Musings on India, the law, and policy
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 30th, 2010
Shambo Nandy, part of a group of students and faculty from NUJS that has preferred a complaint against the purportedly flawed Law School rankings in India Today and Outlook to the Press Council of India, explains the reasons for the same. At NUJS, we had hoped that the 2010 rankings in different magazines would give [...]
Posted in Court on Jun 4th, 2010
Turns out that two thirds of Americans cannot name even one Supreme Court justice. Their knowledge of the law, too, leaves much to be desired. For example, a 2006 survey found that only 28% of Americans can name two or more First Amendment rights; on the plus side, the same study found that 52% can [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 30th, 2010
(Siddharth Rao, former associate at Wadia Ghandy & Co, and currently Manager (Legal) at Samhita Social Ventures Pvt. Ltd., pens a blinder on the ‘utility’ of voluntary unemployment) After the flurry of activity that was the life of a corporate lawyer, my first month of unemployment posed a new stress. Questions relating to self worth [...]
Posted in Constitution, Court on May 21st, 2010
If Elena Kagan’s nomination to the US Supreme Court is confirmed by the Senate, the Court will comprise Justices who are all either from Harvard or Yale. Naturally, there has been intense debate on whether the Supreme Court is being fortified in an exclusionary philosophy that favours products of elite, expensive Ivy League education – [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 12th, 2009
Congratulations are due to Aditya, after he has been selected along with four other students from India for the Rhodes Scholarships. Aditya is NALSAR’s third Rhodes Scholar and will be pursuing the BCL Course at Oxford from October 2010. Both NALSAR and NLSIU have Rhodes Scholars Elect this year, with V.Niranjan being selected from Bangalore. [...]
Posted in india on Sep 19th, 2009
Here’s an extract from the Hindu Open Page, on the problems facing National Law Schools today (written by Andrew Fernandes) – …Another reality is that except some of the older NLSs, most of them have failed to make a substantial mark for themselves. They face problems ranging from a lack of adequate infrastructure to a [...]