TNNLS Vice Chancellor Resigns, NLSIU Graduate IAS officer to take charge

All’s not well for Tamil Nadu National Law School (TNNLS) as Founder Vice Chancellor demits office citing lack of adequate support from some members of the Executive Council as reported by the Hindu. Murgavel who earlier served in the Department of Law of Madras University was one of the main architects of the newly established Tamil Nadu National Law School.  He has sent the resignation letter to the Chief Justice of Madras High Court, who is also the Chancellor of the School right after the...

12 Tips on How to Succeed in Litigation as a Career: A Snippet from Tanuj Kalia’s Book on Law as a Career (LexisNexis)

Tanuj Kalia’s (Founding CEO of Lawctopus) book titled ‘Law as a Career’ is out in the market! Published by LexisNexis the book is a complete guide for law aspirants and law students keen on pursuing a career in law.Below is a section from the chapter on ‘Litigation as a Career Option’. The content has been edited slightly to be suitable as a stand-alone piece.Here are a few points (twelve to be precise) law students and young lawyers keen on pursuing litigation as a career option should keep in...

NGLSJ writes to Union Minister for Food Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs for Maggi recall and initiation of prosecution

NATIONAL GROUP OF LAW STUDENTS FOR JUSTICE(NGLSJ) has sent a representation to the Union Minister for Food Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Mr. Ram Vilas Paswan with a request to initiate criminal prosecution of Nestle for Homicide, Seizure & destruction of products for which recall orders have been issued.The representation refers to the recently imposed Maggi ban and also to a death of a child after consuming an expired packet of Maggi that was available in the market.The representation...

National Law Schools get Ford Foundation funds worth $600,000

The State Government of Gujarat has alleged that the US-based non-profit Ford Foundation in India is involved in “covert activities” and has violated its “stated goals of promoting communal harmony, democratic principles and social justice.”As an aftermath of which, the Centre demanded for a government clearance prior to institutions accepting its funds for research and development.But at least seven premium Central institutions run research and scholarship programmes that drew over $2.5 million...

Development & Rule of Law becomes the theme of the first alumni meet cum conference at NLSIU

The inaugural National Conference of the alumni of National Law School of India University to discuss “Legal Services, Legal Education and the State Of The Profession: Emerging Challenges” was held at the NLSIU campus on 25- 26 April 2015. Justice .V.Gopala Gowda, judge of the Supreme Court along with former Chief Justices of India Justice M N Venkatachaliah and Justice Rajendra Babu graced the occasion by inaugurating the conference. Justice Gowda even addressed the conference by calling on...

KIIT Centre for International Arbitration organizes seventh guest lecture for General Arbitration Certificate Course (GACC)

KIIT Centre for International Arbitration (KCIA) was established in November 2013 as an independent arbitration Centre in the premises of KIIT University, situated in Bhubaneswar.KCIA, supported by Thomson Reuters Westlaw India, organized its inaugural six-day training workshop on International Arbitration, from the 9th to 14th of November, 2013, which witnessed over 191 participants. KCIA was also proud to organize the 1st Annual KCIA Lecture during the above stated period, which was delivered...

Challenging humor: The NLU Delhi girls protest

Gone are the days when there was only good humor or satire. Swear words, crass, nasty, blunt, sexist jokes are setting the stage on fire these days. Interestingly, in most parts, the ‘civilized’ population finds a temporary refuge by laughing their heart out on these narrations/performances/standup comedy stints. The performances are duly appreciated as well. But whenthe limit of dignity is actually crossed is a grey area to be decided. The subject matters (butt) of the jokes, or so to speak,...

GLC Thrissur launches law review Elenchus Vol. (I) 2015

Elenchus Law Review, the flagship academic journal of Govt. Law College, Thrissur has been published by Centre for Economy, Development and Law of the institution. Prof. N.K Jayakumar, former Vice Chancellor, National University of Advanced Legal Studies presided over the inaugural on March 9th 2015. Senior editor of Deccan Chronicle Mr. K J Jacob received the first copy of Elenchus during the release of Elen L R Vol. (I).The name Elenchus has been derived from the Socratic Method of reasoning...

Lend support to IDIA trainees

The IDIA project was initiated with the purpose of securing admissions for interested students across the nation from marginalized and lower strata of the society into various national law schools of the country. These underprivileged students are selected for IDIA for training extending up to two years in few cases. Around May, all these students will appear for CLAT and AILET which determine the admissions to the various NLUs (National Law Universities). It is unfortunate that the law entrance...

Justice Shri Prabha Sridevan inaugurates Centre for Intellectual Property Rights (CIPR) in NUALS

National University of Advanced Legal Studies (NUALS) formed the Centre for Intellectual Property Rights (CIPR) which was inaugurated by the former Judge of Madras High Court, Justice Shri Prabha Sridevan who has also been the former chairman of the Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB).The welcome speech has been delivered by Mrs.Athira.P.S, Director of the Centre, followed by the Presidential Address delivered by Prof. (Dr.) Rose Varghese, Vice-Chancellor, NUALS. She emphasized the need...

CLAT issues notice with respect to Upper Age Limit, to comply with High Court orders

The Convener CLAT -2015 today released a notice on its website which says, "The candidates exceeding the upper age limit as mentioned in the CLAT - 15 notification issued earlier shall also be eligible to submit their application online w.e.f. 16th of March, 2015." The said notice has been released to comply with the orders passed by the Allahabad High Court and Rajasthan High Court in petitions by students to quash the age limit."However, the notice also says , "The candidature of...

IDIA kicks off operations in Mumbai, organizes “A walk to Awake”

IDIA (Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access to Legal Education) kicked off operations in Mumbai this Saturday by successfully organizing ‘A Walk to Awake’, which commenced with a walk from Azad Maidan at 10:30am.During the walk, IDIA well-wishers and student volunteers from GLC, Mumbai, led by Mr. Arnab Roy, Director In-Charge of the IDIA Mumbai Chapter and Ms. Sachi Jain, Team Leader of the IDIA Mumbai Chapter, interacted with the people of Mumbai to spread awareness about law as a career....