Volume 18, No. 6, 2021
LEGAL EDUCATION IN INDIA IN POST COVID19 PANDEMIC ERA: A CRITICAL EMPIRICAL OVERVIEW
Dr. Vikrant Sopan Yadav , Dr. Abhijeet Dhere
Abstract
Online education has been neglected particularly in countries like India, until COVID had knocked our doors. COVID 19 pandemic has resulted in manifold increase in accountability and expectations from law schools. Law schools are expected to go from local to global with the help of digital platforms and engage in international collaborations for providing world- class education to future lawyers within their native states. In today’s techno driven world, law students cannot isolate and restrict themselves to the domain of law. In the post pandemic world, law schools and students will be looked upon as ‘Jack of all and master of law.’ Situation becomes worse especially when, looking at India’s existing digital divide, some sections of society are yet to get basic access to the internet which is the first and foremost requirement to access other related digital platforms. This is a threat to the current patterns and modes of legal education delivery mechanism in India. This research paper is an attempt to investigate challenges likely to be faced by law schools in the post pandemic era. Authors have also done empirical analysis to gather the data for understanding how far today’s legal education strives for socially committed, accessible and justice driven legal education. Based on the findings, authors have also given a few suggestions with an object of improving the legal education to the expectations of modern society and making it futuristic.
Pages: 7229-7238
Keywords: Legal, Education, Practise, Digital, Society, Students