The 19th Annual Stetson International Environmental Moot Court Competition, held in Gulfport, Florida, from April 16-18, 2015 saw splendid performance from the four teams representing India.

NUJS Kolkata has set a new Day Zero record, with 40 students having accepted jobs after kicking off its 2016-batch campus recruitments on 17 and 18 April.

NUJS Kolkata student Vikas Chaudhary has passed away over the Holi weekend. According to a statement from NUJS vice chancellor Ishwara Bhat, there was no reason to suspect foul play: An extremely unfortunate incident happened in the afternoon of March 6, 2015 at The WB National University of Juridic...

Hariani & Co is advising NUJS Kolkata final year student Jay Sayta on his Bombay high court PIL for the notification of the Maharashtra Casinos (Control & Tax) Act 1976, which legalised casinos, gaming and wagering 38 years ago. Hariani associate Anirudh Hariani is acting for Sayta who, in...

The weekend of three grand moots, including India’s best and India’s second-oldest moots, saw some law schools managing to upset the MPL 6 pecking order, while others held on steady to the top spots.

NUJS Kolkata has introduced a 10-seat state domicile reservation for admissions, reported Bar & Bench . Vice chancellor Ishwara Bhat told Bar & Bench that the West Bengal government would provide NUJS with 3000 square metres of land to build a girl’s hostel, after which the academic counci...

The team from NUJS Kolkata bested Campus Law Centre to clinch the winners title at the KK Luthra Moot hosted by CLC on 18 January 2015.

The team from NUJS Kolkata bested RGNUL Patiala in the finals of the national rounds of Stetson International Environmental Moot Court Competition.

Supreme Court justices SJ Mukhopadhaya and NV Ramana have set aside declined to interfere with a Calcutta high court order that declined to cancel the bail of former NUJS Kolkata assistant registrar Siddhartha Guha, who is accused of having sexually harassed another staff member at the college, repo...

Nalsar Hyderabad performed better than all national law schools, including NLSIU Bangalore, in finding placements for its 2013-14 graduates of its class of 2014, according to Legally India’s new rating of law schools recruitment results.

IDIA diversity initiative scholar and NUJS Kolkata third-year student Shivam was selected to represent the law school at the 12th William C Vis (East) International Commercial Arbitration Moot, after he secured the third rank in NUJS’ intra university moot selection rounds. Having represented NUJS a...

Calcutta high court Justice Dipankar Datta has replaced NUJS vice chancellor (VC) Ishwara Bhatt’s nominee to inquire into financial impropriety allegations against the law school’s suspended registrar, and fixed inquiry timelines, in part-hearing the writ of the registrar. The registrar, Surajit Muk...

The Calcutta high court is hearing a writ petition by NUJS Kolkata registrar Surajit Mukhopadhyay against his suspension by vice chancellor Prof Ishwara Bhat, alleging bias and requesting reinstatement. Mukhopadaya was suspended last month after an inquiry committee report found facts “indicative of...

NUJS Kolkata registrar Surajit Mukhopadaya was suspended today over allegations of financial impropriety that were raised by a judicial inquiry into NUJS and its management. Vice chancellor Ishwara Bhatt said that “the order of suspension has been delivered on the registrar”, and that Mukhopadaya wo...

NUJS Kolkata just about matched Nalsar Hyderabad’s Big Six hire score of 26, with 25 of the law school’s graduates this year bagging Big Six law firm gigs.

A Bar Council of India (BCI)-led “fact finding body” produced a critical report in November 2013 on NUJS Kolkata’s affairs. It hasn’t surfaced until now.

The margin between NLU Jodhpur and NLIU Bhopal is negligible this year, according to an analysis of the preferences of candidates taking the 2014 Common Law Admissions Test (CLAT).

The committee headed by former Rajasthan high court chief justice NN Mathur reported that certain facts were “indicative of financial mismanagement of fund by the university”.

The sexual harassment case against NUJS Kolkata assistant registrar Siddhartha Guha, who was arrested late last year after a female staff member accused him of sexual harassment and violent threats, has climbed to the apex court over cancellation of his bail. The woman, represented by advocates Sidd...

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