BELGAUM: A national-level regulatory authority to monitor legal education in the country should be set up, V. Vijay Kumar, Registrar, National Law School of India University, Bangalore, has said.

He was addressing a gathering of law students and faculty at the "National Law Fest" organised by K.L.E. Society's Law Academy here on Friday.

In view of the emergence of new rules and laws, which have a bearing on the socio-economic and cultural life of the country, Mr. Kumar proposed the idea of setting up an authority to evolve a uniform standard of quality for all law schools and colleges across the country. The immediate objective should be to bring about qualitative improvements in legal education and make it competitive, he added.

He said several universities in the country are following the syllabi drafted during the 1940s. India's potential to become a global education centre cannot be ruled out, and along with the growth of other professional courses, legal education has to be improved, he added.

He called for improvement in the examination and evaluation system. He said there is lack of coordination among persons involved in framing the syllabus, teachers, those setting question papers, and those who evaluate answer scripts. Many students fall victim to such a system, he added. Often those setting question papers simply pick up questions from previous question papers. "This type of teaching and evaluation is a mockery of legal education," he said.

V.S. Malimath, the former Chief Justice of the High Courts of Karnataka and Kerala, inaugurated the festival. KLES Secretary F.V. Manvi and academy principal S.V. Udapudi were present. Thirteen teams from Chattisgargh, West Bengal, Goa, Maharashtra and Kerala are participating in the moot court and essay competitions during the event.

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