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legal education and development have become interrelated concepts in modern

developing societies, which are struggling to develop into social welfare states and are
seeking to ameliorate the socio-economic condition of the people by peaceful means.

The same is true in our country. It is crucial function of legal education to produce
lawyers with a social vision in a developing country.

Today, Law is viewed not merely as an instrument of social control, but also as
an instrument of social change. Lawyers have been characterized as social
engineers. As liberal education, legal education may serve the society by
imparting to law students general and cultural education making them good law-
abiding citizens. Such education will instill into the students the significance and
relevance of democratic culture.

As professional education, legal education equips law students for filling different
roles in society, and discharging various law jobs, the range and scope of which
is always expanding in the modern democratic society, e.g.—Policy makers,
administrators, lawyers, law teachers, etc. Accordingly, it is realized in modern
India that the legal education ought to have breadth.

Compared with science, technology and medicine, legal education is less

technical or less professional. Legal education in India had began during the
British period. Much before India gained its Independence in 1947, law courses
were started in the Hindu College, Calcutta, Elphinstone College, and Bombay
and at Madras.

The primary aim of legal education at the time was to equip law students so that they
could help the lower courts and the High Courts in the administration of justice. Before
India gained independence in 1947, the study of Law was not taken as a very serious
exercise. Consequently, when India gained independence, “Its legal profession and
legal teaching were thus not able to play the role they ought, by Western standards, to
have played.”

With the dawn of independence in India in 1947, the whole scene concerning legal
education started undergoing a transformation. Perspectives about legal education
started changing and efforts began to be made for its improvement. The constitution of
India is basically a document for Lawyers; there has been a great increase in
constitutional legislation since 1950, especially in the area of fundamental rights.
The number of PIL filed in the Supreme Court and High Court for enforcement of
fundamental right and the role of Lawyer in the society is now viewed in a much larger
perspective than merely as a technical practitioner of Law before the courts.

A basic knowledge of law has become necessary for all those who are engaged in
administration, trade or industry.

“A citizen to be effective in enjoyment of his civic capacities needs a basic knowledge of

at least some aspects of law. Officials and others who perform important law roles, e.g.,
a policeman, businessmen or politicians, need an understanding of parts of the law and
its underlying policies and values.”

Hence, a change in the quality, content and complexion of legal education is now
viewed as a great social necessity.

During the last several years there has been a lot of ferment in the area of legal
education and it has been a very much discussed and debated subject.

At present there is need to have reform in legal education because today legal
education does not fulfil the demands in society. Therefore, there is need to change
pattern of centralized body to deal with the body of legal education in the vast changing
society; the complications in socio-economic relation of people with each other have
increased and this creates lot of litigations; variety of new crimes generate need a novel
situation; selfishness of people has increased day by day and to fulfil greed of human
nature deviant people try to exploit common people.

Thus there is needed to make the people aware about their rights and duties, as well as
remedies which are available to common people when they are exploited by someone.
In India, illiteracy is still not totally eliminated and poverty is the curse of Indian society
and because of lack of knowledge about legal aspect such helpless people are always
exploited by cruel and shrewd people.

In such a changing society there is need to improve the legal education and expand its
scope, with the concept of modernization it is time to enhance its boundaries. There is
need to increase its ambit and for that, it is necessary that, legal education is not limited
only to the study of law and legislation, but to the study of various procedures of law.
It is not limited to or related to only private individuals, but its object covers the whole
world and in short, we can say that today there is need to expand the object of legal
education to make the society in fact every layman aware about law and its importance.

We can differentiate legal education according to its purpose one of which is taking
degree of law, i.e., LLB and LLM from profession point of view. In such purpose, legal
education is taken for earning and second, which is given to the layman in the society is
to make him aware about the laws and its procedure and also about his fundamental
rights and duties so that his rights cannot be violated and to fulfil this aim, it is
necessary to provide legal aid to the public at large.

Law is important for a society as it serves as a norm of conduct for

its citizens. Liberally, the legal education serves the society by
imparting law students general and cultural education, making them
good law-abiding citizens. Such legal education instills the
significance and relevance of democratic culture in the students.

Law, legal education and development have become interrelated

concepts in modern developing societies, which are struggling to
develop into social welfare states and are seeking to ameliorate the
socio-economic condition of the people by peaceful means. The
same is true for our country. It is a crucial function of legal
education to produce lawyers with a social vision in a developing
country.

