Diaries of UK Law Students, hmmm. A nice header for the blog but then I am pretty unsure how to begin with. Now that I am officially a part of this blog (feels really nice to have your name around) and being asked to post an introductory post about myself, I am unsure how to being with. So will fill in this post with random musings and will begin on a bit focused note later on. And ya that reminds me, thanks for the invite Gavin.
Well I am not an accidental law student, for being born in a family of uncles and parents all in the legal professional, it was a pretty obvious choice to follow their steps and go on with this so-called creative-thinking requiring, busiest of the busy professions. And then being brought up in such an environment has its own bearings. I have been told to be serious in classes, for those nasty and weird ideas of law will be my source for bread and butter and blah blah blah ... (an endless list).
Plus already been in a law school for five years (yeah, thats the new matra in India for law education, five straight years in law school after Class 12, as they believe it generates professionalism) and being in for a masters degree in law in UK, I find law is nothing but common sense of a particular variety, applied to a particular situation. So more the people making the law think about those particular situations, the heavier our statutes (and naturally) our course books become. But surprisingly, its very different here in UK than India. One has enormously free time here, as compared to a rigorous daily schedule of atleast seven hours of classes and then lots of assignments, projects, moot courts etc. to be engaged in. And then the teachers here are also accommodative towards your special needs . But then its all because the world is a race back home, race for higher and better and given the industrious nature of the people around, it becomes increasingly important to extract the worth of every moment.
Being in here for quiet some time now, I find that there is one peculiar aspect which distinguishes the legal study regime in UK from other countries; lack of a properly termed law school and its fallouts. Across the world legal education is these days being imparted through law schools whereas in the UK, legal studies are still a part and parcel of University education and is delivered through the same traditional lectures and resource-based reading system.
Having been in a law school for five years in the India and having a fair bit of exposure to the teaching style and methodologies of the law schools in the prominent educational hubs of the world, I can surely relate this to the absence of proper orientation of students before they decide on to take law and that relating to graduation from university with a law degree. The things are a lot difference when delivered in a purely law focused and skill based regime system followed in law schools.
But then, every system has its own ways and means which it is free to decide and choose from and there are positives and negatives in each system. So if this works for UK, so be it.
Well I am not an accidental law student, for being born in a family of uncles and parents all in the legal professional, it was a pretty obvious choice to follow their steps and go on with this so-called creative-thinking requiring, busiest of the busy professions. And then being brought up in such an environment has its own bearings. I have been told to be serious in classes, for those nasty and weird ideas of law will be my source for bread and butter and blah blah blah ... (an endless list).
Plus already been in a law school for five years (yeah, thats the new matra in India for law education, five straight years in law school after Class 12, as they believe it generates professionalism) and being in for a masters degree in law in UK, I find law is nothing but common sense of a particular variety, applied to a particular situation. So more the people making the law think about those particular situations, the heavier our statutes (and naturally) our course books become. But surprisingly, its very different here in UK than India. One has enormously free time here, as compared to a rigorous daily schedule of atleast seven hours of classes and then lots of assignments, projects, moot courts etc. to be engaged in. And then the teachers here are also accommodative towards your special needs . But then its all because the world is a race back home, race for higher and better and given the industrious nature of the people around, it becomes increasingly important to extract the worth of every moment.
Being in here for quiet some time now, I find that there is one peculiar aspect which distinguishes the legal study regime in UK from other countries; lack of a properly termed law school and its fallouts. Across the world legal education is these days being imparted through law schools whereas in the UK, legal studies are still a part and parcel of University education and is delivered through the same traditional lectures and resource-based reading system.
Having been in a law school for five years in the India and having a fair bit of exposure to the teaching style and methodologies of the law schools in the prominent educational hubs of the world, I can surely relate this to the absence of proper orientation of students before they decide on to take law and that relating to graduation from university with a law degree. The things are a lot difference when delivered in a purely law focused and skill based regime system followed in law schools.
But then, every system has its own ways and means which it is free to decide and choose from and there are positives and negatives in each system. So if this works for UK, so be it.
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4 comments:
I think that you completely seem to miss the point of studying Law in Britain. It is not at undergraduate level seen as a vocational degree, nor that everyone who takes will go on to be lawyers or go on to work in the legal field.
Law is studied as an academic subject dealing with not only the practical problem questions of law, but also the theoretical and contentious issues that surround it, and the political and socialogical landscaoe in which it operates.
Although it is a prequisite for practising law, other than the GDL, this system allows those who wish to study the academic side of the law to not be bogged down with the administrative, beuaracratic, and practical side of the legal system.
well may be that you have brought to my notice, I can quiet correlate. In India the stress on undergraduate studies in law is more of a professional degree with people coming out of law school straight away entitled to practice in courts (having undergone various practical and procedural papers in law school itself) after getting themselves enrolled with the state bar councils wherever they wish to practice in.
As for academic pursuits, Masters level is considered the more appropriate place for that, which again is usually specialized and focused.
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For starters you come of like the most arrogant piece of human scum ever.
Secondly, I really do think English Universities have a bit of an advantage over Indian Universities. Namely, they're more respectable to say the least, the 5 year course is just an extra 2 years of technicalities. In the UK its about understanding the Law about being able to justify any judgement, find the ratio and be able to apply that rule. Now if you miss studying 7 hours, we tend to like having a life!
Sorry if I came out as a bit insulty, I didnt mean it.
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