Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract =1702421 India Law News 1 India Law News A quarterly newsletter of the India Committee VOLUME 1, ISSUE 4, FALL 2010 he Indian legal system is well known for not being an enjoyable place for most litigants; cases can drag on for dozens of years, outcomes are never certain, and low‐level corruption is endemic at some courts. For years, Indiaʹs government has proposed solutions but the problem has proved to be too vast to handle. The livelihoods of more than 1 million lawyers in India depend on the system and its inefficiencies as they currently stand. The most realistic approach therefore looks further into the future towards the next generation and starts right at the beginning: improving Indian legal education. The need for reform in education is necessary both in its own right as well as for the positive effect this would ultimately have on the countryʹs legal profession. And interestingly, legal education in India is currently in a state of flux that has not been seen for decades, if ever. India has more than 900 law colleges, of which around 300 are ʺcondemnable ʺ according to Gopal Subramanium, the countryʹs solicitor general and current chairman of lawyers ʹ only regulatory body, the Bar Council of India (BCI). The subtext to ʺcondemnable ʺ in this context is that for years the BCI has given permissions for law colleges to open all over India, and according to almost everyone familiar with the process, things were not always kosher. Whether someone was allowed to open a new law school depended less on the faculty and institution of learning one wished to assemble and build, and more on local political connections, clout and in some cases, allegedly, even outright bribes. Indiaʹs Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in June 2010 described Indian legal education as a ʺsea of institutionalised mediocrity, ʺ in which there were only ʺa small number of dynamic and outstanding law schools. ʺ ʺBut I am afraid, ʺ he added, ʺthey remain islands of excellence amidst a sea of institutionalised mediocrity.” continued on page 4 LEGAL EDUCATION IN INDIA B Ki an Ganz
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