The Legal Education - Law Commission of India

59technologies which require corresponding changes in the legal system.Many highly specialized areas of law like intellectual property, corporatelaw, cyber law, human rights, alternative dispute resolution, internationalbusiness transactions, have to be introduced in all our law schools. Theopening of trade and capital markets as a result of globalisation and theretreat of the State from traditional roles, have raised new legal issuesconcerning ways in which poor and marginalized sections can protectthemselves from further impoverishment. Special emphasis has to be madeon criminal justice. The very nature of law, legal institutions and lawpractice are in the midst of paradigm shifts.5.17 Legal education must seek to serve distinct interdisciplinaryknowledge domains – law and society, law, science and technology; law,economics, commerce and management. To that extent, certain new lawsubjects should be introduced in the five year course of LLB in the first andsecond years.5.18 Teaching must focus on building up the student, skills of analysis,language, drafting and argument. Teachers must bear in mind that whilemost of the students may choose a professional career as a lawyer, someothers may choose a judicial career or career as a legal consultant or lawofficer in government or an academic career.5.19 Alternative Dispute Resolution systems – mediation, conciliation,arbitration etc. must be and remain as a compulsory subject.