NUJS Kolkata has reclaimed third place from NLU Jodhpur in the Mooting Premier League (MPL) as it qualified from the ELSA WTO Asia Rounds last Friday in Taiwan, alongside Amity Law School (IP University, Delhi), which defeated Renmin University China.

Exclusive: Dismissed NLSIU Bangalore faculty member Sidharth Chauhan is currently in talks to join Nalsar Hyderabad in June for the start of the next academic session.

ILS Pune beat NLSIU Bangalore in the finals of the fourth NLU Jodhpur Antitrust Law Moot Court Competition held last weekend between 8 and 10 March.

ILS Pune’s class of 2012 has reportedly seen only 20 placements so far for 105 total students, reported the Indian Express. The 131-strong batch of 2011 apparently secured 60 jobs, plummeting from 2008’s 100% result. Veteran ILS campus placements-visitor ONGC allegedly complained of a decline in stu...

Exclusive: While the Bar Council of India (BCI) has not yet released the complete results of the fourth All India Bar Examination (AIBE) held on 9 December, the regulator has decided to consider the complaints of December’s AIBE’s examinees.

Nalsar Hyderabad has turned a new leaf on the dramatic events of last year that culminated in the resignation of its then-vice chancellor (VC). An investigation by the Andhra Pradesh bar council has now exonerated senior faculty members who were alleged to have enjoyed financial and administrative privileges under the previous administration, while the controversial post of dean of academic affairs has been abolished, and Prof Vijender Kumar has been appointed as registrar.

Symbiosis Law School Pune beat GNLU Gandhinagar in the finals of the GH Raisoni Moot in Nagpur from 22 to 24 February 2013.

NLSIU Bangalore’s registrar of four years Prof V Nagaraj was today appointed as the new vice-chancellor (VC) of NLU Orissa (NLUO) Cuttack.

NLSIU Bangalore alum Sidharth Chauhan, who was dismissed from his temporary faculty position at the law school last month, wrote an open letter to the NLSIU community on Friday alleging that his dismissal was “a warning meant to discourage other members of the faculty and administrative staff from asking difficult questions”.

NLU Jodhpur replaced NUJS Kolkata in third place of the Mooting Premier League this weekend after the NUJS Herbert Smith Freehills Corporate Law Moot that was won by CLC Delhi, while Nuals Kochi emerged victorious from Amity Delhi’s 12^th flagship moot.

MPL 4: Where Indian mooting lives NUJS Kolkata’s moot court committee members Nidhi Rao & Arunima Chatterjee are liveblogging this year’s NUJS – Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) Corporate Law Moot Court Competition . Click here to read the blow-by-blow account of 20 top law schools testing their c...

Exclusive: NLU Orissa (NLUO) Cuttack has whittled down the final shortlist of candidates from which it will select the university’s next vice-chancellor (VC), two months after outgoing VC Chandra Krishnamurthy resigned.

Breaking: Nalsar Hyderabad yesterday agreed on the final course structure for the first one-year LLM degree in India, which was in principle approved by the University Grants Commission in September 2012 after long delays.

The High Court of Gujarat on Friday reversed most of its October 2012 decision that had favoured five GNLU Gandhinagar students who were forced to repeat a year at the university, however, it agreed with the earlier ruling that unexplained “goodness marks” required by the university to pass a year were illegal.

Exclusive: The High Court (HC) of Delhi today said that the Supreme Court’s public information officer (PIO) could not refuse to disclose the SC’s judicial clerks’ selection procedure under a Right to Information (RTI) request because there was a pending writ that challenged the same procedure.

ILS Law College Pune, Bharti Vidyapeeth Deemed University New Law College Pune, Symbiosis Law School Pune, KLE Bangalore, and NLSIU Bangalore were felicitated by the Bar Council of India (BCI) on 16 February as “outstanding” law colleges in India. The BCI’s chairman Manan Kumar Mishra felicitated th...

Two moots last weekend: The Tier 4 Surana Corporate Law Moot and the Tier 5 ULC Bangalore Moot, seeing an all-Gujarati final and newbie winners respectively.

MS University Vadodara’s law faculty head was arrested for obstructing a public servant on duty and causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means, after he allegedly smeared itching powder on the vice chancellor’s (VC) chair. The incident was speculated to be an act of revenge by the faculty head – Gha...

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Slim pickings for Indian teams this mooting weekend, as none managed to beat their foreign rivals in Mumbai and Gandhinagar. But Symbiosis won its first MPL 4 moot in Kerala, and NLU Jodhpur will face Vanderbilt Law School from the US this afternoon in the quarter finals of the ICC International Commercial Mediation Competition.