We congratulate the team comprising Manya (II Year), Urvesha Navghare (II Year) and Rashi (II Year) emerged as the winner of 15th GNLU International Moot Court Competition. Manya has been awarded as the Best Speaker in the final rounds of the competition.
We congratulate the team comprising of Apohan Pareek (II Year), Bhasvar Adlakha (II Year), Sparsh Gautam (II Year), Vasushrava Mahipal (III Year) and Vedant Jha (II Year) emerged as the Runners-Up and has been awarded with the Best Memorial Award at 65th Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition (India Qualifying Rounds). Bhasvar Adlakha and Vedant Jha have additionally been awarded 6th Place and 7th Place Oralist at the Preliminary Stage.
It is our pleasure to inform you that NLUD team comprising Aparna Krishna Kumar (Year III), Ayan Gupta (Year II) and Ghanavi Umesh (Year II) has been declared as the Winning Team at the 25th Stetson International Environmental Law Moot Court Competition Surana & Surana Indian National Rounds.
This year’s problem was based at the intersection of international environmental law, public international law and international trade law, focussing on ‘Protection of Bats and International Trade Measures’. The team worked extremely hard on their arguments in the past months which culminated in this success.
Ayan Gupta was adjudged as the Best Student Advocate in the competition as well as the Best Oralist in the Final Rounds. They were also adjudged to have the 3rd Best Memorials in the competition. With this result, they have qualified for the international rounds of the competition hosted by Stetson University, Florida to be held on 25 March – 27 March 2021.
We are delighted to share the success of the team and congratulate everyone involved in ensuring that we make it to the international rounds after a long hiatus of 8 years. We wish the team the best for the international rounds and hope that their performance will encourage other mooters as well.
National Law University Delhi is proud to share that our final year student Ms. Anupriya Dhonchak has been awarded the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship for the year 2021.
The entire NLU Delhi family congratulates Ms. Anupriya Dhonchak for this stellar achievement and wishes her tremendous success in her academic pursuits at the University of Oxford.
Anupriya has worked on action-oriented policy projects concerning rights of survivors of sexual violence, women prisoners and issues of reproductive justice. She has been published by the Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law and Justice and recently, co-authored a book chapter with Prof Carys Craig on a feminist reimagination of moral rights in copyright law. Currently, she is a fellow at SpicyIP and a teaching assistant for Intellectual Property at NLUD. She is interested in the intersection of issues of equality law and free speech with intellectual property. She has also played 5 national badminton championships throughout middle school and high school.
This is the second Rhodes Scholarship being awarded to NLU Delhi. In 2016, Ms. Rishika Sahgal (Batch of 2015) went to the University of Oxford as the first recipient of the Rhodes Scholarship from NLU Delhi. She is currently reading for the D.Phil. in Law at the University of Oxford.
NLU Delhi is proud to announce that a team comprising of its students from the third year, namely Priyamvada Kaushik and Preksha Sharma, was adjudged as Runners-up in the ‘2nd Link Legal Client Counselling Competition’ held at NLIU Bhopal, from September 6 to 8, 2019. They were awarded a trophy and a cash prize of INR 21,000, at the valedictory ceremony of the competition.
The National Law University, Delhi organized 2nd Nation Wide Competition on ‘Constitutional and Legal Rights of Women’ for students of the university in collaboration with National Commission of Women on 6th December, 2018. The competition saw participation of around 35 students in an hour long written test comprising of Multiple Choice Questions competition on various laws dealing with women issues.
The winners are:
1st Prize (one only) – Tushar – 7th Semester- 75BALLB15 [cash prize Rs 2000/-]
2nd Prize( one only)- Pragya Dwivedi-7th Semester 53BALLB15 [cash prize Rs 1500/-]
3rd Prize (five) – [cash prize Rs 1000/- each]
Preetam Bharti- 9th Semester- 45BALLB14
Aditya Anand- 5th Semester-7LLB16
Atul- 5th Semester- 29BALLB16
Aditendra Singh- 1st Semester- 3LLB18
Naman Agarwal- 1st Semester- 46
Mr. Puneet Dinesh, third year student of B.A LL.B (Hons.) programme at NLU Delhi has been adjudged as the winner of Kachwaha & Partners 5th Arbitration Excel essay writing competition. Mr. Puneet Dinesh being the 1st prize winner in the said competition won a cash prize of Rs. 1 Lakh .
