CLINICAL AND CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION-A ROADMAP FOR INDIA

Description

Clinical and Continuing Legal Education serves as the first comprehensive volume on the need for continuing legal education in India. The evolving nature of law and legal practice urges professionals to keep abreast with the latest trends in law so as to remain eective and successful. Presently, the Indian legal profession is emerging from decades of chronic neglect in terms of capacity building, and is now faced with an enormous challenge to remain conscious of its new responsibilities, particularly overseeing the fragile reform transitions. Therefore, the need of the hour is to develop an ability to continuously enhance new and better forms of knowledge. Infact, the purpose of legal education is not limited to obtaining degrees or acquiring skills, but must include the development of a process wherein continuous learning thrives. This brings to the fore the importance of continuing legal education. The wide range of chapters in this collection details the need, relevance and prospects for reshaping the Indian legal profession. Taken as a whole, Clinical and Continuing Legal Education will be of immense interest to lawyers, policymakers, judges and academicians interested in the profession of law.