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4 J. Indian L. & Soc'y [i] (2012-2013)

handle is hein.journals/jindlas4 and id is 1 raw text is: JOURNAL OF INDIAN LAW AND SOCIETY Volume IV Winter FOREWORD During the mid 1970s, Prof. (Dr.) Upendra Baxi had advocated the need for a more holistic legal education in a landmark paper titled Notes Toiards a Sodaly Relevant Legal Education. He argued for a change in the orientation of the then prevailing state of legal education, from the profession-oriented teaching that was being imparted, which had put its primary emphasis on a court centric view of the lawyer's role, to one which makes students more aware of the social realities in which law is posited. Thus, he opined that law subjects should be taught in conjunction with other social science subjects and that they should be set in a comparative milieu. Such pedagogy was encouraged with the assumption that law students would then have a better grasp of the social and political implications, as well as the historical backgrounds of legislations and judgments. It is in this context that we hope that our efforts in promoting original legal scholarship set in societal realities pay off by helping produce more socially aware lawyers and academicians. As in the past, this issue of the journal also brings to the fore certain subjects of inter-disciplinary interest that have wide ranging social implications. This year saw the initiation of a new endowment lecture series in the name of M. K. Nambyar, a stellar leader of the bar and father of Mr. K. K. Venugopal, Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court who instituted the lecture in his memory at the National University of Juridical Sciences. The first lecture was delivered by Michael Kirby, a former judge of the High Court of Australia, on the topic Necessities and Limitations of JudiialActivism. In this lecture, Kirby emphatically defends the activist role played by judges in common law jurisdictions. He says that judicial attention acts like a healing balm in cases where great injustices occur and in such

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