The sixth Mooting Premier League, sponsored by Herbert Smith Freehills, has kicked off again, with NLIU Bhopal in an early lead after sweeping clean the Tier 4 Raj Anand moot.

The Bar Council of India (BCI) has directed law schools to forbid their students from undertaking internships outside of their university vacations.

Nalsar Hyderabad elected its first ever female Student Bar Council (SBC) president last month in the first ever direct presidential elections at the law school.

The Calcutta high court is hearing a writ petition by NUJS Kolkata registrar Surajit Mukhopadhyay against his suspension by vice chancellor Prof Ishwara Bhat, alleging bias and requesting reinstatement. Mukhopadaya was suspended last month after an inquiry committee report found facts “indicative of...

Candidates taking tomorrow’s All India Bar Exam (AIBE) in Jammu & Kashmir don’t have to turn up tomorrow because of heavy rain, said a notice on the official website: “Due to heavy rain in Jammu & Kashmir area, if any candidate is not able to appear for the AIBE-VII Examination on 7th Sep,...

The ministry of earth sciences has asked GNLU Gandhinagar and its director Dr Bimal Patel to draft two laws to regulate deep sea mining in India’s territorial waters and the Antarctic ocean, reported the Times of India.

Jindal Global Law School (JGLS) Sonepat now has more women in its faculty than men, claiming to be a more gender-equal law school than any other.

CNLU Patna’s class of 63 graduates this year has secured 17 named jobs, with only one through an internship via campus recruitments.

NLU Delhi bagged 16 Big Six law firm jobs out of 45 jobs secured by 73 graduates this year, through a mix of on campus and off campus interviews and pre placement offers (PPO).

NLSIU Bangalore and NLU Delhi held their convocations over the last week, with 14 other current and former judges invited to descend on Bangalore on Sunday, as Nalsar’s convocation earlier this month saw Indian president Pranab Mukherjee as chief guest . Law, communications and IT minister Ravi Shan...

Army Institute of Law Mohali placed 35 out of 80 students who graduated this year with the biggest chunk of the recruited class taking up corporate house roles, followed by Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) jobs.

NUJS Kolkata registrar Surajit Mukhopadaya was suspended today over allegations of financial impropriety that were raised by a judicial inquiry into NUJS and its management. Vice chancellor Ishwara Bhatt said that “the order of suspension has been delivered on the registrar”, and that Mukhopadaya wo...

RGNUL Patiala placed six out of 70 students who graduated this year with two law firms including Big Six firm JSA, a corporate house and an LPO.

Tamil Nadu National Law School Tiruchi has entered into a memorandum of understanding with NLU Delhi, signed by respective vice chancellors N Murugavel and Ranbir Singh, to exchange teachers and students. Murugavel said that Delhi faculty could teach the Tamil Nadu national law school’s students on ...

Chickenpox has shut down HNLU Raipur until 31 August 2014 to get the disease under control. The 850 students have been told to go home until then, reported the Times of India.

NLSIU Bangalore’s class of 77 graduates this year secured 42 jobs - 30 through campus, 11 via pre-placement offers (PPO) and one off campus by a student’s own initiative.

NLU Delhi registrar Prof Srikrishna Deva Rao will be appointed as NLUO Cuttack’s vice chancellor (VC).

Jindal Global Law School (JGLS) Sonepat move to take fingerprints of students for attendance has been criticised by a minority of students and faculty.

HNLU Raipur placed 30 29 out of 81 graduates in jobs this year, with more than half of them joining the Chhattisgarh Law & Legislative Ministry.

Only five candidates out of 160, or 3 per cent, have passed the latest Bombay Incorporated Law Society (BILS) solicitors exam. No first time test takers passed this time, said BILS examiner in charge Dawood Mandviwala, adding that out of the five who did pass, four had barely passed on the “border l...