NATIONAL LAW UNIVERSITY
The Centre has planned
to set up a National Law University with its three National Law
Centres in Eastern, Western and Northern Regions of the country
on the pattern of the National Law School at Bangalore.
This follows the
recommendations of the Special Subject Group on the Administrative
and Legal Simplifications constituted by the Prime Minister’s
Council on Trade and Industry.
The proposed National
Law University will have an enabling provision for setting up
more centers as per future needs.
A draft Cabinet Note
along with a draft legislation on the subject has been circulated
for comments and views of the Ministries and Departments concerned.
Comments and views of the Ministry of Human Resource Development
are awaited. Thereafter, the matter will be submitted to the Cabinet
for its consideration.
The proposed Law
University will stem the rot in the standard of legal education.
Earlier, several
bodies went into the problems of fall in the standard of legal
education . They were the law Commission of India’s 14th
Report, Justice A.M. Ahmedi Committee Report of October 17, 1994,
the 15th Report of the Committee on Subordinate Legislation
of December 16, 1994 and the University Grants Commission’s (UGC’s)
Reconstituted Panel on Law Report of December 27, 1994 and a Resolution
adopted by the Law Ministers in their meeting in Hyderabad on
November 25, 1995, containing several recommendations regarding
legal education reforms.
