What quality means in context of legal education is minimum professional competence by way of ethics, skills, knowledge, employability, and applications, said Prof NR Madhava Menon, chairperson, Menon Institute of legal Advocacy Training while speaking in a conference on “The Making of a World Class law School: The Vision and the Inputs” held at Selaqui College of law on Sunday.
Menon said that legal education should be justice oriented not business oriented. More care needs to be taken to find out the application of laws in disaster management.
"Social relevance has to be necessarily drawn from what we actually learnt. Every year nearly 60,000 law graduates are produced in India, but if they lack quality, they stand in group of exploited youths".
Prof Venkata Rao, Vice Chancellor, National law School of India University, Bangalore expressed his concern on the examination system carried out in universities and suggested various reforms for better evaluation of students.
Prof BS Chimni, former Vice Chancellor, National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata and chairperson, Centre for International legal Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University discussed the importance of research in law school and how the research culture can contribute towards betterment of legal professionals. He stressed on the need for serving society and not the market.