8-644: National Law Universities ( NLU ) are public law schools in India , founded pursuant to the second-generation reforms for legal education sought to be implemented by the Bar Council of India . The first NLU was the National Law School of India University aka NLS/NLU Bangalore which admitted its first batch in 1988. Since then, most of the states in India have NLUs. Currently there are 27 NLUs across
16-419: Is also known as the main gateway to NLUs has been ranked as one of the top five toughest entrance examinations in India. NLUs have Chief Justice of India (CJI) and various Chief Justices of Respective High Courts as their Chancellors and visiting professors. Many retired judges and bureaucrats are also here as permanent faculty and Vice-Chancellors. Traditionally legal education in India was conducted through
24-514: The case of National Law University, Delhi , which admits students through its own entrance examination named as All India Law Entrance Test (AILET). NLU Meghalaya also has its own admission / entrance test it is anticipated that in the coming years AILET and NLU Meghalaya's separate tests will be merged into CLAT. Admission to the NLUs is extremely competitive with an acceptance rate as low as 2% to 3% in case of CLAT and approx 0.50% via AILET. CLAT which
32-510: The country out of which one is an off-centre campus of NLU Gandhinagar, GNLU SILVASSA Campus. Since the inception of NLUs, these law schools have continuously been ranked as India's most and world's one of the most prestigious and premier law schools by various agencies and are also referred as IITs of Legal Education. The admissions to these universities is conducted through the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) except in
40-605: The medium of non-specialized universities of India which granted law degrees like any other graduate degree . These universities referred and taught the curriculum prescribed by the Bar Council of India, but since they were under the overall control and supervision of the University Grants Commission , therefore it was not possible for the Bar Council to effectively pursue reforms in legal education. This system continued for more than two decades with
48-474: The overall legal education supervision by the Bar Council, since its establishment in terms of the Advocates Act, 1961. However, there were calls for reforms from all quarters of the country in general because of the falling standards of the bar and there were mounting pressures over the Bar Council of India to change the way legal education was imparted in India. The first concrete decision to this end
56-536: Was hitherto diverted to other professional areas such as medicine and engineering . In contrast with the existing pattern of legal education in India, the proposed autonomous law schools varied in structural design and in various other respects. Some of these can be identified through the characteristics they carry: Law schools Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include
64-567: Was taken in 1984 when various proposals to modernize legal education were considered and approved by the Legal Education Committee of the Bar Council, in an attempt to improve legal education throughout India. One major proposal was the decision to establish specialized institutions to impart legal education in an integrated and diversified manner. The aim was to revitalize the legal profession by making law an attractive profession and making it competitive to attract talent, which
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