Aligarh: The Faculty of Law at Aligarh Muslim University organised an extramural lecture on ‘National Education Policy and Legal Education in India’ by Prof KM Baharul Islam, Chairperson, Centre of Excellence in Public Policy and Government Communication in the Indian Institute of Management of Kashipur.

Prof Islam highlighted the implications of NEP 2020 for legal education in India and emphasized that the course curricula must reflect the contemporary socio-cultural contexts.

He said that legal education needs to be competitive globally, adopting best international practices and embracing new technologies for wider access to and timely delivery of justice.

Presiding over the lecture, Prof Mehrajuddin Meer, an eminent legal academic and former Vice-Chancellor at Central University of Kashmir discussed the state of legal education in the country in the backdrop of transformation being ushered in by technology in access to court judgments in India and internationally.

Earlier, in his welcome address, Prof Md Zafar Mahfooz Nomani, the Dean, the Faculty of Law reflected on the need for reorienting legal education to be illuminated with and directed towards national reconstruction through instrumentation of democracy, rule of law and human rights.

Prof Hashmat Ali Khan, In-charge of the Law Society, extended a vote of thanks, while Dr Mohd Nasir conducted the programme.