Creation of Compendium on Legal Education Institutes (LEI) For The Rejuvenating of Legal Education in the State of Gujarat (Report)
Description :
Title
Creation of compendium on Legal
Education Institutes (LEI) for the rejuvenation of legal education in the state
of Gujarat
Objectives
The objective of the research
study is to revisit the quality of
existing legal education provided in the state of Gujarat and create a database
so that we could suggest policies and other improvements to be made by the
government to improve the status of legal education in the state.
Synopsis
Looking at deteriorating
standard of legal education in the state researchers initiated the project to
create a database of legal education institutions and evaluate quality of legal
education provided in the state. Researcher used primary and secondary data for
the present research. Researchers tried to collect the data from all 86 LEIs through
personal visit, sending questionnaire via mail, post. They sent questionnaires
to 49 LEIs out of these 16 were personally visited. Apart from this, 13 LEIs
were also visited. Thus in total 62 LEIs were finally approached for data
collection. They were able to collect the data from 11 LEIs only. It is
pertinent to note that data collected from these 11 LEIs are not sufficient in nature
thus no tabulation, statistical analysis can be done.
Findings
Legal Education in the state has
deteriorated with mushrooming growth in number of legal education institutions
in the state. This is applicable to other states also. There is no upto date
information maintained by Bar Council of India and on the other side legal
education institutions are reluctant to share information regarding their
operation.
Researchers has suggested stop
approving more legal education institutions, establish Directorate of Legal
Education in the state supported by District Legal Education Officer, setting
up of law teachers academy at Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar