Are Private Law Schools the New NLS?
25 Apr 2011, 08:34
There has been a boom in the Legal Education sector in India over the past 7 years. New players emerging and climbing up the ladder far quicker than what most people would have expected. In such day and age, the question I am raising is simple..
Are private Law Schools becoming the bigger players in the game?
With extensive funding and independence of work structure, many of these Private Law schools have become top honcho’s in the Legal Education Sector. Many of the newer National Law Universities are loosing their sheen far too early and the Amity, Christ and Symbiosis Baton seems to be blaring loudly.
Whats your opinion? Are Private Law Schools the New face of legal education in India? are they the new NLS?
3 Replies
Interesting argument.
1-Which private law school has become a ‘top honcho’?
2-How many of them do you see in the top-10 of MPL?
My belief,
No they aren’t.
Just like there are a lot of good engineering colleges, but IIT’s are always what one tries for first.
The nice point though is that these private colleges are getting much better.
The boom in the legal education is not because of the private law colleges, but because of the opening of new National Law Universities. Earlier it was NLSIU, Bangalore - the only National Law College in the country and considered as the new face of Legal Education. Later on NALSAR, NUJS, NLIU, NLUJ came into existence which provided to competition to NLSIU, Bangalore and at present the supremacy of NLSIU is in danger. NALSAR and NUJS are considered to be in the category of top law schools in the country along with NLSIU.
After that HNLU, GNLU came into existence which provided more competition to older National Law Universities.
I think at present only Symbi is considered as a good private law college. We have heard a lot about Jindal, but no other private one.
Reason being it is the quality which matters. And, cream goes to National Law Universities and it is the fact.
Although, there are some exceptions in every law college and there would be such exceptions in each private law college. But, as the time would pass National Law Universities would become more prominent than ever. It would be not like NLS, NALSAR or NUJS but National Law University, no matter where ever it is situated.
But we need to understand that certain National Law Universities( say CNLU) are reeling under immense lag and developmental issues. The placement process has been terrible.
Also, the cream might go to the top National law Schools, but there are many students a huge number at that who choose private law schools, say Symbi, Amity or Christ or Jindal over the lower ranked National Law Universities. That is becoming a trend. A large bunch of students from my batch all qualified for Universities such as CNLU, RGNLU and NUALS. That is the point i am raising :)
There is no doubt that today NLS, NALSAR and NUJS etc remain undisputedly the best in the nation, but private law schools are definitely eating up the bottom chain of National Universities.