ILNU Holds Workshop On Agrarian Crisis In India

The Institute of Law, Nirma University, through its Centre for Social Justice (CSJ-ILNU), conducted a one-day workshop on ‘Agrarian Crisis in India: Challenges and Way Forward’ on 1st October, 2018.The workshop was open for students and faculty of Nirma University and there was participation from the undergraduate law students of Nirma Institute of Law, along with students from Nirma Institute of Technology, Management and Architecture. The workshop included sessions from five experts working as...

‘Aadhaar Defanged But Not Destroyed’: Senior Advocate Shyam Divan At GNLU Open House Session

The GNLU Centre for Law and Society organised an Open House session on ‘The Right to Privacy and Aadhaar Scheme’, with Mr. Shyam Divan, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India sharing his insights on the topic ‘Liberty, Privacy and Aadhaar: Has the Supreme Court Ushered In A Surveillance Society?’In the course of his address, he shared a personal experience from a visit to a school in a village in Jharkhand, where failures of the fingerprint authentication system were creating ghosts, against...

RGNUL Wins National Rounds Of Henry Dunant Memorial Moot

Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab, has won the India National Rounds of the 18th Henry Dunant Memorial Moot Court Competition. The team comprising Adweitya Grover, Ushashi Dutta and Sugandha Sawhney representing Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab, was adjudged the winners.The team will now be representing India in the regional rounds in Tehran.The India National Rounds of 18th Henry Dunant Memorial Moot Court Competition 2018 were hosted by the Indian Society of...

Battle Against Sec. 377 Had Been Awaiting Its Win For Long: Justice VK Shukla at Lloyd’s Let’s Talk-Series 2

 ‘One’s sexual orientation is one’s choice and it should be respected,” said Justice VK Shukla (Retd.), while speaking at Let’s Talk-Series 2 on Saturday (29th September). The Let’s Talk-Series 2 was organised by Lloyd Law College in Greater Noida to question and celebrate the partial reading down of Section 377 of IPC.Lloyd Law College organized a panel discussion with Justice VK Shukla (Retd.) and Supreme Court lawyers Subash Chandra Vashishtha and Sanjay Vashishtha. The discussion was...

Open House With Mr. Shyam Divan At GNLU [Sep 29]

The Centre for Law & Society at Gujarat National Law University is holding an Open House Session with Mr. Shyam Divan, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India. The session would be on ‘Right to Privacy and the Aadhaar Scheme’.Date: September 29, 2018Venue: Orientation Hall, Administrative Block, Gujarat National Law UniversityTime: 11:30 AM to 1 PMQueries can be addressed to gcls@gnlu.ac.in or to Mr. Zaid Deva at +(91)-9419061802.

SPIL To Hold Lecture On Laws Of War By Prof. Kishu Daswani On Friday

The Students for the Promotion of International Law (SPIL), Mumbai, will hold a lecture on Laws of War by Prof. Kishu Daswani on Friday evening at Government Law College, Mumbai.Prof. Kishu Daswani has been teaching Law at Government Law College, Mumbai for the past 25 years. He has been a Faculty Advisor and is responsible for the continuous publication of the Law Review, academic journal of the college. Also, he is the founding member and the coordinator for the Securities Law course at GLC...

ILNU Conducts Lecture On Gender Sensitive Campus

The Women Development Cell, Nirma University, recently organised the first lecture under the Distinguished Lecture Series, on ‘Towards a Gender Sensitive Campus’. The lecture was held on Saturday at the Institute of Law campus.The Distinguished Lecture Series, being conducted under the aegis of the Women Development Cell, aims to create an environment of learning from the rich experience of expert resource persons in the field of gender issues and women development. These lectures will be...

ILNU Hosts Workshop On International Commercial Arbitration

A Workshop on International Commercial Arbitration was organised by the Centre for ADR, Institute of Law, Nirma University from 15th to 17th September. The inaugural ceremony was presided by Prof. William Fox, Former Dean and Professor of Law, Columbus Law School, Washington DC. Prof. Fox discussed the fundamentals of arbitration as to what arbitration is and its origination. He also discussed how arbitration has evolved over the period of time and provided statistics to showcase the growth of...

ILNU To Conduct Various International Courses And Lectures In September

Institute of Law, Nirma University (ILNU), in September, is organising various lectures and certificate courses by the professors of international repute. In the list of events, the first one was a lecture by Prof. Stephen Barnes, Assistant Dean, Graduate and International Programs, Penn State Law on the topic ‘U.S. Constitution and Impeachment Powers’, where he discussed that US constitution has very vaguely left the impeachment process undefined as to how high should a crime be so that a...

Admission Test For NLU Delhi (AILET 2019) On May 5

National Law University Delhi has announced the date for the All India Law Entrance Test 2019. The exam will be conducted on a nation-wide level for admission to its B.A.LL.B. (Hons.), LL.M. and Ph.D. Programmes.Date: Sunday, 5th May 2019Time: 3:00 to 4:40 PMThe admission notification will be issued in the first week of January 2019 and the Online Application Forms will be available on the University website from the first week of January 2019.The official notification can be accessed here.

NLIU Organises 1st Link Legal National Client Counselling Competition

The Moot Court Association of National Law Institute University (NLIU), Bhopal, organised the 1st NLIU Link Legal National Client Counselling Competition from 7th to 9th September at the varsity campus.Twenty law schools across India participated in the event.The opening ceremony (7th September) had the gracious presence of Justice Alok Verma (Retd.), former judge, Madhya Pradesh High Court as the chief guest. On the second day of the event, Justice Navin Sinha, judge, Supreme Court of India,...

Lloyd Law College Bags Institutional Excellence Award 2018

Lloyd Law College, Greater Noida, has been awarded the Institutional Excellence Award 2018. Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu handed over the award to Lloyd President Manohar Thairani at the 10th Law Teacher’s Day ceremony in New Delhi recently. The award ceremony was graced by Chief Justice of India Deepak Misra.The Society of Indian Law Firms and the Menon Institute of Legal Advocacy Training selected Lloyd as the institution providing excellent legal education for the year 2018.Padma Shri Prof....