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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.
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Why is it important?
This article is important to indicate the areas in which legal education in India lacks and improve the same by comparing with legal education in countries like the USA, Australia and the UK. By increasing India's legal education to a global standard, better quality of court proceedings can be yielded.
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Review articles such as this provides the readers with the required background knowledge, in this case, about legal education in India and helps to improve the same.
Mx. Estelle Keerthana Ramaswamy
University of New South Wales
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This page is a summary of: The Prospect of Legal Education: An India Overview, Journal of Legal Studies, June 2020, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.2478/jles-2020-0002.
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