A Study on Legal Education in India: Traditional Teaching to Digital Teaching

This paper talks about the history of legal education in India and what factors led to the shift in the paradigm of law and its andragogy. Tracing the history from ancient India during the eras of Vedas and traces the education patterns in the ages of Dharamshastras and Manusmriti it comes to discuss the law during the Mughal reign and the changes brought by such law in the legal education. British laws and the legal education system and their impact of legal education are elucidated and later, after the independence of India, an introduction of three-year law courses and five-year integrated law courses is discussed. The last part of the paper elucidates the use of IT and digital media as the way forward in legal andragogy, for better understanding of the concepts of law, use of audio-visual media through videos and power points to be a preferred mode of education to provide holistic understanding to the students of the subject matter.