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CLAT upper age limit to remain unchanged despite Allahabad HC judgment

The 20-year age limit to appear in the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) remains unaffected by the Allahabad high court judgment of May 2014, in which the court had noted that there can be no such restriction since the Bar Council of India (BCI) had already scrapped the maximum age limit on undergrad...

NLU Delhi students debate whether to serve buff & pork in mess

NLU Delhi students are currently debating introducing buffalo and pork meat in its mess food menu, after the mess committee proposed the move for “diversity” in the menu, and invited student comments. The law school’s unofficial student newspaper Glasnost states in a post from yesterday: In a histor...

Ailet, NLU Delhi’s micro-CLAT, pre-empts CLAT announcement: Fixed for 3 May 2015

NLU Delhi will conduct the All India Law Entrance Test (AILET) 2015 on 3 May, for admission to its LLB, LLM and PhD programs. NLU Delhi does not participate in the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) for admission to one of 16 participating national law universities. The date for CLAT 2015 has not been...

Shamnad Basheer wins Rs 55 lakh Infosys Prize (+22 karat gold medal)

Shamnad Basheer has won the Infosys Science Foundation 2014 prize in the humanities category today. The former NUJS Kolkata MHRD chair professor for intellectual property (IP), founder of the Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access (IDIA) initiative and the SpicyIP blog, was awarded the prize “for...

Nalsar makes first MPL impact, wins 4th Amity Int’l Moot vs NLU Orissa

MPL 6: Rocking it.
MPL 6: Rocking it.
The team from Nalsar Hyderabad bested NLU Odisha at the 4th Amity International Moot Court Competition last month.

DU alum DHC judge issues notice to BCI over DU disaffiliation

The Delhi High Court Wednesday sought responses of the Bar Council of India (BCI) and Delhi Bar Council (DBC) on a plea challenging the regulator’s order barring DU law graduates from being enrolled as advocates. Justice Manmohan issued notices to BCI, DBC, Delhi University (DU) and its Faculty of L...

BCI blinks, allows DU grads to provisionally enrol, pending final call

The Bar Council of India (BCI) yesterday notified Delhi University that it’s graduates would be allowed to enroll provisionally as lawyers, in a letter sent under the BCI’s previous chairman Biri Singh Sinsinwar, who was replaced on Saturday by his predecessor Manan Kumar Mishra, reported the PTI . ...

[CORRECTION]: SC declines to interfere with HC's bail of NUJS assistant registrar in molestation case

Supreme Court justices SJ Mukhopadhaya and NV Ramana have set aside declined to interfere with a Calcutta high court order that declined to cancel the bail of former NUJS Kolkata assistant registrar Siddhartha Guha, who is accused of having sexually harassed another staff member at the college, repo...

CLAT in Hindi this year? Find out why a CLAT online & in Hindi could be ‘disastrous’

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Hindi
The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2015 question paper may have Hindi translations of all questions, below their English language versions, reported Times of India.

CLAT 2015: 12 new test centres & states, INSTANT results, new preferences & 6 top questions answered

Instant results
Instant results
Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2015: 12 new test cities including in states which never had CLAT test cities, has changed the university preferences system for candidates and has proposed to change the question paper pattern for LLM candidates.

NLUs enter into new CLAT MoU, ensuring full participation of all 16 NLUs (except NLU Delhi)

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New CLAT er
All Indian national law universities (NLU) except NLU Delhi are now entitled to conduct the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) by rotation every year, according to the terms of a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by 16 NLUs on Saturday.

CLAT 2015: All you want to know about the ‘amazing’ new ‘controversy-free’ online CLAT (and how it will actually work)

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The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2015 comes in a new package: we tell you what’s in it.

Confirmed: CLAT 2015 to be sat online

RMLNLU Lucknow, the convenor of the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2015, will conduct it online, reported the Times of India . Every step in the exam from filling the examination form to submitting the fee will be online, according to the resolution of the CLAT core committee meeting held on Satur...

Revealed: Nalsar had ‘better’ 2014 recruitments than NLS, while NUJS tied for 3rd with NLU-D (others lagged…)

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Law school power rankings
Nalsar Hyderabad performed better than all national law schools, including NLSIU Bangalore, in finding placements for its 2013-14 graduates of its class of 2014, according to Legally India’s new rating of law schools recruitment results.

Planned: NLU aspirants to sit CLAT 2015 online via computer

CLAT 2015 online?
CLAT 2015 online?
The next Common Law Admissions Test (CLAT) in 2015 is likely to be sat by candidates online, according to a number of reports.

Nalsar appoints Prof Balakista Reddy as registrar to replace Assam-bound Vijender Kumar

Reddy Nalsar Hyderabad has appointed Prof (Dr) Balakista Reddy as its registrar on 18 October, replacing Prof Vijender Kumar who took up NLUJAA Guwahati’s vice chancellorship . Reddy is the college’s head of the centre for air and space law, the course coordinator for the international trade and bus...

NLSIU takes 13 MPL points after bested by HNLU in BR Sawhney Moot

MPL 6: Rocking it.
MPL 6: Rocking it.
HNLU Raipur has won the 8th Nalsar Justice Bodh Raj Sawhney Memorial Moot Court Competition 2014, besting NLSIU Bangalore.

Nuals gets Jamia Prof Rose Varghese as VC, will have to deal with financial irregularity allegations

Nuals Kochi has selected Jamia Milia Islamia professor Dr Rose Varghese as its new vice chancellor (VC), reported Live Law . The law school confirmed that Varghese would assume the VC’s office next week, while the search committee for the selection of the registrar is still in process. Varghese enro...

IDIA scholar due to represent NUJS at Vis East moot

IDIA diversity initiative scholar and NUJS Kolkata third-year student Shivam was selected to represent the law school at the 12th William C Vis (East) International Commercial Arbitration Moot, after he secured the third rank in NUJS’ intra university moot selection rounds. Having represented NUJS a...

DU to merge all 3 law campuses into one as students demand better infra at BCI inspection

The Delhi University (DU) has submitted a proposal to the Delhi high court for construction of a single campus for the three law schools under its umbrella that are currently operating from separate buildings, reported The Hindu and others. The new building, 75 per cent of which is allegedly ready, ...