Legal Research

India as a Legal Research Powerhouse?

By Simon Chester

Not yet, according to widely reported remarks from Bangalore over the weekend, to the graduating class at the National Law School. See the Hindu¹,Economic Times and Mangalorean reports.

National Law School of India University Vice-Chancellor A. Jayagovind on Sunday expressed concern over decline in the number of students pursuing higher studies in law.

The Vice-Chancellor went on:

“Our law schools are however yet to make a mark in terms of advancement of knowledge. Hopefully, most of us have been able to impart reasonably good legal education which was otherwise practically non-existent; but we have not established ourselves as good research centres”, he said.

“Legal research has not made much headway in India even in comparison with other social science researches. In the years to come, I hope that we will address these problems seriously”.

1. Not the Hindu Times, Simon, as you blogged in August

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