Place of NLUs in India’s Legal Education Ecosystem.

Abstract

There comes a time in the life of an individual or a community, where one must pause, introspect, and evaluate as to whether it is moving in the right direction. Times are not static for ‘everything changes except the rule of change’. The ecosystem of Indian legal education is no exception to change and a great amount of water has flown down in the rivers of India, since the experiment of National Law School system commenced. The contemporary scene of India’s legal education ecosystem is far from satisfactory and the challenges that we face today are immense to say the least. This article seeks to address where we stand today, what has been achieved over the last seven to eight decades, and the direction in which legal education is headed – or should be heading.