The Prospect of Legal Education: An India Overview

Hari Hara Sudhan Ramaswamy

doi:10.2478/jles-2020-0002

Abstract

Abstract Education in India is losing its relevance. This seems much more applicable to the situation in the present day of legal education. This essay aims to focus on two aspects of legal education. Whilst, on one hand, it aims to provide details of the existing legal education system on the other, it aims to drive more attention to the various improvements and developments that are needed. The essay firstly shall describe the existing legal education system. It shall analyze and assess the curricula that are available for the various undergraduate law degrees available in India. It aims to provide an understanding of the perceived distinctions between the three-year law degree and the five-year law degree. As a second aspect, the essay aims to explore options to further the quality of legal education in India by considering examples of various law schools or colleges of law across the world that have consistently proven themselves as a cut-above not legal education and research in their global scale. Also, from the learnings of the gaps in the curricula of the law degrees as discussed previously, the essay shall provide suggestions on the various plausible collaborations with foreign law schools and universities for the benefit of the Indian law schools and colleges of law. As a third and final aspect, as a measure to curb fake or bogus law schools or colleges of law within India and to enhance the employability of law graduates in India at par with those across the globe, the essay aims to provide suggestions applicable for the present-day legal education scenario.

Highlights

India's education system comes from the concept of 'Gurukul' and unarguably is home to the world's first-ever university – Nalanda University
This paper looks briefly at the curricula which have been established for students intending to pursue a legal education in India
India has witnessed many of these legal scholars and others who have extensively participated in the shaping of a large democracy such as India, be it whether reinforcing criminal laws, determining the dynamics of such institutions as family and being such stalwarts who affect the making of the Constitution of

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Introduction

India's education system comes from the concept of 'Gurukul' and unarguably is home to the world's first-ever university – Nalanda University. H.H.S., (2020) The prospect of legal education: An India overview suggestions are made upon comparison of the bar council mechanism in countries abroad to curb the increase of fake-lawyers. It was only when the National Law School of India University (NLSIU) in Bengaluru in 1986, did legal education become a highly in-demand field of study.

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