Libertad de Expresiôn National Legal Essay Competition, 2016 results out

Libertad de Expresiôn in association with TMT Law Practice has announced the results of national level legal essay writing competition, 2016.Libertad de Expresión is a start-up website featuring a blend of law, politics, business, sports, technology and lifestyle. We are a bunch of college students with a vision to channelise a free flow of views, ideas and opinions on issues of current national importance. It is purely a student-intiative and our concerted step towards effective...

GNLU wins 3rd edition of the International Maritime Arbitration Moot 2016

GNLU emerged victorious in the 3rd edition of the International Maritime Arbitration Moot 2016 by NLU Orissa which was held from 1st -3 rd April, 2016  and saw 18 teams compete from across the nation.The moot was started in the year 2014, with a goal to enhance research and advocacy skills of students in the area of Maritime Law and International Commercial Arbitration. This year the moot proposition dealt with controversial issues surrounding Indian parties contracting out to be governed by...

NLU J to organize Academic Forum on Trade & Economic Co-operation

The BRICS Law Institute, NLU Jodhpur is organising a three- day Academic Forum on "Developing a Conducive Legal Framework for Enhancing Trade and Economic Cooperation amongst BRICS Nations."  The academic forum will be held at NLUJ from April 8, 2016 to April 10, 2016. The team comprising of one faculty member and one student representative from law schools in India will see participation in the event.The registration fee is Rs 2500 per team. There will be three sessions in the forum.For further...

National Institutional Ranking Framework: National Law University, Delhi, and Indian Law Institute, Delhi only two law colleges on the list

National Law University, Delhi and Indian Law Institute, Delhi are the only two law colleges who have made it to the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) released by the Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD).NLU-D has been placed at the 71st rank, with a score of 54.17. ILI-D has been placed at the 99th rank, with a score of 47.19. You may view the institute data submitted by NLU, here and ILI, here. The table below shows the criteria-wise scoring of the two...

4th HNLU Gurcharan Singh Tulsi Essay Competition 2015 [Results]

Hidayatullah National Law University, Naya Raipur has announced the results of the 4th Gurcharan Singh Tulsi Essay Writing Competition, 2015. The results are as following:1st rank: Ms. Supriya Srivastava and Mr. Hemant Nandagauri, Law School, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.2nd rank: Ms. Manasi R. Khare and Mr. Ashish Patel, National Law University, Odisha.3rd rank: Mr. Rupesh Agarwal and Mr. Arnav Behera, Campus Law Center, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi.The Prizes and certificates...

Empanelment of Institutions for Competition Assessment includes IIM A, NLIU

In terms of the Competition Commission of India (Competition Assessment of Legislations and Bills) Guidelines, 2015, the Competition Commission of India proposed to maintain a Panel of 5-7 reputed institutions to carry out initial competition assessment of the economic legislations /bills referred to them before they could be passed as law in the parliament. Accordingly, it invited expression of interest, along with a sample competition assessment of an economic legislation, from eligible...

School of Excellence, Tamil Nadu Dr Ambedkar Law University lifts trophy at Justice V R Krishna Iyer Moot Competition

The School of Excellence, Tamil Nadu Dr Ambedkar Law University bagged the Justice V R Krishya Iyer trophy at the All India Moot Court Competition held in Thiruvananthapuram on March 4 and 5.The three-member team comprising Gopika Sasidharan, Sneha Pradeep and Nivedita Menon received a cash prize and trophies at the end of the two-day event.The finals were adjudged by Justice Muhammed Mushtaq and Justice Mary Joseph of the Kerala High Court. The moot court problem was based on the right to...

Indian American Sujit Choudhry resigns as Dean of Berkeley Law School, California after being sued for sexual harassment

Mr. Sujit Choudhry, Dean of Berkeley Law School in California resigned on Thursday, after he was sued at the Alameda County Superior Court by his Executive Assistant for sexual harassment. A University spokesman was quoted as saying that Mr. Choudhry, the first ever PIO to head a law school in America, will remain a member of the school’s faculty “at present”, under the University of California’s tenure policy.Earlier on Wednesday, Mr. Choudhry had announced that he would be taking an...

Professor (Dr.) Yogesh K Tyagi has been appointed as Vice- Chancellor of Delhi University

Professor Yogesh K Tyagi, former Dean of the Law Faculty at South Asian University (SAU), has been appointed as the new Vice Chancellor of Delhi University (DU) by the President of India on 15th February, 2016.This is indeed a great news particularly for legal academician in country. The appointment of law professors to such offices in traditional universities like Delhi University is a rare sight. This is only the second time that a professor from legal profession has occupied this designation...

RGNUL Patiala misrepresents facts under RTI

The organiser of CLAT 2016 – Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Patiala’s alleged reply to an RTI query dated 05.02.2016 relating to the curfew timings has caused a furore in the RGNUL campus. Apparently, this reply is in stark contradiction to the Law University’s own circular dated 02.03.2016 wherein it is clearly stated that the curfew timings for girls has been revised from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM.Live Law has gained access to two of these documents-the first one being an RTI query replied...

GNLU wins the First Professor N R Madhava Menon SAARC Mooting Competition

After the cut throat competition, before the panel of 5 bench Delhi High Court senior most judges (Hon’ble Mr. Justice Jayank Nath, Hon’ble Mr. Justice Najmi Wazir, Hon’ble Mr. Justice Vibhu Bakhru, Judge, Hon’ble Mr. Justice I S Mehta, Hon’ble Ms. Justice Sangita Dhingra Sehgal) the winner of the First Professor N R Madhava Menon SAARC Mooting Competition was declared as Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar and the runner up team was Kerala Law Academy, Trivandrum.  Along with the...

Smart Start work experience programme launches in India

The Smart Start Experience, Allen & Overy’s award-winning work experience scheme, will be launched in  India on 8 March.The programme, which aims to give young people from disadvantaged backgrounds a real insight into the world of business, will be held in collaboration with the Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access (IDIA) project in India. IDIA identifies candidates with potential from marginalised and under-represented backgrounds and aims to introduce them to law as a career...