NUALS, Kochi inaugurates Centre for Women and Family Studies

The National University of Advanced Legal Studies, Kochi has inaugurated the Centre for Women and Family Studies.The Chief Guest was Hon’ble Mr. Justice K. T. Thomas, former Judge of the Supreme Court of India, who elucidated upon the important provisions providing protection to women against sexual offences. He also impressed upon those present, S. 96 of IPC, which states that nothing is an offence which is done in exercise of Right to Private DefenceThe inaugural function was presided over by...

NILS Law Review: Call for Papers

The Network for International Law Students (NILS) is an International, non political, non profit making organization. The organization is operated by and for students seeking to promote legal awareness amongst the people and aspires to encourage communication and cooperation amongst law students and lawyers internationally and seeks contribution to...

In Conversation with Umakanth Varottil Faculty of Law at the National University Singapore (NUS)

Umakanth Varottil is an Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law at the National University Singapore (NUS). He had completed his BA, LLB. (Hons) from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore. He then completed his LLM from the New York University School of Law, and his Ph.D. from NUS. His doctoral thesis is titled Corporate Governance in...

From GLC Trivandrum to Brazuca; An interview with Advocate Mahajan Vasudevan Nair, “Head of Club Licensing & Commercial Legal” at Asian Football Confederation

What are Law Graduates doing at the 2014 FIFA World Cup event at Brazil? When one of their colleagues at Kollam Bar Association, Adv Mahajan Vasudevan Nair was seen at Brazil representing the Asian Football Confederation, the biggest member of FIFA family, friends were confused because Mahajan was a sportsman as well as a lawyer. Mahajan practiced...

IDIA Scholars Shine; Eight make it to NLUs and Two to Nirma University

In times when law aspirants are striving hard to secure their seat in NLUs, the IDIA scholars have already managed to imprint a mark, by successfully securing their seats in the much desired NLUs. IDIA has, since its inception, managed to send their students to NLUs. It continues the trend this year as well. Out of the 24 scholars trained by IDIA,...

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...

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...