ajay pandey - Academia.edu (original) (raw)

Uploads

Papers by ajay pandey

Research paper thumbnail of Social justice, the raison d'etre of clinical legal education

Clinical Legal Education (CLE) is not a new concept for Indian law schools. It is at least as old... more Clinical Legal Education (CLE) is not a new concept for Indian law schools. It is at least as old as the 1970s.1 However, CLE is still in a fledgling state despite almost fifty years of its introduction into legal education in India. Promotion and strengthening of CLE is a desirable aspiration to not only orient, prepare, build, and inspire legal professionals for social justice, but also to bring law, its language, its processes, mechanisms and institutions and their language closer to the masses. CLE, with its macro-objective of achieving social justice, has the potential to bring such transformation in and through legal education. Legal educators and others2 with particular interest in social justice have been making efforts to establish, promote, strengthen, and orient CLE in India.3 The need for CLE in India has its rationale and urgency in several concerns relating to issues of equal access to justice, legal aid, rule of law, governance, human rights, etc. These concerns inclu...

Research paper thumbnail of Experimenting with Clinical Legal Education to Address the Disconnect Between the Larger Promise of Law and its Grassroots Reality in India

Maryland Journal of International Law, 2011

Research paper thumbnail of Experimenting with Clinical Legal Education to Address the Disconnect Between the Larger Promise of Law and its Grassroots Reality in India

Research paper thumbnail of Social justice, the raison d'etre of clinical legal education

Clinical Legal Education (CLE) is not a new concept for Indian law schools. It is at least as old... more Clinical Legal Education (CLE) is not a new concept for Indian law schools. It is at least as old as the 1970s.1 However, CLE is still in a fledgling state despite almost fifty years of its introduction into legal education in India. Promotion and strengthening of CLE is a desirable aspiration to not only orient, prepare, build, and inspire legal professionals for social justice, but also to bring law, its language, its processes, mechanisms and institutions and their language closer to the masses. CLE, with its macro-objective of achieving social justice, has the potential to bring such transformation in and through legal education. Legal educators and others2 with particular interest in social justice have been making efforts to establish, promote, strengthen, and orient CLE in India.3 The need for CLE in India has its rationale and urgency in several concerns relating to issues of equal access to justice, legal aid, rule of law, governance, human rights, etc. These concerns inclu...

Research paper thumbnail of Experimenting with Clinical Legal Education to Address the Disconnect Between the Larger Promise of Law and its Grassroots Reality in India

Maryland Journal of International Law, 2011

Research paper thumbnail of Experimenting with Clinical Legal Education to Address the Disconnect Between the Larger Promise of Law and its Grassroots Reality in India

Log In