NLSIU is hosting a Campus Visit Day for prospective candidates of the NLSAT-LLB and NLSAT-MPP on Saturday, March 8, 2025. This event is open to anyone interested in applying for the 3-Year LLB (Hons) and Master’s Programme in Public Policy programmes for the academic year 2025-26. It offers a unique opportunity to:
Attend demo classes conducted by NLSIU faculty.
Interact with members of the NLS community and gain insights into university life.
Explore the NLSIU campus through a guided campus tour.
Up to two guests are welcome to accompany applicants. Registration for the campus visit is mandatory. The schedule for the campus visit will be shared with registered attendees before the event.
Login to the application portal nlsatadmissions.nls.ac.into access the campus visit form and register!
📅 Deadline for registration: March 4, 2025 (11:59 pm)
We are pleased to welcome the following faculty to the NLS community. Our new joinees include Dr. Angarika Rakshit (Assistant Professor, Social Science), Ms. Geetanjali Sharma (Assistant Professor, Law), and Ms. Garima Gupta (Assistant Professor, Law). We wish them the very best for their professional journeys at NLSIU.
Angarika is a Development Economist, with research interests in issues of structural transformation, employment generation, and the political economy of development. Her work focuses on understanding the processes of structural change that is unfolding in India, and what these changes entail for different social and economic groups of individuals.
She has worked as a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Sustainable Employment at Azim Premji University, where she co-authored the 2023 State of Working India Report on Social Identities and Labour Market Outcomes. She is currently part of the team working on the 2025 State of Working India Report.
Angarika holds a BSc (Hons) in Economics from the University of Calcutta, an MA in Economics from JNU, and a PhD from IIT Delhi. In 2020, Angarika was awarded the Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Research Fellowship in Economics, which enabled her to undertake research as a visiting fellow at the University of Massachusetts Amherst during her PhD.
Geetanjali practiced litigation and advocacy in intellectual property law and access to medicines in Delhi. She has previously worked at the Department of European and International law as a Research Assistant where she coached the university team for the European Law Moot Court Competition and worked on ongoing publications. She has also taught European Union law to postgraduate students at the Free University, Berlin.
Her research interests include right to health and access to medicines, intellectual property law as well as European law and climate justice.
She has a BSc LLB (Hons) from National Law University Jodhpur, and an LLM from Europa Institut, Saarland University, Germany, supported by the DAAD Jawaharlal Nehru and Angela Merkel scholarships. She is currently pursuing her doctoral studies on the principle of mutual trust in European Union law at the Free University, Berlin.
Garima has previously worked with the Corporate Legal Department of HDFC Limited, Mumbai (Head Office). She has also taught elective courses as a Visiting Faculty at NALSAR.
Garima has a BA LLB from NUSRL, Ranchi, and an LLM from NALSAR. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. from NALSAR on the topic ‘Competition in Data-Driven Digital Markets: An Antitrust Analysis’.
Garima also enjoys reading and has a deep interest in music.
The Women’s Inclusion and Leadership in Law (WILL) Project at NLSIU is conducting a survey on barriers that women lawyers face in litigation practice. The aim of this survey is to identify challenges that women litigators face in their careers, such as sexism, harassment, and other structural barriers. The survey will help in designing and advocating for gender inclusive policies for women lawyers, and hopes to capture crucial insights to advocate for better policies, infrastructure, and support systems.
The survey takes about 10-15 minutes to complete, mostly through multiple choice questions. It has 6 sections covering demographics, career experience, aspirations, working conditions, workplace safety, and perceptions about the profession. All responses will be treated as strictly confidential.
The survey is available in English, Hindi, and Kannada.
ನಾವು ನ್ಯಾಷನಲ್ ಲಾ ಸ್ಕೂಲ್ ಆಫ್ ಇಂಡಿಯಾ ಯೂನಿವರ್ಸಿಟಿ, ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು (NLSIU) ನಲ್ಲಿ ಮಹಿಳಾ ಒಳಗೊಂಡಿಕೆ ಮತ್ತು ನಾಯಕತ್ವಕ್ಕಾಗಿ (WILL) ಉಪಕ್ರಮದ ಸದಸ್ಯರು. ನಾವು ಮಹಿಳಾ ವಕೀಲರು ಲಿಟಿಗೇಶನ್ ಅಭ್ಯಾಸದಲ್ಲಿ ಎದುರಿಸುವ ಅಡ್ಡಿದಾರಿಗಳನ್ನು ಕುರಿತು ಒಂದು ಸಮೀಕ್ಷೆ ನಡೆಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದೇವೆ.
