Legal Education Reforms: From a Classroom Centric Teaching to Skill Based Pedagogy

The status of legal education in the country is witnessed by the quality of the legal profession. The reason is only few legal education institutions cater to the objective and purpose of the legal education. The increasing number of institutions is only giving degree and sending the young lawyers to lean the tricks of trade from whatever means they can. What lacks is a machinery to keep a check on the functioning of legal education institutions and timely understanding the requirement of profession. A fully enriching skill-based curriculum will only be able to resolve this issue and be able achieve the objective of justice to needy. This paper will analyse the requirement of how and where the changes should begin for improving the standards of legal education. What roles the premier institutions should do to improve the standard of legal profession to cater the needs of rural litigants? What curriculum to adopt for making the students of law practice ready? Whether the subjects should be taught in practical perspective or theory centric? This paper will address these questions in the context of existing rules and pedagogy.