Its a good move by JGLS. However I fail to see the point ,why is Legally India publishing each and everything that JGLS does. Its nothing new,each year from different National Law Universities many students go abroad for summer programmes ... I personally know people who have done their internships in International Law Commission and ICJ and have attended summer courses in the prestigious Hague Academy of International Law,but Legally India never puts it as a news and why should it ?? its nothing new ...or great...Is it becasue JGLS desperately needs such publicity to lure students... I would appreciate if JGLS inculcates the tenets of hardwork in its students instead of making MOU's a big hype. It can be logically deduced by JGLS's move that they don't aspire to beat the best in the world rather want to follow in their footsteps by signing MOU's ...which are exceedingly one -sided...The National law universities.. are competing with the likes of harvard ,stanford and oxford by beating them in the biggest moots in the world. Interesting thing to note would be how Jindal Global Law School performs in Moots... NLU Delhi is only a year older than JGLS but kudos to their hardworking students who are making their presence felt everywhere... Well the difference is quite conspicuous ---NLU Delhi draws 80 out of 8000 students...and JGLS 120 out of 400 students...In you previous years batch and even this years batch more than 20 students are those who had not even taken the LSAT...and were taken in through their CLAT scores...students who were ranked around 8000 -10000 in CLAT... now do you want me to name those students in Legally India...nah...won't do that ....they are still my good friends ...:-) all the best JGLS...

The frustration among NLS students is visible. I am amazed by these comments. I can only imagine the revolution which JGLS has created has sent shock waves among NLS students. Anybody who reads this post will know the difference between an exchange programme where students spend their own money - airfare, accommodation and food, which is what NLS students at best. What JGLS has managed to do beacuse of the international reputation that they have acquired is to get the Canadians to pay for it. Again, I was in Toronto recently and faculty members at Osgoode Hall Law School, which is one of the most prestigious Canandian law school were most impressed with the 12 faculty members from JGLS who were invited to speak at a conference. All this is nothing short of a revolution. Even in my own country, Melbourne and Sydney law schools took years to develop collaborations of this nature. But funding is not possible in the way JGLS has obtained. For faculty and students of JGLS to be funded by top Universities of the world to spend periods of time abroad is amazing. But what I don't understand is the jealousy that prevails amongs NLS students. I looked at the website of JGLS and they actually have some faculty members who have NLS degrees; they actually take NLS students for Research Internship Programme. By the way, I don't work at JGLS - all this information is in their website, visit them at www.jgu.edu.in I am amazed by what they are doing and will be sending my students from ANU to them. We are ourselves beginning to develop collaborations with JGLS. NLS has bright students, but the faculty is of no comparison. They don't have any research publications. JGLS barely one year old has published two law reviews and both of them are now accessible worldwide through LEXIS NEXIS. Again, another unbelieveable achievement. I don't know of even one law review or law journal from India which is available in the Lexis Nexis. My suggestion to all the young studens who may be aspiring to do law in India is that JGLS is your best choice, not because of anything, but simply because of the qualifications and experience of their faculty and indeed the kind of resources that are being put to provide you with top quality legal education that you can only get in the most prestigious institutions of the world. I hope to visit JGLS some day, but in the mean time, I can only hope how much they must be working hard in this vicious environment when whatever they do are being constantly challenged by NLS.

I thought I'll put the first comment urging everyone to withhold their urge to berate JGLS, but I see that JGLS bashing has begun already ... :sad: ... I am not saying JGLS is good, all I want to say is that lets WAIT and see what good / harm these programmes do and what kind of lawyers JGLS produces before we decide to pass judgement on them ....

Guys there is no need for a debate. WE very well know where we stand....i would not want to give you any of my precious time by writing more..By the way your team in NLS debate [...]....big time....god bless JGLS with some matured people...or else it'll continue to grow into a [...]...

LOL. An Australian (#2) telling Indians not to indulge in bashing.

