Establishment of Lawyers’ Academy to Promote Legal Education— The Need of the Day

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 176-181
Author(s):  
Madhubrata Mohanty
Keyword(s):  
Legal Education ◽  
Legal Profession ◽  
Poor Performance ◽  
High Time ◽  
Indian Culture ◽  
Legal Professionals ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
Ignorance Of Law ◽  
History Of ◽  
Made In

The imparting of legal education has passed through a number of phases throughout its development, but it is still in need of more promotion regarding its various perspectives. People from different strata of the society still consider the legal profession as a last resort, sometimes due to lack of awareness and sometimes due to lack of proper education. The poor performance of the institutions imparting legal education can also be considered as an additional factor to this issue. At such a juncture, it is high time to establish such an institution that would work for the promotion of legal education as well as to train the budding lawyers of the country regarding the sanctity of legal profession so as to make this profession the most alluring one amongst the law graduates. Only establishment of a lawyers’ academy will not suffice; it should get the patronization of senior advocates, judges and academicians of high repute. ‘Law’ has always acquired a distinct position in the mythology and history of Indian culture, be in one form or other, and people have often been punished for ignorance of law. Still no remarkable development has been made in the imparting of legal education, and now it is high time to think of the matter seriously, and instead of promoting for legal process outsourcing by our legal professionals for foreign countries, let more and more opportunities be created by our own country to accommodate these professionals to serve our own country.

scholarly journals Pedagogical Technologies in Legal Education: Historical Analysis and Modern Experience

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3.15) ◽  
pp. 309
Author(s):  
Evgenia Sagalaeva ◽  
Irina Komarevceva ◽  
Olga Landina ◽  
Marina Melnichuk
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Present Stage ◽  
Historical Experience ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
History Of ◽  
Modern Experience

The article is dedicated to research and analysis of the issues of formation and development of pedagogical technologies in legal education. The historical experience of training of legal human resources both in Russia and in foreign countries is investigated. Special attention is paid to the enchiridia of M. Psellus. The theoretical and practical problems that affect the application of pedagogical technologies in legal education at the present stage are analyzed. The potential of problematic training in the context of legal education is revealed. The scientific novelty of the work is that the authors on the basis of studying the history of the formation and development of pedagogical technologies both in Russia and abroad attempted to determine the main trends in the development of this sphere of social relations and to justify the most constructive proposals in order to improve the training of graduate lawyers. 

The Legal Profession

2019 ◽  
pp. 165-184
Author(s):  
John Baker
Keyword(s):  
General Practitioners ◽  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Legal Profession ◽  
Law School ◽  
Inns Of Court ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common

This chapter traces the history of the English legal profession, which begins around 1200. From the start there was a distinction between advocacy and attorneyship. The pleaders in the Court of Common Pleas became around 1300 the order of serjeants at law, from whom the superior judges were chosen. A law school for ‘apprentices of the Bench’ in the thirteenth century was remodelled in the next century as a collegiate system, the inns of court and chancery, with its own learning exercises and degrees (bencher and barrister). Barristers practised as advocates, but not in the Common Pleas. In Tudor times solicitors appeared, as general practitioners. Serjeants lost their primacy to the newer rank of king’s counsel, but survived into Victorian times. Accounts are given of the judiciary and its independence, of the Civilian practitioners in Doctors’ Commons, and of the transfer of legal education to the universities.

Continuing Legal Education: Rethinking Professional Ethics and Responsibility in India

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 152-168
Author(s):  
Prakash Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Professional Ethics ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Legal Profession ◽  
Public Trust ◽  
Professional Responsibility ◽  
Ethical Standards ◽  
Professional Conduct ◽  
Legal Professionals ◽  
Law Commission

The declining standards in legal profession, coupled with loss of public trust and confidence, call for emphasis on a deeper understanding of professional ethics among lawyers and perhaps articulate a different notion of professional responsibility that extends beyond the standards of professional conduct and etiquette for lawyers. The 266th Report of Law Commission of India highlighted the need to structure legal education and to bring ethical standards in legal profession. In this regard, the article proposes to mandate continuing legal education (CLE) for legal professionals. The purpose of introduction of CLE programme is to emphasize upon the quality of advocacy. Further, it was to implement the concept of professional responsibility, which provides that a lawyer should represent a client competently. In this regard, CLE programme might help lawyers to re-inform, re-imagine and reconstruct the legal profession in India in ethical and responsible ways. This article discusses the considerations and the process that must led to the adoption of the CLE plan.

scholarly journals THE BOLOGNA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION AS THE BASIS OF THE EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION FOR ADMISSION TO THE LEGAL PROFESSION

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
pp. 655-660
Author(s):  
R.G. Melnichenko ◽  
S.V. Ignatyev
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Bologna Process ◽  
Legal Profession ◽  
Bachelor's Degree ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Status ◽  
The One ◽  
The Bologna Process ◽  
Made In

The relevance of the study is caused, on the one hand, by the unification of approaches to the content of higher legal education in the world (related to the Bologna process), and, on the other, by different approaches of states when using the results of training in the bachelor/master/doctoral student paradigm when admitted to the legal profession. The authors investigated the situation in the main “civilized” states on this issue, revealing a wide range of approaches to the requirements for having an appropriate level of higher legal education for candidates for the status of a lawyer: only master (Ukraine, France), law bachelor (UK, Australia, Canada, USA, Slovenia), not a bachelor of law with the condition of additional training (UK, Australia), not a bachelor of law with subsequent legal practice (state California). As a result, the following conclusions were made: 1. In countries with the Bologna system of higher education, there are no unified approaches to the level of education that a candidate for obtaining the status of a lawyer should receive. 2. No regularities were found to determine why in some states the choice was made in favor of the “master's degree”, and in others - the “bachelor's degree” requirements for candidates for the status of a lawyer.

