Abstract:
Promotion of legal education as one of the objectives of the Bar Council of India was initiated through “The Bar Council of India Trust”. Further, special Acts were enacted to establish 22 National Law Universities(NLUs) in India. The objects of the premier institutions are to advance knowledge on law and to develop a sense of responsibility to serve the society.
The informal discussion revealed that the majority of the students of NLUs are ambitioned mostly towards the corporate sector for want of attractive remuneration and quick settlement. Hence, an exploratory study was attempted to understand the carrier options and their reasons among final year students from 5 NLUs that were chosen by random sampling.
Analysis of the responses reveals that while 59.5% are opting to serve in the Corporate sector, 23.5% and 11.5% are to venture in the areas of Alternate Dispute Resolution and litigation respectively. The majority who opted for the corporate sector have high CGPA and they happened to be the first-generation lawyers and those who have chosen litigation as their profession are 2nd generation lawyers. This can be attributed to the market that driven the students to choose the career in law shedding their social responsibility expected of them. Therefore, the curriculum of the law degree has to be so designed to include the ethical theory of social responsibility to serve the community that enshrined by the Bar Council of India.
Speaker:
Mr. Valan A, Student, B.A. LLB (Hons), Tamil Nadu National Law University (India)
Valan A. is the auther of this article entitled “Is the Aim of the Bar Council of India on Legal Education Achieved?” and he is an undergraduate student pursuing his Law degree from Tamil Nadu National Law University, India.