The results page of the essay writing competition could be accessed here: http://www.kaplegal.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=71&Itemid=67
The abstract of the essay could be accessed here: http://www.kaplegal.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=70&Itemid=68
A team consisting of Sanya Sud, Saniya Sharma, Dev Dutta Mukhopadhyay and Hardik Singh from NLU, Delhi participated in the 11th ICC Mediation Competition, 2016, held in Paris and received Best Mediation Advocacy Award from ICC besides receiving excellent feedback from judges.
The University Administration hereby congratulates these studentsfor their achievement and for bringing laurels to the University.
The conference theme is “Insolvency Ecosystems In Emerging Markets”. The conference will be open to full-time academics, part-time researchers, as well as practitioners, regulators, judges, and policymakers.
We encourage submissions adopting a comparative approach, as well as papers presenting outcomes of interdisciplinary studies on insolvency and restructuring that bring insights from different disciplines, including law, economics, finance, psychology, management, and social sciences.
The conference theme is “Insolvency Ecosystems In Emerging Markets”. The conference will be open to full-time academics, part-time researchers, as well as practitioners, regulators, judges, and policymakers.
We are interested in papers on the following topic:
1.Insolvency Law in emerging economies
2.Distressed mergers & acquisition
3.Alternative Dispute Resolution and Insolvency
4.Harmonization of Insolvency Law
5.Corporate groups and Insolvency
6.ESG and Insolvency
Submission timelines:
1. Submissions open by 30th March 2024
2. Abstract submission (800 words) by 30th April 2024
3. Announcement of Acceptance 30th May 2024
4. Final submission by 30th July 2024
5. Date of conference 5th August 2024
Huge congratulations to the NLU Delhi team for their stellar performance at the 65th Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition 2024! Apohan Pareek, Bhasvar Adlakha, Sparsh Gautam, Vasushrava Mahipal, and Vedant represented our university with remarkable skill and dedication.
They secured the Runners-up position at the India Qualifying Rounds and clinched the award for the Best Memorial. Additionally, Bhasvar and Vedant shone bright, securing the 6th and 7th Place respectively in the Oralist Awards.
Advancing to the White & Case International Rounds in Washington D.C., USA, they made history as Quarter-finalists, standing out as the sole Indian team among 150 participants from around the globe. The team also had the highest raw points in the preliminary rounds.
Not stopping there, they swept top honors at the International Rounds and in a rare achievement, won both the Alona E. Evans Award for the Best Team Memorials at the International Rounds and the Hardy C. Dillard Award for the Best Team Combined Memorials. Their combined memorial score was a remarkable 574/600.
Applause to Apohan and Bhasvar for ranking among the top 100 speakers in the competition. This phenomenal performance marks a milestone for our university at the Jessup moot!
The Legal Services Committee and the Legal Aid Cell (LAC) initiated an awareness campaign about the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994, in compliance with the directives of the Delhi High Court in the case of Manoj Krishan Ahuja v. State of NCT of Delhi (Neutral Citation No. 2023:DHC:2718). This campaign included a session tailored for the housekeeping and security staff at NLUD.
During this session, Dr. Jasper Vikas, Assistant Professor of Law, elucidated the provisions of the Act to the attendees. Additionally, LAC Volunteers Aditya and Adrija briefed the staff on government welfare schemes and the Prevention of Sexual Harassment (POSH) Act.
National Law University Delhi Library under the aegis of Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) organized “Two Day Seminar on Changing Landscape of Scholarly Writings and Publications” during 24-25 March 2017. There were eight technical sessions having invited talk and panel discussion on emerging topics of publication landscape in academia.
Session 1 – Publishing Pattern in Academic World: Doctoral Thesis to Journal Articles
Session 2 – Mapping the Publishing Landscape
Session 3 – Publishing Ethics: A Fair Play Game
Session 4 – Discernment the Process of Peer Review: Resubmission, Revision to Rejection
Session 5 – Measuring Impact Factor and Citation Analysis: What and How
Session 6 – Effective Research Methods: Tools and Techniques
Session 7 – Challenges in the Growth of IR and Open Access Publishing
Session 8 – Contract, Royalties and Copyright in Digital Repositories
The seminar emphasized upon the process behind publication of scholarship for aspirant scholars. It is realized that nowadays methods of writings have been changed and it has created a lot of opportunities as well as threats. There is lack of training in our academic curriculum for developing writing and publication skills. The seminar was designed with these insights. It was inaugurated with welcome address of Prof. (Dr.) K.P.S. Mahalwar, Chair Professor in Professional Ethics, NLU Delhi on behalf of Prof. Ranbir Singh, V.C. NLU Delhi. After welcome remarks Dr. Priya Rai, Deputy Librarian introduced about the conference. Inaugural address was delivered by Prof. M.P. Singh, Former Vice Chancellor, NUJS Kolkata and Former Chairperson, Delhi Judicial Academy. Index to Indian and Foreign Legal Articles was inaugurated. Keynote Address was delivered by Mr. NJP Shilohu Rao, General Manager, National eGovernance Division, Digital India. At the end of inaugural session Dr. Akash Singh narrated the vote of thanks.
