No surprises: AILET 2021 postponed, will now happen on 20 June after CLAT

Saturday, 9 January 2021 By Legally India Pre-law student

Following the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT), as expected, NLU Delhi‘s All India Law Entrance Test (AILET) date also fell victim to the CBSE board exams, and has postponed to 20 June 2021.

The Ailet had originally been scheduled for 2 May 2021; the CBSE is scheduled from 4 May 2021 until 10 June 2021.

The CLAT was rescheduled to 13 June 2021 (from 9 May).

This may be the first time since the start of the AILET in 2008 as a morally-cum-legally controversial (but, for NLU Delhi, arguably successful) alternative to the CLAT, in which the AILET will take place after the CLAT.

Online application forms would be out from the third week of January 2021, stated the notice:

This is in supersession of earlier notification dated December 04, 2020. The National Law University, Delhi has rescheduled “All India Law Entrance Test–2021 (AILET–2021)” for admission to Five Year B.A.LL.B. (Hons.), LL.M. and Ph.D Programme to Sunday, June 20, 2021 from 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM. The admission notice will be issued in the third week of January, 2021 and the Online Application Forms will be available on the University website nationallawuniversitydelhi.in, nludelhi.ac.in from third week of January, 2021.

Comments

Guest 9 Jan 2021, 06:37

+0 -1

Kian, a clarification is needed. The BCI notification states that the BCI and not the CLAT/AILET organising body will conduct entrance tests for LLM. So can NLUD advertise for LLM AILET? Isn't it now under the BCI's control?

Guest 9 Jan 2021, 07:52

+4 -1

NLUD is still under Ranbir Singh's control and nobody else's.

Gabru 9 Jan 2021, 10:14

Wonder who framed this:

"The Consortium emphasised that National Law Universities are distinct
from State Universities in several important ways"

https://consortiumofnlus.ac.in/clat-2021/notifications/Press-Release-8-Jan-2021.pdf

Guest 9 Jan 2021, 12:24

+0 -3

Thanks for sharing. The runs contrary to what ASG Banerjee had argued before the Karnataka HC and what the HC implicit held, i.e. NLSIU is the only genuine NLU and NALSAR, NUJS etc are state universities like KSLU. So it's clear that the CLAT Consortium disagrees with Sudhir. However, Sudhir has tried to be too clever by claiming that NLSIU is a BCI-run institution and printing it on letterhead, because this means that he just follow the new BCI LLM rule.

NALSAR 5th year 9 Jan 2021, 14:53

+1 -1

If you read the full press release, it sounds a lot like FM. He pretty much said all these things to our batch when we requested him to allow the graduating batches to return to campus after taking RT-PCR tests and parental permission. However, we understand the position that is being taken by the Consortium of NLUs. Most of the NLUs (like ours) are in far-off places and it will be difficult to manage COVID infections on campus. So it is better to wait until the situation improves.

Guest 9 Jan 2021, 12:42

VERY IMPORTANT: I asked a JGLS admissions person if their LLM will be changed to 2 years because of the new BCI rule. He said the higher authorities of the college will decide this, but in his understanding Institutions of Eminence have complete exemption and the tentative answer as of now is that the 1 year LLM will not be changed. I would request LI to confirm this, because the implication is that NLUs are not allowed to for 1 year LLM courses but JGLS is allowed. This can be challenged before the SC.

Guest 9 Jan 2021, 13:01

+1 -0

A ground for such challenge already exists. JGLS is allowed to run online LLM, NLUs are not.

Guest 10 Jan 2021, 04:37

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The thing is, if JGLS says that they are not bound by any regulator and can offer any kind of LLM that they please, the rest of the Indian universities including NLUs still are so bound. Therefore, they can very well choose not to recognise the degrees awarded by JGLS for recruitment etc. So people with JGLS LLM can only be employed by JGLS and do their PhDs from there.

Guest 9 Jan 2021, 17:49

All NLUs must stage a protest on Republic Day against stepmotherly treatment of NLUs and demand NLU nationalisation.

Guest 9 Jan 2021, 20:05

+2 -0

Haha haha

Guest 10 Jan 2021, 16:26

https://www.hindustantimes.com/opinion/a-new-vision-for-legal-education-in-india-101610294011115.html

Guest 11 Jan 2021, 05:05

NEWS FLASH: Faizan Mustafa criticises BCI LLM regulations in today's Times of India (Education Times supplement), while a few TLC-qualified lawyers and BCI people support it. I am surprised that neither B&B, Livelaw nor LI have interviewed VCs for their thoughts. One comment on LI claims that Vjaykumar is behind this. If that is the case, there is a split in the CLAT Consortium, because Faizan is clearly against and Sudhir will obviously be against as well.

Meanwhile the question of JGLS remains unclear. If IOE rules allow JGLS to offer a 1 year LLM, then the Modi govt is favouring a private law school for the rich. THIS IS CONDEMNABLE!!!!

