The National Law School of India University, Bangalore invites email quotations from eligible contractors for external development of Women’s Halls of Residence’s Precinct.
| Description of Work | External development of Women’s Halls of Residence’s Precinct |
| Date of Issue of Quotation | 14.02.2024 |
| Last Date for Submission | Up to 5.00 P.M. on 29.02.2024 |
| Email Quotations to |
For more details, please view the official notification here.
The National Law School of India University invites online applications for the position of Academic Fellow on a Contract Basis. The 2-year full-time Academic Fellowship Programme is aimed at graduates and postgraduates from law, social sciences, humanities and allied fields who are preparing to enter law practice or academic careers in law, public policy or the social sciences. The Fellowship programme will allow Fellows to:
In this role, you will have the opportunity to work closely with the best law and social sciences faculty and receive guidance and mentorship on research proposals, research writing, problem solving and critical thinking skills. You will get an in-side view of the pedagogical processes in both online and offline education at India’s best law school.
Core Responsibilities:
▪ Assist the faculty in the delivery of academic programmes (both offline and online);
▪ Prepare learning aids, learning materials and practice questions;
▪ Facilitate academic and capacity building sessions;
▪ Review and update study materials under the guidance of the faculty;
▪ Resolve and respond to academic queries from students;
▪ Work with colleagues on writing assignments and writing workshops;
▪ Other duties and responsibilities as assigned by the Department head
▪ Collaborate with faculty on research and publications;
▪ Assist the faculty in on-going research projects/case writing;
▪ Conduct literature reviews;
▪ Assist with the research and editing functions in University publications;
▪ Work with research projects and centres on cutting-edge issues in law/policy.
▪ Work on your own research
The last date to submit applications is 25th January 2024.
For more details, please read the official notification here.
To apply for the position, click here.
We are delighted to announce that the National Law School of India (NLSIU) Bangalore team were
declared winners of the 8th NLIU – Justice R.K. Tankha Memorial Arbitration Moot, held in April 2023. The team comprised of Samridhi Srivastava (B.A. LLB (Hons) – 4th year), Aastha Malipatil (B.A. LLB (Hons) – 3rd year), Nidhi Agrawal (B.A. LLB (Hons) – 3rd year).
The arbitrators of the Final rounds were Hon’ble Mr. Justice Sujoy Paul, Hon’ble Mr. Justice Amit Bansal and Mr. Vivekananda Neelakantan.
The award ceremony on 16th April 2023, began with Prof. (Dr.) V. Vijaykumar, Vice Chancellor, NLIU thanking the Chief Guest, Mr. Justice Sujoy Paul, the Guest of Honor, Mr. Justice Amit Bansal, Mr. Vivek Tankha, Mr. Vivekananda Neelakantan, the Drafters, the Judges, the Administrative staff and the participants for contributing towards the success of the event.
About the Competition
The Moot Court Association (MCA) of National Law Institute University, Bhopal (NLIU), is the oldest student association of the Institute and is the official body which oversees all mooting and related activities in the institute. The NLIU- Justice R. K. Tankha Memorial International Arbitration Moot is the flagship event of the MCA and is organized annually in partnership with the Office of Mr. Vivek Tankha, Member of Parliament and Senior Advocate as a tribute to the Late Hon’ble Justice Mr. R.K. Tankha.
More information about the competition and the arbitration moot events are available here.
The National Law Of India University (NLSIU) Inter College Football tournament was held on November 20, 2023, at the campus football field. The tournament saw enthusiastic participation from the student body.
The men’s and women’s teams were chosen by the appointed external coaches, on the basis of the performance of the students in the preliminaries held on November 15, 2023.
We congratulate the winning teams for earning points for their College, and to all the participants.