ನೀವು ಮಹಿಳಾ ಲಿಟಿಗೇಟರ್ ಆಗಿದ್ದರೆ ಅಥವಾ ಲಿಟಿಗೇಶನ್‌ನಲ್ಲಿ ಪೂರ್ವ ಅನುಭವವಿದ್ದರೆ, ದಯವಿಟ್ಟು ಈ ಸಮೀಕ್ಷೆಯನ್ನು ಭರ್ತಿ ಮಾಡಿ! ಇದಕ್ಕೆ 10 ನಿಮಿಷಕ್ಕಿಂತ ಹೆಚ್ಚು ಸಮಯ ತೆಗೆದುಕೊಳ್ಳುವುದಿಲ್ಲ. ನಿಮ್ಮ ಅಭಿಪ್ರಾಯಗಳು ಕಾನೂನು ವೃತ್ತಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಲಿಂಗ-ಸಹಕಾರಿ ನೀತಿಗಳನ್ನು ರೂಪಿಸಲು ಮತ್ತು ಪ್ರಚಾರ ಮಾಡಲು ಸಹಾಯ ಮಾಡುತ್ತದೆ.
ದಯವಿಟ್ಟು ಈ ಸಮೀಕ್ಷೆಯನ್ನು ನಿಮ್ಮ ನೆಟ್ವರ್ಕ್‌ನ ಇತರೆ ಮಹಿಳಾ ಲಿಟಿಗೇಟರ್‌ಗಳಿಗೆ ಹಂಚಿಕೊಳ್ಳಿ!
ಯಾವುದೇ ಪ್ರಶ್ನೆಗಳಿಗಾಗಿ, ದಯವಿಟ್ಟು ಸಂಪರ್ಕಿಸಿ: .
Survey in Hindi
हम नेशनल लॉ स्कूल ऑफ इंडिया यूनिवर्सिटी, बेंगलुरु (NLSIU) के Women’s Inclusion and Leadership in Law (WILL) इनिशिएटिव से हैं। हम वकालत के पेशे में महिला वकीलों को जिन बाधाओं का सामना करना पड़ता है, उस पर एक सर्वेक्षण कर रहे हैं।
यदि आप एक महिला वकील हैं या वकालत में पहले काम कर चुकी हैं, तो कृपया यह सर्वेक्षण भरें! इसे पूरा करने में 10 मिनट से ज्यादा समय नहीं लगेगा। आपकी राय कानूनी पेशे में जेंडर-समावेशी नीतियां बनाने और उनका समर्थन करने में मदद करेगी।
कृपया इस सर्वेक्षण को अपने नेटवर्क की अन्य महिला वकीलों के साथ भी साझा करें!
किसी भी सवाल के लिए हमसे संपर्क करें:
About the WILL Project
Starting July 2024, NLSIU has embarked on an ambitious research project on promoting women’s leadership in court-centred legal practice in India.
Through evidence-based research, Women’s Inclusion and Leadership in Law (WILL) seeks to highlight structural barriers hindering women’s participation and growth at different levels. Drawing from the research, the project will design and implement suitable collectivising and empowerment initiatives and engage with stakeholders to foreground systemic reform. These elements are expected to generate conditions for change-making efforts by women lawyers and galvanise a radical change in legal practice, interpretation, and justice delivery, especially for marginal communities.
We are pleased to welcome the following faculty and staff members to the NLS community. Our new joinees include Mr. Siddharth Saxena (Assistant Professor-Law), Ms. Deepti Soni (Director – Communications & External Relations), Mr. Shailendra Pratap Singh (Manager – Academic Administration), Ms. Aditi Thakur (Research Assistant – Legal, CCL), and Ms. Akshaya P (Research Assistant, CCL). We wish them the very best for their professional journeys at NLSIU.
Siddharth has worked as a Lecturer of Law and Assistant Dean for Research at the Jindal Global Law School. While working at JGLS, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies, Melbourne Law School. He has previously worked as a Bonavero Institute Fellow at the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, and as a Graduate Research Fellow at the Centre for Justice Law & Society.
His primary research interests lie in the broad areas of public law and legal theory. He is currently researching on the regulation of universities and academic freedom
Siddharth completed his BA LLB (Hons) degree from JGLS on the Savitri Jindal Studentship. He read for the Bachelor of Civil Law and M.Phil in Law at the University of Oxford on the Ambriti Salve Scholarship from Exeter College. At Oxford, he was also a Graduate Research Resident at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights.
He can be reached at .
