by Diksha Sanyal Education reforms have been at the heart of much of the controversy in colleges today. Delhi University’s novel initiative of introducing the FYUP or the Five Year Undergraduate Programme course stirred much debate about the viability of such a system and its likely consequences. At the core of such reform is the … Continue reading The Need for Liberal Education in India
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Shrinking Community Spaces in India’s National Law Universities
By Ipshita Sengupta Most ‘national law university (NLU)’ brand of institutions in India are in-residence programmes which, in theory, place a lot of emphasis on the development of robust community spaces that will contribute to the ‘all round development of each and every student’. The practice, however, seems to be demonstrate quite the opposite. A … Continue reading Shrinking Community Spaces in India’s National Law Universities
Regulating Indian Legal Education
By Stella James The Human Resources Development (HRD) Ministry’s move to establish a super-regulatory body, the National Commission for Higher Education and Research (NCHER), did not go down too well with many of the stakeholders. A few months after the Bill to this effect was introduced, the country erupted in protests by lawyers all over … Continue reading Regulating Indian Legal Education
Conversation with Raju Ramachandran, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court
Shambo Nandy, the Executive Editor of Journal of Indian Law and Society recently spoke to Raju Ramachandran on a wide array of topics. He talks about legal education in the 1970s and now, the qualitative change in the Bar and about the benefits of interdisciplinary legal education. SN: Please tell us something about yourself. What … Continue reading Conversation with Raju Ramachandran, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court
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