Guest Post By Tony Anghie [Professor V.S. Mani passed away on August 22, 2016. This is a solicited guest post by Professor Antony Anghie of the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore, who is …
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Tag: Legal Education and Research
Legal Education: Protesting the BCI’s Consultative Deficit
Mainstream media has been abuzz with news of a paralytic strike by the Bar Council of India (BCI), protesting against the divestiture of their control over legal education via the proposed Higher Education and Research …
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Legal Education in India
By Arushi Garg Recently, in an interview of Professor Upendra Baxi, the Rainmaker explored the condition of legal education in India, and his sustained endeavours to make legal education in India socially relevant. Professor Baxi’s …
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Guest Post: Is the Binayak Sen Case really an anomaly?
This guest post has been contributed by Sidharth Chauhan, who is currently a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. The initial outrage at the conviction of Dr. Binayak Sen and two others …
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Access to Quality Legal Education: 3 vs 5 Years?
I’m pleased to bring you a guest post from Kshitij Malhotra on a topic close to my heart. As Kshitij rightly argues, we need to create more 3 year programs of a quality that matches …
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Recent legal scholarship on India and South Asia
Several law journals are continuing to post their content online for free. Here are some recent issues of interest: i) The NALSAR Law Review’s latest issue features articles by student authors on issues relating to …
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Entrance Examinations and Access to Legal Education
The Law Minister recently announced that all law schools and colleges would have a common entrance test (CET) to admit candidates. Given that there around 900 law schools and colleges throughout India, I’m not entirely …
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Raising the Indian “Bar”: Legality and Feasibility of a Proposed Exam
Despite being passed in December 2009, a Supreme Court judgment with tremendous ramifications for the practice of law came to our notice only recently. In Bar Council of India v. Bonnie Foi Law College, Justice …
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Bar Council of India vs Bonnie FOI Law College and Ors
Petition(s) for Special Leave to Appeal (Civil) No(s).22337/2008 (From the judgement and order dated 17/03/2008 in WP No.13698/2007 of the HIGH COURT OF M.P. AT JABALPUR) BAR COUNCIL OF INDIA: Petitioner(s) VERSUS BONNIE FOI LAW …
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Legal Search Tools in India
A new blog – Legal Research India – was recently brought to my attention. Created by Arjun Sheoran, a student a NLSIU, it looks like a welcome new legal research tool that not only searches …
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