Exclusive: Nalsar Hyderabad’s student council has secured funds to upgrade sporting facilities in preparation for the college’s debut inter-college sports fest by next year to join the ranks of NLSIU Bangalore, NUJS Kolkata, NLU Jodhpur, NLIU Bhopal, RMLNLU Lucknow and GLC Mumbai that all have inter-college sports fests.

Mint exclusive: The Bar Council of India has retained the power to recognize law schools across India, as it emerged from a meeting with the ministry of human resource development (HRD) on Tuesday.

Almost 18 mooting colleges agreed to judge moots on a common scale, make quarter- and octa-finals compulsory for larger moots, team power matching, although law schools could did not agree to make moots majority ruled by judges of at least High Court level.

Jindal Global Law School (JGLS) Sonipat defeated National Taiwan University in the finals of the ELSA WTO Asian rounds. Symbiosis Law School, Noida beat NLIU Bhopal in the finals of the Pro Bono Enviro Moot at SOEL Chennai. RMLNLU Lucknow overcame Leiden University in the finals of the The Leiden-Sarin International Air Law Moot Court Competition.

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Exclusive: Nalsar Hyderabad registrar Dr Madabhushi Sridhar Acharyulu will be replaced as registrar by Nalsar’s Prof KVS Sarma, Sridhar was told by the college’s vice chancellor’s (VC) office today. The college’s new VC is yet to take up the reins.

CNLU Patna defeated Campus Law Centre Delhi in the finals of the 28^th Bar Council of India Moot hosted by NLU Delhi. Nalsar Hyderabad and Symbiosis Law School Pune finished semi-finalists in this Tier 3 MPL moot.

Exclusive: NLU Cuttack Orissa (NLUO) vice chancellor (VC) professor Faizan Mustafa has been selected to become the VC at Nalsar Hyderabad for the next five years according to four authoritative sources, after the selection committee deliberated until nearly midnight yesterday (11 March).

In the Amity Moot Court Competition, GLC Mumbai got the better of NLU Jodhpur, but the best speaker and the best researcher awards in the moot took NLU Jodhpur 18 points ahead of NLU Delhi into second position.

Exclusive: Ten contenders for the post of vice chancellor (VC) at Nalsar Hyderabad have been short listed to appear before Nalsar chancellor and Andhra Pradesh High Court Chief Justice Madan B Lokur and the VC selection committee.

NUJS Kolkata defeated Nalsar Hyderabad in the final rounds of the NLU Antitrust moot. GNLU Gandhinagar and NLIU Bhopal finished semifinalists in the moot.

The original story was wrong as Legally India had relied on wrong information on a third party site. The number of law school aspirants in India has increased by 25 per cent against last year, with 30,000 test takers registered to sit for the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2012 for LLB programmes, with nearly a month of sign-ups still to go.

NLIU Bhopal recently organised internal practice moots for the prestigious Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration moot with Arizona State University USA & Osgoode Hall Law School, Canada through video conferencing.

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Jindal Global Law School defeated RGNUL Patiala in the final rounds of the ULC Bangalore moot.

Exclusive: Retired Supreme Court Justice AK Ganguly and the vice chancellor (VC) of RGNUL Patiala and the director of National Judicial Academy (NJA) Bhopal, have been appointed to the committee to recommend a new vice chancellor (VC) for Nalsar Hyderabad.

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Jindal Global Law School (JGLS) Sonipat has partnered with Indiana University’s Maurer School of Law in the US to conduct dual degree programmes offering a US Juris Doctorate (JD) in addition to Jindal’s BA LLB or LLB degree, cutting down on the duration of the regular JD course.

receiving the award from Justic9 Gyansudha Misra (click to enlarge)“)Nalsar Hyderabad defeated SOEL Chennai at the 27^th Bar Council of India Moot hosted by Nirma University at Ahmedabad. CUSAT Kochi got past ILS Pune in the final rounds of the Surana & Surana International Technology Law Moot.