The Legal Education - Law Commission of India

605.20 The curriculum should not make the mandatory element too large butsubjects which are in need in the bulk of the courts in the mofussil, in thecivil and criminal law, must be mandatory. While subjects mostly in use inthe courts at the grass-root level must be mandatory and some new subjectscan also be made mandatory, care must be taken to give more choice to thestudents in the optional subjects.5.21 Syllabus could be structured not merely on the basis of mandatorysubjects but also on basis of “credits” as done in the National Law School.5.22 Accreditation and quality assessment of law schools must beintroduced by the UGC & BCI fastly to build up a sense of competitionbetween the different law schools. Legal education institutions are nottoday adequately subject to a rigorous system of quality assessment andaccreditation processes. The various well-known parameters forevaluating the performance of a law school must be laid down by the UGCand the BCI and annual rating must be given to each law school andpublished in the internet to enable prospective students to compete foradmission to the best law schools.5.23 If necessary, this task may be performed by the UGC and BCI bytaking the help of professional agencies who are well versed inaccreditation processes of law schools. There must also be transparencyabout the quality of the assessment.5.24 We, therefore, recommend substitution of the existing clause (h) ofsubsection (1) of section 7 which merely refers to “promotion of legal