Essay competitions are a common yet mostly unexplored platform by law students in particular. The question that needs to be posed is why such unwillingness to participate in law essay writing competitions? The prime reason is that there are no judging criteria for them. A plethora of organizations (for-profit as well as non-profit) or law schools that organize such competitions […]
There’s much to be said about an NLU experience. One of the most peculiar observation that one might make is that you get to meet some of the most interesting people (including professors) from across the nation there. Primarily, that is because of the tag (and glory) that an NLU comes with. Apart from just academics, legal […]
Research papers are important in today’s digital age where knowledge is accessible at clicks of a button. Some even go on to say that it is one of the most basic abilities to articulate your thoughts into words and to pen them down. Writing a research paper is an essential part of legal training from any novice student. It gives them visibility, establishes […]
One of the most underrated issues I want to put forward is the importance of taking running notes in your classrooms. In today’s technologically advanced countries, there are record lecturers and on-demand tutorial classes but let me tell you, nothing beats the old-school note-taking approach in your classrooms. Human brain encodes information in different ways and […]
Practice of Law: Ever wondered why the services of advocates are known as the ‘practice’ of law? Practically speaking, the dictionary meaning of ‘practice’ is actual application or use of an idea, belief or method. Now, such application of law in everyday life comes from knowing what works in the real world and more importantly what does […]
A tough realization awaits pass-outs of integrated law courses in India who choose litigation as their career, i.e. they discover that not much of what they had been taught is immediately useful to them. And this is just one amongst many others. For example, they also discover that the legal drafting and the legal research that they did […]
Importance of legal content writing, legal research, and writing for teachers, faculties, and academicians: In law, great emphasis is laid upon citations and legal authorities, legal writing, and manuals and books that support, strengthen and substantiate one’s legal argument. If you’re an academician, it is needless to say how important legal precedents (hence, legal research) are for any issue. Such precedents lay the foundation […]
“What you’re going to learn in classrooms and from your books, exams & legal research, endless law assignments is going to be entirely different from what happens in courtrooms.” That’s something that I’ve heard quite a few times, from multiple people, during and after law school. It was quite evident when one of the concepts I’d learnt […]
The advancement of legal training and legal research with a mobile! Technology has made teaching and learning more powerful. As we get more creative and innovative, more we see the use of mobile phones in helping us in educational purposes as technology has made our lives easier, faster, and better. The use of mobile phones has become an integral […]
One of the significant problems that law graduates face today is their utter inability to make head or tail out of what they see going on in courts for the first few months of their practice. They might have studied the subject that is being discussed by lawyers and judges in the courtrooms and conducted legal […]