INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON GLOBALIZATION OF PROFESSIONAL LEGAL EDUCATION: CONSTITUTIONAL CONSPECTUS

Date : 3rd April 2021 to 3rd April 2021

Place : India, Gautam Buddha Nagar

Website :http://www.bennett.edu.in

Contact Person:Dr. Garima Tiwari

Description:

India’s New Education Policy, 2020 aims to create a global education environment in India. It promises to facilitate the entry of the world’s top universities through a statutory enactment for this purpose. It would substantially alter the dynamics of higher legal education in India and aims to make the education student oriented and flexible. It can also save India significant amounts of foreign exchange. While Public Sector Universities remain starved, politicised and left out, they are at times unable to meet the expected needs of higher education. Thus, the decision to allow the entry of foreign universities in India can become the first step towards turning India into an education hub in Asia. The conference will conceptualise these advantages and other advantages and study them from a practical perspective. However, several arguments and doubts have been raised regarding the viability of the global education particularly professional legal education in Indian context. Affordability and accessibility of education continue to be serious concerns in light of the constitutional mandates. The advantages and disadvantages of a centralised unitary approach to education versus a federal structure as it exists today require discussion with all stakeholders. This calls for a stock taking of evolution of educational federalism in India and the learnings from the past. There is also a need for discussion on the Socially, Economically Disadvantaged Groups in terms of reservation and scholarships. While discussing the Indian context, this conference will invite scholars from different countries to share their perspectives on internationalisation of legal education and the steps taken in their country and institutions. The international nature of conference will allow the discussants and participants to learn from different stakeholders, their concerns, experiences and the best practises and models adopted in different countries. Therefore, the conference is timely in its attempt to delve and deliberate on the globalising the professional legal education from a constitutional conspectus. Suggested Themes 1. New Education Policy vis-à-vis Global Legal Education. 2. Globalisation of education: Private versus Public Universities in India 3. Constitution and right to global legal education. 4. Commercialisation of education and socio-economic implications 5. Institutional framework and regulatory bodies 6. Global Law Clinics/Clinical Legal education 7. Language and Globalisation of Legal Education 8. Access to legal education 9. Internationalised research: Advantages and Challenges 10. Gender and globalisation of legal education 11. Role of technology in globalizing legal education 12. Any other topic related to the theme. 1. Each applicant must submit a maximum 500-word abstract by e-mail to [email protected] no later than 1st March 2021 2. Abstract must contain details about the names of the author(s), contact details, institutional affiliation, and designation. 3. Maximum of 5 keywords are to be provided along with the abstract. 4. Co-authorship is permissible up to two authors only. 5. Acceptance of the abstracts shall be communicated via email by 3rd March 2021. 6. On selection of the abstract, the author(s) must pay the required fees no later than 10th March 2021. The link for the payment portal shall be sent to the authors whose abstract would be selected along-with the acceptance mail.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON GLOBALIZATION OF PROFESSIONAL LEGAL EDUCATION: CONSTITUTIONAL CONSPECTUS will be held in Gautam Buddha Nagar,India on date 2021-04-03

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Deadline for abstracts/proposals : 1st March 2021

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