; —_ | ’ 18351815196, aor ae ae 429293, A3it > 26s Chapter VIII Future of legal education in India Legal: education’|is\aliprofessional ‘course According to Wikipidea legal education is the education of individuals who intend to become law professionals or those who simply intend to use there law degrees to some end either related to law or business ‘ ‘As per/The Advocate Act, 1961 the Bar Council of India is interested with the primary responsibility of regulating and’ prom: ting the ‘standard’ -of legal education. The (University Grants Commissionalso has a wider _ Tesponsibility to enhance the quality of legal education. Some other agencies _ are also eoncemnediiwithyestablishment and-maintenance of standard of gal education. Find s with the | “‘Tegulatory system various 1 ent reg) ‘body for higher education, The scommendations-given by various tion has always been comprehensive lopment of human society. Today numerous challenges'In response ia, the Bar Council of lommission’etc. havejon and the Ch. TL Membersiit of Pamanenogundee ch. IV, ne UGC committee on Legal Educat Wc gultation Process ch. ¥ dards of Legal edueation, Legal Skills and Values (Mac V Aerate Report) and New Globalization Challenges and ~ Accreditation ch. vI_ Alternative Dispute Resolution training for students as well as lawyers ch, VII Adjunct Teachers from the Bar & Bench pections ters Ch VIII Permissions and Ins s oe Gxamination S) x system, Problem Meth eet crs ethod and Training Cen! ayer on Legal Soe LS LESFUTURE OF LEGAL EDUCATION IN INDIA 43 others and su, e to. F ndments to some sections. These relate eQny ayaa Provisions proposed’in. working paper to sections Sec: 2401), gee 9 feds 7G), 90), 10(2), 94, 74)(h), 24a), 24(4)0, ZAAQ)(c), sec. 334, sec. 49(1)(ai), (aj), (ak), (al), (am), Gs)(ase)(M), (ce) gee), (f, see. 49A, 45, 24(4)(b), 36B, 3(2)(a). We are not referring in thi of toeeeee Report to all these suggestions in as much as the scope few other related is limited and concerns only legal education and a present report, tates: MM other words, we are not proposing, in the bee Port, to traverse the entire ground covered by the Working Response of the UGC: 43) The University Grants Commission, in its letter dated 16.9.1999, the Gaming the initiative taken by the Law Commission with regard © te Improvement of Legal Education and quality of Legal Profession, _ teferred to “tefetted to the ‘Report of the Curriculum Development Centre, 1988- : 1990", headed by Prof, Upendra Baxi. Part-I of that Report runs into about | 100 pages and Fart I runs into about 740 pages. That Report was prepared oe expert academicians for the UGC during 1988-1990. The ___ UGC, in its letter remarked that unfortunately in the Working Paper Law Commission, no reference was made to the Report of fee, It further stated that the UGC Panel on legal rward for better inte “action among UGC and UGE then gave its views with regard to Chapters } nission’s Working Paper. It referred to the proposed id ‘sec, 10(2)(b). Seeking greater representation Committee of the Bar Council iid not be necessary ary, Ministry of LawsovoLocyY (Hons) consisted of Prof. C.M. Bhansal, Prof. ICL. Bhatia, Prof. T. Bhattacharya and mulate LL.B. geanch MET d LLB prof. V-K. p ora, chanarashekhr al Reddy, Prot ier, The Committee to for Lecat RE Jariwala, Prof. e Moo! Chand Sharm, ae rat f Leake ch ‘neluded Prof. Ranbir Singh & Prof. M: Sak ea Trew Report of the CDC of the UGC is dated 9.3.2001 Pinheiro also: a Pin! cs fthe Parliamentary Committee on Subordinate Legislation G993- Report o! 14) € 9. ntion of the Law Commission has also been drawn to e Parliamentary 3.5 The attel namely the Fifteenth Report of th another Report, aaevnittee on Subordinate Legislation (1993-94)which is in seven Chapters, hich deals with various aspects concerning the legal profession. Chapter Vi of the said Report deals with ‘Continuing Legal Education and Restructuring the Law Course’ and Chapter VII deals with ‘Renewal of Registration’: It appears that this Report has also not been referred to in the Working Paper prepared by the Law Commission. Views of the Faculty : "On the side of the Facult issi i y i = ty, the Commission received the views arived at in the national conference of law teachers, viz., the All India ers Congress I ers C (22-25 Jan, 1999), held a the Faculty of Law, University iference was attended by law teachers representing gress was inaugurated by ‘ourt of India. The Congress ining a large number of also passed variousMW ' . FUTURE of : LEGAL EDUCATION IN INDIA as vested in a separate hag Y Consisting of | ; egal academics, & 17° Again, Nat ee ie fnecouiunetion pone! Law School of India University (NLSUD organized, f Conference oF Heads yp yin CoMeCstion, the ‘First National Consultativ j ener Gal Educational Institutions’ at Bangalore on : Rasa ene Was inaugurated by the Chief Justice of India, on the occasion, A dra eral Judges, Professors and leading lawyers spoke ee ener Of the final “issues and recommendations’ emerging ect forwarded to the Law Commission of India on Be epee ice roE CEslatirith challenges Caced by legal education. 1 ees emt eOd sot legal education) motiturronalauroctares curriculum/syllabi; ©valuation/examination; the difficulty in finding good _ teachers; technolog: 'y and connectivity; class rooms; teaching tools and infrastructure; students; __Examination/Apprenticesh career opportunities and placements; Bar + tp, governance; accreditation and quality p) citabgement; and finally financing. The above Report dated 5.11.2002 sent bythe National Lay; School has also been taken into account while i "5 this fen t nse Of Universities & Others “The Associ Universities has also sent up its views. Various dual: ils or Bar Associations have also sent up a Toft ion has now had theLEGAL RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 46 Judge Committee headed by Justice A.M. Ahmadi in 1994. »- Judge 4 Z three ae Commission does not propose to deal in this Report with pid fesues relating 1 ‘entry of Foreign Legal Consultants and Liberalisation of cpfaotteee aan with the question of constitution and elections to Bay Nees a membership of disciplinary committees. The Commission proposes t0 take up various issues which are equally important and which midseoua lougeway, Ue INproving the quality of legal education. The subjects are = the respective roles of the Bar Council of India and the UGC in regard to maintaining standards of legal education as disclosed by the constitutional provisions in Sch. VII of the Constitution of India; the ; iy