CONCEPT NOTE

ABOUT THE EVENT

The Legal Aid Clinic, School of Law and Governance, Central University of South Bihar in
collaboration with Bihar Legal Network is organizing an Online National Conference on 26th
and 27th August, 2021 from 11 a.m. on the theme of:

“WOMEN AND ACCESS TO JUSTICE THROUGH LEGAL AID”.

The conference is being organized at the auspicious occasion of Women’s Equality Day with
the aim of discussing and deliberating over various interdisciplinary areas and core issues
pertaining to the theme. The conference will showcase the various aspects of a women’s life
with a special emphasis on access to justice and the role of legal aid in achieving the same.
The event is set to invite some of the renowned legal luminaries, social and human rights
activists who will be educating the students about the status of Indian women and will discuss
the effectiveness of the justice delivery system. The conference aims to make the younger
generation aware about the hardships faced by the women and how they can play an
important role in changing the same to make a better world for all of us.

ABOUT LEGAL AID CLINIC

The Legal Aid Clinic of any law school is one of the most important student body with an
attitude to impart the students an extellar experience by providing them with practical
experience that goes hand in hand with the academics. The committee aims to mould well
informed and aware citizens of the country on women rights and provide room of discourse,
dissent, and discussion in the student community.

The Legal Aid Clinic at Central University of South Bihar under the astute guidance of
Faculty Coordinator Dr. Deo Narayan Singh, Assistant Professor, SLG, CUSB is in its 9th
year of continuous functioning since its inception. The Legal Aid Clinic has organized prison
visits and conducted various social awareness programs in schools and villages. National
conferences and quiz competitions have also been organized to raise awareness about
importance of legal services among the budding lawyers.
ABOUT THE THEME

The conference is being organized on the auspicious occasion of Women’s Equality Day.
This day is celebrated to commemorate the 1920 certification of the 19th Amendment to the
U.S. Constitution, granting women the right to vote. Granting women, the right to vote was
one of the landmark events in the history of women’s fight for equality. However, there is a
long road ahead.

Women are generally the victims of violence and experience various difficulties and barriers
in accessing justice. The existence of various barriers to law and to society’s construction of
women and of women’s issues. There is a need to look beyond legal measures and into the
interplay of politics, economics, and culture in women’s access to justice in cases of violence.

Looking alone at the existence of laws protecting women, the availability of Legal Aid and
counsel and at the process of adjudication and enforcement as a frame for access to justice for
women victims of violence would be limiting. It would fail to address the subordinated and
subjugated identities of women in law and in society. It would fail to account the structural
inequalities between men and women, the systemic and historic disadvantaged position of
women, the culture of impunity in cases of violence against women, and the prevailing
gender bias and system of patriarchy that continue to persist in the judicial system and in
society.

The theme of the conference aims to delve deeper into these pertinent and burning issues and
provide newer approaches to look at these problems and provide pragmatic & feasible
solutions.