RGNUL Patiala vice-chancellor (VC) Prof Paramjit Jaswal has ended his tenure of more than nine years today as a search process is ongoing for his permanent replacement.

Prof Ranbir Singh, NLU Delhi’s founding vice chancellor (VC) who has served in the position for 11 years, is due to retire tomorrow (23 September), though he will continue to stay at the NLU as professor emeritus from 24 September.

RGNUL Patiala’s finances and its vice-chancellor (VC) Paramjit Jaswal‘s tenure has been under scrutiny from the state’s Higher Education Department, with multiple sources strongly suggesting that Jaswal may have tendered his as-yet unaccepted resignation in response.

The Bar Council of India (BCI) has proposed to override law schools’ autonomy by inducting its own members into their faculty selection committee, as an “expert member”, in its draft first amendment to the Legal Education Rules 2008.

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...

Exclusive: Retired Supreme Court Justice AK Ganguly and the vice chancellor (VC) of RGNUL Patiala and the director of National Judicial Academy (NJA) Bhopal, have been appointed to the committee to recommend a new vice chancellor (VC) for Nalsar Hyderabad.

Exclusive interview: HNLU Raipur vice-chancellor Paramjit Singh Jaswal of less than three months formally announced to students that he would join RGNUL Patiala as its new vice chancellor for personal reasons. He told Legally India that he would continue being part of the HNLU family and would face new challenges at RGNUL.