Dalal, Shruti and Kamat,
An unknotted transformative journey of clinical legal education in India - Journal of the Indian Law Institute - 67(1), Jan-Mar, 2025: p.94-112
Clinical Legal Education (CLE) reflects a liberal and reformist educational philosophy that seeks implementation through university programs and regulatory bodies. Its chief objective centers on honing the aids, acuities and accountability. This goal is expected to be embraced by law students when they plunge into legal practice. It primarily bridges thevent between the theoretical and practical aspect of legal education in a most productive manner. This leads to an effortless admittance to justice, judicious legal insight and impartial dispersal of legal amenities to the society. This paper sheds light on the developmental and evolutionary facets of CLE in India. This includes analyzing the grim phase of the COVID-19 pandemic on the futuristic scope of this education. Further, impediments faced in smooth operation of age-old modes of legal functioning. And a transformative stage revealing digital mode of teaching, preaching law, and way forward for elevating legal education of the nation.- Reproduced
An unknotted transformative journey of clinical legal education in India - Journal of the Indian Law Institute - 67(1), Jan-Mar, 2025: p.94-112
Clinical Legal Education (CLE) reflects a liberal and reformist educational philosophy that seeks implementation through university programs and regulatory bodies. Its chief objective centers on honing the aids, acuities and accountability. This goal is expected to be embraced by law students when they plunge into legal practice. It primarily bridges thevent between the theoretical and practical aspect of legal education in a most productive manner. This leads to an effortless admittance to justice, judicious legal insight and impartial dispersal of legal amenities to the society. This paper sheds light on the developmental and evolutionary facets of CLE in India. This includes analyzing the grim phase of the COVID-19 pandemic on the futuristic scope of this education. Further, impediments faced in smooth operation of age-old modes of legal functioning. And a transformative stage revealing digital mode of teaching, preaching law, and way forward for elevating legal education of the nation.- Reproduced