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VOL. 5, ISSUE 2 (2023)
National legal education policy and future of Indian legal education: Learning from history to reform the present
Authors
Dr. Bindu Variath
Abstract
The Government of India under the Ministry of Human Resources and
Development (MHRD) came up with the Draft NEP 2019, which suggested reforming
legal education through culture and history to ascribe morality and ethics in
the profession. There is no society without its legal history and civilizational
indigenousness. Any legal system which lacks the native and ethnic character of
the society will ultimately fail the test of time on the course of society’s
transformation. Modern legal education in India has largely been a baggage of
colonial leftovers, and there is an alacritous need not only to decolonise laws
but also legal education. Reflection of Indic jurisprudence and civilizational
values are pertinent for the sustenance of ethical legal education in India.
However, the process of reflecting these ideas in the present education system
is assorted with structural and procedural ambiguities due to uncoordinated and
unstructured policy-making in Indian legal education. There is a great deal of
hostility and academic dilemma amongst the principal protagonists – the BCI,
UGC, and the Universities and Academic thinkers as to how these Indic
principles can be reflected in the present system in its true spirit. The
present paper is an attempt by the authors to contextually analyse the need to
reflect conventional Indic jurisprudence in contemporary legal education. The
author also address how Indic civilizational values can be incorporated into
legal education.
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Pages:17-22
How to cite this article:
Dr. Bindu Variath "National legal education policy and future of Indian legal education: Learning from history to reform the present". International Journal of Law, Policy and Social Review, Vol 5, Issue 2, 2023, Pages 17-22
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