The Legal Education - Law Commission of India

58law school, the Report says, should determine how its school can best helpits students to begin the process of acquiring the skills and values that areimportant in the practice of law. Law schools should be encouraged todevelop or expand instruction in such areas as ‘problem solving’, ‘factinvestigation’, ‘communication’, ‘counselling’, ‘negotiation’, and‘litigation’.5.14 One has to read the elaborate article by Prof. John J. Costonis, Deanof Vandebilt University: “The Mac Crate Report: Of Loaves, Fishes andthe Future of American Education) in vol. 43 (1993) Journal of LegalEducation, p. 157, which refers to several important developments in thefield of Legal education.5.15 We would think that the Members of Legal Education Committee ofthe Bar Council of India and UGC should study the above Report andvarious subsequent modifications of the same. Criticism of the Report isfound in other articles in the Journal on Legal Education. The BarCouncil and UGC committees must also look into similar Reports in UK,Canada and Australia so that our standards match with standards elsewhereand we are able to produce, in all our 460 and odd law schools and the 102universities which offer legal education, students of the same calibre andknowledge. Apart from that, in the context of liberalization, privatizationand globalisation, we have to keep pace with international standards.5.16 The emergence of new economy – globalisation, privatization andderegulation have thrown up new challenges. There are todayrevolutionary changes in information, communication and transportation