Following our report on 17 July of a particularly test-taker-unfriendly format in the first mock exam, the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) has tweaked its software for the second mock exam that has been made live today.

NLUJAA Guwahati vice-chancellor (VC) Prof JS Patil has vociferously denied and said he filed a counter-FIR over a sexual harassment FIR that had been reportedly been filed against him by neighbours, as first reported by local print (in Assamese) and TV news (see image above, in Assamese).

The LSAT-India sit-at-home online exam for law school aspirants, which started on Sunday (19 July) and has been continuing with testing sessions throughout the last week, has almost completed its run until this Sunday (26 July). And although it’s apparently not been without any hitches, those hitches may be useful lessons that should be heeded by the other bigger upcoming Covid-era law admissions tests.

Besides many Covid related decisions, a lot of other vital decisions need to be taken at NLU Delhi, argue the students*

The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2020 had rolled out its mock exams today to registered students and apparently it is still a work-in-progress that may take feedback of students’ on board.

Although NUJS had dropped a spot in NIRF: Its VC has taken note.*

I n a live Q&A on YouTube about the 2020 Common Law Admission Test (CLAT), one of the CLAT co-ordinators and NLSIU Bangalore vice chancellor Prof Sudhir Krishnaswamy, answered some questions and specifically why the CLAT did not opt for a proctored online exam to be taken at home, in contrast t...

Thanks to a dear reader, who has pointed out some interesting titbits in a recent online video interview of NLSIU Bangalore vice-chancellor (VC) Prof Sudhir Krishnaswamy, talking (a little bit) about the recent blockbuster faculty recruitments, a criticism of wider Indian legal academia and plans for NLS to become a pioneer in online legal education.

Nalsar Hyderabad academic dean and professor Amita Dhanda has been made professor emerita at the university by the executive council (EC), in order to focus on primarily on research and having been due to reach the mandated retirement age of 65 later this year.

The Delhi high court today declined to hear a petition challenging Karnataka’s NLSIU Bangalore reservation, argued by 2006 NLS graduate and Supreme Court advocate Shadan Farasat on behalf of Delhi-resident petitioner and Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) aspirant Shubham Kumar Jha, as first reported ...

The Cold War-esque rivalry between NLU Delhi’s All India Law Entrance Test (AILET) and all the other national law universities’ (NLUs) competing Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) has intensified, with the former directly implying that the latter’s plan to conduct the admissions test would be unsafe and against government policy, amidst the Covid-19 pandemic.

The mainstream press have reported over the last few weeks that OP Jindal Global University and its subsidiary law school, JGLS Sonepat, have launched 100 scholarships for students facing the economic and general fallout from Covid-19, dubbed “graduate research immersion scholarships” or more succinctly, GRIPS.

The NLU Delhi students fighting for the continued employment at NLU Delhi of up to 55 housekeeping staff, via a third party contractor, have made an emotional video appeal and a written rebuttal to the university’s claim that it had “taken a decision to help on a purely humanitarian basis” by making “arrangements of their employment in the nearby areas”.

Diverging approaches as the CLAT will play it more old-school with an in-person test while the smaller AILET emulates LSAT model with online proctored exam.*

NLSIU Bangalore’s executive council (EC) on Saturday signed off on its permanent faculty recruitments, which had been long-pending due to the EC having been repeatedly postponed due to Covid-19 after interviews had been carried out.

The Delhi High Court has temporarily stayed the 50% horizontal local domicile reservation that NLU Delhi had announced in January 2020, reported Livelaw today. The court directed the university to reverse the notification of the 50% reservation by issuing a new one its website, without the reservati...

NLSIU Bangalore is set to increase its intake from 80 students to up to 120, vice chancellor (VC) Prof Sudhir Krishnaswamy and registrar Prof Sarasu Esther Thomas said in an alumni video conference call today.

CLAT is overwhelmingly likely to remain an English CLAT this year though very few other things remain certain about it

Prof Prasannanshu appeals against NLUD VC selection process An NLU Delhi professor who had applied for the post of vice-chancellor (VC) has filed a writ petition in the Delhi high court over the selection process for VC, terming it “grossly illegal, arbitrary, unreasonable and not germane to the pri...

OP Jindal Global University (JGU), the parent organisation of its largest (law) college JGLS Sonepat, has entered into a sophisticated outsourcing deal with Goldman Sachs-owned student housing and services company Good Host Spaces (GHS), as first reported by Mint on 10 June (hat-tip to several of our commenters who alerted us to this somewhat old but nevertheless interesting piece of news).