Globalization has by far affected every stream of education and has led to reformation in the fields of higher education across the globe. Reformation in legal education being need of the hour as well, requires focus on making it even more flexible by giving more freedom to the legal education organizations and establishing law schools of international standards besides addressing fundamental issues related to legal education including necessary amendments and changes in the existing law education curriculum and methodologies. The academic standards need to be raised besides providing state of the art infrastructure and research facilities. It also includes providing a good governance model and better job opportunities to the passing out law students.
Well, the challenges for reformation in legal education are big particularly when it comes to promotion of judicial and legal reforms. Apparently, for establishing a rule of law society, the lawyers and judges have to play a crucial role in the future, towards governance. It thus requires the law students in law schools to be imparted with quality training in the present. A re examination of each of them needs to carried out so that these future lawyers and judges sync in well with the undergoing socio-economic transformation.
The times when the focus of legal education institutions was on issues relating to India and Indian law only are long gone. Today, students are inquisitive and interested in studying international law as well as comparative law. Obviously, there is a dire need to make reformations in the existing legal education of Indian law through excellence in teaching and research but at the same time it is vital to focus on globalization challenges.
Keeping up with the need, even law schools today are shifting their focus on incorporating international law curriculum, with an objective of providing a fair mix of programs that strike the right balance on Indian and foreign laws. Even students are highly alert and informed about the latest in law on the international circuit due to the vast exposure available through international moot competitions. The information base of students on international law varies from dispute resolution topics to marine time law, humanitarian law and more.
Thus, it can be aptly said that establishment of law schools of global standards has become necessary today. Setting up law schools with world class infrastructure would also mean attracting students from across the world and the best faculty in law because even today sourcing good faculty with experience and expertise in the field isn’t easy. The law schools for long have been facing issues in acquiring or sourcing qualified faculties, not only in India but abroad as well. But, these issues can be resolved by offering better incentives and promotion of institutional initiatives and legal education reforms mentioned above.
As the possibilities of international interactions increase with time, law schools need to get all set to match-up. This includes activities like setting up a legal database for reference to the students from across the world and keeping it updated consistently, conducting knowledge exchange programs with legal education colleges worldwide and more.
Having said that, realizing all these reforms is not child play and requires mammoth funding. Hence, creating philanthropic initiatives for acquiring funds becomes one of the preliminary steps to be taken in the direction of raising the legal education bar in India.
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