The IDIA diversity initiative’ second national aptitude test (I-NAT) has scaled up to 19 test centres, aiming to reach more than 400 schools across the country to select students from non-traditional backgrounds to take the Common Law Admissions Test (CLAT) and enter top national law schools.

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).

The Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access to Legal Education (IDIA) project is offering free preparation courses for the Common Law Admissions Test (CLAT) to 1,000 students with limited financial means across 12 cities.

Akshima Sarathi, a 4th year student of NALSAR, Hyderabad has won the cash prize of rupees 3 lacs for the ‘ most legally reasoned ’ student award. OK Stop! This was false news (with balls?). Anyway, if legal reasoning is your forte and if you liked playing with the LST’s legal reasoning module, the I...

Ashish Alexander, a 2nd year law student at NUJS, Kolkata has won the IDIA Logo Designing Competition . Not only has Ashish given IDIA, its emblem; he has in the process also won the prize money of 5000/-. IDIA congratulates Ashish on his superlative effort. Here is the idea behind the IDIA logo: “T...

IDIA teams are free from bureaucratic controls and institutional requirements. It is a volunteer based movement which any socially motivated law student can initiate at his/her Law College. Here is a brief primer: 1. Read the concept note on IDIA (Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access to Legal E...

For a firm that first made its name as a capital markets boutique, the fact that that S&R Associates did not have an office in India’s financial capital was always glaring.

The IDIA (Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access to Legal Education) project, conceptualised and spearheaded by Prof. Shamnad Basheer (IPR Chair Professor, NUJS) aims to address the concern of NLUs becoming elitist. IDIA endeavours to help students from rural areas, poor backgrounds, vernancular ...

The law ministry, law firms Krishnamurthy and Co, Trilegal and Wadia Ghandy, CLAT coaching institute IMS and law schools NLSIU Bangalore and NUALS Cochin have pledged financial or other support for NUJS Kolkata professor Shamnad Basheer’s project to increase diversity in the legal profession, which visits poorer rural secondary school students to train and encourage them to apply to top law schools.