Law Education now a days occupy a very substantial and important place in the university curriculum and every university has and every university has a Faculty of Law in it to impart law education to its students. The universities are being assisted bylaw universities are being assisted by law colleges and law schools which are affiliated to the university. Still further, the law education is being imparted through distance education and enabling students who are unable to attend the whole time law courses. Law like other disciplines occupy an important place in the University Grants Commission’s educational business. Law education owes its existence to the overbearing needs of all social, economic, political and humanitarian considerations experienced by human civilization. Legal education was recognized by lord Cornwallis in 1793, during British regime. Gradually it developed in different universities of India with different syllabi. After independence Parliament by enacting Advocate Act, 1961, has given autonomy to Bar Council of India on legal education.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jagat Pal
Professor Jagat Pal (b. 1949) is teaching presently as a Professors of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya. He did his graduation and post graduation from the University of Allahabad and Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, U.P. He started his teaching career from the Jaina Visva Bharati Deemed University, Ladnun, Rajasthan. He has taught several courses in the area of Moral Philosophy, Indian Philosophy, Philosophy of Language, Analytic Philosophy, Symbolic Logic. Philosophy of Natural Sciences, Greek Philosophy and Modern Western Philosophy. He has guided several M.Phil and Ph.D. students. His papers have been published in several learned journals out of which two of them are published in international reputed journal. He has reviewed two books of I.C.P.R. which are published in the I.C.P.R. Journal. His is also co-editor of a book Introduction to Social and Political Philosophy which has been published by the North Eastern Hill University Publication Cell, Shillong in 2002. He has delivered several lectures on Moral Philosophy, Analytic Philosophy of Mind in different University as Resource Person and Visiting Fellow.
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