The teams and results are listed below:
University Football – Men’s team
Substitute Players
University Football – Women’s team
NLS Inter College Football Tournament Results (Category – Men’s final)
Auila – Winners – 100 points
Orion – Runners up – 75 points
Andromeda – 37.5 points
Phoenix – 37.5 points
We are delighted to announce that the National Law School of India (NLSIU) Bangalore team were declared winners of the Nani A. Palkhivala Memorial Quiz Competition. The NLSIU team, won with a lead of 85 points over the runner-up team, and were awarded a cash prize and a trophy. The Chief Guest of the event, Justice Dipankar Datta felicitated the team.
We congratulate the NLSIU team, which was represented by – Apratim Chandra Singh – 1st Year, LL.B (Hons.) and Suvanssh Mahajan – 3rd Year, B.A,LL.B (Hons.)
About the Competition
The Nani A. Palkhivala Memorial Quiz Competition commemorates the life and legacy of the Indian jurist Nani A. Palkhivala.
To mark the 50th anniversary of pronouncement of the historic judgment in Kesavananda Bharati v. State of Kerala, the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata in association with the Nani A. Palkhivala Memorial Trust and the Tata Group organised the quiz competition on life of Nani A. Palkhivala and the Constitution of India.
The competition was conducted as part of the Nani A. Palkhivala Memorial Conclave this year on November 25, 2023, at WBNUJS, Kolkata. Further details about the quiz competition, can be accessed here.
The NLSIR invites submissions for the upcoming Volume 36(1) of its Journal as well as for the journal’s blog, NLSIR Online.
The NLSIR Editorial Board invites original, unpublished manuscripts for consideration for the upcoming Volume 36(1) of the Journal.
The National Law School of India Review (NLSIR) is the flagship student-edited law review published by the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bengaluru. It is a bi-annual, peer reviewed journal and holds the unique distinction of being cited thrice by the Supreme Court of India. NLSIR has also been cited by courts abroad, such as the High Court of South Africa.
NLSIR is a generalist law review and aims to:
All submissions, as a general rule, should conform to NLSIR’s mandate and aims and must have some relevance for Indian law.
Submissions may be made under any one of the following categories:
Please note that all word limits are indicative in nature and exclusive of footnotes. The NLSIR Editorial Board is flexible with respect to the word count depending on the quality of the submission. Please refer to our submission guidelines for more information.
Submission Process
All submissions must be made via the NLSIR Digital Commons Repository. NLSIR does not accept submissions over email. NLSIR endeavours to revert to authors with the first round of editorial review within 4 weeks of submission.
The deadline for submissions is 28th February 2024.
Additional guidelines
Contact Details
For any queries and concerns, please contact or visit the website.
NLSIR is currently inviting submissions on all areas of the law, including case comments, interdisciplinary analyses, comparative studies, etc.
NLSIR Online was launched as a companion blog to the NLSIR print journal in 2018. The goal of NLSIR Online is to provide a platform for concise, timely academic commentary on contemporarily relevant issues in the law that has relevance for Indian law. In terms of mandate, NLSIR Online mirrors the mandate of the print journal.
For additional details, please refer to the detailed NLSIR Online Submission Guidelines.
All manuscripts submitted to NLSIR Online undergo a round of review by the NLSIR Editorial Board. NLSIR is committed to reverting to authors with a decision on publication within two to three weeks. NLSIR invites submissions on a rolling basis and does not have any fixed submission deadline.
For any queries and concerns with respect to NLSIR Online, please contact us at or visit our website.
NLSIU’s Socio-Legal Review (SLR) Journal is currently inviting submissions for Volume 20(1). The deadline for submission is 31st January, 2024.
Socio-Legal Review (SLR) is a peer-reviewed, bi-annual journal that encourages interdisciplinary research at the intersection of law and social sciences. It is an open-access, student-run journal published by the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru. First published in 2005, the Journal has carried articles by luminaries in the field of law and society and has been cited by the Supreme Court of India on two instances.
