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Maharashtra National Law University is going to organize STATE LEVEL CONFERENCE OF PRINCIPALS AND SENIOR FACULTIES OF LAW COLLEGES IN MAHARASHTRA (2nd & 3rd Jan. 2020).
Dates: 2nd & 3rd Jan. 2020
About MNLU Mumbai
Maharashtra National Law University Mumbai (MNLU Mumbai) is the latest of the National Law Schools established in India. The Maharashtra National Law University Act 2014 was passed by Maharashtra State Legislature under the Maharashtra Act No. VI of 2014 on 20th March 2014.
The object of the university is to advance and disseminate learning and knowledge of law and legal processes and their role in national development, to develop in the students and research scholars, a sense of responsibility, to serve society in the field of law by developing skills in regard to advocacy, legal services, legislation, law reforms and the like; to organize lectures, seminars, symposia and conferences to promote efficient instruments of social development.
About the Conference
With the emergence of the welfare state and it endures to ameliorate the socio-economic condition of people through positive state action, law and development have become so interrelated that it has become the crucial function of legal education to produce lawyers with greater vision and social commitment. Legal education should serve society by imparting to law students, general and cultural education which will instill into the students the spirit of the culture, democracy, rule of law, the need to uphold the law and to be fearless at the same time.
Legal education has to fulfill different roles in society and its horizons are ever-expanding. The budding lawyers have to discharge a variety of functions right from conventional lawyering to think tanks of policymaking and torchbearers of change. The legal education has to respond and revamp itself to cope up with the changing dimensions of the society.
Maharashtra had always been at the forefront of legal education, both in quality and in the number of institutions of legal learning. However, we have to introspect into the present affairs of legal education in the state to analyze whether we could do justice to the ‘Profession of the Learned’ by sufficiently catering to the needs of the profession. There are a number of problems and challenges faced by legal education in India and in the state of Maharashtra in particular.
The Maharashtra National Law University Mumbai as a premier institution of legal learning invites the ‘Principals and Senior Faculties’ of all the Law Colleges in Maharashtra for two-day interactive conference on Legal Education and to share with us your immense knowledge and experience and also invite your valuable suggestions to improve the quality of legal education in the State. The two-day conference would provide an excellent opportunity to interact with a few of the best minds in legal education and stalwarts of the legal profession in India, apart from providing a platform for academic networking.
Objectives
To have an introspection about the present state of legal education in the state of Maharashtra.
To understand the expanding horizons of law and its requirements.
To identify and improve the systemic and off systemic problems related to legal education.
To address the challenges faced by legal academia and profession in relation to legal education.
To think in terms of goal setting and revamping the curriculum of legal education.
To deliberate as to the need of having dedicated law universities in the State.
To suggest means of improving the quality of legal education in the state of Maharashtra.
Sub-Themes
Issues and Challenges in legal education.
Institutional and Regulatory Issues.
Improving the quality of curriculum, teaching and learning exercises.
Student related problems in legal education.
Addressing disparity in content, infrastructure, intake, and output.
Scheme of Examination and Evaluation of Students.
Legal Education and Human values – developing good lawyers.
Eligibility
Principals and Senior Faculties of Law Colleges in the State of Maharashtra.
Registration Procedure
The Registration fees shall be Rs. 1500/- which shall include the accommodation, reading material, breakfast, lunch and dinner, and Rs. 1000/- without accommodation. Payment of fees can be made by fund transfer/ deposit to the following account.
Name of Account Holder: Maharashtra National Law University Mumbai
Account Number: 8709000100018239
Bank Name: Punjab National Bank
Branch: Powai IFSC Code: PUNB0870900
Reporting time at the registration desk on 2nd January 2020 is 09:30 am.
Contact
Prof. (Dr.) Anil G. Variath: 9869011210
Dr. Anand Raut: anand@mnlumumbai.edu.in
Email ID: MNLUMreach@gmail.com
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