The valedictory session was graced with the presence of Hon’ble Vice Chancellor Prof. Ranbir Singh. Valedictory address was narrated by Dr. Manoj Kumar Patairiya, Director, NISCAIR-CSIR. Keynote address was delivered by Prof. Thomas J Stipanowich, William H. Webster Chair in Dispute Resolution and Professor of Law, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA. Prof. Ranbir Singh raised very serious concern over the quality of writing and publication by students as well as faculty. He strongly advocated that awareness seminar of this kind should be conducted at regular intervals for the enhancement and promotion of legal research. Dr. Priya Rai briefed the recommendations of the seminar. Lastly, Prof. Bajpai emphasized that writing is a creative process and a powerful medium which can change the course of civilization and thanked everyone for being part of the seminar.
National Law University Delhi – Justice T.P.S. Chawla Library
National Law University Delhi under the aegis of Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) organized a “Workshop on Plagiarism and Academic Integrity among Research Community” on 30th November 2015. The workshop emphasised over various issues relating to plagiarism and academic ethics. The term “plagiarism” knots ‘copying other work’ without assigning proper credentials to original author or contributors. The objectives of the conference was to provide outline on general facts on plagiarism, make awareness on consequences on plagiarism and to provide hands on session on plagiarism detection software. More than 50 research scholars participated in the workshop from various law departments. Prof. (Dr.) G.S. Bajpai, Professor of Law and Registrar under his inaugural address pointed out that plagiarism is primarily a moral and ethical issue among the research community. He further advocated the researching is an art and the researcher should maintain academic integrity with proper attributing the original source.
The workshop proceeded with number of lectures on Increasing Trends of Plagiarism in Scholarly Communication: Is It Ignorance or Mensrea by Dr. Priya Rai; Legal Consequences of Plagiarism by Dr. Arul George Scaria; Plagiarism and Ethical Practices: GGSIP University Initiatives with National Perspective by Dr. Anand P. Singh, Deputy Librarian form Gurugobind Singh Indraprastha University and A hands-on training session to understand the use of Anti- Plagiarism software by Ms. Chander Kala Chauhan, Trainer-Turnitin. The seminar concluded with concerns, issues and questions raised by participants on the dire problem of plagiarism that has plagued the academic institutions throughout the world.
The Library of the University organized Library Orientation Programme educating newly admitted students for use of library resources. Online Databases representatives were called to provide hands on session to the students for better utilization of digital resources subscribed by the University. Students were also informed about the public domain resources facilitating access of legal and law related information.
National Law University, Delhi hosted the Library and Information Professional Summit 2015 in association with the Society for Library Professionals, UN Information Centre for India and Bhutan and Special Library Association (SLA)- Asian Chapter. The theme of the Conference was “Transforming Dimensions of IPR: Challenges for New Age Libraries
The conference was inaugurated with lighting of the lamp by the Chief Guest hon’ble Mr. Justice A.P. Shah, Chairman, Law Commission of India, In his inaugural address, Justice Shah appreciated the library fertility in discussing copyright issues for supporting academic and research community. He also stressed the development of libraries in all types of institutes for better information services. He praised Justice T.P.S. Chawla Library to help him in a number of proposals and assignment on socio-legal issues. Hon’ble Mr. Justice Ravindra Bhat delivered a keynote address on various IPR issues. The conference was concluded with the following findings
National Law University Delhi Library implemented Remote Access of the databases subscribed by the University. The Remote Access Portal was inaugurated by Prof. (Dr.) Ranbir Singh, Vice Chancellor, NLU, Delhi in presence of Prof. (Dr.) G.S. Bajpai, Professor and Registrar, NLU, Delhi. The facility is beneficial for enrolled students and faculty members of the University to access enabling them to access IP based databases from any corner of the world.
