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BCI accredited one new law school every 3 days, as 92 new colleges mushroomed in 2014

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The Bar Council of India (BCI) affiliated 92 new law colleges in nine months last year, according to the law ministry’s 2014-2015 annual report.

Nalsar Hyderabad 2016 batch wins 35-39 jobs after successful Day Zero

Nalsar Hyderabad has placed 39 out of 81 students with confirmed jobs after its Day Zero of recruitment on 11 and 12 April.

New Day Zero record: NUJS 4th years bag 40 (!) jobs + 4 foreign gigs (Khaitan biggest)

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NUJS
NUJS Kolkata has set a new Day Zero record, with 40 students having accepted jobs after kicking off its 2016-batch campus recruitments on 17 and 18 April.

Nalsar, NLU Jodhpur, Jindal triumph in historic Jessup mooting world cup performance

MPL 6: Rocking it.
MPL 6: Rocking it.
NALSAR, NLU Jodhpur, JGLS and NLSIU, which represented India at the world rounds of the 56th Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot, made the country proud with two teams breaking into the last sixteen (one finishing as quarterfinalist), seven speakers finishing in the top 100 oralists and three teams winning top memorandum awards.

JGLS Sonepat students allegedly blackmailed, raped another Jindal student over 2-year-period

A female student from OP Jindal University in Sonipat has filed a criminal complaint of rape against three law students of Jindal Global Law School (JGLS), which is part of the same university, DNA reported. She alleged that since August 2013 one student had blackmailed her into having sexual interc...

HNLU Raipur VC Prof Sukh Pal Singh term extended till 2020 by chancellor without search committee

HNLU Raipur vice chancellor (VC) Prof Sukh Pal Singh’s term as VC was renewed until 2020.

NLU Jodhpur extends lead after Vis Vienna, as NLS out in semis, ILS in quarters | RGNUL wins Palkhivala tax moot

MPL 6: Rocking it.
MPL 6: Rocking it.
NLU Jodhpur has extended its lead in the Mooting Premier League (MPL) 6 sponsored by Herbert Smith Freehills after winning 30 points at the Vis Vienna moot that saw strong Indian performances.

GNLU bags 24 top tier BigLaw jobs after its Day Zero yesterday, as (Cyril) Amarchand hires 12 to overtake Khaitan as biggest Day Zero hirer

GNLU Gandhinagar has already placed a total of 24 students on its Day Zero held yesterday, out of a batch of 155, of whom 115 took part in the recruitment process.

NLIU’s top-secret Day Zero yields 22 jobs from BigLaw, JSA, ICICI for 50% of eligible students

NLIU Bhopal’s 2016 batch’s first day of recruitment, held on Friday 3 April, bagged at least 23 accepted job offers from five recruiters.

NLSIU sews up 33 Day Zero jobs & PPOs, 4 foreign internships [UPDATE]

NLSIU Bangalore’s 2016 batch successfully closed its first round of campus recruitments yesterday (2 April), one day after NLU Delhi, managing to secure 33 jobs already for 48 students taking part in campus recruitment activities.

20 BigLaw jobs & 4 foreign internships in the bag for NLU Delhi 4th years after early Day Zero

NLU Delhi
NLU Delhi
NLU Delhi’s 2016 graduating batch has bagged 20 jobs from nearly all of India’s top firms after holding one of the first recruitment interview days out of all national law schools.

Homegrown Indian academic citation standard gets acceptance by Harvard Law School

The Standard Indian Legal Citation (SILC) standard has been recognised by Harvard Law School as one of six citation standards and the only citation manual from Asia. The style which had been accepted by around 32 law schools in 2014 shortly after its launch, as reported by Legally India at the time ...

CLAT age limit may yet return as convenor withdraws SC appeal to allow high court challenge

CLAT 2015 convenor RMLNLU Lucknow’s vice chancellor Prof Gurdip Singh said that the convenor was ready to approach the Allahabad high court for recall or review of its 26 February ex parte judgement.

Law gets more sexy again by 20 to 54%: 40k already applied for CLATs 15 days before extended deadline

Legally Sexy
Legally Sexy
The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2015 will be attempted by at least 40,000 candidates vying for scarce undergraduate and postgraduate places, which is 20 per cent more than the 33,491 total CLAT takers last year.

NLU Jodhpur dethrones NLS, NLU-Delhi in MPL after scoring high at Vis East, Price Media & Red Cross moots

MPL 6: Rocking it.
MPL 6: Rocking it.
NLU Jodhpur has dethroned NLU Delhi and NLS from their long standing top spots at MPL 6 standing. NLSIU, with its splendid performance, now ranks 2nd followed by NLU D which slipped to the 3rd place.

NLSIU catches up within 1 point of NLU Delhi in MPL rankings, NLIU Bhopal 3rd, after heavy action in Jodhpur, Raisoni, Oxford & Frankfurt

MPL 6: Rocking it.
MPL 6: Rocking it.
With NLSIU Bangalore winning the Oxford IP moot, the difference between NLU Delhi and NLSIU has now been reduced to 1 point in the Mooting Premier League (MPL) 6 sponsored by Herbert Smith Freehills.

NLU Delhi ‘sexist pig’-placard-ers vs Abhish Mathew: Protest was legitimate, reactions hostile, dialogue heartening

Abhish Mathew: Sexist pig or hand sanitiser?
Abhish Mathew: Sexist pig or hand sanitiser?
The NLU Delhi students who protested a stand-up comedy act by Abhish Mathew on campus, which attracted considerable media attention and controversy, have written an open letter signed by 15 students and supporters defending their right to protest, even if it disrupted the performer.

NLU Delhi students protest 'sexist pig' campus comedy show, FoE debate ensues

Scroll reported: A comedy performance by Abish Mathew at the National Law University in Delhi on Sunday took a funny turn. Fifteen minutes into the act, a group of female protesters showed him the finger and walked out of the audience. Soon after, they returned with more people and a placard reading...

CIC orders BCI to publish all past All India Bar Exam (AIBE) question papers online

“The Central Information Commission has directed the Bar Council of India to proactively post on its website the question papers and keys of the All India CIC Bar Examination for the benefit of young lawyers,” reported the PTI . Information Commissioner Sridhar Acharyulu said: It is reported that ar...

NLSIU takes 2nd, NLU-O 5th in Mooting Premier League after NUJS-HSF, ULC moots

MPL 6: Rocking it.
MPL 6: Rocking it.
In the mooting stakes NLU Delhi is still on top, as NLSIU Bangalore now stands at the second spot leaving NLU Jodhpur in third spot. NLU Orissa has climbed up to 5th spot followed by Nalsar Hyderabad and NUJS Kolkata.