That is very interesting. Just because I have David as my name and that I am teaching in Australia, it has been assumed that I am an Australia. I am not and I happen to be from Singapore. In fact, this is the problem with the students who comment in this website. They have no clue of the reality and tend to think in a one sided manner. They are not even willing to check the website of JGLS and have began to criticise. When NLS as an institution was started, people gave room for it to grow. The first batch had very few students and in the early years of NLS Bangalore, it had huge difficulties for it even establish a reputation within India, let alone other parts of the world. It got a lot of support from right thinking people. Another amazing success story like that of JGLS in India is that story of ISB in Hyderabad. When ISB was founded, just like the NLS type debates relating to JGLS, there were many such debates in the business schools. But ISB went on to acquire a global reputation and even reaching out to such global rankings which the IIMs and other top business schools could not reach. But ISB is not a University and is not within the regulatory framework of India. In Australia also Universities are hugely regulated, but not as much as India. For JGLS to develop within a larger University and to acquire this kind of global reputation and to be able to attract faculty from all over the world. It is simply fantastic. A few days back, I read that Michigan Law School and Jindal are setting up a corporate law centre. This is great. Jindal is the hope for legal research in India. I believe that critical thinking and research are important aspect of legal learning. I am also amazed that Jindal is doing all this for a very low cost. Their fees is just twice more expensive than a NLS in Delhi. And what they offer is unimaginable. I know ISB is much more expensive. I have always wondered why philanthropy has not developed in India. The comments in this website are a good reason why people who want to do good thing don't come forward. In singapore, where I belong to, there is so much of celebration of excellence. Even though, the government is not as liberal and democratic like India, there is absolute commitment for promoting academic excellence. JGLS seems such an important institution for the development of higher education in India. If young and aspiring law students are reading this message, I would suggest that you should go in to the top law schools website of USA, UK, Australia and Singapore and then compare JGLS in that context. Unfortunately, Indian law schools including NLS have major challenges in their faculty which is increasingly becoming a problem.

@ # 5-- may be you never visit the websites of the top 6 National Law Universities in India...let me name it here for you...so that you can google them...and do read whats going on in these places of excellence...NLS Banglore,NALSAR ,NUJS,NLU Jodhpur,GNLU,NLIU Bhopal....

abbe oi firangi......jaake jindal ko makkhan laga...congress ki ticket mil sakti hai tujhe

@ # 7 --- good observation and quite logical... i am sure like their Chancellor Naveen Jindal each student of JGLS would be taught to support HONOR KILLINGS !!.... rather they are having an extensive research to legalize Honor Killings in India... :D

Come on LI stop this 'paid' news content, you risk losing the great brand value and respect created by you in such a short span of time.

national law schools are brilliant institutions in India is a myth that needs to be exploded and if this has to happen throughj Jindal, then so be it. national law schools in india are certainly good when compared with other indian universities teaching law. H/v they are rubbish when compared with global law schools. The only positive thing about national law schools is that they hvae been able to attract good studnets. Beyond this - they have done nothing - they have instituionalised mediocrity in faculty recruitment and research. They have a culture where students run the universities etc etc. It is extremely important that national law schools face some competition and I sincerely hope that Jindal and other such institutions develop and give national law schools tough competition...

@ # 11--- Bingo !! ''The only positive thing about national law schools is that they hvae been able to attract good studnets'' and the only negative thing about Jindal is that they have been attracting the worst students ....:D )

A FOOLS PARADISE ....HUH

What revolution are you talking about? What amazing success story?? I abs dont understand this. The success of a law school cannot and should not be judged until at least 5 batches have passed out. What you do in college is only a first step. Lets see what JGLS students do in the professional or academic world. Until then lets keep quiet about this revolution. Lets wait for the end products. NLS, NUJS and NALSAR have built a reputation not just because of the students they take in but also the end products that come out and make a mark in their chosen field of law.

The reason why IITs, IIMs and now NLUs have made a name for themselves is because of the bright students that they take in.....arguably they would have done equally well if they had graduated from law college in mofussil towns - but they would have to work much harder.

The job that IITs, IIMs and now NLUs do quite well is to separate the wheat from the chaff...the value-addition during the years spent in these institutes is negligible.

The separation process though is not fully efficient - many duds/crammers do manage to join the elite univs. and many very valuable grains get thrown out with the chaff.

Institutes like JGLS hope to take some middling quality raw material (at least till they carve out a distinguished name for themselves, and through superior faculty and teaching, hope to turn out super products.

All the best to them!

