58th Edition of Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court Competition- India Round inaugurated at Amity

Amity Law School, Delhi (affiliated to Guru Govind Singh Indraprastha University) in association with Surana & Surana is currently hosting the 58th edition of India Rounds of Philip C. Jesssup International Moot Court Competition. The competition will conclude on January 29th, 2017. The participants for this prestigious competition this year include thirty-two teams from The Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University- School of excellence in Law, Jindal Global Law School,  ILS Law College,...

Talk by Mr. Arvind P Datar on ‘The Constitution, Federalism and GST’ at NALSAR University of Law

NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad, hosted Mr. Arvind P. Datar on Saturday, 21st January 2017 for a lecture on ‘The Constitution, Federalism and GST’. This was the 3rd lecture held by the ‘NALSAR Lecture Series on Constitutionalism’ that was conceived and has been organised since July 2016. Previously Mr. Arghya Sengupta and Retired Justice Ruma Pal have been speakers in this lecture series and have spoken on Judicial Appointments and Uniform Civil Code respectively.Mr. Datar started with...

Institute of Law, Nirma University-SCINTILLA 2017

An evening full of glamour and beautiful performances – Scintilla’17 was organised by the Cultural Committee of Institute of Law, Nirma University in association with Student Welfare Board at Nirma University campus with full enthusiasm and quality performances on 18th January 2017. The event was graced by well-known Gujarati actors - Raunak Kamdar and Ishan Wadhwala along with Khushbu Shah, a successful choreographer.There were many performances in the categories of solo dance, solo singing,...

Interrobang- 4th NALSAR Quiz Fest 2017

The 4th Edition of Interrobang, the NALSAR Quiz Festival will take place on 21st and 22nd January, 2017 at campus in Shameerpet, Hyderabad. Interrobang has become one of the biggest college Quiz Fests in the country and this edition hopes to replicate and build upon this success.As always, they shall be hosting some of the best quizmasters in the business, with a significant prize pool in excess of Rs. 90,000. The quizzes that will be held include: Major Chandrakant Nair will be hosting the...

Tour de Arbitration by NILS

The Network for International Law Students (NILS) is an international, independent, non-political, non-profit-making organisation, run by and for law students. It seeks to promote legal awareness among all the people and encourage communication and cooperation among law students and lawyers internationally; contribute to legal education; promote social responsibility in the field of law; increase opportunities for students to learn about other cultures and legal systems worldwide; and publicize...

Audit Of Judiciary Is The Need Of Hour: Justice Murlidhar

Institute of Law, Nirma University organized the Ninth Lecture of the Institute's Annual Public Lecture Series on "Access to Justice: Distant Reality" by Hon'ble Mr. Justice Dr. S. Muralidhar, Judge, High Court of Delhi on 7th January, 2017 at 11.00 a.m. at Auditorium, C Block, Nirma University.Justice Murlidhar talked about Access to Justice as the minimum pre-requisite of gaining Justice and it should be fair and equal as mentioned in our Constitution. He started the lecture by showing a clip...

ILNU’s Judicial Performace and Access to Justice

The Centre for Social Justice, Institute of Law Nirma University conducted a seminar 'Judicial Performance and Access to Justice' on Wednesday, 28th December, 2016. The speaker for the session was Mr. Harish Narasappa, founding partner of Samvad Partners, a leading national law firm in India and co-founder of Daksh which is a Bangalore-based independent, not-for-profit organization.Mr. Harish addressed many questions related to the over-burdening of courts with cases and if the data collected by...

"Suljhao, Magar Pyar Se"- A Platform For Mediators In India

ODRways, an initiative taken by students of National University of Juridical Sciences Kolkata, seeks to address both these issues and promote mediation in India, by integrating it with technology. They have developed the first of its kind online platform “DOMAIN” (Directory of Mediators in India), exclusively for Indian mediators. The platform will serve as the first national directory of mediators in India in a customized layout, making it easier for common man in India to engage with relevant...

ILNU students organized Clothes drive on Christmas

One the eve of Christmas, the students of Institute of Law, Nirma University organized a clothing drive in collaboration with the NSS wing of ILNU and distributed clothes among the needy in various parts of Ahmedabad. It was undertaken in places all over Ahmedabad like Gota, Hhodiyar, roadside of Thaltej Chokdi and various other places where the student volunteers of ILNU distributed clothes to poor population. The students of Institute of law Nirma University put up a donation box in the...

Panel Discussion on “Pluralism and Human Rights in India: Dilemma and Difficulties”

Institute of Law, Nirma University is organizing a panel discussion on Pluralism and Human Rights in India: Dilemmas and Difficulties on 23rd December, 2016 at NIM Auditorim.The key note speakers at the discussion are - Lord Prof. Bhikhu Parekh, Prof. Upendra Baxi and Prof. Neera Chandhoke. Pluralism in India refers to multi-culturalism, multi-ethnicity, and multiple ideologies and views in expanding regime of human rights, in letter and in spirit. The idea of this panel discussion is to share...

GNLU Academy on Military Law and Justice 2017

The Gujarat National Law University, a premier national law university, will host 2017 Edition of the Academy on Laws governing Armed Forces, Justice System and Internal Security from 16th to 22nd January 2017.Following the successful organisation of the first Academy and recommendation by the resource persons and participants, 2017 Academy will discuss the concepts of Militarism, Martial Law, Human Rights of the Forces and Global Perspective of Military Laws. The 2017 Academy will specifically...

Harvard US-India Initiative Blog

One of the founding goals of the Harvard US-India Initiative, that continues to inform most of the work that we do, is fostering robust and uninhibited dialogue on the key social, economic and political challenges that India faces today.The HUII conference that we conduct each year furthers that goal in a significant way.HUII Blog not only being a platform for us to meaningfully engage with the key challenges that India today confronts, but also for discussing, interrogating and throwing into...