JGLS Sonepat professor of law, Prof Pritam Baruah, is to join BML Munjal University as its new law dean after his predecessor in the position, Prof Nigam Nuggehalli, is expected to join NLSIU Bengaluru as its registrar soon.

NLSIU Bangalore has put out a call to recruit five permanent faculty members, for the first time since 2009, when vice chancellor Prof Venkat Rao had joined, with one permanent faculty having been recruited as long ago as in 2008.

Former Luthra & Luthra Delhi corporate partner Anil Kumar Rai will be joining NLU Delhi as a visiting professor.

Shamnad Basheer, the ministry of HRD chair professor in intellectual property law at NUJS Kolkata, has resigned after losing trust in vice chancellor (VC) Prof Ishwara Bhat.

NUJS Professor of law Manoj Kumar Sinha has been appointed as director of the Indian Law Institute (ILI) Delhi.

NLUO Cuttack allegedly terminated the services of six faculty members without notice.

Nalsar Hyderabad hired 14 full-timers & 16 non-permanent faculty members for ‘academic ambience’.

NLU Jodhpur hired three full time teachers and an academic associate in the last twelve months including one professor, one associate professor and one assistant professor.

NLU Delhi added five full time faculty, two visiting professors and three research associates to its teaching staff this academic year taking its total faculty strength to 44, while continuing the drive to recruit young faculty by offering salaries more attractive to foreign university LLM holders.