Research Area:
Law and Legislature
KeyWord:
Bar Council of India, Clinical legal education, Continuing legal education, and Legal Professionals
Abstract:
Journey of clinical legal education (CLE) and Continuing Legal Education (CoLE) encountered lots of vicissitudes in India. It teaches “learn the law through experiences”. Until 1996, law students only learned legal principles without practical training. Thereafter, apprenticeship began under senior advocates and practical papers were inducted in syllabi to make law students hover around legal problems, acquaint themselves with laws established to articulate solutions. Curricular Clinical training nurtures law students to acquire expertise on legal principles which can boost them to acclimatize to the profession. This paper highlights the relevancy of CLE and CoLE, their impacts, and their necessity in contemporary legal perspectives based on primary and secondary data.