Articles tagged with: NLU Delhi
NLU Delhi students challenge 50% state reservation before HC
NLU Delhi pushes AILET admissions exam all the way to 9 August, to ‘explore’ online proctored possibilities
NLU Delhi’s All India Law Entrance Test (AILET) has been postponed for the second time, now to be held on 9 August 2020, according to a notification on NLU Delhi’s website (see above).
NLU Delhi’s AILET postpones exam to 31 May, 6 days after larger sibling
‘Save my academic session’: Law school VCs grapple with e-learning, tech, anticipating long-term corona lockdowns
Indian law schools have been trying - and in some cases struggling - to convert tuition to online learning courses in the wake of most having shut down physical tuition to attempt to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19).
NLU Delhi starts 50% Delhi state domicile reservations, following wider NLU balkanisation trend
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.
Writ over DJA director appointment of Mrinal Satish infructuous, disposed post return to NLU-D
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.
CAA round-up: 30 NLS students, 1 prof, 4 Nalsarites detained by cops • Law firm shuts shop • Statements galore + more NUJS, MNLU student politics • ...
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).
Three law schools amongst 48 cleanest colleges in India out of 6,900 (!): MHRD rankings
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.
Claims & counter-claims analysed: NLU Delhi threatens perjury against petitioners challenging registrar GS Bajpai appointment
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.
Mrinal Satish to return to NLU Delhi from DJA (but not as VC), as searchers to convene next month • 1 NLS grad in running
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.
NLU Delhi students publish wishlist for new VC: Should tick usual boxes, ‘foster trust’ with student body
A number of students collectively calling themselves “Students’ Body National Law University Delhi” sent an email to Singh, the VC and the convenor of the VC selection committee, with a three-page attachment outlining what they would like from a new VC.
NLU Delhi (LLM Pro) grad Dushyant Chautala becomes deputy CM of Haryana
Dushyant Chautala, a 2018 LLM (Professional) graduate of NLU Delhi, has become deputy chief minister of the state of Haryana, as possibly the first national law university (post-)graduate to have done so.
NLU Delhi puts out JD for new VC (and you don’t need to have been Prof for a decade to apply)
As we had first reported late last month, NLU Delhi had begun looking for a new vice chancellor (VC), in what will no doubt be one of the most hotly-contested jobs in the field.
‘Massive scale exercise’: 5-NLU-project to help NRC ‘non-citizens’ appeal, not get stripped of basic human rights
NUJS Kolkata, Nalsar Hyderabad, NLU Delhi. NLU Odisha and NLUJAA Assam have jointly launched a legal aid-style clinic called Parichay, to help those stripped of Indian nationality under the controversial _National Register of Citizens (NRC)_regime.
Big shoes to fill: NLU Delhi constitutes hunting party for Ranbir Singh’s very attractive VC job
NLU Delhi has instituted a selection committee to look for a successor to vice-chancellor (VC) Prof Ranbir Singh, who started the law school in 2008 and is due to retire soon.
NLU D ‘perturbed’ over ‘inconvenience’ to CJI, after topper skips convocation to protest sex harass inquiry
NLU Delhi has said that the Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi was not due to award a medal to an NLU Delhi topper at its convocation last weekend, after a report in the Indian Express quoted the student declining to attend over reservations to receive the award from Gogoi, who had been accused of sexual harassment and of reacting to the charges badly.
NLU Delhi scores 100% final 2019 placements: Exclusively 20 high-paying Big Laws, 4 foreigns, 17 in-house
Final year students of NLU Delhi, graduating in 2019, have secured 41 jobs with top corporate law firms, which picked up a total of 20, while foreign firms hired four into training contracts.
As NLUs finally managed to crack CLAT (so far), hold-out NLU Delhi’s AILET encounters controversy • Only 0.4% make the cut
The All India Entrance Test (AILET), conducted by NLU Delhi outside of the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) group of national law schools since its inception, has released its results today, but not without controversy.
NLU Delhi 2020 recruitments kicked off last month with 23 jobs • CAM picks up third • No foreigns (yet)
NLU Delhi penultimate-year students had secured 23 early jobs to start work in 2020; this is around 28% of a batch of 81, though two-thirds of the 35 students who have directly participated in campus recruitment activities (with litigation presumably being quite popular in Delhi).
NLU Delhi says standard due process, appeal remains open to student’s suicide attempt over sex harass inquiry
NLU Delhi has released a carefully worded notice on Friday (26 October) that a student, who had allegedly tried to commit suicide on Wednesday after complaining that sexual harassment inquiry by the law school’s Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) against him was procedurally defective, had “recovered considerably” and that the standard appeals process against the ICC remained open to him.