9. The legal profession

2020 ◽  
pp. 329-361
Author(s):  
Steve Wilson ◽  
Helen Rutherford ◽  
Tony Storey ◽  
Natalie Wortley ◽  
Birju Kotecha
Keyword(s):  
Business Models ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Legal Profession ◽  
Legal Practice ◽  
Legal Professionals ◽  
Business Structures

This chapter considers the roles of solicitors and barristers and other legal professionals such as Chartered Legal Executives and paralegals. It outlines the basic business models of legal practice, including alternative business structures (ABS) and the constraints on such organisations. It discusses the rules affecting practice as a solicitor or a barrister and outlines the regulatory organisations overseeing solicitors and barristers. It explains the routes to qualification for barristers: what pupillage is, the need for barristers to be members of an Inn of Court, and the route for solicitors via a training contract. The debate as to whether the two main branches of the legal profession should be fused into one is set out. The most recent reforms to legal education are signposted.

Law School Accreditation Standards and the Structure of American Legal Education

1978 ◽  
Vol 3 (03) ◽  
pp. 515-543 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna Fossum
Keyword(s):  
Legal Education ◽  
Legal Profession ◽  
Law School ◽  
Law Schools ◽  
The Past ◽  
Accreditation Standards ◽  
History Of ◽  
Part Time ◽  
The Law ◽  
School Accreditation

In the past 50 years, eligibility for admission to the bar has come to depend increasingly on the accreditation status of the law school attended. The author traces the history of the American Bar Association's law school accrediting standards and their impact on part-time and proprietary law schools, presents the results of a study of the ABA standard prohibiting the accreditation of proprietary law schools, and discusses ramifications for legal education and the legal profession.

A history of botanical collections in the Luangwa Valley, Zambia

1998 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 283-291
Author(s):  
P.S.M. PHIRI ◽  
D.M. MOORE
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Vascular Plants ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
Peak Activity ◽  
Historical Account ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Made In

Central Africa remained botanically unknown to the outside world up to the end of the eighteenth century. This paper provides a historical account of plant explorations in the Luangwa Valley. The first plant specimens were collected in 1897 and the last serious botanical explorations were made in 1993. During this period there have been 58 plant collectors in the Luangwa Valley with peak activity recorded in the 1960s. In 1989 1,348 species of vascular plants were described in the Luangwa Valley. More botanical collecting is needed with a view to finding new plant taxa, and also to provide a satisfactory basis for applied disciplines such as ecology, phytogeography, conservation and environmental impact assessment.

Chasing Angels: The Sweet Wine Angelica

2008 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 74-78
Author(s):  
hank shaw
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
The Real ◽  
Mission Period ◽  
History Of ◽  
Uncertain Future ◽  
Sweet Wine ◽  
Made In

Portugal has port, Spain has sherry, Sicily has Marsala –– and California has angelica. Angelica is California's original wine: The intensely sweet, fortified dessert cordial has been made in the state for more than two centuries –– primarily made from Mission grapes, first brought to California by the Spanish friars. Angelica was once drunk in vast quantities, but now fewer than a dozen vintners make angelica today. These holdouts from an earlier age are each following a personal quest for the real. For unlike port and sherry, which have strict rules about their production, angelica never gelled into something so distinct that connoisseurs can say, ““This is angelica. This is not.”” This piece looks at the history of the drink, its foggy origins in the Mission period and on through angelica's heyday and down to its degeneration into a staple of the back-alley wino set. Several current vintners are profiled, and they suggest an uncertain future for this cordial.

Not as It Is Written

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 78-100
Author(s):  
Benjamin Houston
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
International Exhibition ◽  
Black Experience ◽  
American Perspective ◽  
History Of ◽  
Black Life ◽  
Made In

This article discusses an international exhibition that detailed the recent history of African Americans in Pittsburgh. Methodologically, the exhibition paired oral history excerpts with selected historic photographs to evoke a sense of Black life during the twentieth century. Thematically, showcasing the Black experience in Pittsburgh provided a chance to provoke among a wider public more nuanced understandings of the civil rights movement, an era particularly prone to problematic and superficial misreadings, but also to interject an African American perspective into the scholarship on deindustrializing cities, a literature which treats racism mostly in white-centric terms. This essay focuses on the choices made in reconciling these thematic and methodological dimensions when designing this exhibition.

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