#@2 Lexis Nexis publishes things for those who pays directly or indirectly........Big money Big reviews..Govts colleges cannot do so or lobby for publications.........
2. Australia is not known for good educations worldwide but known for 3rd rated student of upper middle class or business class ...as admission is easy and cheaper than Europe and USA.
In India it will take 30-50 yr for development of good private institution as here large number of talented (studious) student belongs from middle class or lower middle class..where education is the only source to excel in life (on its own) ..and do better..and they takes admission in Govt. institutions on the other side rich guys when not able to compete with them educationally ion competition try to excel through dads money.........conflict of talent and money....these historical friction remain there till end civilisation ....

each will co-exist..advantageous always try to suppress disadvantageous people.......and people with merit from disadvantageous sections of society will work under and for people (much less talented, and most of them,,,,,,,) from advantageous sections
So guys from NLU's dnt worry you will join one or other firms or otherwise jobs manned by rich people with ...........(less talented). so if net result is that you have to work under .....

good way to advertise the institute through Legally India ..it seems that legally India is concentrating more exclusive news about Jindal than anything else

I am continually surprised at the depth and spread of the vitriol being poured at Jindal. Read the comments on any article which mentions JGLS and you will find the same stuff from people who are or claim to be NLS students. On one thread some of the comments were so outrageous and crude that other posters (also claiming to be from NLS) distanced themselves claiming that these persons were imposters. NLS graduates seem to be more receptive and appreciative of JGLS. So what's the problem here?

As on previous threads, any positive comment is attacked, not on factual grounds but by denigrating the poster. Play the man rather than the ball. If the facts are not on your side attack the credibility of the witness. The same philosophy seems to be in play here with one poster attacking LI as being in the pay of Jindal.

If positive items and news about the NLS are not being published, don't blame LI. Blame your managements for not taking the trouble to keep LI informed. This appears to corroborate the points made by several posters that while NLS students may be very bright, the faculty and administration are below par. Which NLS was it that went on strike against poor living conditions?

Incidentally, an article on the BCI's inspection of Law Schools stated "Only Jindal Global Law School (JGLS) in Haryana and Dr Ambedkar Government Law College Pune had their accreditation unequivocally approved without any conditions." Now is the BCI also in the pocket of Naveen jindal or has LI misrepresented the facts?

So what's the problem here? With 913 law schools in India, one more is not going to materially affect the job prospects of NLSites, especially as they claim to be head and shoulders above the rest.

The Law School which went on strike was HNLU Raipur ,but for your kind information even today its way ahead of JGLS...n will stay ahead...always...Please realize that its the quality of students that matters....where is Jindal when it comes to moots and all...HNLU won Henry Dunant National Rounds this year beating 55 other law schools...you know what...my acquaintances in Jindal told me that the faculty prepares the Memos for you when the team goes for a Moot..shame on u people...this reflects the quality of students... who are [...] orators and in simple words wealthy [...]... Yes i accept the fact that JGLS will grow as a law school...but the kind of feat that the National law schools in India have achieved globally is insurmountable for you people...atleast for the next 20 years...and by the time you people manage to perform well in a few moots ... we would have gone much ahead...In my opinion even Symbi is way ahead of you ...people... what I detest about JGLS is its cheap methods of seeking publicity...and whats disappointing is that a respected legal website like Legally India has becum an accomplice in it....and listen JGLS students we the students of National Law Universities ...don't need the kind of publicity that you crave for...Our excellence and quality speaks for itself...Come what me JGLS for me will always be a FOOLS PARADISE ....

@17 - good points! the faculty at quite a few of the NLUs are sub standard for the simple reason that people at the top in these law schools don't wish to have good people. They know very well that once you get some bright kids they will won moots and get jobs whether they are taught/trained well or not. The people at the top in majority of NLUs themselves don't have any good thing to write about and have had mediocore careers, and hence they are very cautious in making sure that they recruit only sub standard qulaity. This sub standard quality will loyally bow their heads and will never ask any tough questions to the their superior bosses - i.e. the professors and others at the top! This is not true for NLUs - but certainly true for a majority of them including the high ranking ones. Jindal has made a good begining by attracting a faculty with good backgrounds. The only negative thing is the high fee. I hope it develops as a good institution. If it does well, it will a big boon for legal education in India - which unfortunatley remains limited to corporate jobs and moots!!!!!!

@14: IIT faculty - Hundreds of Intl publications (Nature, Science, u name it)
IIM Faculty - Hundreds of them
NLU faculty - Ghanta.. ( How many published in HLR, Stan LR even jointly?) Scr** all self proclaimed NLS gods...

