Law Minister promises one year LLM course
India will soon have five national level law institutes in order to train the faculty
and upgrade their skills. Additionally, while addressing students at the
Symbiosis Law College at Lavale Campus, M Veerappa Moily said that the
two-year Masters of Law (LLM) degree course is in the process of being decreased
to a duration of a year. Moily, the Union Minister of Law and Justice, was addressing
a seminar on the reforms in legal education. He specifically remarked that there
was a need for Indian lawyers to become global lawyers. The institutes will be centres
of excellence and primarily focus on research and upgradation of faculty skills.
These institutes will be called Institutes of Advanced Legal Studies and Research,
said Moily.
He added, if a lawyer fails to complete his duties, the institute or the teachers
should be blamed. Somewhere they have failed in this process. The institutes do
not receive proper funding or the right faculty. Hence, the initiative of starting
the five national level institutes will help train the faculty through various orientation
programmes.
To make justice accessible to all, the Right to Justice Bill that is being drafted
will mainly focus on the poorer sections of the society. Apart from that, a national
law library which will be accessible to all citizens is also in progress. The ministry
will establish an online e-learning network where citizens can access lectures and
classes on legal subjects in real time. Law libraries will be set up in every district
of the country.
When S. B. Mujumdar, Founder-Director, Symbiosis
International University pointed out that students complete their
Bachelors in Law (LLB) the five year course in India and then go for
a one year LLM abroad, Moily confirmed that they are working on decreasing the duration
of the LLM degree course in India from two years to one year.
Courtesy: Pune Mirror
