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NLSIU Bangalore Masters of Public Policy (MPP) student Priyansh Khandelwal had drowned in a tragic accident, with his body having been recovered this morning.

RGNUL Patiala students have been trying in vain for more than eight months to obtain the report in the hard-won inquiry against university staffer SP Singh, with the Punjab and Haryana high court’s Right to Information (RTI) first appellate authority having on 18 February 2020 rejected that it needed to provide the document.

Two Indian law schools, NLSIU Bangalore and JGLS Sonepat, have for the first time found a place on the global QS World University Rankings by subject, law in the 100 to 200 ranks out of 894 law schools globally.

T he Karnataka high court has ordered NLSIU Bangalore not to finalise the first permanent recruitment of faculty in 12 years, which we had reported on 1 February . According to Bar & Bench , high court Justice SG Pandit had passed an interim, ex parte order on 14 February that: The respondent n...

JGLS Sonepat has hired 104 faculty members in its law school starting in January 2020 improving its student-faculty ratio from 12:1 to 9:1, hot on the heels of the the grant of Institution of Eminence (IoE) status to it in September.

Scoop: The last attempt to hire permanent faculty in 2017, was scuppered by the high court

The Karnataka state government has said it would table the NLSIU Bangalore 25% state quota bill on 17 February, and added that it kind of expected the university to also reserve another 22.5% of seats to Karnataka resident SC/ST (scheduled caste and tribe students). “Apart from the 25% reservation, ...

As the latest national law school (NLU) to make major concessions to its state government, NLU Delhi is introducing a 50% state domicile reservation for the upcoming applications, held via the All India Law Entrance Test (AILET) on 3 May 2020.

The Delhi high court has disposed of a 2019 writ petition challenging the appointment of NLU Delhi Prof Mrinal Satish as chairperson of the Delhi Judicial Academy (DJA), after Satish left and rejoined NLU Delhi in order to teach again.

U pping the ante, a Bangalore-based association of advocates is lobbying the state law minister for NLSIU Bengaluru to have a 50% domicile quota, rather than the 25% that the cabinet has recently signed off on . According to the letter ( full copy here ), as published by Livelaw , this is not the fi...

NLU Odisha also goes horizontal reservations way N LU Odisha general council has announced on Saturday that it would reserve 25% of its seats for state residents for both its post- and undergraduate law degrees, up from around 21.7% in its current undergraduate prospectus and around 24% in its curre...

T he Karnataka state government cabinet has signed off on the long-pending bill to set aside 25% of seats at NLSIU Bangalore for students from the state, according to a number of reports, following recent similar moves in West Bengal. Law minister JC Madhuswamy said in a press conference that prospe...

Around 30 NLSIU Bengaluru students had been detained by local police earlier today between 11am to 530pm, alongside NLS professor Kunal Ambasta and (non-NLS) historian Ramachandra Guha, after protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).

Following a joint statement by the elected student representative bodies of eight national law university, opposing a police crackdown on student protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) 2019, the NLSIU Bangalore student body as a whole has passed an “unequivocal condemnation” of the police’s “assault on the rule of law, morality and democratic ethos and tradition that is fundamental to dignified living” (see picture above).

Could nationalised NLUs actually become a reality? B JP Member of Parliament and advocate Meenakshi Lekhi is to introduce a private member’s bill in the Lok Sabha tomorrow, entitled… wait for it… the National Law Universities Bill 2019. According to the list of business for 6 December 2019 (PDF, pag...

Several law schools swept up the honours to be named the cleanest universities in the land, at least, according to the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) in its now annual Swachhata Ranking Awards, honouring 48 universities and colleges for being tidy, generally hygienic and having great student-toilet ratios.

The Human Resources Development (HRD) Ministry has told parliament that in August it had approved setting up an independent body dubbed India Rankings Society (IRS) , which would “develop and evolve methodologies and system for ranking of higher educational institutions and based on such methodologi...

NLU Delhi, its registrar Prof GS Bajpai and vice chancellor (VC) Prof Ranbir Singh are facing a public interest litigation (PIL) in the Delhi high court dramatically alleging “rampant abuse of public office and nepotism in admission and appointment”, as first reported by Bar & Bench on Friday.

The search committee for the new vice chancellor (VC) of NLU Delhi is likely to meet early next month, according to a source with knowledge of the process.