National Law University, Delhi organized its first International Conference on Access to Legal Information & Research in Digital Age in association with SAARCLAW & Mohan Law House from 29th February to 02nd March 2012. The conference was inaugurated in the presence of ho’ble Mr. Justice D.K. Jain, Judge, Supreme Court of India and Visitor, NLU, Delhi, ho’ble Mr. Justice A.K. sikiri, Acting Chief Justice, Delhi High Court & Chancellor, NLU, Delhi, Prof. (Dr.) Ranbir Singh, Vice Chancellor, NLU, Delhi and Mr. Hemant Batra, Secretary General SAARCLAW.
The following recommendations were the outcomes during the deliberation of the technical sessions.
The conference was concluded in the presence of Chief Guest-Hon’ble Justice Tshering Wangchuk, Judge Supreme Court of Bhutan. Prizes for Best Paper in the catagories of Students and Faculty/Librarian along with best poster were awarded by the hon’ble Judge at the valedictory session.
National Law University Delhi inaugurated the launch of Legal Information Institute of India (LII of India) at Vigyan Bhawan on May 01, 2010. Prof. Graham Greenleaf, Profess of Law,Director, LII and Austad explained the working and content coverage of the Virtual databases facilitating free access to legal information.
Prior to the launch, a meeting of the heads of the member institutions were arranged at National Law University Delhi to finalize the launching of the web portal.
Justice T.P.S. Chawla Library of National Law University Delhi was inaugurated by Hon’ble Justice Mr. Deepak Mishra, the then Hon’ble Chief Justice of Delhi High Court on 14th August 2010. Hon’ble Justice Mr. A.K. Sikri, Judge Delhi High Court and Hon’ble Justice Ms. Geeta Mittal, Judge, Delhi High Court were also graced the event by presence.
Centre for Environmental, Law, Policy and Research (CELPR) at National Law University Delhi organized the inaugural session of its talk series “EcoEcho” titled “What counts as Climate Change in India on 6th March, 2024.
The Guest Speaker for the Session was Mr. Shashikant Yadav from University of Surrey whose profound insights into multi-level regulatory frameworks and the new Climate Law paradigm enriched our discussion. The session highlighted the influence of Global South perspectives and advocated for a more nuanced understanding rooted in India’s distinctive context.
National Law University with the YourDost team, under the aegis of IQAC, organized an on-campus A Happiness Bootcamp on 7th March 2024. The event was conducted by Ms. Yashica Jain from the YourDost team. A happiness booth was set up outside the University cafeteria offering the students an enriching opportunity to participate in two mental health activities:
The Happiness Meter: Measure your happiness on the go!
The boot camp had a unique activity designed to help one reevaluate their real-time happiness levels and begin their path towards joy.
A happiness meter device was used to test the stress levels of the participants using the biomarkers of physical stress and happiness. Upon achieving a score from 1 to 100 on the happiness index where a score of 1 denotes the happiest of mind and a score of 100, denotes an extremely stressed state of mind, the participants got valuable insights from the guest psychologist on how to boot their happiness levels and reduce their stress such as practicing mindfulness, breathing exercises, freewriting techniques and reflective exercises.
Know Your Personality
In the walk-in booth, the QR code for an image-based personality test was displayed, the students scanned the code and took the personality test in which they were shown a series of images followed by questions about each image. The participants completed the test by choosing the most apt option according to them. On completion, they were shown the results through which they learned about their personal strengths and other insights about their characteristics.
Around 230 students participated in the event which went on for 2 hours. The participants were also provided with an informative handout about reducing stress and simple ways to boost one’s happiness.
We are glad to share that NLUD Probono Club organised a legal awareness camp at the senior secondary school, village Besai on 2nd March 2024.
The students were made aware of the “Right to Equal Access to Justice”, “Nyaya Bandhu ProBono App and the IDIA Scheme for Studying Law.
The event was coordinated by NLUD Probono Club uder the supervision of Faculty Coordinator Dr. Bharti Yadav and NLUD students Yogesh, Paril, Anshima, Ashwin and Yasi.
National Law University Delhi has retained the second spot in the Law Category, in the latest National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) Rankings released on Monday, 5 June 2023. This is the 6th time in a row that NLU Delhi has retained this spot.
The narrative of Eklavya, derived from the ancient Indian epic Mahabharata, serves as a timeless representation of exemplary discipleship. Eklavya, who was initially denied the opportunity to learn the art of archery by a renowned master, took it upon himself to acquire the skill outside the confines of the traditional “Gurukul”- an esteemed institution of learning.
The primary objective of the University is to evolve and impart comprehensive and interdisciplinary legal education that is socially relevant.
The primary objective of the University is to evolve and impart comprehensive and interdisciplinary legal education that is socially relevant.
