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Legal Education in Nepal: Recent Reform and Need for Change

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In the era of globalization, legal education requires highly qualified, trained and well-equipped human resource as a lawyers, judges and academicians having considerable knowledge of law with the sense of humanity. Legal education is an instrument which trains law professionals to contribute to the all-round development of the society.

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  1. 1.

    Speech of Balaram Kafle on Behalf of Faculty of Law in a Seminar Conducted by Institute of Law, 1(2) Nepal Law Review, July–September 1977, at 9.

  2. 2.

    J.B.R Purushottamshamsher, Shree 3 Haruko Tathya Vrittanta, (Vidyarthi Pustak Bhandar, Kathamandu, Vol. 2, 1992) at 3.

  3. 3.

    Prospectus: Bachelor of Law, Institute of Law, TU, Tribhuvan University Press, Kathmandu, 1983, at 19.

  4. 4.

    Ibid.

  5. 5.

    Ibid.

  6. 6.

    Rewati Raman Khanal, “Prescribed Curriculum for Legal Education and Ways and Suggestions for Quality Reform”, 1(2) Nepal Law Review, Institute of Law, July–September, 1977, at 23, quoting History of origin and development of Sresta Pathshala, 2000, at 1, unpublished, available through Master Merunath Pandey.

  7. 7.

    Prakash Osti (ed.), Some Historical Documents Relating to Law, Lawyers Club Kathmandu, 2006, at 511.

  8. 8.

    Institute of Law, TU, Information Book: Certificate Level, Lalitpur, 1978, at 2.

  9. 9.

    Monument, pasted on wall of Building of Nepal Law Campus.

  10. 10.

    Supra note 7.

  11. 11.

    Supra note 3, at 20.

  12. 12.

    Supra note 8, at 2.

  13. 13.

    Supra note 7.

  14. 14.

    Curriculum Development Centre, TU, Master of Laws (Curriculum), Tribhuvan University Press, Kathamndu, 2009, at 1.

  15. 15.

    Available at: http://www.tribhuvan-university.edu.np.

  16. 16.

    Supra note 11, at 20.

  17. 17.

    Supra note 8, at 2.

  18. 18.

    Chandradhar Upreti, “Legal Education in Nepal: Theoretical Introduction”, 1(2) Nepal Law Review, July–September, 1977, at 40.

  19. 19.

    Supra note 3, at 25.

  20. 20.

    Supra note 14, at 2.

  21. 21.

    Speech of the then Justice of Supreme Court of Nepal, Vasudev Sharma, in a Seminar Conducted by Institute of Law, 1(2) Nepal Law Review, July–September, 1977, at 16.

  22. 22.

    Ibid.

  23. 23.

    Available at: http://www.ksl.edu.np.

  24. 24.

    Curriculum Development Centre, TU, B.A.LL.B. Curriculum (Tribhuvan University Press, Kathamndu, 2010).

  25. 25.

    Ibid.

  26. 26.

    Curriculum Development Centre, TU, LL.B. (Curriculum), Tribhuvan University Press, Kathamndu, 2009, at 3.

  27. 27.

    Ibid.

  28. 28.

    Id., at 4.

  29. 29.

    Ibid.

  30. 30.

    Id., at 5.

  31. 31.

    Supra note 24.

  32. 32.

    Ibid.

  33. 33.

    Ibid.

  34. 34.

    Available at: http://www.nlc.edu.np.

  35. 35.

    Supra note 24.

  36. 36.

    Supra note 14.

  37. 37.

    Supra note 24.

  38. 38.

    Supra note 14, at 3.

  39. 39.

    Id., at 6.

  40. 40.

    “Kantipur”, Nepali National Daily, November 16, 1997.

  41. 41.

    Michael Bogdan, Comparative Law (Kluwer Law and Taxation Publisher, Norway, 1994) at 27.

  42. 42.

    Konrad Zweigert and Hein Kotz, An Introduction to Comparative Law (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 3rd ed., 1998) at 15.

  43. 43.

    S.N. Jain, “The Research Programme in Indian Law Institute”, S.K. Verma and M. Afzal Wani (eds.), Legal Research and Methodology (Indian Law Institute, New Delhi, 2006) at 211; C.G. Weeramantry, An Invitation to the Law (Lawman Private Ltd., New Delhi, 2005) at 52.

  44. 44.

    A Speech of Sarbgya Ratna Tuladhar, the then Chairperson of Nepal Bar Association, in a Seminar Conducted by Institute of Law, 1(2) Nepal Law Review, July–September, 1977, at 12.

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Paudel, B.K. (2018). Legal Education in Nepal: Recent Reform and Need for Change. In: Nirmal, B., Singh, R. (eds) Contemporary Issues in International Law. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6277-3_39

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