Change in Legal Education
Changing the ‘thought-ware’ of Indian Legal Education
You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives. * Clay P. Bedford
INTRODUCTION:
'Law is the cement of society and an essential medium of change'.The significance of legal education in democratic country like India cannot be ignored.Before 1990s the main purpose of law universities were to impart the knowledge of law,black letter law, to meet the local needs. In 1990s the waves of ‘economic liberation’ and globalization touched the shores of Indian legal education, which has widen its scope now legal knowledge consists of the new areas such as Comparative Law, information technology, intellectual property, corporate governance, human rights, environment, and international trade law, investment, and commerce, transfer of technology, alternative dispute resolution and space. Globalisation has increased the competition as Indian students have to compete at international level .In the Era of Globalization a law student should also have knowledge of science and technology, bio-diversity etc. But unfortunately Indian legal system has not touched the oasis of excellence.
There are two types of legal structure in India” 1. Traditional Law Universities(3years course): A person after graduating are eligble for admission, In this a student is taught limited subjects.Under it,students are trained to enroll for lower courts or high courts or judicial offiers tc to work with public affairs not at global level. 2. National universities (5year course): Nlu were started to meet the compete wi
Scope of my essay:
In my essay I’m dealing with the problem solving approaches that can solve the present crisis of legal education, "and to bring to the global level" . I’m not only talking ant national law universities but also the traditional law colleges a both constitute and form legal education
You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives. * Clay P. Bedford
INTRODUCTION:
'Law is the cement of society and an essential medium of change'.The significance of legal education in democratic country like India cannot be ignored.Before 1990s the main purpose of law universities were to impart the knowledge of law,black letter law, to meet the local needs. In 1990s the waves of ‘economic liberation’ and globalization touched the shores of Indian legal education, which has widen its scope now legal knowledge consists of the new areas such as Comparative Law, information technology, intellectual property, corporate governance, human rights, environment, and international trade law, investment, and commerce, transfer of technology, alternative dispute resolution and space. Globalisation has increased the competition as Indian students have to compete at international level .In the Era of Globalization a law student should also have knowledge of science and technology, bio-diversity etc. But unfortunately Indian legal system has not touched the oasis of excellence.
There are two types of legal structure in India” 1. Traditional Law Universities(3years course): A person after graduating are eligble for admission, In this a student is taught limited subjects.Under it,students are trained to enroll for lower courts or high courts or judicial offiers tc to work with public affairs not at global level. 2. National universities (5year course): Nlu were started to meet the compete wi
Scope of my essay:
In my essay I’m dealing with the problem solving approaches that can solve the present crisis of legal education, "and to bring to the global level" . I’m not only talking ant national law universities but also the traditional law colleges a both constitute and form legal education