Administrative Staff
Ms. Deepti Soni Director – Communications and External Relations
With over 20 years of experience, Deepti Soni is a communications and management professional with extensive experience in media, diplomatic missions, international organisations, academia, and PR & communications agencies. She has a proven track record in PR and strategic communications, stakeholder management, project management, crisis communications, and digital media. She has worked with organisations like the British High Commission in India, International Committee of the Red Cross, and Indian School of Business. She is adept at leading cross-regional teams, fostering government relations, and championing diversity and inclusion.
Deepti holds a Bachelor in Science from the University of Lucknow and a PG Diploma in Advertising and Public Relations from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, New Delhi. She is also an aspiring shooter (10 m air pistol) and is a State level medal winner.
At NLSIU, she will help develop, implement, and enhance strategies and internal processes across the following functions:
– Communications
– Alumni Relations
– Careers and Placement
– Development/Fundraising
– Admissions.
Shailendra brings over eight years of extensive experience in academic administration, program management, strategic initiatives, and institutional governance.
Prior to joining NLSIU, he served as Manager in the Office of the Pro Vice-Chancellor at Ashoka University, where he was instrumental in overseeing university governance, policy development, administrative operations, budgeting, compliance, event management, and accreditation processes. He also held key positions at O.P. Jindal Global University where he managed academic operations for the Business School, led teams, and contributed to institutional accreditations among other responsibilities. He has also worked with MIT Vishwashanti Gurukul (Pune) and BML Munjal University (Gurgaon), and was involved in student affairs, operations, and event planning.
Shailendra has a BA from Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University, Kanpur. He also has a certification in Effective Management Skills and Leadership from the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand.
He can be reached at .
Research Staff
Ms. Aditi Thakur Research Assistant – Legal, Centre for Child and the Law
Aditi has joined the ‘Right to Food’ team at CCL. She has previously worked on child rights issues across various districts of Bihar. She has also served as a Legal Consultant for FaMeTN (MSME Department, Government of Tamil Nadu).
Aditi received her B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) from National Law Institute University, Bhopal, in 2021. She completed her LLM in Law and Development from Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, in 2024.
She can be reached at .
Ms. Akshaya P Research Assistant, Centre for Child and the Law
Akshaya has joined the ‘Right to Food’ team at CCL. Her research interests lie at the intersection of gender politics, labour economics, social justice, and social inclusion. She is passionate about exploring how gender and caste identities interact with labour market forces that shape the economy.
Akshaya is also profoundly interested in feminist and queer social activism. She regularly engages with movements that advocate for the rights of marginalised communities. She has also contributed to research projects that deal with the challenges and opportunities around social security for unorganised sector workers.
Akshaya holds an integrated MA in Development Studies from IIT Madras. She also holds a Junior Research Fellowship in Sociology (UGC).
NLSIU will be conducting four live information sessions on the new NLS BA (Hons.), the 3-Year LL.B. (Hons.) and the Master’s Programme in Public Policy (MPP)on February 14 and 15, 2025. These online sessions will provide information about the university, the structure of the respective programmes and the application process.
Feb 15, 2025 | 6 PM – 7 PM IST Speakers: 1. Dr. Betsy Rajasingh, LL.B. (Hons) Chair and Assistant Professor of Law, NLSIU
2. Dr. Rahul Hemrajani, LL.B. (Hons) Vice-Chair and Assistant Professor of Law, NLSIU Webinar Link
Session on the MPP Programme
Feb 14, 2025 | 6 PM – 7 PM IST Speakers:
1. Dr. Sneha Thapliyal, MPP Chair and Associate Professor, Economics, NLSIU
2. Dr. Devyani Pande, Assistant Professor, Public Policy. NLSIU Webinar Link
To apply for these programmes, visit nlsatadmissions.nls.ac.in. For further queries about the programmes, write to .
The National Law School of India University (NLSIU) will host the inaugural ‘PPEL in the Global South conference’ in Bangalore, India on December 11-14, 2025.
About the Conference
This conference aims to bring together scholars working in Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and/or Law from around the globe, and in particular to facilitate interaction between scholars in South Asia and those from the West and elsewhere.
PPEL in the Global South is co-organised by a global group of scholars with research interests across philosophy, politics, economics, and law.
Call for Papers
We invite submissions on any topic that engages at least one of Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and Law, and that addresses a normative issue. Submissions at the intersection of more than one of these fields are especially welcome.
Please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words here.
