY from foriegn universities? is that not an imbibed bias in itself-- the fact that your "revoluntionary" institution considers people who graduate from NLUs in india (with LLMs or LLB + 3 years+ work experience) as not deserving a chance? world class is not defined by which place you do your LLM from. it depends on your own capabilities.
dont get me wrong, but some of the faculty who teaches you, are either my friends or my batchmates or my seniors. i graduated from one of the top 3 NLUs in 2007. most of them come from "these institutions we are trying to defend". that in itself should tell you about the efforts and perseverance the initial batches of all nlus have put to take their institutions to the top and is reflective of its stellar quality. always remember that it is the students which make the institution and not vice versa. if there were no students, there would be no "revolution" in jindal. and if there were no nlus, you wont have the "revolution" because you would not have had the world class faculty. as an 18 year old who is yet to realise how much it hurts not to have a job, or have a low paying job and be mocked and derided, believe me-- there is a small but definite minority which wants to get into academics. its ridiculous conditions like the ones put by JGLS that thwarts many of our hopes. a lot many of us are in alternative careers because we love our jobs. even if i slog 15-20 years in the job i am in; i would never be able to earn enough to sponsor a good LLM for myself. and before you begin on the "S" word, let me tell yo: once you apply for your LLM you will know how difficult it is to secure a scholarship. you are LUCKY you are in jgls that it gives scholarships and studentships that easily. beleive me, MAJORITY of your prof's were not.
NLS faculty is pathetic (its like the faculty positions are reserved for some discards from Mysore University and lingarajapuram law college) while Jindal Faculty rocks!!
NLS students Rock while Jindal students are ok!!