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 facilitate and help them in informed decision making, by preparing a list of law schools in the country with relevant information.The ILSI 2014...

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...

The “Third” Gender

Transgenders are known by different names in South Asia. There is a misconception that they are "only men who have feminine gender identity, adopt feminine gender roles and wear women's clothing". But, in reality, the community is significantly more diverse than this notion.They were counted for the first time in the Census 2011, in which they...

Till date India has not witnessed any lady CJI; Justice Poonam Srivastava

Mrs. Poonam Shrivastava is the Retired Judge, from Allahabad High Court. She enrolled as an Advocate in the year 1972 and practiced in Civil, Criminal and Writ matters at Allahabad High Court. She was elevated on 07/01/2004 and has the rich experience in serving Allahabad and Jharkhand High Court.Live Law: Please tell us about your decision to...

Connecting legal profession to the fourth estate.

Law and journalism are two fields which demand up-to-date knowledge in this proliferating world. Neither of them is stagnant and obsolete. You think legal profession is only meant to argue in courts. Well then sooner or later it will dawn upon you that legal field has no periphery. It is as vast as any field could possibly be. Legal Journalism is...

Lawyers Collective Initiative on Patent Status Information

Lawyers Collective, a leading public interest service provider has come up with an innovative initiative by creating a searchable patent information status for key medicines in India. The patent status information of all robust patent applications will be made available. The available details include the drug name, patent application number and...

CLAT Preparations – A Few Pointers

Having worked really hard for your CLAT exams, there are not many things to be said and done here. But then the most important aspect of actually giving your exam is coming up. Therefore, we would like to give you a few pointers so that you can get results in consonance with the hard efforts that you have already put in.• Stay Positive: Do not...

The best way to learn Research Method is doing Research: Prof. GS Bajpai

Prof. G.S.Bajpai is a known Criminologist and Social Scientist in India. He won the Prof. B S Haikarwal and Prof Sushil Chandra Award for Senior Social Scientist this year. He is a Professor of Criminology & Criminal Justice in National law University. (NLU)Delhi. In this interview with Live Law Associate Editor Suchitra Menon, he speaks about...