Law School Articles
A Law Student in The Stanford University Business School: From Lawyer to Entrepreneur
It is no secret today that law graduates are faced with a plethora of opportunities where their legal skills are used extensively. Working for companies and as entrepreneurs is one such area. People today go to law school with a business ambition. Combining law with other skills has always been in vogue: whether that be with MBA or CA or CS. The author of this piece describes her experience at Standford University Business School where she went during the beginning of the third year of law...
Top 100 Universities for Higher Studies in Law
The top 100 universities in the world for law, as ranked by higher education data specialists QS was released. Once again, like 2013, Harvard in the United States was ranked as the best University in terms of Academics. Oxford University, United Kingdom moved up a rank from 2013 and is now ranked the Second Best University for higher studies in Law. Cambridge University currently occupies the third rank. These are followed by Yale University and New York University.For employment opportunities...
Death Penalty – Is it ever Justified?
‘Every saint has a past and every sinner a future, never write off the man wearing the criminal attire but remove the dangerous degeneracy in him, restore his retarded human potential by holistic healing of his fevered, fatigued or frustrated inside and by repairing the repressive, though hidden, injustice of the social order which is vicariously guilty of the criminal behaviour of many innocent convicts. Law must rise with life and jurisprudence responds to humanism.’Krishna Iyer, J.Ever since...
Judicial Review of a ‘Bill’ under Article 32: A Constitutionally Impermissible Proposition
IntroductionAnxiety is fluctuating within the legal community in India as the Supreme Court of India (SC) will hear a batch of similar writ petitions that challenge the National Judicial Appointments Commission Bill, 2014 and the 121st Constitution Amendment Bill, 2014, today. This anxiety can be explained in two ways; by a political battle on one hand and by pure interpretation of law on the other. This article is only concerned about the latter.The Modi government had priorities. Circumstances...
GLC Mumbai - New Wine in a Resurrected Bottle
`GLC is a banquet, eat all you can!` This is the advice that a new entrant hears on entering the portals of this 160 year old relic. But it ain`t an ordinary banquet where there is free flowing sumptuous food- instead it is a paradigm that depends on the choices of each entrant: the choice to seat oneself at the banqueting table while enduring it`s partially restored and rickety condition and the choice of food while balancing the exquisite and limited resources and thirst for nourishment. At...
Abortion : Freedom or Violation of Rights?
As rightly expressed by Mark Rudolph MacGuigan,the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada in 1982,“Whether abortion is an expression of negative or positive conscience is a serious question with enormous consequence.”, abortion is indeed a crucial matter. Abortion is the termination of pregnancy by the removal of the embryo or the foetus from the uterus, before viability, resulting in or caused by its death. An abortion most commonly refers to the induced methods of expulsion of the...
Rape in the Wedlock!!!
"When a woman is raped by a stranger, she has to live with a frightening memory. When she is raped by her husband, she has to live with the rapist" A Delhi trial court's recent decision acquitting a man of the charge of rape because the woman he had sex with forcibly happened to be his wife has once again brought this issue on rostrum. Section 376 of IPC provides punishment for rape. According to the section, the rapist should be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which...
The “Third” Gender
Transgenders are known by different names in South Asia. There is a misconception that they are "only men who have feminine gender identity, adopt feminine gender roles and wear women's clothing". But, in reality, the community is significantly more diverse than this notion.They were counted for the first time in the Census 2011, in which they constituted a separate category.This was the first step taken by the government to get this community some basic rights.The transgenders have been...
CLAT Preparations – A Few Pointers
Having worked really hard for your CLAT exams, there are not many things to be said and done here. But then the most important aspect of actually giving your exam is coming up. Therefore, we would like to give you a few pointers so that you can get results in consonance with the hard efforts that you have already put in.• Stay Positive: Do not waste your time thinking over failure or success. The job you have in your hand is to study hard. Do your duty with dedication and have faith in your...
Legal aspects of live-in relationship in India
India is a country of culture, religions and traditions and at the same time a country which is developing fast and embracing the global changes faster. A country which is still enveloped in its century old beliefs, but at the same time the country which is ever evolving and ever accepting towards the new trends and culture. These strikingly different aspects of the nation have successfully divided the country in two parts.While one part is running ahead in time ready to embrace the change, the...
What are the ways to define a law school?
Law school is a place which builds the mind. A place which teaches one not just to think but to think differently. During the 5 years here, we come across a sea of people. Whether you like or dislike it, but a law school can definitely offer a set of ostentatious and outstanding people concurrently. Here are a set of people I think there are in a law school –1.The SubhramaniamsThis group likes to see their future filled with a lot of academic accolades. They'll rather be with their books than...
Internship scamming and spamming
Law students were pioneer in the matter of internship. Internship is a rather new phenomenon here. There are a few professions in which there is mandatory internship – like to become a doctor you must intern at the end of medical college. However, rest of the students did not intern at all - and certainly not during each summer and winter holidays. It was only in 2012 that internship has been made mandatory for engineering students. Law students, however, especially those from top National Law...