GNLU Gandhinagar is organising a National Conference on Surrogacy: Issues & Challenges on 17 September 2011.

Exclusive: NUJS Kolkata vice chancellor Mahendra Pal Singh, who is due to retire on 30 November to pursue personal legal writing projects, said his successor should have a strong academic background while also having to be deal with infrastructure and other problems at the college.

Only 69 per cent of 11,752 bar exam test takers managed to clear the second All India Bar Exam (AIBE), as only 56 per cent of those re-taking the test for the second time managed to clear.

Exclusive: NLSIU Bangalore graduate and 2010 Rhodes scholar V Niranjan has bagged the prestigious Vinerian Scholarship after topping 140 students in Oxford University’s Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) – a “simply outstanding” course, in his words.

In 2003 Indian mooting reached new heights as a young team from NUJS Kolkata won the prestigious Willem C Vis Moot at Vienna. NUJS was a nascent law school then and Mithun V Thanks helps us recollect old memories as he shares thoughts on the role of mooting in building character and confidence.

Project Cloud’s latest calls for papers in August for college law journals, governance, feminism, the Ministry of Finance, GLC Mumbai’s Nani Palkhiwala Memorial Research and more.

On the day of the second All India Bar Exam (AIBE) today PTI reported at least 500 lawyers protested outside one of two exam halls in Chennai, where the first exam in March had to be cancelled due to unrest.

Exclusive: At least 41 final year NUJS Kolkata students in a 2012 graduating batch of around 95 have secured office-based jobs, including three training contracts abroad and numerous offers from Amarchand, Trilegal, Luthra and AZB and Bharucha.

In 1999 NLSIU Bangalore student Sapna Khajuria was part of the very first Indian law school team to win the so-called World Cup of Mooting. But she swears that mooting has meant more to her successful career before and after graduation than just CV points.

India’s first successful ‘SlutWalk’ aka ‘Besharmi Morcha’ to create awareness about sexual harassment was held and organised by law students amongst others in Bhopal on 17 July and will be followed by Delhi next on 31 July.

India Today magazine has ranked Nalsar Hyderabad as the best law school in the country followed by NLSIU Bangalore in second spot, with the magazine citing the college’s two consecutive wins in Legally India’s Mooting Premier League (MPL) as a factor.

The Bar Council of India (BCI) said today that over 13,000 candidates applied to take the second All India Bar Exam (AIBE), which is set to take place on 24 July after it was postponed by a month in May.

The latest essay competitions and calls for papers, including the Michigan Journal of PE and VC Law, courtesy of Project Cloud.

RGNUL Patiala’s 2011 graduating students are only now starting to secure the first ‘desk jobs’ after serious delays now being rectified by the college’s new vice chancellor, who only recently joined from HNLU Raipur.

Jharkhand’s new National University of Study and Research in Law (NUSRL) Ranchi could become one of the best law schools in India in the next two to three years, predicted NUSRL’s dean-in-charge of faculty Alok Kumar Gupta.

As the government has constituted a new taskforce to enforce implementation of access to the Right to Information, research by Infocracy India suggests that most law schools are not complying with the law.

National magazine Outlook India has ranked four national law schools as India’s best law colleges followed by two private Pune schools but following a spat with the magazine last year, NUJS Kolkata declined to provide data and was not included in the list while NLU Jodhpur re-entered this year in fourth place.

Eleven students out of 50 trained by the Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access to Legal Education (IDIA) program have been selected to join various national law universities (NLUs).

Exclusive analysis: NLSIU Bangalore still topped preferences among 2011 Common Law Admissions Test (CLAT) takers but NUJS Kolkata made up ground to second-most-popular Nalsar Hyderabad with eight going against convention. Plus, Legally India’s new Super 30 shows NLU Jodhpur on par with NLIU Bhopal.

Exclusive: Sixty-five Amity Law School Delhi graduates have secured ‘desk job’ offers out of a batch of 136 students, with 11 additional law firm jobs still to be confirmed after interviews.