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Nalsar’s ‘21 batch first to reveal pandemic recruitments after long year: 100% jobs for 73 members

Nalsar Hyderabad’s recruitment coordination committee (RCC) has announced the the final results for recruitments for its 73 members in an exceedingly difficult and unusual year (full stats below).

CLAT 2021: 62,106 out of 70,277 candidates appear: 61 questions objected to, 6 changes to answer key accepted

The CLAT consortium has accepted, after consultation with an expert committee and oversight committee, changes to the answer key of six questions, after receiving 1,026 individual objections over 61 questions in the exams. The larges number of objections - 492 and 367 respectively - were received in...

CLAT schedules physical exam date for 23 July 2021: Covid safety protocols to be observed

CLAT notification The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2021 has been (re)-scheduled to Friday, 23 July 2021, according to a notification. The exam, slated for 13 June, had been postponed on 15 May indefinitely , in light of the rapidly growing pandemic. The notification by the CLAT consortium said t...

JGLS prof, Nalsar ‘05 LLB Pritam Baruah to head up BML Munjal law fac post Nigam NLS move

JGLS Sonepat professor of law, Prof Pritam Baruah, is to join BML Munjal University as its new law dean after his predecessor in the position, Prof Nigam Nuggehalli, is expected to join NLSIU Bengaluru as its registrar soon.

NLSIU scores alum, BML law dean Nigam Nuggehalli as regi + 6 more lateral faculty hires, including 2 from APU, NUJS

NLSIU Bengaluru has scooped as its new registrar the dean of BML Munjal University’s law school, Prof Nigam Nuggehalli, alongside a raft of another batch of four lateral faculty hires who have joined recently, and two more who are due to join: Arun Thiruvengadam from Azim Premji and Saurabh Bhattacharjee from NUJS Kolkata.

NLU Delhi regi GS Bajpai to make RGNUL Patiala ‘one of best in country’ as new VC

NLU Delhi former registrar and Prof GS Bajpai , who had retired in January 2021 will take over as vice-chancellor (VC) of RGNUL Patiala this Friday (21 May), according to Bar & Bench . He told Bar & Bench: RGNUL is already a fast-growing institution. My priority is too see that it is made ...

Surprising no-one, 13 June 2021 CLAT postponed indefinitely: So what options are there?

The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) consortium met today and has decided to indefinitely postpone the date for now.

HNLU Raipur 2020 recruitments helped by first ever Day Zero with 24 jobs but hurt by Covid freezes, new normal

HNLU Raipur’s graduating batch of 2020 has released campus recruitment figures for the 50 students (out of a batch of 150) who took part in the official campus placement activities, which had fortunately managed to hold its first ever Day Zero but was nevertheless partially hit by the impact of Coronavirus pandemic.

NLU Jodhpur 2020 campus recruitments: 36 top-pay law firm jobs led by L&L, Tri, CAM, KCo as 61% of batch goes corp via RCC

NLU Jodhpur’s batch graduating last year, in 2020, has released its job placement figures for the 60 students who directly participated in the Recruitment and Internship Coordination Committee (RICC) activities.

In shock announcement NLSIU tells SC: We’re doing state domicile reservations this year (even though we’re fighting state’s SLP)

NLSIU Bengaluru has made a submission to the Supreme Court unexpectedly stating that it would be implementing state-level domicile reservations from the 2021-22 academic year.

‘Don’t panic’: CLAT 2021 plans TBC by May, subject to (unpredictable) pandemic

The 2021 Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) remains scheduled for 13 June 2021 but with the pandemic re-raging more strongly than ever, the CLAT Consortium of National Law Universities has announced that it is aware of this (see notification above).

NUJS secured 119 mostly pre-Covid placements for 2019-20 batch: 64+ in highest-pay bracket, 17 lit, 17 future CSE/judges

The NUJS Kolkata Campus Recruitment Committee (CRC) 2020 has released its final placement statistics for the 2019-20 academic year, with more than 60 accepted job offers from the highest paying law firms, according to a release by its Student Juridical Association (SJA).

AIBE postponed by month to 30 April 2021 [UPDATE: BCI withdraws, no date fixed]

AIBE new dates: 30 May 2021 Following its unsurprising announcement earlier this week that the 25 April 2021 All India Bar Exam (AIBE) 16 would be postponed indefinitely, the Bar Council of India (BCI) has now announced that the next bar exam would happen on 30 May (see notification above). The dead...

NUJS to introduce UK-style competitive house system to better student politics [APRIL FOOL’S]

NUJS Kolkata’s student body has voted to institute a new system of governance to de-politicise the campus but increase friendly intra-college competition.

No surprises please: Next AIBE (16) postponed to unspecified date as results are out for 15th

Postponed AIBE 16 The next All India Bar Exam (AIBE) 16 that was optimistically scheduled for 25 April, has been postponed indefinitely. The replacement date would be “intimated soon” according to a notification on the official website. As we had predicted only last month, the revised AIBE XVI sched...

CLAT to discuss date clash with class 12 exams, postponement possible but not certain

The 2021 Common Law Admission Test (CLAT), which had been scheduled to take place on Sunday, 13 June 2021, may again face a clash with other school exams that will cause it to discuss whether another postponement may be required.

NLS disappears from global QS law uni rankings, Jindal climbs into top 100 • Reasons TBC

JGLS Sonepat has continued its steady climb up the QS World University Rankings law subject rankings and is now in the top 100 while NLSIU Bengaluru had disappeared, following both having managed to crack the QS’ metrics last year.

NLU VCs say safety first: ‘No compelling academic reason’ to bring back students for physical classes this year

The National Law University consortium of vice-chancellors (VCs), which has mainly been responsible for running the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT), has decided that “there is no compelling academic reason to bring back batches graduating in 2021”.

NLU Odisha gets DU top Prof, ex-dean Ved Kumari as new VC from shortlist incl Rao, Nagaraj, Alam [UPDATE-2]

NLU Odisha in Cuttack, whose former vice-chancellor (VC) Prof Srikrishna Deva Rao had joined NLU Delhi in September 2020, will be appointing his replacement with Delhi University’s law faculty former dean and head, Prof Ved Kumari.

JGU/JGLS vows to double in size by 2030 with Rs 1,000 cr gift from founder chancellor Naveen Jindal

OP Jindal Global University (JGU), and its largest vertical JGLS Sonepat, which teaches law, has announced that its long-time benefactor, billionaire industrialist, politician and namesake Naveen Jindal would be loosening his considerable purse strings to the tune of another Rs 1,000 crore.