Nyayavalokan’18 Day 2: Preliminary Rounds Held

Nyayavalokan’18 Day 2 commenced with witness briefing by all 20 teams. The individual participants of every team briefly explained every witness which included right from defense witnesses and prosecution witnesses for a period of one and a half hour followed by a breakfast for the participants.At 10:00 am, preliminary round 1 was initiated. The participants very articulately presented their arguments and craftily dealt with the judges’ questions. The judges too fired some of the most puzzling...

Pravin Gandhi College Of Law’s Nyayavalokan'18 Begins

Nyayavalokan'18 marked its beginning with the inaugural ceremony being held on Thursday. It is the 9th annual edition of the National Trial Advocacy and Judgment Writing Competition being organised by SVKM’s Pravin Gandhi College of Law in Mumbai. The competition will conclude on Sunday (October 14).It was presided over by Justice Anand Potdar (retired), senior advocate Kamal Bulchandani, advocate Yasmin Katpitia and the principal incharge of Pravin Gandhi College of Law, Dr. Nutan...

Call for Applications: Research Fellow NLU, Delhi Centre For Law, Justice And Development

Centre for Law, Justice and Development (CLJD) invites application from students currently pursuing undergraduate/postgraduate studies in Law at NLUD for the position of Student Fellow for the month of November 2018.Stipend: Rs.4000/- (Rupees Four Thousand Only) per month.Role of the Research Fellow: Student Fellows would be required to participate and contribute to research activities of the Centre including ongoing projects as well as ensure active participation in all CLJD events conducted...

CLAT 2019 To Be Held On 12th May

The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT – 2019) will be conducted by National Law University Odisha on Sunday, May 12, 2019 at 3.00 P.M.The Meeting of CLAT Core Committee Consortium at NUALS Kochi on October 3 2018, further resolved to have a permanent CLAT secretariat at NLSIU Bangalore.The CLAT will now be conducted by the newly formed Executive Committee of the Consortium that would have, NLSIU, Bangalore, NALSAR, Hyderabad and NLIU, Bhopal as its ex-officio members, CLAT Convenor of the year,...

ILNU Holds Workshop On Agrarian Crisis In India

The Institute of Law, Nirma University, through its Centre for Social Justice (CSJ-ILNU), conducted a one-day workshop on ‘Agrarian Crisis in India: Challenges and Way Forward’ on 1st October, 2018.The workshop was open for students and faculty of Nirma University and there was participation from the undergraduate law students of Nirma Institute of Law, along with students from Nirma Institute of Technology, Management and Architecture. The workshop included sessions from five experts working as...

‘Aadhaar Defanged But Not Destroyed’: Senior Advocate Shyam Divan At GNLU Open House Session

The GNLU Centre for Law and Society organised an Open House session on ‘The Right to Privacy and Aadhaar Scheme’, with Mr. Shyam Divan, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India sharing his insights on the topic ‘Liberty, Privacy and Aadhaar: Has the Supreme Court Ushered In A Surveillance Society?’In the course of his address, he shared a personal experience from a visit to a school in a village in Jharkhand, where failures of the fingerprint authentication system were creating ghosts, against...

RGNUL Wins National Rounds Of Henry Dunant Memorial Moot

Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab, has won the India National Rounds of the 18th Henry Dunant Memorial Moot Court Competition. The team comprising Adweitya Grover, Ushashi Dutta and Sugandha Sawhney representing Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab, was adjudged the winners.The team will now be representing India in the regional rounds in Tehran.The India National Rounds of 18th Henry Dunant Memorial Moot Court Competition 2018 were hosted by the Indian Society of...

Battle Against Sec. 377 Had Been Awaiting Its Win For Long: Justice VK Shukla at Lloyd’s Let’s Talk-Series 2

 ‘One’s sexual orientation is one’s choice and it should be respected,” said Justice VK Shukla (Retd.), while speaking at Let’s Talk-Series 2 on Saturday (29th September). The Let’s Talk-Series 2 was organised by Lloyd Law College in Greater Noida to question and celebrate the partial reading down of Section 377 of IPC.Lloyd Law College organized a panel discussion with Justice VK Shukla (Retd.) and Supreme Court lawyers Subash Chandra Vashishtha and Sanjay Vashishtha. The discussion was...

Open House With Mr. Shyam Divan At GNLU [Sep 29]

The Centre for Law & Society at Gujarat National Law University is holding an Open House Session with Mr. Shyam Divan, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India. The session would be on ‘Right to Privacy and the Aadhaar Scheme’.Date: September 29, 2018Venue: Orientation Hall, Administrative Block, Gujarat National Law UniversityTime: 11:30 AM to 1 PMQueries can be addressed to gcls@gnlu.ac.in or to Mr. Zaid Deva at +(91)-9419061802.

SPIL To Hold Lecture On Laws Of War By Prof. Kishu Daswani On Friday

The Students for the Promotion of International Law (SPIL), Mumbai, will hold a lecture on Laws of War by Prof. Kishu Daswani on Friday evening at Government Law College, Mumbai.Prof. Kishu Daswani has been teaching Law at Government Law College, Mumbai for the past 25 years. He has been a Faculty Advisor and is responsible for the continuous publication of the Law Review, academic journal of the college. Also, he is the founding member and the coordinator for the Securities Law course at GLC...

ILNU Conducts Lecture On Gender Sensitive Campus

The Women Development Cell, Nirma University, recently organised the first lecture under the Distinguished Lecture Series, on ‘Towards a Gender Sensitive Campus’. The lecture was held on Saturday at the Institute of Law campus.The Distinguished Lecture Series, being conducted under the aegis of the Women Development Cell, aims to create an environment of learning from the rich experience of expert resource persons in the field of gender issues and women development. These lectures will be...

ILNU Hosts Workshop On International Commercial Arbitration

A Workshop on International Commercial Arbitration was organised by the Centre for ADR, Institute of Law, Nirma University from 15th to 17th September. The inaugural ceremony was presided by Prof. William Fox, Former Dean and Professor of Law, Columbus Law School, Washington DC. Prof. Fox discussed the fundamentals of arbitration as to what arbitration is and its origination. He also discussed how arbitration has evolved over the period of time and provided statistics to showcase the growth of...