Goons of JNU? and you ask why NLSIU wants to maintain one arm distance from you!

*Two NLU grads. Both of her sons have graduated from NUJS, one in 2017 and the other in 2019.

Who are you? posting same thing on every article and website?

The IRCTC Tier-walein Baba strikes at Tatkal speed again!

There is absolutely no difference between the NLUs you have mentioned in terms of average graduate quality. You can keep bickering otherwise and bathe in your supercilious attitude as much you want.

It must be hard being so intellectually hindered.

It's funny how a person like you with no discernible qualification of his own is commenting upon the quality of institutions so far above his pay grade, when you really don't have any idea about any of those.

NLUs are for the 99%? Did I miss the memo where the fees have been reduced by 99%?

Send a tweet to @MLekhiOffice and @M_Lekhi.

Did she also talk about the encounters?

RSP is a clown who symbolises the talent deficit in the Modi cabinet. Has the critical portfolios of IT and Law, bungled up both. Modiji, please replace this nincompoop with better BJP talent like Pinky Anand, Meenakshi Lekhi, Aishwarya Bhati and Vikramjit Banerjee.

Err... NLSIU and other NLUs are exactly on the same platform. They all take students through the common exam now. Is there anything that legally prevents the first 50 CLAT rankers to choose any other NLU? Even if you say that NLSIU is ahead of all other NLUs, then it would continue to be ahead of other INIs too by that same logic. I really hope you aren't a student or alumni of Law School. I'd hate to know that sort of 'logical thinking' is only what such people are capable of these days. As for 'purely on merit', please let me catch my breath, that generated such a laugh!

Absolutely. NLSIU only deserves galaxy level status, with the resident Rhodes God at the helm of affairs. Leave these small petty 'national' level local stuff and status for the rest of the 'Mandi NLUs', na? Aim for the very top. Taste mein best, Messiah aur Everest.

None of these deserves INI status unfortunately. No NLU does at this point of time. Classic chicken and egg debate. As law universities, we are miles behind than where IITs are with respect of the engineering profession or IIMs w.r.o. management.

Are you including the current NLS VC in that group?

Nothing wrong with an institution seeking special treatment for itself based on its achievements and profile. So long as the decision makers are deciding that on objective criteria. Other NLUs can seek that too individually or collectively if they want to. The fact remains that half of the 23 NLUs at present are hardly even worth calling universities, let alone INIs. Disclaimer: I'm not from NLSIU myself.

How exactly? Have they contributed more than DU, Cal Uni, GLC or even Symbi Pune? When NLSIU came into existence, they already had foreign law firm partners as alumni, and not to mention CJIs. Stop displaying this inflated ego everywhere.

NLUs are not important enough.

NLUs is that they have been established by the act of the state government. Thus, even though they are called “National” Law Universities, they are basically state level law universities. So, every NLU is recognised as a State University only by the UGC.

Because of the fact that NLUs are 'State level' universities, they cannot be funded by the Centre.

No, it's not. Despite all your wishes.

That's only wishful thinking from you trolls. As it is, the news items that you have shared have nothing to do with this university anyway. You keep coming back to the comments section with political agenda of your own and try to pass yourself off as a well-wisher of the university. You are not. Go peddle your propaganda elsewhere.

Shame on them. Law students with religious divisiveness and extremism in heart. A dangerous combination.

Lowers that over-hyped place even further in my opinion. Let the students achieve something worthwhile first. This is not pro-BJP, this is anti-India and everything that the country has stood for.

This seemed more like an individual opinion and not that of the student council.

Those who consider VCV a good candidate for VC position without knowing much about him in reality should talk to some of his colleagues back from his IIT days. He is not well regarded down there. Or even by the older faculty at NALSAR who've worked with him. It's not wrong to consider someone suitable for a certain position, but ensure that at least some diligence has been done instead of relying only on (anonymous) hype. Incidentally, while people are focusing on Sudhir's regime quite a bit, anybody knows anything about how HNLU has been faring since VCV took charge? Has he taken any cogent step so far to clean up the mess down there?