As professional education, legal education equips law students for

fulfilling different roles in the society and discharging various law
jobs. The range and scope of which is always expanding in the
modern democratic society; for example- Policy – makers, lawyers,
law teachers, administrators etc. Accordingly, it is realized in
modern India that the legal education ought to have breadth.

Legal education in India had begun during the British period. Much
before India gained its Independence in 1947, law courses were
introduced at Hindu College in Calcutta and Elphinstone College in
Bombay. The primary aim of legal education at the time was to
equip law students so that they could help the lower courts and the
High Courts in the administration of justice.
A basic knowledge of law has become necessary for all those who
are engaged in administration, trade or industry. “A citizen to be
effective in enjoyment of his civic capacities needs a basic
knowledge of at least some aspects of law. Officials and others
who perform important law roles, e.g., a policeman, businessmen
or politicians, need an understanding of parts of the law and its
underlying policies and values.”
 

In such a changing society with modernization at its peak, there is

need to improve the legal education and expand its scope. There is
need to increase its ambit and for that, it is necessary, that legal
education is not limited only to the study of law and legislation, but
to the study of various procedures of law .

Introduction
"Legal education is essentially a multi-disciplined, multi-purpose education which can develop the human
resources and idealism needed to strengthen the legal system. A lawyer, a product of such education
would be able to contribute to national development and social change in a much more constructive
manner."-- S.P.Sathe 1 INTRODUCTION 'Law is the cement of society and an essential medium of change'.
Knowledge of law increases one's understanding of public affairs. Its study promotes accuracy of the
expression, facility in arguments and skill in interpreting the written words, as well as some understanding
of social values. It is pivotal duty of everyone to know the law. Ignorance of law is not innocence and it
cannot be excused. Thus, legal education is imperative not only to produce good lawyers but also to
create cultured law abiding citizens, who are inculcated with concepts of human values and human rights.
That is why Roscoe Pound described a member of legal profession as one pursuing 'a learned art' as a
special calling, demanding high quality of study and research and a commitment to the cause of justice.2
The study of law must, therefore, be of that quality and standard as would justify Roscoe Pound's
description of a professional. MEANING AND IMPORTANCE OF LEGAL EDUCATION According to
Babylon's Dictionary, "Legal education is the education of individuals who intend to become legal
professionals or those who simply intend to use their law degree to some end, either related to law (such
as politics or academic) or business. It includes: * First degrees in law, which may be studied at either
undergraduate or graduate level depending on the country. * Vocational courses which prospective
lawyers are required to pass in some countries before they may enter practice. * Higher academic
degrees".3 Legal education and quality of law graduates have great impact on the quality of judiciary -
bar and bench. Legal education is also substantively relevant for other spheres of national life related to
law-making and law-enforcing, governance and administration, corporate legal counselling and
alternative dispute resolution. ...read more.
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Every one should have some degree of knowledge of law. This will prepare legal professionals who play a
decisive role not only as advocates practising in courts, but as legislators, judges, policy makers, public
officials and civil society activists." He further said, "given the speed of development and the challenges in
the 21st century, a working knowledge in law had become essential to other professions and it would not
be a bad idea to impart lessons in elementary law to school children and the ongoing efforts to overhaul
the legal education system included starting a graduation degree in law so that students after passing
class XII could have the option of going for not only a BSc or BA degreee but also a BA (Law). The
proposal to give an exclusive three-year graduation degree in law after class XII emanated from the
overwhelming play of law in various other professions". His move is based on National Knowledge
Commission's recommendations which had suggested that legal education should cater to a wider
audience than only provide personnel for the purpose of administration of justice in courts. He said he
was trying to evolve a consensus on the proposal. For this, he had set up a 12-member Committee
comprising of legal experts and lawyers. Mr. M Veerappa Moily, Union Law Minister, welcomed the
proposal of the HRD Minister to introduce a course on law in secondary and higher secondary level and in
graduation. If the noble proposal gets nod of ministry then the future of legal education would be very
bright which in turn would help in lifting the standard and improving the image of legal profession and
judiciary in public esteem. POSITION IN OTHER COUNTRIES It is generally said that unlike India, the
situation prevalent in England, America and in many other developed countries is convincingly different. It
is further contented that in these parts legal education has long occupied a high niche among the learned
curriculum. ...read more.

