Education plays an important role in bringing out social change. It equips an individual with ability to understand, reflect upon education and act in responsible manner. Legal education is mainstream education involving the study of law. It inculcates the ability to make use of law, to analyze it act and to criticize it as a member of the legal community. it focuses on the individual freedom, development of the society, solidarity and strengthening of rule of law. Law is the guardian and vindicator of justice and liberty. Legal education in India is regulated by the Bar council of India, a statutory body established under the Section 4 of Advocates Act 1961. Any institution imparting legal education as as science which imparts to students knowledge of certain principles and provision of law to enable them ton enter into the legal profession . The main function of the legal education is to produce lawyers with social vision . Historically speaking , legal education traces back to ancient period where the kings and princes were given teaching about Dharma and Nyaya . But it gained its significance only in post – independence period. In India, universities traditionally offer legal education as a three-year graduate degree. The eligibility requirement for the Bachelor of Law was that the applicant must have a bachelor’s degree in any subject from the requirement institutions.
However, after establishing the first National Law University at Bangalore in 1987, they introduced multi-disciplinary and integrated Law Courses titled BA-LLB (honours) for graduates.
Afterwards, we established other Law Universities, all offering five-year integrated Law Degrees with different names.
The National Law University of Jodhpur was the first to offer the integrated Law degree of BBALLB (Honours), followed by
West Bengal National University of Judicial Science offering BSCLLB. However, specialized law universities in India offer the traditional Three degree, which other institutions also offer and which are equally
recognized for practicing Law in India.
In addition to National University, Government colleges, private law colleges also offer law courses.
The University Grants Commission also approved One-year master’s degree i.e. LLM after completion of five years integrated courses or
03 years LLB course.
Under the Advocates Act, 1961,
the Bar Council of Law is the supreme regulatory body to regulate the legal education and profession in India and
also ensure compliance of laws and maintenance of professional Standard by legal profession in the country.
It prescribes the minimum curriculum that institutions must teach in order to be eligible for a law
