"Institute one-year LLM course."

The founder Vice-Chancellor of NALSAR University of Law in Hyderabad, and the National Law University, Delhi, advocated the institution of a one-year LLM course. He said that faculty would be richer if good scholarships can be given to LLM students who want to take up teaching.

On taking quality beyond the "islands of excellence", he said that law schools need to be responsible to other institutions by, for instance, offering continuing legal education programmes. After a series of meetings with the Law Ministry, the NLU Delhi are going to provide training programmes to mofussil lawyers in several new areas of law - like intellectual property, or competition law or alternate dispute resolution.

We have to be serious about the role of the Bar Council in granting recognition to law schools. We are all looking towards the leadership of Mr Gopal Subramanium

On the subject of reforms in clinical legal education, he said that there are four compulsory subjects prescribed by the Bar Council of India: questions are whether the institutions are able to find faculty. Further, there is a statutory requirement that all schemes of legal aid or Lok Adalat has to involve law schools. This has not happened seriously. Part-time law courses and evening or morning classes, do not leave much time for clinical education also.

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