Legal education and the supreme court

The more things change, the more they remain the same. The aphorism captures the sentiment aptly when reading the Report of the Indian Universities Commission, 1902 today, particularly its section on legal education. It raises the question of how much has changed these past hundred years and more, and how much further we need to go in order to build a suitably relevant legal education environment suitable for India today. A look at the past also brings out why and how the role of the judges of the Supreme Court of India (SCI) as distinct from the role of the SCI became fairly central in legal education, and the important role judges and the Court continue to play in determining the future of legal education.