Law & Legal Studies

Law and Regulations on Legal Education in India Before, During and After COVID-19 with a Post-COVID-19 Manifesto

Law and Regulations on Legal Education in India Before, During and After COVID-19 with a Post-COVID-19 Manifesto

This article builds a juxtaposition of regulations as they were before the pandemic and as they are during the pandemic, revealing the contrast between them in their scope and application.

Author

S.G. Sreejith, Professor, Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana, India.

Summary

This article is in pursuit of a way forward from the pandemic-stricken condition of legal education in India to a future of excellence. It realizes that as much as the pandemic paralyses us and threatens with losses, it educates us, emboldens us and helps us realize our true imaginative and constructive possibilities.

What is being threatened is a system ordered through a regulatory governance, which owes its legitimacy to the constitution and rule of law.

What is being discovered is the many possibilities—of imagination, experimentation and innovation—of regulations. Hence, this article builds a juxtaposition of regulations as they were before the pandemic and as they are during the pandemic, revealing the contrast between them in their scope and application.

Inputs for reimagination found between the contrasts are used for making a manifesto for resilience and change, the relevance of which becomes obvious through a prevailing sentiment that perhaps the world will never be the same again.

Published in: Asian Journal of Legal Education

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