Teaching Criminallaw With Latest Developments: A Case For Inclusion of Corporate Crimes and Corporate Manslaughter

Abstract

Teaching criminal law in a law school is a unique experience toa teacher must have the required skills to teach the subject in a most unique manner. Teaching and learning criminal law gives a very fascinating experience by involving the students actively in a classroom environment. However, today in a law school set up most of the teachers are equipped to teach the subject based on the syllabus prepared or prescribed by the university authorities and Bar Council of India’s model syllabus. In this context, it is an important question whether the prescribed syllabus gives a space and opportunity for the law teacher to teach in an innovative manner while keeping abreast with the challenges and development, which are posed bysociety. It is perceived that teachers do not have space and opportunity to include the on going developments and challenges to teach the subject in a more contemporary manner. This may involve various factors, which may include a lack of opportunity for the teachers to prepare the syllabusby themselves while engages toteach the students. Lack of expertise on the subject and not having an opportunity to teach the same subject continuously. Some of these are only indicative, and many other reasons are available in the Indian legal education system. The current essay is an attempt to study some of the pertinent issues and suggest teachers of criminal law to be more innovative and adoptive to the changes, which are taking in society.