Planned NLU consortium to increase dialogue, raise standards across national law schools

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Thursday, 20 November 2014 By Legally India Law schools

Vice chancellors (VC) of the 16 Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) participants, on 1 November, agreed to form a “national law university consortium” to regularly discuss and address academic and other issues facing NLUs.

RMLNLU Lucknow VC Gurdip Singh told Legally India that a sub-committee consisting of NLSIU Bangalore VC Prof Venkat Rao, Nalsar Hyderabad VC Prof Faizan Mustafa and RGNUL Patiala VC Paramjit Jaswal will be submitting a “concrete proposal” on the framework and functioning of the proposed NLU consortium.

“[The sub-committee] is going to decide complete details so that the consortium meets and discusses various issues of NLUs. The consortium would be to establish academic relationships between all the universities. It will be a sort of an institution which will perpetuate the academic link between all these national law universities. Not only issues relating to activities will be discussed, even academics and how should we develop legal teaching and research further, what should be done. Everything will be shared to raise the standards,” said Singh.

The sub-committee for the NLU consortium is the same committee which was originally formed in September to develop a new memorandum of understanding between CLAT participants, as reported by Legally India.

national law schoolslegal educationVenkat RaoFaizan MustafaParamjit Jaswalnational law universities (NLU)Venkata RaoParamjit Singh Jaswal

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Guest 21 Nov 2014, 12:40
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Quality of legal education is not an ad hoc issue. It has to be addressed round the year and decades. Then some fruitful result might come. One simplest way is to improve the examination and evaluation pattern. Can we upload all questions asked in the examinations including internal tests. Can we upload all answeraheets which get 65% and more marks?
Teaching load has also to be examined. If possible, the teacher should be given the paper of his/her choice. While appointment of teachers it should be made clear in which area the teacher may be required to teach. Of course it is not possible in all cases.
Concerned Law Student 25 Nov 2014, 20:16
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There should be uniformity in questions asked and the marking scheme in national law schools. This will help set an uniform standard across all NLU's in India.
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