The Legal Education - Law Commission of India

10representing over 460 law colleges in the country. The Congress wasinaugurated by Justice S.B. Majmudar of the Supreme Court of India. TheCongress published a separate volume on the subject containing a largenumber of papers regarding various aspects of legal education. It alsopassed various resolutions. It referred to the ‘Revised Curriculum’prepared by the Bar Council of India (for 3 year and 5 year law courses).The main grievance of the entire Faculty drawn from all over the countrywas that the Bar Council of India was not complying with the requirementof ‘consultation’ with the Universities under sec. 7(1)(h) of the AdvocatesAct, 1961. It was pointed out that under sec. 7(1)(h) , one of the functionsof the Bar Council was“to promote legal education and to lay down standards of sucheducation in consultation with the Universities in India impartingsuch education and the State Bar Councils.”and the view was unanimously expressed that the Bar Council of Indiacould not have revised and fixed the “curriculum” for law students withoutconsulting the Universities. It was even observed that the action of the BarCouncil of India was ultra-vires of the provisions of the Act. The Congressin its letter to the Commission dated 24.7.1999 went to the extent ofsuggesting that the Bar Council should not have any role to play in thematter of legal education or of fixing up the curriculum and it should bevested in a separate body consisting of legal academics.1.7 Again, National Law School of India University (NLSUI) organized,in conjunction with its 10 th Convocation, the ‘First National Consultative