NLSIU Bengaluru has made a submission to the Supreme Court unexpectedly stating that it would be implementing state-level domicile reservations from the 2021-22 academic year.

The Calcutta high court has today issued an interim stay in the writ petition challenging the state government’s 30% domicile reservation at NUJS Kolkata.

The Karnataka state government has said it would table the NLSIU Bangalore 25% state quota bill on 17 February, and added that it kind of expected the university to also reserve another 22.5% of seats to Karnataka resident SC/ST (scheduled caste and tribe students). “Apart from the 25% reservation, ...

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.

U pping the ante, a Bangalore-based association of advocates is lobbying the state law minister for NLSIU Bengaluru to have a 50% domicile quota, rather than the 25% that the cabinet has recently signed off on . According to the letter ( full copy here ), as published by Livelaw , this is not the fi...

NLU Odisha also goes horizontal reservations way N LU Odisha general council has announced on Saturday that it would reserve 25% of its seats for state residents for both its post- and undergraduate law degrees, up from around 21.7% in its current undergraduate prospectus and around 24% in its curre...

T he Karnataka state government cabinet has signed off on the long-pending bill to set aside 25% of seats at NLSIU Bangalore for students from the state, according to a number of reports, following recent similar moves in West Bengal. Law minister JC Madhuswamy said in a press conference that prospe...

Lately, domicile politics has aggressively and even incrementally hit prominent NLUs including NLSIU Bengaluru, NALSAR Hyderabad, NUJS Kolkata, NLU Jodhpur and NLU Odisha.

The West Bengal government has quietly passed its long-pending amendment to the NUJS Kolkata establishing statute, formalising a 30% local domicile reservation.

IB nixes terrific collegium: A collegium of judges in a state affected by militancy had six months ago recommended an advocate, who was linked to a terrorist outfit, for elevation to the high court. The Prime Minister’s Office ordered an Intelligence Bureau (IB) scrutiny of all the persons recommend...

The Karnataka High Court has issued notices to NLSIU Bangalore and the state government after admitting a public interest litigation (PIL) that sought a reservation of seats in the national law school for students residing in the state, according to newspaper reports.