The All India Bar Exam (AIBE) has been postponed from 21 March 2021 to 25 April 2021, according to a notification on its website (see above).

The Supreme Court began hearing challenges to the Bar Council of India’s (BCI) unceremonious decision to pull masters in laws (LLMs) into its regulatory orbit and ordering the ban of one-year LLM degrees (the most popular kind in India), reported LiveLaw and others.

The Bar Council of India (BCI), hot on the heels of having announced the banning of Indian one-year LLM programmes and a greater focus on continuing legal education (CLE), has announced that through the BCI Trust it would start an Indian Institute of Law (IIL) in Odisha’s Bhubaneswar, under an MOU with with the Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT).

NLSIU Bengaluru has announced online four-week classes for high schoolers to help them become a lawyer, called the Foundations for a Legal Education (FLE) Certificate Course costing up to Rs 7,500.

NLU Delhi registrar Prof GS Bajpai, who has been in the role since 2014 under previous vice-chancellor (VC) Prof Ranbir Singh, has stepped down from the position.

AILET postponed to 20 June 2021 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 schedule...

JGLS Sonepat has announced the joining of another 64 faculty members to its law school in January 2021.

The 2021 Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) has been rescheduled from 9 May 2021 to 13 June due to a clash with the CBSE Board exam schedule that had been announced last week.

N LSIU Bengaluru has selected three candidates for its first privately-funded PhD scholarship programme with Rs 74.55 lakh, which we had first reported on in May and September 2020. NLSIU is not the first or only NLU to have fully-funded PhD programmes, though it is interesting since the funding for...

The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) consortium has announced the 2021 exam to take place on 9 May 2021 at physical test centres, according to newspaper advertisements published today and as we have confirmed from CLAT sources.

The Bar Council of India (BCI) has announced a second All India Bar Exam (AIBE) date to be held in 2021 and confirmed that the previously announced upcoming bar exam on 24 January 2021 will be happening on time.

Notification from NLU Delhi about Ailet 2021 NLU Delhi has announced a date of 2 May 2021 for its next All India Law Entrance Test (AILET), which is a separate entrance exam from the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) for the other national law schools. The CLAT has not yet announced the date of its n...

T he Karnataka state government has appealed the high court’s striking down of the NLSIU Bengaluru horizontal reservation of 25% to the Supreme Court of India, as first reported by LiveLaw today. LiveLaw had reported: The SLP filed by the government states that the judgment passed by the high court ...

RGNUL Patiala vice-chancellor (VC) Prof Paramjit Jaswal has ended his tenure of more than nine years today as a search process is ongoing for his permanent replacement.

At least two Indian law students have secured this year’s Rhodes Scholarship to study for a fully-funded postgraduate degree at Oxford University.

Albeit with significant delays, national law universities (NLUs) have started their first batches of the five-year LLB programmes with many hoping to catch up on the lost time due to the delayed Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) admissions by working through the first semester holidays.

JGLS journal JGLR joins Scopus J GLS Sonepat’s flagship faculty-edited journal, the Jindal Global Law Review (JGLR) , has been accepted into Elsevier’s online journals citation database Scopus. This makes JGLR one of 846 law journals part of Scopus (which has indexed more than 36,000 titles across a...

NLIU Bhopal has completed its very first Student Bar Association (SBA) elections - in the midst of a pandemic no less - appointing its first office bearers after finalising the long-fought-for student body’s constitution for several years.

Scoop: This will be the fifth time in 11 years that an Indian team has won the Lachs

All India Bar Exam 15 has yet another new timetable The 15th All India Bar Exam (AIBE) has been postponed yet again, this time to early 2021. Online registrations for AIBE XV, which is held in physical test centres, have been extended to 3 December 2020, with the exam slated for 24 January 2021, acc...