The deadline for submissions is February 28th, 2025. We especially invite early-career scholars and Ph.D. candidates located within South Asia to send abstracts based on their ongoing research
The ‘PPEL In The Global South’ Conference is being collaboratively organised by three stakeholders, namely:
The National Law School of India University (NLSIU) solicits proposals from qualified bidders to appoint a “management operator to operate and maintain the football ground” at NLSIU in accordance with specifications and requirements as per the notification below.
Date of Issue of Tender: 03.02. 2025
Last Date for Submission of Technical and Commercial Bids: Up to 5.00 PM on 14.02.2025
For more details along with the terms and conditions, please read the official notification here.
The National Law School of India University (NLSIU) solicits proposals from qualified bidders for “Design and Construction of 400-Metres with 6-Lane Running Track and Retaining Wall at NLSIU” in accordance with specifications and requirements as per the notification below.
Date of Issue of Tender: 03.02. 2025
Last Date for Submission of Technical and Commercial Bids: Up to 5.00 PM on 21.02.2025
For more details along with the terms and conditions, please read the following:
I. About International Journal on Consumer Law and Practice (IJCLP)
The National Law School of India University (NLSIU) is an institution of legal education focusing on undergraduate and graduate legal and policy education in India. The University’s Chancellor is the Chief Justice of India, and the Chairman of the Bar Council of India is the Chairman of the General Council. NLSIU, since 2018 has consistently maintained the top rank in the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) ranks higher educational institutions across India.
In Indian history first time the Consumer Law and Practice Chair (CLAP Chair) has been established in August 2008, at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore (NLSIU) by the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution Department of Consumer Affairs, Government of India, New Delhi, to promote research, teaching and training in Consumer Law and Practice. From the date of establishment of this CLP chair, Prof.(Dr.) Ashok Patil is heading and administering this Chair and is the Chief Editor of this Journal.
The International Journal on Consumer Law and Practice (IJCLP) (ISSN 2347-2731) is an Open-Access, Blind-Peer-reviewed, Law journal published annually by NLSIU under the aegis of the Chair on Consumer Law and Practice, NLSIU (CLAP) since 2013. Recently Journal indexed on SCOPUS, HeinOnline, SCC OnLine, & UGC CARE List.
Previous issues have featured contributions by Hon. Justice AK Sikri (Judge, Supreme Court of India), HC Mult Norbert Reich (Emeritus Professor, Bremen University, Germany), Cristina Poncibò (Assoc. Prof., Comparative Private Law, University of Turin, Italy), Laura Zoboli (Asst. Prof., European Economic Law, University of Warsaw, Poland), James P Nehf (Prof. and Cleon H Foust Fellow, Robert H McKinney School of Law Indiana University), Gail Pearson (Prof., University of Sydney, Australia), etc.
II. Timeline for Submission
The submissions for the journal are accepted on a rolling basis round the year. However, the last date for submission of the paper for Vol. XIII, 2025, is March 31, 2025.
III. Submission Guidelines
The journal welcomes contributions from academicians, practitioners, students of law and allied fields.
Themes:
Empowering Consumers through clean energy transitions;
Protect Consumers in Food crisis now and in future;
Consumer Journeys in Digital Finance with Mobile Money;
Consumer voices in the G20;
Consumer Protection Combating Greenwashing;
Electronic Enforcement of Consumer Law;
Durability and right to repair: A Consumer Right;
Digital Future: Building trusted E-Commerce & Generative AI.
The themes listed above are merely indicative and not exhaustive. The Journal highly appreciates submissions on any contemporary issues in the field of Consumer Protection and its legal interactions.
Word limit:
Articles including abstract (6,000-8,000 words inclusive of footnotes).
Case Comment, Legislative Briefs (2,500-3,000 words inclusive of footnotes).
Book Review (2,000 words inclusive of footnotes).
Note: The authors intending for Book Review shall submit a hard or soft copy of the book along with the consent letter from the Publisher or Author of the Book at the address of the Journal.
IV. Format of Submission:
Please refer the guidelines for further information.
V. How to Submit?
Only electronic submissions are accepted. Kindly submit your submission on this Submission Formalong with the covering letter, and resume on or before March 31, 2025 for it to be considered for volume XI. Please feel free to contact us at for any queries.
The National Law School of India University, Bengaluru (NLSIU) organised a three-day interdisciplinary conference that delved into Indian Political Thought (IPT) from January 8 to 10, 2025. The conference aimed to explore the historical foundations of Indian political thought, assess their contemporary relevance, and envision future trajectories. Renowned scholars, researchers, and practitioners participated in critical discussions to analyse the dynamics, intersections, and evolving contours of Indian political thought and practice, offering fresh perspectives and valuable insights.
