The cost of a five-year national law university (NLU) course has risen to record levels this year, particularly at the newer NLUs, where the total fees to educate a lawyer come to as much as Rs.2.47 lakh per year, dwarfing the fees charged by the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs).

The Hindu reported that Tamil Nadu-based National Law School Srirangam vice chancellor N Murugavel has resigned long before the end of his three-year term, despite him having “pooled his professional and administrative experience to build the school from scratch since the day he assumed office. Howe...

Himachal Pradesh will build a National Law University (NLU) in Ghanahatti near Shimla for Rs 400 crore, according to Himachal Pradesh high court chief justice Mansoor Ahmed Mir, reported the PTI . He said that an ordinance would be passed soon, followed by a bill in the state assembly, which would c...

NLU Mumbai will start classes this year from its temporary campus in Jogeshwari with an annual budget of around Rs 10 crore, planning to admit 60 students through its independent entrance test.

NLU Mumbai, the only one of three national law schools to be established in Maharashtra that previously appeared to be on schedule after appointing vice-chancellor Bhavani Prasad Panda , has been plagued by bureaucratic roadblocks, reported the DNA . The university would be unlikely to be able to of...

Vice chancellors (VC) of the 16 Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) participants, on 1 November, agreed to form a “national law university consortium” to regularly discuss and address academic and other issues facing NLUs. RMLNLU Lucknow VC Gurdip Singh told Legally India that a sub-committee consistin...

All Indian national law universities (NLU) except NLU Delhi are now entitled to conduct the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) by rotation every year, according to the terms of a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by 16 NLUs on Saturday.

The upcoming Maharastra National Law University (MNLU) Mumbai, has reportedly appointed its first vice chancellor, according to the Times of India . The paper reported that Bhavani Prasad Panda, a Berhampur University law professor, “has written at least five books on human rights, environment law a...

The one-year LLM degree is here to stay, according to a new University Grants Commission (UGC) note published on Tuesday, to clarify its earlier 5 July notification that raised eyebrows.

DSNLU Vishakhapatnam students were set off on an indefinite protest after a July order by the Andhra Pradesh government purporting to set up a “Nalsar type” national law university (NLU) in the state, reported the New Indian Express . After the split of Telangana from Andhra Pradesh Nalsar Hyderabad...

Question marks surround the 5 July University Grants Commission (UGC) notification that appeared to raise a death knell for the new one-year LLM degree and the five-year integrated LLB degree.

As Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2014 convenor GNLU Gandhinagar increased CLAT counselling process “administrative charges” tenfold since last year, candidates left in the lurch are calling the increase a “loot” and a “scam”. GNLU and the CLAT committee would now retain Rs 10,000 as administrativ...

Wadia Ghandy has promoted eight of its lawyers in Mumbai to partnership, including one 2008 NLIU Bhopal graduate and a 2006 NUJS Kolkata graduate.

The Delhi high court has agreed to wait for a three-judge Supreme Court committee’s decision on review of its policy of selection of judicial clerks.

NLU Nagpur almost done : The National Law University Nagpur cleared another hurdle with the Maharashtra government taking the ordinance route to set it up and the cabinet approving the ordinance. Once the draft of the ordinance is sent to the governor for promulgation, the way would be clear to appo...

The Delhi high court today issued notice in the Supreme Court’s letters patent appeal against the 16 December decision by a single Delhi high court judge that the apex court’s method of selecting judicial clerks was unconstitutional.

Supreme Court judicial clerkships may no longer remain the preserve of national law schools and select universities after the Delhi high court today ruled as unconstitutional the Supreme Court’s current procedure of inviting applications for the clerkships.

SC Singhvi retires, leaves legacy The Supreme Court’s justice GS Singhvi, most famous for his stern treatment of the 2G and the land acquisition cases, retired today just after overturned the progressive Delhi HC judgment that had decriminalised homosexuality [ The Hindu ] Madras HC advocates for Ga...

Nagpur wins NLS Maharashtra clearance: The proposal for **“**Maharashtra National Law University” (as it will be called) to be based in Nagpur was cleared yesterday by the Maharasthra state cabinet. The government has earmarked a reduced capital grant of Rs 125 crore (from Rs 204 crore) for the NLS,...

Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) has entered into associations with NLS, NUJS, Nalsar, NLU Jodhpur and Delhi so far.