Conclusion
CONCLUSION Legal education is an investment which, if wisely made, will produce most beneficial results
for the nation and accelerate the pace of development. The legal education granted at the law schools
should be streamlined to the conventional and contemporary needs of the legal profession. It is further
recommended to the Bar Council of India to constitute a Commission at regular intervals to review the
working of the law schools and to make proposals for reorganizing the syllabi of legal education. The
quality of legal education has a direct impact on the prestige of the legal profession. We must, therefore,
identify the areas of default and initiate corrective action to repair the damage. Unless a drastic surgery is
undertaken without loss of time, the patient, that is legal education, will be fatally wounded and
consequently the country's justice delivery system will stand bereaved. All those connected with the
maintenance of standards of legal education must, therefore, be prepared to take hard decisions to save
the situation. A concerted action on the part of Bar, the Bench and the law teachers is called for to
improve the deteriorating standard of legal education According to Justice A.M.Ahmadi, "Unless we face
the bitter truth and come to grips with it, we cannot hope to improve the legal education system. We
have failed to attend to the cracks which have since widened and if we fail to take urgent remedial
measures, posterity may not pardon us".38 However, any overnight solution in this regard is not possible.
But, at the same time, any dogmatic adherence to the old, traditional and existing system would be
suicidal in the days ahead. So, a balance should be maintained in order to change the entire fabric of legal
education system in India, keeping in mind the necessity of globalization. Therefore, let us gear up and
make sincere efforts for reforming the existing system, so that Indian legal education can face the global
challenges. In the end it would be apt to quote here English poet and dramatist James Shirley: "Only the
actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust

Abstract

One of the main goals of the educational institution is to enable a person/student to

become active, independent and responsible, to promote the personal skills and
competences (including knowledge, skills and values) of a student, enabling them to
shape their own and the community’s life independently, critically.
Democracy requires knowledge of Legacy, so a clear and strict National policy on Legal
education is needed. In Lithuania, the program of legal education of the society was
approved in 2008. Legal education is described as an activity where a person has
possibilities to acquire legal knowledge and skills, is acquainted with legal regulations
and the actual legal system, human rights, freedoms, responsibilities and the ways of
protection of human rights.
Previously done research shows that Legal education implemented in educational
institutions seeks to guarantee acquisition of knowledge, skills and values that
correspond to the legal provisions. It shapes formation of student’s personal
competences in a way that students are enabled in their everyday life to follow the law,
morality and other social rules, determined by internalized legal culture and
consciousness.
This article aims to disclose the importance of legal education in development of
children’s personal competences. The research was based on perceptions of 10–12
grade students and professionals of educational institutions (educators) regarding the
realities and values of legal education. 328 students and 181 professionals of
educational institutions from various types of schools in the area of Vilnius participated
in the research in 2011. Research results show that students and educators think that
the most significant topics in legal education are Human Obligations and Human Rights
and Freedoms; educators and students have a different understanding of them. The
topics that are scarce in legal education for children are, for example, International
Law, while educators think that children lack most of all the education on Human
Obligations and Laws, their purpose in society. Students and educators share the
conception that most of all legal education develops students’ skills to argue and
express their reasoned opinion, to collaborate and solve problems rationally; legal
education promotes and strengthens a person’s respect of themselves and others,
tolerance and responsibility.
In daily life, according to the respondents, legal education most of all is helpful in
defending personal rights and in addressing community issues.

2. Studying the Constitution is important because each generation

needs to know not only the rights and privileges granted by the
Constitution, but also the obligations of its citizens.
 The Philippine Constitution is important because it protects our rights.It enables us to have justice and live a beautiful life.

It helps us to know our limitations and the right things we should do in order for us to become a good
citizen.

Marjorie

I learned about bill of rights on how to protect the rights of human concerning about life, properties, as well
as liberty Therefore, i understood that we have a freedom of speech we should have to abide what was
written in every article that we had in the bill of rights to avoid any violences on it

Antonette

We will know how to protect ourselves from enemies. And we can avoid abuses...

mamaSo

You will know how to protect against the violations of the government...

Escote

I've learned about bill of rights:

the first is about the search warrant and the warrant of arrest. Actually, I didn't know about this things and
the importance of bill of rights. Until Prof. Farrah Guzman discussed regarding this topic, I've learned
everything. From the due process of law up to the rights of the accused and the right to protect ourselves
and to our properties as well.

Eddielyn

In these lesson, I learned about the different role and regulations of our government and also people against
by the government like freedom to express of what he feel, the economic rights rights and the accused. It
protects us from the abusers..

Manilyn