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The modern legal education which is prevalent and imparted in the contemporary India has been transplanted by the Britishers.
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Swethaa Ballakrishnen and Homeward Bound, “What does a Global Education Offer Indian Returnees?”, 80 Fordham Law Review, 2012, at 2441.
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A number of articles have been written on the importance of bringing reforms in legal education to make it more socially relevant and the various ways in which it can be done. See e.g., Frank S. Bloch and M.R.K. Prasad, “Institutionalizing a Social Justice Mission for Clinical Legal Education: Cross National Currents from India and the United States”, 13 Clinical Law Review, 2006, at 165.
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National Knowledge Commission Government of India, Report to the Nation 80–81, available at: http://www.knowledgecommission.gov.in/downloads/report2009/eng/report09.pdf.
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S.P. Sathe, “Access to Legal Education and the Legal Profession in India”, in R. Dhavan, N. Kibble and W. Twinner (ed.), Access to Legal Education and Legal Profession (1989), at 165.
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Gene Koo, “New Skills, New Learning Legal Education and Promise of Technology”, The Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harward School, Research Publication No. 4, 2007, at 9 available at: http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract_id=XXXXXX.
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John Varghese, “Global Legal Education and India: A Blueprint for Raising Indian Legal Education to Global Standards”, 2010, available at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papes.cfm?abstract_id=1728451.
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Brent E. Newton, “Preaching What They Don’t Practice: Why Law Faculties’ Preoccupation with Impractical Scholarship and Devaluation of Practical Competencies Obstruct Reform in The Legal Academy”, 62 South Carolina Law Review, at 147.
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Elizabeth Chambliss, “Two Questions for Law Schools about the Future Boundaries of the Legal Profession”, 36 Journal of Legal Profession, 2012, at 329.
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Clinical legal education can promote social justice lawyering in India see, Margret Martin Barry, “Teaching Social Justice Lawyering: Systematically Including Community Legal Education In Law school Clinics”, 18 Clinical Law Review, 2012, at 401.
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Gene Koo, supra note 5, at 6.
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Steve Sheppard, “Academic Freedom: A Prologue”, 65 Arkansas Law Review, 2010, at 177.
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Gene Koo, supra note 5, at 19.
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Id., at 13.
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Id., at 15.
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Id., at 16.
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Ibid.
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Justice S.P. Mehrotra, “Re-Inventing Legal Education: Challenges and Opportunities”, Institution Of Judicial Training and Research, 2008, available at: http://www.ijtr.nic.in/webjournal/6.htm.
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Keshav Dayal, “Famous Lawyer Of Freedom Struggle And Trials Of Freedom Fighters” (2010).
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Sivakumar, S. (2018). Legal Education in India: A Contemporary Discourse. In: Nirmal, B., Singh, R. (eds) Contemporary Issues in International Law. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6277-3_45
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