22 Apr 2010

National Consultation for Second Generation Reforms in Legal Education

The Ministry of Law and Justice, in collaboration with the Bar Council of India and National Law University, Delhi, is organising a National Consultation for Second Generation Reforms in Legal Education on 1st and 2nd May, 2010 at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi which will be inaugurated by Prime Minister of India and the Chief Justice of India will deliver a special address. The Union Minister for Law & Justice, Dr. M. Veerappa Moily, would present a vision statement for Second Generation Reforms in Legal Education.

The purpose of the said National Consultation is to identify the major challenges the Legal Education is facing at present and to draw a roadmap for bringing radical institutional reforms in legal education to meet not only the requirements of the bar but the needs of trade, commerce and industry in view of growing internationalization of the legal profession.

The National Consultation would be attended by Judges of the Supreme Court and High Courts, Attorney General for India, Solicitor General of India and Additional Solicitors Generals, Chairman and other members of the Bar Council of India and State Bar Councils, leading lawyers, eminent Professors of Law, faculty members of Law Universities/Colleges and other institutions. 

Read more at the PIB Press Release.

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