Law On Triple Talaq Is Already Settled And Clear: Ex-Law Commission Member Afzal Wani Opines While In ICFAI Law School

“I wonder why we keep saying there is a conflict herein when there are judgements from Supreme Court (the Shamim Ara case) and Delhi High Court stating clearly that triple talaq doesn’t amount to conclusive divorce. I don’t see why there’s further a need to put a ban on triple talaq when the precedents have done the needed.” expressed Prof. (Dr.) M. Afzal Wani while addressing the participants in the Inaugural Session of the ‘National Seminar on Personal Law Reforms: Problems and Prospects’...

More than 50 Hours Later, the Hon’ble Court Addresses the Students of NUSRL while the State Authorities Still Turn a Deaf Ear

The peaceful lockdown in National University of Study and Research in Law, Ranchi entered its 3rd Day today as the students continue sitting at the front gate in the scorching heat and shivering midnight chills. Read more about the Petition here.As the Faculty and the Hon’ble Vice Chancellor stood outside the lockdown gate, the students allowed the bank employees as well as the resident faculty members to enter the campus while peacefully holding out banners, demanding the resignation of the...

NUJS Emerges Runner Up in the 8th Leiden Sarin International Air Law Moot Court Competition

Furthering the NUJS tally of international mooting achievements this year, the University team comprising of Abha Nadkarni, Guncha Dhiman, Adya Jha and Parva Khare have emerged as the Runner Up in the 8th International Air Law Moot Court Competition held at Valletta in Malta this year from the 6th April to 9th April, 2017.Teams from 20 countries — India, Nepal, the USA, Australia, Indonesia, China, the Netherlands, Canada, Ukraine, New Zealand, Romania, Sri Lanka, Nigeria, Serbia, Poland, the...

NUJS Student Launches Online Platform to Facilitate Mediation in India

In the most recent testimonial to the entrepreneurship culture at NUJS, a student from the University has launched a new platform 'ODRways DOMAIN' for facilitating mediation and online dispute resolution in India.ODRways, which seeks to work towards promoting mediation in India through its integration with technology, is a venture by Pranjal Sinha from NUJS and Vikram Kumar, an engineering graduate, both of whom are committed to bringing systematic technological reforms to the Indian justice...

Students of NUSRL, Ranchi Outraged Against Lack of Infrastructural Facilities, Started #saveNUSRL Campaign

NUSRL is now facing the prospect of being taken to arbitration by the Central Public Works Department in Ranchi. The University owes them Rs. 42 crore in dues for construction on the campus.The University, as Vice-Chancellor Dr. BC Nirmal reveals, is in no position to pay that amount. He adds that the Jharkhand government has not fulfilled its promise of funding the University. He says,“When NUSRL was first launched, the Chief Minister promised to give huge funds to make it a global standard...

100 Percent Placement for NALSAR's Batch of 2017

Maintaining its previous record of providing 100 percent placements ,  the Recruitment Coordination Committee (‘RCC’) at NALSAR accomplished the goal of  securing placements for all 58 of its subscribers with reputed domestic and international law firms, corporate houses and advisory firms by the end of March 2017 as mentioned in the press release by RCC.The RCC team of NALSAR   is comprised of Aishwaria Ramanan, Enakshi Jha, Eshwar R, Kartik Chawla, PSS Bhargava, Srimukundan R and Yugal...

NUJS theatre productions brings out its first Hindi play 'Gadau Gadar'

In the aftermath of the recent political upheaval in UP, the NUJS theatre team presents its first Hindi play गँड़ऊ ग़दर (Gadau Gadar), an adaptation of Kashinath Singh’s famed work ‘Kashi ka Assi’. Set at the turn of millennium in the year 1999, the play is a humorous take on the socio-political realities of India’s 'Cultural Capital' Banaras and some of its indomitable inhabitants- whose idea of democracy revolves around the Gadau Gadar, where they come together every day over tea and talk...

SILC Manual - Hard Copies handed over to Vice President of India Sri. Hamid Ansari

His Excellency, the Vice President of India Sri. Hamid Ansari accepted hard copies of Standard Indian Legal Citation at his official residence in Delhi from SILC Editor-in-Chief & Founding Editor Rohit K. Pothukuchi and SILC Advisor and Central Information Commissioner M. Sridhar Acharyulu.Hard copies of SILC were launched after a strong demand from university libraries for hard copies of the citation manual. SILC was originally launched 3 years ago and now has users from over 250 law...

Five students from NUJS offered admission at Cambridge, NYU, LSE and Graduate Institute

In what has been an exceptional year in terms of acceptances at premier global institutes, five more of our students from the graduating class of 2017 have been offered admissions to the LLM programs at Cambridge University, Graduate Instiute- Geneva, New York University and London School of Economics.While Upasana Chauhan, Vasujith Ram, Arpita Sengupta and Arindrajit Basu have secured admission at Faculty of Law- Cambridge, Tanvi Mani has been selected for the international law program...

NUJS wins the 14th Willem C. Vis East International Commercial Arbitration Moot

In one of the biggest mooting achievements of this year, the University team comprising of Saniya Mirani, Mahima Cholera, Namrata Sadhnani and Pruthvi Jasani has won the annual Willem C. Vis East International Commercial Arbitration Moot held in Hong Kong this year from 26th March to 2nd April, 2017.The Willem C. Vis East International Commercial Arbitration Moot is an international moot court competition for law students from all countries. It runs in parallel with the Willem C Vis Moot in...

RGNUL: 6th National Moot Court Competition Post Event Update

RGNUL organized 6th National Moot Court Competition from 31st March to 2nd April, 2017 at Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab. The event was inaugurated by worthy Vice-Chancellor Prof.(Dr.) Paramjit S. Jaswal and followed by introduction of moot proposition by the worthy Registrar Prof.(Dr)G.I.S. Sandhu. Total 40 teams participated from all over India.The final rounds were adjudged by the Constitution Bench consisting of Hon’ble Mr. Justice A.G.Masih, Judge Punjab & Haryana High...

6th RGNUL National Moot Court Competition commences at Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab

The 6th RGNUL National Moot Court Competition, 31st March -2nd April, 2017, commenced with the inaugural session in the premises of Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab. Prof. (Dr.) Paramjit S. Jaswal, Vice Chancellor, RGNUL, Prof (Dr.) G.I.S. Sandhu, Registrar RGNUL, Dr. Shilpa Jain, Faculty Coordinator, Ishfaq Ahmed, Representative from EBC and Faculty members of RGNUL were present on the occasion.Prof. (Dr.) Paramjit S. Jaswal welcomed the participants to the competition. In his...