Guest 11 Jan 2021, 06:22

Sudhir can't be against it now. He's chummy enough with Manan Mishra to claim that NLSIU is a BCI institution.

Guest 11 Jan 2021, 06:23

Faizan himself is 'TLC-qualified' too. Just saying.

Guest 11 Jan 2021, 07:23

Once again a troll army is targeting Sudhir for no reason. Yes, Sudhir's contention is that NLSIU is a special institution established and funded by the BCI and not comparable to other NLUs. Yes, this was contended in the Karnataka HC. But what does this have to do with the LLM notification? LLM is governed by UGC, not BCI. Just because you are supported by BCI does not mean you will agree with their wrong decision.

Guest 11 Jan 2021, 08:32

Genuine question: Has NLSIU ever actually received any funds from the BCI?

Guest 11 Jan 2021, 08:12

+0 -2

NLSIU is the undisputed #1 the law school. That's it. That's the post.

Guest 12 Jan 2021, 04:21

Kian, please cover this: the petitioner who has gone to the SC against the BCI LLM notification is a Symbiosis Law School student and blogger, Tamanna Chachlani. The lawyer is also a Symbi grad, Rahul Bhandari, SC Advocate on Record. Students from DU, Symbi etc are far more proactive than NLU students, who just spend their days smoking weed and fighting with each other on LI comments. For example, Shreya Singhal (DU) and various other petitioners. Even with respect to alumni, NLU people mostly work in law firms and do not contribute to society through meaningful activism.

Both Tamanna and Rahul deserve to be interviewed. Below is more info about them:

https://in.linkedin.com/in/tamanna-chachlani-bb1275187
https://www.facebook.com/tamanna.chachlani
https://in.linkedin.com/in/rahul-bhandarishyam
https://twitter.com/rahulbhandaris?lang=en
https://superlawyer.in/rahul-bhandari-advocate-on-record-supreme-court-litigation-independent-practice-a-first-generation-lawyer/

Guest 12 Jan 2021, 06:04

You pay the 15 lakhs fees that NLU students pay for their education and they will do meaningful activism. One hopes you do your own share though, other than commenting on the same pages that you accuse them of doing.

Guest 12 Jan 2021, 06:25

[img]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EreWUZiVkAA7_EX.jpg[/img]

Guest 13 Jan 2021, 08:49

Justice UU Lalit recuses from hearing NLSIU domicile reservation case

https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/justice-uu-lalit-recuses-hearing-nlsiu-domicile-reservation-case

Guest 13 Jan 2021, 09:04

Karnataka HC said: "NLSIU is on par with AIIMS, IIT and IIM, where there is no reservation quota....This law school is not on par with other law schools:

http://livelaw.in/top-stories/supreme-court-justice-uu-lalit-recusal-nlsiu-25-domicile-reservation-168340

Guest 13 Jan 2021, 09:19

The curious case of the fanboy judge. Other states are using domicile quota because students from those states are not getting entry into NLSIU - how high does a person have to be before coming up with logic like this? With regard to the autonomy, the judge also said that Karnataka government is providing any aid to NLSIU. Is that a fact now, or post-truth?

Guest 13 Jan 2021, 14:05

Troll

Stop attacking the judge for no reason. It was the Bar Council of India which filed the petition and no less than the Additional Solicitor General of India argued the case. Also, if other law schools were at par with NLSIU, then why did the BCI or other law schools not challenge domicile quota in their institutions? NUJS and NLUO had quotas established at the same time. The answer is in the name. NUJS is WBNUJS and the O in NLUO stands for Odisha.

Guest 14 Jan 2021, 08:32

Troll Contested

BIG BREAKING: A highly placed sources has said that NLSIU's strategy in the SC will be to piggyback on the Karnataka judgment and say that NLSIU should not have domicile quotas as it is like IIT, but other NLUs [b]"can and should"[/b] have quotas. Thus, the strategy will be to say that we are not anti-domicile quota and in fact want them in 23 out of 24 CLAT law schools. So they basically want to screw other colleges.

Name X 14 Jan 2021, 13:35

How is this "BIG BREAKING" news in any sense? Of course, NLS is going to do that. They did that before in the KA HC as well. You trolls should get something new to chew on. As for all the loser NLS trolls on this website, I'll see you clowns react once the SC reinstates domicile reservation in NLS.

Guest 14 Jan 2021, 14:24

SC rarely delivers any order adverse against the BJP these days, and BJP is in power in Karnataka.

Guest 14 Jan 2021, 17:55

"once the SC reinstates domicile reservation in NLS." --- should also be flagged for being fake news and trollish.

"SC rarely delivers any order adverse against the BJP these days" --- this too. What about the farm laws being stayed by the SC???

Guest 15 Jan 2021, 02:57

If you think the farm laws order was against the BJP, then you are more naïve than 5 years of legal education ought to have left you as.

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