SLR seeks to publish scholarship that goes beyond looking at the law as merely a set of rules and doctrines. SLR welcomes interdisciplinary research that critically enquires into the intersections between the law and the social sciences, especially in the South Asian context. It invites articles from diverse disciplines and areas of study that engage with the law including but not limited to:
In order to make your submission, please visit the website: https://repository.nls.ac.in/slr/
In case of any questions, please email:
SLR is also accepting submissions on a rolling basis for their online platform: the SLR Forum. The SLR Forum is designed as a space for encouraging accessible and timely discourse on issues of socio-legal relevance including, but not limited to, contemporary developments.
SLR invites submissions in the form of short essays, commentary, book reviews and other forms of writing ranging between 800-2500 words that speaks to the Aims and Scope of the Journal. SLR welcomes interdisciplinary research that critically enquires into the intersections between the law and the social sciences, especially in the South Asian context. SLR does not accept pieces that consist purely doctrinal or legal analysis; submissions must dissect the issue using an interdisciplinary lens.
If you have a theme or an idea that you’d like to develop in an essay for the SLR Forum, please send in your ideas over email. If you have a fully fleshed out piece, you are encouraged to submit it directly to .
In order to know more, please visit the website: https://repository.nls.ac.in/slr/
We congratulate the NLSIU team, which was represented by Apratim Chandra Singh (Ist Year, LL.B), Aditya Nath (Ist Year, LL.B), Saumitra Khullar (Ist Year, LL.B), and Surya (external participant), at the Karnataka Quizzing Association (KQA’s) Legal Quiz in Bangalore, in November 2023.
Team 1 from NLSIU were adjudged as joint winners in the quiz competition.
NLSIU was represented by two teams, which were as follows –
Team 1 – Apratim Chandra Singh (Ist Year, LL.B), Aditya Nath (Ist Year, LL.B), Saumitra Khullar (Ist Year, LL.B), and Surya (external participant).
Team 2 – Pradnesh Kamat (Ist Year, B.A,LL.B), Kisna Shetty (Ist Year, B.A,LL.B), Chiranth Mukunda (Ist Year, B.A, LL.B), and Lohith Reddy (Ist Year, B.A,LL.B)
This was an open event and saw participation from individuals from across multiple arenas in life as well as seasoned quizzers from the circuit.
About the Competition
The Karnataka Quiz Association (KQA for short) was founded in 1983 by eight quiz enthusiasts with the objective of putting the game on an organized basis and regulating and coordinating quizzing activity in Bangalore and other centres in Karnataka.
Apart from general quizzes, KQA does quizzes on specialized subject like Science, Movies, Music, Literature and so on. Most of the programmes are team events but we do conduct a few singles events in three different categories to identify individual talent. Further details available here.
Project to Explore Digital Transformation of India’s Consumer Grievance Redressal System through GenAI
The National Law School of India University is excited to announce a new research project on consumer law with the support of Meta. This project will assess how large language models (LLM) can be used for building public solutions for enhancing efficiency in India’s consumer grievance redressal system. The project will be executed along with the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay), in collaboration with the Department Of Consumer Affairs (DoCA) as the knowledge partner.
The research initiative will explore the feasibility of leveraging Llama 2, Meta’s openly available large language model, in creating and evaluating a proof of concept of a citizen centric chatbot and a decision-assist tool in the area of consumer law. With the goal of enhancing efficiency, the chatbot will be designed to guide consumers on the procedural aspects of drafting a complaint and answering questions relating to consumer law in India. The decision assist tool in this research also will be designed to support searching case laws and summarisation of documents to provide assistance to judicial authorities in the area of consumer affairs. The research project will explore how LLMs can assist consumers or judicial authorities in the context of ongoing oversight and control by human decision makers. In keeping with the commitment to responsible innovation, NLSIU and IIT Bombay will also release a white paper explaining the risk mitigation approaches implemented and how responsible design principles have been deployed at every layer of stack.
