In India, the study of law was a minimum 3year long degree. However, it was changed in 1987. Now law degree courses selection process and study subjects are supervised under the Advocates Act, 1961. The said law also controls aspects of the law profession.
The Indian Bar Council is the supreme governing body to regulate the law profession and also maintains the quality of the Indian law profession. The council conducts periodic supervision of the Indian institutes for evaluation of their teaching method and to judge if the said institution meets the proper standard to provide candidates with a law degree.
Students cannot apply for the LLB degree or basic law degree after completing 10+2 or equivalent exams. Candidates have to complete an undergraduate study course to peruse the basic law course. However autonomous law institutions provide degrees with a minimum course timing of 5 years. E.g.; B.A., LL.B. (Honors), B.B.A., LL.B. (Honors), etc. Candidates who choose these kinds of courses can apply after 12th-grade exams and the said candidate must obtain a minimum of 45% marks in all subjects.
Candidates can choose from a huge array of subjects to study in law study like; Business Law, Crime and Criminology Law & Agriculture, International Law, constitutional law, etc. The costing can vary from INR 50,000 – INR 1,00,000 depending on the institutions. As per the rules, all candidates must go through a certain entrance exam test system to get enrolled in any law school of India. Some of the mentionable entrance exams shall be; Common law admission test (CLAT), some private autonomous institutes like National Law University Delhi, conducts separate entrance exams, most of the traditional institutes offer a common admission test.
Study System of Law
English is the medium in most universities in India. For courses prolonging for minimum 3 academic years, candidates must occupy 28 subjects in total, including 18 compulsory, 8 specialized course and 4 clinical subjects and 6 papers which are optional. For 5years prolonging cases, candidates need to obtain 36 subjects, including 18 compulsory and 6 optional papers, also 4 clinical and 8 specialized course subjects.
Completion of an internship of 12 weeks for 3years prolonging course candidates and 20 weeks for 5years prolonging course candidates is mandatory for completing the degree.
Top Ranking Law Colleges in India
• Campus Law Institute University, New Delhi
• National Law Institute, Bhopal
• The WB National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata
• Symbiosis Society Law College, Pune
• Faculty of Law, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi
• ILS Law College, Pune
• Hidayatullah National Law University
• National Law University, Jodhpur
• Amity Law School, Delhi
• Gujrat National Law University, Aligarh
• Gujrat National Law University, Gandhinagar
The presence of a law system and legal help personals like lawyers can be noticed since the time of Mughals. Lawyers ware called “vakils”, which probably followed to modern day Indian lawyers. At the present time, the need for a good lawyer is always there in our society. As our constitution is one of the most elaborate ones, the need for a lawyer is endless. So the glory and payroll only depend on the academic and personal caliber of the Candidate in the field of law.
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