There is an urgent need for reforming legal education in the country as its quality is being affected due to the mushrooming of law colleges, two Supreme Court judges said on Saturday. I do believewe are churning out too many lawyers without any analysis of the number of lawyers required, Justice S K Kaul said. He said the quality of legal education has suffered as a result of a large number of not so great law colleges and the crying need of the hour was to see how legal education can be improved. Similar issues were also raised by senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi.
New Delhi, Jan 20 (IANS) Supreme Court judge Justice N.V. Ramanna, along with three other judges of the apex court Justice Surya Kant, Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice D.Y. Chandrachud will release The Law of Emergency Powers: Comparative Common Law Perspectives authored by Abhishek Singhvi and Khagesh Gautam and published by Springer on January 23.
The NRC in Assam doesn’t just violate human rights of millions – it also breaks international law
India has defaulted on its international obligations by interning people in detention centres and depriving them of their right to nationality. Money Sharma/AFP
More than a year since the final list of Assam’s National Register of Citizens was released on August 31, 2019, the government has neither formally notified itnor issued orders to reject it. This has left the 1,906,657 excluded persons and their families in a state of excruciating uncertainty. Without the orders, they cannot appeal against their exclusion.
The government defends the National Register of Citizens as a mechanism to identify undocumented migrants, particularly Bangladeshis, but at the diplomatic level, it maintains that the register is a purely internal matter. Operating detention centres in a legal vacuum, it interned thousands of people declared as foreigners. And had it not been for successive court
upGrad records 100% growth since start of the fiscal year
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The edtech major crossed 1 million learners in 5 years & aims to reach the next million in 18 months; Targets INR 2500 crore Revenue run-rate for FY’22
upGrad, India’s largest higher edtech, crossed 1 million total registered LifeLongLearners on its platform recently. The milestone announcement came along with the reporting of the Q3 financial result, where upGrad clocked its highest-ever revenue in a single quarter. It has grown 100% in the last 9 months from the start of the financial year. Till March 2020, the higher edtech leader had 500K learners on its platform and within three quarters it doubled the number to reach 1 million. With this momentum and its growth plans, upGrad forecasts impacting the careers of the next one million youth & working professionals within the next 18 months.
A Master of Laws degree (LL.M.) polishes a legal professional’s knowledge of the subject, thereby making them a subject matter expert. With the cut-throat competition that exists in the legal community, it becomes essential to stand out from the crowd. Jindal Global Law School, India’s #1 law school (as per QS World University Ranking 2021), launched its LL.M. program in Corporate and Financial Law, in a blended learning format, enabled by upGrad, India’s largest online higher education company.
The 12-month program is a first-of-its-kind LL.M. degree, delivered in a blended format, specially curated for working professionals who wish to upskill.