The conference kicked off with a keynote address by Prof. Madhavan K. Palat at BIC on January 8, followed by panel discussions at the NLSIU campus on January 9 and 10.
The Keynote Address
Topic: “Nehru’s Democracy”
Speaker: Prof. Madhavan K. Palat
Abstract
Nehru presented himself as liberal and socialist; and while he did not declare himself to be a conservative, he readily deployed Burkean and traditionalist arguments for the legitimation of Indian democracy. But he also warned repeatedly that democracy could destroy itself through a democratic dictatorship and the tyranny of the majority. He derived the sources of democracy from the panchayats of tradition and from the nationalist traditions from the 19th century, and he asserted that it had become the yugadharma after Independence. He always argued that democracy had to be a movement that was dynamic but with institutions that were stable. When these came into conflict, as they inevitably must, he chose movement over institutions. The movement emerged from nationalist mobilization, and the institutions from the Constituent Assembly and its Constitution. He never ceased to warn that the Constitution was not a sacred text and that democracy could be protected only by democracy, not by the Constitution. As such, he repudiated in effect any concept of a Basic Structure. He sought to extend parliamentary democracy through Panchayati Raj, reasoning that democracy must be broadly based like a pyramid lest it topple. But ambiguities stalked him. He looked upon panchayats as bureaucratic as much as democratic extensions; he was dismayed that the electoral system was run ever more by knaves and scoundrels rather than visionaries like himself; and he feared that democracy was breeding an elective aristocracy and oligarchy. While he was unhappy that the two-party system did not seem to be evolving in India, he presciently discerned that India was run by a two-ideology system of Congress and Hindutva which could, at some time in the future, become parties. He saw the vital need for a moral ideal, but his idols were Buddha, Ashoka, Akbar, and Mahatma Gandhi, none of them democrats except for Gandhi, who was confessedly autocratic while engaging in a democratic mobilization. The only consistently democratic ideal he could present was himself, but he found a personality cult vulgar and comic. He despised democracy as promoting the average and the dull, but he feared that inspiration, charisma, and lofty commitment seemed to lead into politics of the right, which he deplored. His politics consisted in reconciling contradictions of this sort and living with ambiguities and inconsistencies, preferring the pragmatism of the conservative to the theoretical clarity of the socialist.
Watch the Keynote Address
Panels and Panelists
The conference hosted six panels over January 9 and 10, 2025, with renowned scholars, researchers, and practitioners, participating in discussion on topics such as ‘law’, ‘authority’, ‘visions of geopolitics’, ‘liberalism’, ‘caste’, and ‘religion/secularism’.
View the details on the panels for the main sessions.
Reflections from the speakers
Prof. Madhavan K. Palat
Indian Historian
“It was greatly stimulating and educative to participate in this conference on Indian political thought which embraced the concepts and domains of law and the constitution, authority and power, geopolitics, liberalism, caste, religion and communalism, and thinkers as varied as those in the tradition of nitishastra, and Tagore, Gandhi, Lohia, Nehru, Ambedkar, Dicey, Kelsen, and Schmitt. I was privileged to deliver the keynote address on Nehru’s Democracy and to hear the many critical responses to the lecture. I cannot think of a better place in which to hear such a range of ideas and to test my own.”
Prof. Faisal Devji
Professor of Indian History
Director, Asian Studies Centre
Fellow, St Antony’s College
University of Oxford
“The conference on Indian political thought at NLSIU was a stimulating event at which a number of very original arguments were broached. It was an honour to participate in the discussion with my paper on the varying fortunes of civil war and revolution as crucial categories of the political imagination in India and the world.”
Rajeev Bhargava Director, Institute of Indian Thought
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS)
“Thanks for a very stimulating workshop. It was unusual not only for the range of issues it covered but because it lasted just the right time. Not a single session seemed over-extended or boring. The organizers provided an opportunity for the participants to be flexible and the latter responded by being reasonably self-disciplined. There was enough time to present and discuss. All in all, congratulations to the organizers for getting the right kind and the right number of scholars who gelled well to make the outcome productive and meaningful.”
Dr. Salmoli Choudhuri Assistant Professor of Law
Affiliated Faculty, M.K. Nambyar Memorial Chair
NLSIU
“Introducing political thought in Indian law school is a fresh initiative and holds immense promise for revolutionizing both fields, particularly by making legal studies more philosophical. The conference, therefore, is a decisive step in the right direction. I am thrilled to have had the opportunity to discuss Tagore’s ideas of freedom, which illuminate important aspects of liberalism and law in the twentieth century.”
