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40the Bar Council’s directives tend to be arbitrary. These reactions of thelaw schools cannot be treated as resistance or disobedience. The practicaldifficulties in the way of law schools must also be taken into account.4.6 For example, in the recent curriculum which has been circulated bythe Bar Council of India, there are quite a good number of matters whichperhaps require a second look. The manner in which some importantsubjects have been put in the list of optional subjects and the manner inwhich two subjects which have not much of connection, have been joinedtogether in one paper, appears to require correction. In a number ofconferences and articles published by the Faculty, these anomalies havebeen pointed out. It appears to the Commission that there is considerableforce in the view of the Faculty that effective consultation and greaterinteraction with the Faculty would have eliminated such anomalies. Thisview was also expressed at the Conference on 12.8.2002, of LawProfessors organized by the National Law School of India University.Several articles have been published by experienced Professors in thevolume published after the All India Conference of Faculty at the DelhiUniversity in Jan. 1999 entitled “Legal Education in India in 21 st Century,Problems and Perspectives” edited by Prof. A.K. Kaul and Prof. V.K.Ahuja. The suggestions of the Faculty require serious consideration. Wehave already referred to Prof. Gurdeep Singh’s article “RevampingProfessional Legal Education: Some observations on the LL.B CurriculumRevised by the Bar Council of India” and we feel that it will be extremelyuseful to read the said article.