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8 Indian J.L. & Just. 165 (2017)
Clinical Legal Education in India: A Contemporary Legal Pedagogy

handle is hein.journals/ijlj8 and id is 175 raw text is: CLINICAL LEGAL EDUCATION IN INDIA: A CONTEMPORARY LEGAL PEDAGOGY Nidhi Sharma' I. Introduction The most popular form of Government in the modern times is Democracy. The backbone of every democracy is its judicial system which is connected with Legal Education.2 Thus, the bedrock of any judicial system is the imparting of right kind of legal education as it is from the law schools that the lawyers and the judges emerge.' The greatness and the honour of the legal relations lies in the Code of its ethics governing the relations of lawyers between themselves and with others in their professional capacity.4 Law has to deal with problems of diverse magnitudes and a student of law has to be trained in professional skills in order to meet the challenges of globalisation and universalisation of law.5 John Dewey argued that education is essential to a democratic state.6 He emphasised the need for the democratic citizens to understand and consider the welfare of the society as a whole. The goal of education should include the promotion of a humane, people sensitive democracy dedicated to promoting opportunities of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness to each and every person.8 The idea of equal access to justice has been around for a long time. Even though the access to justice movement did not take off too early, the concept of lawyers providing free legal service to the poor dates back to 1495 when King Henry VII legislated to require a judge to assign a lawyer to the poor when seeking justice. This could be said to be one of the first Assistant Professor of Law (Guest Faculty), University Institute of Legal Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. Postal Address- House Number: 2110, Sector 21-C, Chandigarh, Pin-160022. Email Address- nidhi.sharma2711 @gmailcom. 2 SUSHMA GUPTA, HISTORY OF LEGAL EDUCATION 2 (Deep & Deep Publication (P) Ltd., 2006). 3 Id. 4 Honorable Mr. Justice Y. Blhaskara Rao, Key note address delivered at the workshop on Apprenticeship Scheme, ANDHRA TIMES, 1997, at 15. 5 GUPTA, supra note 1. 6 JOHN DEWEY, EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION (Simon and Schuster 2007). 7 JOHN DEWEY & M.L. ROGER (ed), THE PUBLIC AND ITS PROBLEMS: AN ESSAY IN POLITICAL INQUIRY (2012). MARTHA C. NUSSABUM, NOT FOR PROFIT: WHY DEMOCRACY NEEDS THE HUMANITIES 25 (Princeton University Press, 2010).

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