Btw, NLSIU has just been ***** in LawAsia... Hope, it answers that Old is not old anymore.. No hard feelings.. :P :P

Let the fittest survive. Charles Darwin will surely be happy then....

some guys are saying that faculties are best at JGLS , still why any good student who qualified for admission in any of the National law Universities ..takes admission in JGLS. can any one give one example where student took admission in JGLS instead of ...National Law universities, so be prudent, wait for some year before start treating your self as good law college.. and wait till good student starts taking admission there....even rich student who qualifies In CLAT doesn't takes admission in JGLS......so wait and grow...don't comment premature about yourself and start treating yourself as best.. everything takes time, consistency and long proven record to hold ground..initial bubble may burst...or may go in long even to beat NLU's.......but dnt cry like premature baby..first grow up kids.....

@ # 20--- for you kind info...if not NLSIU than NLU D won the LawAsia moot...At the end of the day ,we are one big family of National law universities in india....so it doesn't matter as long as a National law school is wining it....and pls get your facts right...dude...u have no clue about NLSIU's achievements... you'll kill youself for undermining its achievements....

I am surprised there are claims that this is surrogate advertising. We generally try to report those stories which seem either important, interesting to readers or both.

In this case, there definitely seems to be reader interest and I think such a collaboration was also important - we would have covered many other law schools that that do something similar.

Again, to reiterate, we will never take payment or other benefits in kind to write news articles or features about organisations. Our overall editorial judgment will always be the final decider.

Best regards
Kian

#18 - If you are an NLS student then you are definitely intelligent enough to understand that when I mentioned students going on strike (at HNLU Raipur) it was not to cast aspersions on the students but to give an example of poor management at the NLS. In fact I have said myself "while NLS students may be very bright, the faculty and administration are below par."

Regarding moots - JGLS is one year old. They have participated in one moot in Trivandrum with none of the team having more than three months of legal education. How many moots have you won with three months of legal studies under your belt?

Your acquaintance who informed you about the faculty preparing memos is wrong. Think logically for a moment. You have said that JGLS guys (not me as I am a parent not a student) "are [...] orators". Therefore, if they have not won then it is because of poor material and not presentation. If as you say their memos are prepared by the faculty then the implication is that your legal knowledge is more than that of the faculty at Jindal which is widely acknowledged to be excellent if not the best.

Kian has already addressed the issue of LI acting as Jindal's publicist so I won't comment further on that.

Yes. Jindal is expensive. However, what you should realise is that as a taxpayer, I am not only payng for my son's education but also contributing to yours.

#18: Being a member of the Mooting Society at Jindal, I take great offence at your comment about students not writing their memos. I assure you, we DO write our own memos. If we weren't, our 'faculty written' memos would have won at both the moots we participated in. Common sense much?

#21: My batchmate left NLUJ after a year's study to come to Jindal. Besides, I know a couple of people who were getting into NUJS and one who rejected the NLUD offer to come here. Almost all of us rejected Symbi and GLC and other Nationals such as GNLU, RMLNLU, RGNLU and Bhopal.

Also, even though 20-30% of our students may be low rankers in CLAT, that does not show that they are meritorious. Since when has CLAT become the global parameter of checking IQ?
Nobody is contesting the fact that the NLS's are currently at the top and are centres of excellence but I don't see why there isn't space for Jindal. I am extremely satisfied with my legal education amongst all the mooting, weekly seminars, public lectures, research colloquiums etc. Which other University can get Peter Schuck to teach for a semester? A couple of my batchmates have letters of recommendation from him!

bullshit ....u guys left GNLU n NLU J...for Jindal...you think anybody can buy that...we have umpteen students here who have scholarship letters frm JGLS......but they didn't even give JGLS a second thought....you guys aren't bad...neither am i criticizing you ppl...all i am saying is...please stop comparing yourself...with the top 6 national law schools....you people have a long way to travel...all d best...we'll c u after 5 years...when your first batch passes out...

#26 - I agree that JGLS cannot or should not propagate their excellence until the first couple of batches have graduated and demonstrated their worth in the real world. However, using an anonymous post to call someone else a liar is unworthy.

I see that #18 after alleging (again anonymously) that JGLS have their memos for moots written by the faculty (a very serious allegation) has done a bunk.

