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Are Model United Nations (MUNs) Important for a Law Student?
As a service provider, the lawyer has to obviously handle the business and the legal sides of a transaction. As a person the lawyer also needs to talk and interact and converse. (A company interacts, you know.) And he also needs to be very good at the negotiating table. MUNing will surely chisel a bit of these skills: interpersonal, negotiating skills etc.
Technogarble
I walk. Shuffling, measured steps. Straight line distances between
points of destiny. A rat in a cellophane maze. Another race. Another
Probability. The gods bet on me to lose. I walk.
Bad College, Bad Grades, Bad CV- The First Aid Kit For Legal Job Seekers
It will be him--brain, body and blood-- in the lawyer's office--cement, chairs and clerks--and he'll be putting his CV-page, prayer and ink- on the lawyer's desk. He'll talk to the lawyer about why he wants the internship. He'll treat it like an interview.
She Had Followed Her Dream: Veni Vidi Vici
She had followed her dream. A poem by Varsha Apte, a student at ILS Law College.
Amity Law School Delhi Student Journal’ Call for Papers; Special Focus on PIL
The Student Journal Society of Amity Law School, Delhi is starting a bi-annual student-edited, peer-reviewed law journal titled “THE ALSD STUDENT JOURNAL”. The journal welcomes submissions for Volume I Issue I to be released in April 2011. The issue will be multi-disciplinary with a special focus on "Public International Law".
In a Heartbeat…
A Poem by Anubhuti Sinha of NLSIU Bangalore
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In a heartbeat a bird sings
As clouds gather in the sky
In a heartbeat the rain pours
As the children gather to play
CV Of Indian Law Students: Argh! Lets Improve it by 5 Notches
What will the recruiter do with the DOB? Wish you on your birthday? I would have really loved to as a recruiter (if I ever don that hat); but well, I am sure you and your friends will have a blast among yourselves. At least for internship applications, such details are redundant.
The Unfortunate Indian: Maybe a Hindu or Maybe a Muslim
I don’t know the religion of my destiny
It may be a Hindu, may be a Muslim,
But dancing on the thorny road of life
I was surely an unfortunate Indian.
Strawberry Fields in Words & Pics- The Scoop from the NLS Bangalore Music Fest...
The Raghu Dixit Project had the crowd singing and dancing to their tunes, especially with their signature song, Hey Bhagwaan. The winners of Strawberry Fields were Goddess Gagged from Mumbai. They won themselves an all expenses paid tour of the country as part of the Hard Electric Tour 2010.
Pranay Bhatia- NLS Debate 2010 Champion: On Parliamentary Debates, Logic, Being Well Read and...
That's probably the only prerequisite, a curious mind
# You need to be well read to debate well
# By and large Parliamentary, I find it the most engaging form of debate - it allows for very little fluff and hiding behind confusing words.
# I'm a bit of a news junkie, so I read quite a bit - the daily newspaper (Indian Express is awesome), Time magazine, the New York Times website
HNLU, Raipur Gets its New Vice-Chancellor
Punjab University’s department of law chairman Prof. Paramjit S. Jaswal has been appointed as Vice-Chancellor of HNLU for a term of five years. He would be replacing Dr. Anand Pawar. Gambling in India: The Laws, Economics and The Lawyers
A typical gaming lawyer works in a casino or gambling works in the legal department of casino, gambling company, state gaming, gambling or lottery departments as consultants. Another important function of gaming lawyers includes lobbying with politicians urging for reforms in certain laws restricting gambling. Gaming lawyers also have to often lobby to get clearances for local gambling projects. Legal Poet on Legal Entrepreneurship: Damnity is the Only Way!
Damnity is the Only Way! But what is Damnity? Its saying "Ha!" to everything that holds you back. And then moving ahead to hold that thing in your hand and crush it
9th NLS Debate, 2010: IIT Bombay Wins, Pockets the 27000 Prize Money
The 9th NLS Debate that concluded yesterday in a grand finale witnessed some amazing debating. This is the sub-continent’s biggest parliamentary debating tournament and this year saw 58 teams participating over five days in an intensive competition. IDIA Announces its Internship Program- Educate the Underpriveleged, Help Legal Education
It must be noted that IDIA Hyderabad has conducted sensitization programs and aptitude tests for the disabled students at Sai Junior College founded by the Devnar Foundation for the Blind and teaching these students should be, as the IDIA blog post puts it, "a self discovery".
Legal Internship Advice: Bend Like the Willow, Don’t Resist Like the Oak
An internship at a start-up might turn you into an entrepreneur and a mid-sized organisation will show you the magic of the 'compromised cubicle comfort'. A RelationShip comes before an InternShip. Learn to see the Ship's size and know what will sink you and what will be your saviour.
Interview- Aditya Sondhi on Litigation as a Career, Intellectual Growth and NLU’ Students
Aditya Sondhi wears many hats. His contemporaries respect him for his legal prowess. Those who have heard him in courts have high regards for his top notch oratory skills. He is a fabulous writer with a book called 'Unfinished Symphony' published. Our readers who like good writing must read this piece called 'Tipsy takes it on the chin' published in Deccan Herald. Mr. Sondhi is a brilliant law teacher too.
Presenting the 9th NLS Debate 2010: The Home of Indian Debating
The 9th edition of the NLS Debate kicked off today at the NLSIU campus.
Deciding Between the NGO and the Fat Pay Check
On one hand, everyone keeps bragging about India being the youngest nation in the world and how the youth-power can help change the destiny of the country but on the other hand, when someone is genuinely trying to make a difference, he/she has to meet with such brutal words?
Interview-NALSAR’s Rhode’s Scholar Shreya Atrey: Choose With Guts Not With the Herd
Needless to say the vision expressed in the Will of the founder is paramount. Thus, literary and scholastic attainments; fondness of and success in outdoor sports; exhibition of moral force of character and leadership qualities - all need to be reasonably demonstrated in an application. More importantly I have been very thoughtful about my choices while at law school—it’s important to choose with gut not with herd.
NUJS-Max Planck Workshop on Innovation, Creativity and IP Policy-Register Soon!
Registration fee has been waived for students registered for courses at any university. According to information received by Lawctopus certificates will be provided to the students attending the workshop. The students will have to take care of their own accommodation and food. The workshop promises an exciting two days of lively IP, trade and competition law discussions.
Interview: Gautam Bhatia- NLSIU Student, Rhodes Scholar 2011
Two fifth year students- Shreya Atrey from NALSAR and Gautam Bhatia from NLSIU have won the coveted Rhodes Scholarship for 2011 which entitles them to pursue a law course for one year at the University of Oxford.
Raghavendra Patnaik: As a sports lawyer the first challenge is to justify your existence
Patnaik's tryst with sports law began in the 5th year of his law school. Today it has grown into a long standing relationship and yes, of course, a full fledged career. Aspiring sports lawyers will surely enjoy his 'straight from the heart' responses to our questionnaire.
1 Month and 28 Days! What Law College Has Taught Me!
#When life throws lemons at you, throw some eggs back and then make lemonade. #People in college love spike busters! (They love them enough to steal them). #The world's favourite exercise is jumping to conclusions. #Rumors are food for thought and air for life.