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Scoring for Education: IDIA Charity Football Tournament
IDIA (Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access to Legal Education), a pan India movement to give proper training to underprivileged children and help them become leading lawyers and community advocates will be starting a 6 a side football tournament to raise funds for children studying at the prestigious National Law Universities and the other leading colleges in India.The IDIA football league 2014 will be held on 6th and 7th of September, 2014 at the Kamala Mills Compound in Mumbai with...
Prof. S.D Rao named new VC of National Law University, Odisha
Noted academician Prof. Srikrishna Deva Rao will take over as the new Vice Chancellor of National Law University(NLU), Odisha situated in Cuttack. Sources have also informed that earlier the proposal to appoint Prof. Rao had come from NLU chancellor and Chief Justice of the Odisha High Court and this has been accepted by the state government.Along with a PG degree in Law from Kakatiya university, he is also a master of Philosophy in Law from National Law School of India University (NLSIU),...
NUALS, Kochi inaugurates Centre for Women and Family Studies
The National University of Advanced Legal Studies, Kochi has inaugurated the Centre for Women and Family Studies.The Chief Guest was Hon’ble Mr. Justice K. T. Thomas, former Judge of the Supreme Court of India, who elucidated upon the important provisions providing protection to women against sexual offences. He also impressed upon those present, S. 96 of IPC, which states that nothing is an offence which is done in exercise of Right to Private DefenceThe inaugural function was presided over by...
IDIA Scholars Shine; Eight make it to NLUs and Two to Nirma University
In times when law aspirants are striving hard to secure their seat in NLUs, the IDIA scholars have already managed to imprint a mark, by successfully securing their seats in the much desired NLUs. IDIA has, since its inception, managed to send their students to NLUs. It continues the trend this year as well. Out of the 24 scholars trained by IDIA, 8 have cracked CLAT and secured admission to the various NLU's while two IDIA scholars made it to the Nirma Institute of Law.Here is the list of...
Legally Yours and Achievers Guild jointly launches India Law Schools Index
Legally Yours and Achievers Guild, Bhopal has jointly launched India Law School Index [ILSI], a complete free database of all Indian law colleges. Approximately 33,000 students appeared for CLAT 2014 and the results are out. While around 1800 students will make it to the National Law Schools, rest of them will be looking for options. ILSI aims to facilitate and help them in informed decision making, by preparing a list of law schools in the country with relevant information.The ILSI 2014...
Connecting legal profession to the fourth estate.
Law and journalism are two fields which demand up-to-date knowledge in this proliferating world. Neither of them is stagnant and obsolete. You think legal profession is only meant to argue in courts. Well then sooner or later it will dawn upon you that legal field has no periphery. It is as vast as any field could possibly be. Legal Journalism is one of the possibilities. Legal Journalism is worth a try for those media freaks who breathe law and never give news a miss. Legal Journalism does not...
Lawyers Collective Initiative on Patent Status Information
Lawyers Collective, a leading public interest service provider has come up with an innovative initiative by creating a searchable patent information status for key medicines in India. The patent status information of all robust patent applications will be made available. The available details include the drug name, patent application number and name, title, date of priority, status of the application, date of filing, first examination report etc. Â It is created by collecting information from...
Jindal Global Law School winners of prestigious 7th edition of the Monroe Price Media Law Moot Court Competition
The winners in the finals of the International Rounds of the Price Media Law Moot Court Competition hosted by the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford is a team from the Jindal Global Law School of the O.P. Jindal Global University in Sonipat, comprising of students Mohana Krishna C., BaniBrar and RonakTalati. The students of Jindal Global Law School won against the team from the University of Oxford in the finals; Queen Mary University in the semi-finals and Singapore Management...
India will now have its own Standardized Legal Citation System
Standard Indian Legal Citation (SILC) is an India-centric citation system. It has the edge of a single citation methodology including India’s legal traditions and history.In the past 5 years, the Indian law schools have witnessed an upsurge in academic journals. The introduction of SILC will unite all academics, professionals, and students across the nation in research practices.SILC also cites various Indian legal sources and material which are not covered by foreign citation guides....
Oxford University disconnects all links from Oxford University Society India Moot Competition
Oxford University has issued a statement on the 19th of March in response to the complaints regarding the conduct of the Oxford University Society India Moot Competition by the participants. In an email sent by Stephen Rouse, Head of News & Information Office, Oxford University, it was clarified that the event was not organized by the University but by the Oxford University Society India alumni group.The statement mentioned that, “We are ourselves urgently investigating competitors’ concerns...
Microsoft India funds an Intellectual Property Law Chair in Gujarat National Law University: First of its kind initiative in an NLU
Gujarat National Law University (GNLU) is the chosen one for a first of its kind initiative in a National Law University by Microsoft India, the global computer giant.Microsofthas decided to set up a chair for intellectual property in GNLU to unleash research in the area by some of the brightest legal minds of the country.The big announcement came at a rather opportune moment,viz., at the ‘Seminar on Importance of IT Compliance in the Automobile Industry-Benefits of Strengthening your Supply...
Plea for bail rejected; AMU Professor to be jailed in sexual harassment case
The Chairman of Department of Law, Aligarh Muslim University, who was booked and placed under suspension after a complaint of sexual harassment by a student, was sent to jail after his bail plea was rejected. The matter is now scheduled to be taken up in the court of the Additional District Judge.The accused, Prof Shabbir was suspended in the first week of December following a charge of sexual harassment of a girl student. On December 3, the girl, studying LLM, had alleged that the professor had...