As someone studying at NUJS, I can perhaps respond to the last part. My views are purely personal though. I can admit honestly that I'd no idea about how the new VC was gonna be like apart from rumors over social media, LI etc. So did not really have a high opinion about him to begin with. It's been close to 6 months since he's here. So far, here are the positives:
1. He's actually trying to make faculty at least a little more accountable than they used to be. I've been told by some faculty that more people are now adhering to deadlines. That's probably the least that can be expected of them, but even that was not happening under PIB or Lord Taluk.
2. A whole lot of programmes, seminars and workshops have been taking place lately. It almost looks like there's something that's going on every day. Can't vouch for all of these activities terms of quality though. Couple of events that I personally took part in were okay enough. Doubt everything would have been thus. But from what I know, student initiatives in terms of arranging events are usually being approved, which is again an improvement over the past 3 years. Amazingly, bills are actually getting cleared faster!
3. I heard quite a few research projects are being applied for. Again, this is mostly from faculty, but the VC is apparently okay with greater student involvement in these projects if the university gets those. That's probably a plus if it happens. More projects are usually better for the university profile and funds.
4. Got a few more teachers from outside on contract in the last semester and this one. Three of them were alum. Couple of practitioners. Audited one of their classes only, she was decent. Can't really say about all the others, but mixed lot probably based on what I heard from other students. VC has also promised new faculty recruitment in this semester. I hope good people including alum apply. If it's only favour exchange as some people here are saying, then that would be a bummer. But at least recruitment is finally happening after 6-7 people having left in the last few years.
5. Some infra is getting improved, with pending work being promised to be expedited. Probably too early to be commented upon. I'll believe it when I see it. But SJA seemed cautiously optimistic about this.
6. VC is again meeting those from other NLUs including CLAT meetings. Lord Taluk did a lot of harm by simply stopping all communication last year. Not sure about the immediate benefits of this, but can't harm probably.
7. VC is himself offering a paper this semester. This can go both ways probably and I haven't opted for it myself. But I guess VCs should at least teach a bit occasionally to stay in touch with the students? Others may differ on this point.
8. The guy does keep himself available throughout the day for everyday including students. No complaints on those grounds. The PA system isn't filtering people out as effectively as it had been doing under Lord Taluk.
9. Academic regulations and curriculum are being reviewed and modified apparently. Not sure exactly how, but SJA has reps in those discussions, so got to keep some faith on them as of now.

As for the cons:
1. The really toxic people are still there. They are going around as if nothing ever happened. No inquiry has been properly concluded nor sanctions issued. The bad faculty are still going to be around even if new people come in.
2. New registrar, accounts officer have not been appointed yet. Heard about interviews earlier, but no word since then.
3. Getting the feel of more UGC rules being relied upon instead of actual quality and cutting through red tape. Maybe some is needed for accountability, but surely we can't be dictated entirely by those archaic stuff.
4. No visible change in infra yet, only promises so far. More hostel room is definitely needed.
5. No reforms suggested by the UTC yet acted upon visibly at least. The regulation review and recruitment maybe, but no results yet.
6. No clear way so far to solve fund crunch. Distance ed programs are still in the doldrums, sponsors aren't being actively hunted that students are in the know of.
7. Litigations pending still.
8. Inquiries aren't being expedited, but that's probably as much because of the shameless faculty and staff involved as the VC.
9. Instances of violence and harassment still taking place on campus, no strict steps from admin yet.

That's it in a nutshell from my side. Before people start accusing me to belong to pro or anti vc groups, let me clarify, I'm yet in two minds myself. Can't give him a clean bill of efficiency and reform, can't condemn him outright either. He's surely better than his immediate predecessor or maybe than PIB too from what I have seen of the latter. But honestly, that bar was never set too high to begin with. He seems interested to work with the students and the people inside so far.

With the whole country being in the state that it is in right now, who cares about these things? Most of these people have even failed to teach many of their students the difference between right and wrong apparently! That becomes tragically apparent when those students and alumni start supporting police brutality, religious extremism and bigotry.

So what? When did you see NLSIU students claiming that Harvard had itself granted that moniker to the university? Quit harping on irrelevant stuff.