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Problems and perspectives in Indian legal education have remained unchanged since the mid-nineteenth century when the earliest academies were established under imperial rule. Both legal studies and the profession were not created with a visible need to integrate with India's social, political, and economic challenges. This wide gap has continued to thwart efforts to reform legal education thereafter. Thus, it is important to look between the past and the present to take stock of events from pre-independence till the advent of the national law schools. The article charts the consequences of India's legal education policy, and developments, to further suggest that reforms must include more unorthodox introspection.
Les problèmes et les points de vue qui prévalent dans le système de l'éducation juridique en Inde sont demeurés inchangés depuis le milieu du 19e siècle, lorsque les premières facultés ont été crées sous le régime impérial. L'éducation et la profession juridique n'ont pas été crées de façon à refléter les défis sociaux, politiques et économiques de l'Inde. Cet important écart continue de nuire aux tentatives de réforme du système d'éducation juridique. Par conséquent, il est important d'étudier le passé et le présent et de tenir compte des événements antérieurs à l'indépendance de ce pays jusqu'à la création des facultés nationales de droit. Cet article dresse le bilan des conséquences de la politique d'enseignement du droit en Inde et de son évolution et suggère que toute réforme devrait inclure une forme moins usuelle d'introspection.
1. INTRODUCTION
Problems and perspectives in Indian legal education have remained unchanged since the mid-nineteenth century when the earliest academies were established under imperial rule. Both legal studies and the profession were not created with a visible need to integrate with India's social, political, and economic challenges. This wide gap has continued to thwart periodical efforts to reform legal education thereafter. Thus, it is important to look between the past and the present to take stock of events from pre-independence till the advent of the national law schools. The article charts the consequences of India's legal education policy, and developmerits, to further suggest that reforms must include more unorthodox introspection.
Instances from the structure of legal education, its commitment to research, and the pattern of the modern law academy are peeled in...