In Conversation with Shouvik Kumar Guha Faculty of NUJS and Director Operations of IDIA

Shouvik Kumar Guha pursued his BA. LLB and LLM from West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences. He had an inclination towards Intellectual Property law from his freshman year of law school. At present, he is also an Assistant Professor of WBNUJS.Shouvik is also an integral part of Spicy IP and Director Operations of Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access to Legal Education (IDIA). He co-heads the foundation of Lexbiosis. He has also authored various exemplary journals, books,...

GLC Mumbai - New Wine in a Resurrected Bottle

`GLC is a banquet, eat all you can!` This is the advice that a new entrant hears on entering the portals of this 160 year old relic. But it ain`t an ordinary banquet where there is free flowing sumptuous food- instead it is a paradigm that depends on the choices of each entrant: the choice to seat oneself at the banqueting table while enduring it`s...

Abortion : Freedom or Violation of Rights?

As rightly expressed by Mark Rudolph MacGuigan,the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada in 1982,“Whether abortion is an expression of negative or positive conscience is a serious question with enormous consequence.”,  abortion is indeed a crucial matter. Abortion is the termination of pregnancy by the removal of the embryo or the...

Notification released for Entrance Examination for Admission to Integrated Five Year LL.B Course 2014-15 by Government of Kerala

Government of Kerala, Office of the Commissioner of Entrance Examinations invites application for the Entrance Examination for Admission to Integrated Five Year LL.B Course 2014-15 in the four Government Law Colleges of Kerala and in the Private Self-financing Law Colleges of Kerala. The Entrance Examination will be conducted in Thiruvananthapuram,...

Interview with Runner’s-Up of the Manfred Lachs Asia-Pacific Moot Court Competition

Gujarat National Law University students (Udita Bhatt, Rohan George and Chethana Venkataraghvan) were the first runner’s up of this year's prestigious Manfred Lachs Asia-Pacific Moot Court Competition on Space Law, held in Beijing recently. The team also bagged the ‘Best Speaker award in the Finals’ and also the prize of ‘Best Memo’. Over two days,...

In Conversation with Swaraj Paul Barooah founder of ‘Know-GAP’ and editor in Chief at SpicyIP.com

Swaraj Paul Barooah did his BA.,LL.B degree from Nalsar University of Law, Hyderabad in 2009. He went on to UC Berkeley to do his LLM in 2010 and is currently a JSD Candidate there. His LLM thesis was on ‘Drug Innovation Policy and Access to Medicines’; and his on going JSD dissertation is focusing on deeper issues in this same area.His core IP...

Legally Yours and Achievers Guild jointly launches India Law Schools Index

Legally Yours and Achievers Guild, Bhopal has jointly launched India Law School Index [ILSI], a complete free database of all Indian law colleges. Approximately 33,000 students appeared for CLAT 2014 and the results are out. While around 1800 students will make it to the National Law Schools, rest of them will be looking for options. ILSI aims to...

NLUO VC Resigned

The third Vice-Chancellor of National Law University Odisha has resigned. Prof. Nagaraj who was serving NLUO from march 2013 has resigned from the post.He was third VC after Faizab Mustafa (now serving as the VC OF NALSAR)  and chandrakrishnamurthy ( serving as VC of Pondicherry University). Before coming to Nluo, Dr. Nagaraj was Registrar in NLSIU...

Gujarat National Law University allocates Rs 2.15 crore to attract Meritorious Students

The Gujarat National Law University has allocated a whooping Rs 2.15 crore in its annual budget to give a significant boost to its vibrant international exchange program and the co-curricular activities of its students. The university in order to attract bright meritorious students and to recognize and consolidate research culture among students...

If there is a good, imaginative, hardworking VC at the helm, the University does well - if not, everything falls flat; Ramanuj Mukherjee

Ramanuj Mukherjee, an alumnus of National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata, is a lawyer turned entrepreneur. He used to work at Trilegal (Mumbai) before starting iPleaders, a legal education company seeking to make law easily accessible to everyone. He has also launched a non-profit social network Clathacker which provides study material...

Rape in the Wedlock!!!

"When a woman is raped by a stranger, she has to live with a frightening memory. When she is raped by her husband, she has to live with the rapist" A Delhi trial court's recent decision acquitting a man of the charge of rape because the woman he had sex with forcibly happened to be his wife has once again brought this issue on rostrum. Section 376...

National Law University, Delhi organizes Capacity Development Programme for Teachers in Criminology” (June 16-20, 2014)

National Academy of Law Teachers (NALT) propose to organize a five days basic course on “Capacity Development Programme for Teachers in Criminology” (June 16-20,2014)” in National Law University, Delhi.The key objectives of this training programme are:To identify thrust areas in teaching and research in criminologyTo critically assess the existing...