Jindal Global Law School (JGLS) has arranged a reciprocal student exchange programme with New York’s Cornell Law School starting in 2012, also agreeing on other joint initiatives.
JGLS dean Prof Raj Kumar told Legally India that student exchange programmes would start from January 2012, in which two to three students from Sonipat would study at Cornell for one term and New York students too would come to India.
A host of joint initiatives would be undertaken by both universities, added a JGLS press release, including organising a conference on gender based violence and justice in South Asia, to be held in October 2011.
Dean and professor of law at the US law school, Allan R. Tessler Stewart J. Schwab, said in a statement that he looked forward to creating a long-standing relationship with JGLS: “We believe that this alliance will greatly benefit faculty and students from both schools and further enhance Cornell’s international programs.”
Cornell is the 13th university that JGLS has collaborated with according to its website, having also signed memoranda of understanding (MoU) with Yale in November 2010 and Canadian Queen’s University in Ontario.
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It might not be an NLS.. but i'm pretty sure it can get its students anywhere they like :)
Dhruv: Yes they do, my best friend's at Jindal. They have fixed scholarships upto 5 lakhs or something. Then they have studentship thingie's. My friend even got a merit one for making top 10. These guys got kickass internships from college. Which is good. But I feel it's a bit of spoonfeeding.
That fellow came to LST centres in Mumbai bragging about the college. As far as Eminem's comment is concerned, if every NLU had a yearly fee of 6lakhs, I'm pretty sure every VC would be great.
I suspect that the idea of creating these schools is to have an "in-house" legal resources pool which they hope may reduce their legal bills and their dependance on an industry (legal) which puts such marwari businessmen in their correct place.
It is a most deplorable form of backward integration by such groups who are known to walk the razor's edge of compliance and respect for the law (whether in owrd or spirit).
On the other hand, I wonder why the Ambanis, Tatas, Birlas (why even Infosys, Microsoft etc) haven't also done it yet?? The Tatas are known to fund B-Schools (TISS, XLRI) so why not Law-Schools as well??? After all, their annual legal bills must surely be more than what would cost to create lawyers in-house?!
I think its time for a law that bars a lawyer from such schools working for (or if they become judges, adjudicating upon any matter involving) any of their sponsor 'mother' organisations.
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