At the launch of the project, Prof. Sudhir Krishnaswamy, Vice-Chancellor of National Law School of India University said, “The National Law School of India University is committed to academic research and legal innovation using Artificial Intelligence to aid legal system reform. This project on consumer law aims to enhance awareness on consumer rights, and to provide accessible assistance by leveraging Llama2. With our expertise in interdisciplinary research, NLSIU is uniquely positioned to help pioneer these legal applications employing large language models. We will create a rich corpus of Indian legal resources to map the landscape of consumer disputes in the country, and use this corpus to train the Llama model. We will work to ensure that the material fed into the model is relevant, reliable, and user-friendly. Additionally, we will develop a prototype of a decision-assist tool to support efficient consumer dispute resolution. We look forward to working with Meta, IIT Bombay and the Dept. of Consumer Affairs on this exciting initiative that marks a significant step towards transformative legal reforms in India.”
Speaking on the occasion, Shri Rohit Kumar Singh, Secretary, Department of Consumer Affairs, said, “The government is committed to creating a safe environment for consumers. The launch of the research project is a step forward in our efforts to evaluate innovation solutions using generative AI for enhancing consumer rights and awareness, underpinning our efforts on consumer protection in India. The initiative pioneered by the Department of Consumer Affairs along with NLSIU and IIT Bombay is supported by Meta, and is a significant step towards using open innovation for building applications for the benefit of consumers.”
Joel Kaplan, Vice President, Global Policy, Meta, added, “Meta has put exploratory research, open science, and collaboration with academic and industry partners at the heart of our AI efforts for over a decade. We’ve seen first-hand how open innovation can lead to technologies that benefit more people and transform sectors. We’re excited to extend our support to NLSIU for its research initiatives building AI tools leveraging Llama 2. As more researchers, developers and startups build and experiment on our technology, the more we can learn about use cases, safe model deployment, and potential opportunities.”
Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Professor IIT Bombay and well known Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning Expert, added “LLMs, of which Meta’s Llama 2 is a shining example, is the most exciting development in AI today with immense potential for social benefit. The trinity of domain-task-language, e.g., Law-Chabot-English or Agriculture-Sentiment-Marathi, is set to be tackled in an unprecedented way through LLMs. With our long and deep expertise in NLP, ML and LLM we are excited to work with Meta, NLSIU and DoCA on the very impactful problem of question answering and search in consumer law domain.”
Meta is an industry leader in GenAI research and is partnering to build a robust AI ecosystem in India. Meta believes in an open approach for building AI models, and works in collaboration with others in industry, government, civil society and academia to advance them in a responsible way.
Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology.
IIT Bombay (IITB) is an internationally renowned educational institute of India with stellar track record and leadership in teaching and research. It was set up in 1958 with an act of parliament and has been declared as an Institute of Eminence. IITB alumni have been industry leaders, acclaimed academicians, successful entrepreneurs, and eminent public figures. IITB is the most sought after institute for students. For decades, the institute’s cutting edge research has pushed the frontiers of knowledge and brought immense benefits to society.
View the official press release by Meta here.
NLSIU, invites applications for a Senior Research Consultant under the ‘Preparation of Manual for Prosecution of Offences under Forest Conservation Act (FCA) 1980’ project. It is a contractual assignment (6 months), based out of Bangalore.
The position is under the Centre for Environmental Law, Education, Research and Advocacy (CEERA), National Law School of India University, Bangalore.
The Centre for Environmental Law Education, Research and Advocacy (CEERA) established in 1997 is a research centre that focuses on research and policy advocacy in the field of environmental law. Building an environmental law database, effectively networking among all stakeholders, undertaking training and capacity development exercises, providing consultancy services and building an environmental law community are CEERA’s main objectives. It enjoys the support of the Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change, other Ministries, international organisations, and the Bar and the Bench in India.
This is a full-time role, based at NLSIU campus (Nagarbhavi) in Bangalore. The candidate will report to the Project Coordinator.
To apply fill out the Google Form here with:
The last date for submission of applications is 6th December 2023.