I must again point out to Kian that this anonymous posting works against having any serious debate and encourages posters to make tall claims and libellous allegations.

@25-- CLAT might not be the best IQ test in the world or in your eyes might be the simplest test but the fact is 98% students currently in JGLS's 1st and 2nd Batch could not clear it....or let me put it this way ...I can bet on this...that out of your batch of 120 not even 2% students were ranked in top 1000 in CLAT. Even If it is a Billion Dollar Bet I know I am going to win it. All my close friends from school are in Jindal those who could not make it anywhere else. ...the fact is you people are drawn from 500 odd students who apply there and many who don't even apply but are later considered and admitted through their CLAT scores....if u wish i can name at least 8 students from your 1st batch who didn't even fill your application form and were ranked below 10000 in CLAT but JGLS desperately admitted them...trust me i accompanied one of my friends on such a occasion to your Delhi Office in Bikaji Cama Place... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9kVzKSWQBM&feature=related
Please go through the link....its an interview by Rainmaker ...wherein Dr.Ranbir Singh displays the confidence in the quality of students in National Law Schools. Don't miss the part where he mentions that '' I am drawing 80 students from 8000 students ....
JGLS compare your 120 from 500....to 80 from 8000. And lets forget the case of NLU Delhi...if we talk about CLAT which saw 17k students this year....Not even a handful of you managed to be in the top 600... so please stop criticizing the merit that we people are not a part of.... we have slogged our way up....and will continue to do so....

Sure you have slogged your way up. Neither am I denying that. We probably failed to clear it because we did not slog our way up. I give that to you. But please try and understand that the reason why I brought up the CLAT issue at all is to counter the fact that we're 'rich and stupid'. We're not. My point was- CLAT is not an IQ test. It tests level of preparedness. Seeing that, we were not prepared. I will admit it. Again, I would like to reiterate that CLAT is a test that proves a person'r hard work and mettle, but not 'smartness', just as people declare that we are 'stupid' to not have cleared it. This has been stated in post after post.
And #26- Please think twice before calling other people's statements as hogwash. Past records from all these colleges compared with ours will show you that my statements are not unwarranted.My batchmate here will verify that he left NLUJ after a year of study( or two is it?). So please, please, please refrain from such allegations, it does not speak highly of you.
Also, remember, that I did not start this debate. Nor did I try to compare Jindal with the Nationals. We're growing slowly and steadily, moving up every round in each of the moots that we participate in, edging out quite a few top tier nationals as we move up. I am simply posting all this against the vitriol that has been consistently and unfairly been pouring out against my institution.
I urge everyone to refrain from making comments that just reflect the deep,UNNECESSARY and unfounded insecurity that you may have with respect to our institution. At Jindal, we're taught to respect all for everyone has loads to offer and we have a lot to learn from everyone. That's the sort of inter-institution collaboration that Jindal aims for, and has tried to achieve by inviting faculty from law schools across the country and the world, purely for exchange of knowledge at public lectures and seminars. There's space for all. I do not wish to defend my institution any further, but hope that my comments have been able to reflect the trust and belief that we as students have in this institution, whether or not others do as well.

Hello everyone.. I am a student from jindal..The reason why i love going to Jindal Global Law school is because my school gives me the freedom to think critically. There is 0 pressure in my law school. Infact my law school has 0 competition. The reason why there is 0 pressure is because we have infinite opportunities.The reason why 0 pressure is a good thing is because It helps me learn better, think better and also work better.. Most importantly it drives me to want me to innovate.Jindal Global law school is a great law school to go to because every time you fail you are presented with an opportunity.. My advise to future aspirants is to ask yourself if you actually want to be a thinker. If the answer to the above question is yes then join jindal global law school. Ranking is just a number and is for people who are chicken brained . I honestly don't give a damn if the school is ranked 100th... about national law schools i don't need to care what they do.. but i respect their philosophy and also believe they also have some social function and value..

What is important for people out there to know that I am Happy and also love my institution

My name is Mitra Arabandi and I am proud to belong to Jindal Global Law School

JINDAL GLOBAL LAW SCHOOL AS WE HAVE PERSONALLY VISITED AND OBSERVING THEIR ACTIVITY, WILL BECOME THE BEST LAW SCHOOL IN INDIA.