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The Future of Legal Education ~ India

The Future of Legal Education ~ India. Do the skills imparted through social justice based clinical education stay with graduating lawyers and propel them to become socially conscious professionals? . India’s Approach.

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The Future of Legal Education ~ India

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  1. The Future of Legal Education ~ India

  2. Do the skills imparted through social justice based clinical education stay with graduating lawyers and propel them to become socially conscious professionals?

  3. India’s Approach “Learning out of experience is solid learning. Nothing can be taught, everything can be learned.”~Dr. N.R. Madhava Menon Founder, National Law School of India

  4. Path to Innovation • Legal education had become students’ last choice • Public perception and social standing of legal professionals was very negative • Incompetent • Unethical • Insensitive and self-interested

  5. The National Law School Model • First national law school established by Dr. Menon in Bangalore in 1987 • Five year, residential program • Focused on learning through doing • Introduces liberal arts education with a twist: law does not exist in a vacuum • 11 national law schools established to date

  6. NATIONAL LAW INSTITUTE UNIVERSITYBHOPAL, M.P.

  7. National Law InstituteCurricular Objectives • To enable the student to be • an intelligent planner • able to comprehend multiplex social problems • and train the student in • the art of conceiving alternate strategies • to advance preferred objectives • in ethically acceptable manner.

  8. Bhopal Observations • Student focused education • Administration fully supports student-run organizations • Inter-disciplinary learning leads to inter-disciplinary legal perspectives • Values and skills are learned through doing • Learning also occurs in the community

  9. V.M. Salgaocar College of Law

  10. A Premiere State College • Regional school – similar make-up to GSU • Most students come from the State and remain in the State after graduation • Notably, many of the members of the College’s faculty are alumni

  11. Mission Education is not limited to imparting legal knowledge on various legal subjects… but includes a kind of legal training which could enable the students to develop: • the capacity for rational thinking • articulation • presentation of arguments and • sensitivity to the social needs.

  12. The Legal Aid Society“Ignorance of Law is no excuse" The College undertakes various paralegal and legal awareness projects to educate and assist the public on various socio-legal issues

  13. Functioning of a Cell

  14. Goa Observations • Students no longer see legal aid work as a burden, • it is a part of the curriculum • and they expressed satisfaction with skills and values learned through program • Alumni still come back to participate which is a sign it has an impact on students’ lives

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