Research papers are important in today’s digital age where knowledge is accessible at clicks of a button. Some even go on to say that it is one of the most basic abilities to articulate your thoughts into words and to pen them down. Writing a research paper is an essential part of legal training from any novice student. It gives them visibility, establishes […]
One of the most underrated issues I want to put forward is the importance of taking running notes in your classrooms. In today’s technologically advanced countries, there are record lecturers and on-demand tutorial classes but let me tell you, nothing beats the old-school note-taking approach in your classrooms. Human brain encodes information in different ways and […]
Practice of Law: Ever wondered why the services of advocates are known as the ‘practice’ of law? Practically speaking, the dictionary meaning of ‘practice’ is actual application or use of an idea, belief or method. Now, such application of law in everyday life comes from knowing what works in the real world and more importantly what does […]
A tough realization awaits pass-outs of integrated law courses in India who choose litigation as their career, i.e. they discover that not much of what they had been taught is immediately useful to them. And this is just one amongst many others. For example, they also discover that the legal drafting and the legal research that they did […]
Importance of legal content writing, legal research, and writing for teachers, faculties, and academicians: In law, great emphasis is laid upon citations and legal authorities, legal writing, and manuals and books that support, strengthen and substantiate one’s legal argument. If you’re an academician, it is needless to say how important legal precedents (hence, legal research) are for any issue. Such precedents lay the foundation […]
“What you’re going to learn in classrooms and from your books, exams & legal research, endless law assignments is going to be entirely different from what happens in courtrooms.” That’s something that I’ve heard quite a few times, from multiple people, during and after law school. It was quite evident when one of the concepts I’d learnt […]
The advancement of legal training and legal research with a mobile! Technology has made teaching and learning more powerful. As we get more creative and innovative, more we see the use of mobile phones in helping us in educational purposes as technology has made our lives easier, faster, and better. The use of mobile phones has become an integral […]
One of the significant problems that law graduates face today is their utter inability to make head or tail out of what they see going on in courts for the first few months of their practice. They might have studied the subject that is being discussed by lawyers and judges in the courtrooms and conducted legal […]
Law is dynamic. One of the most significant features of law is that one needs to have perspective and long-range vision i.e. Legal Academicians know the importance of imbibing such skills into their students. Therefore, if we look at elite institutions of law, there is great emphasis laid down on importance of expert lectures and visiting faculties. In Ivy […]
A variety of legal dramas (like Suits or Boston Legal) have shown a grossly inaccurate picture of what lawyers or the practice of law is like. Maybe they are right about a few things of the background in which they are set (in Western countries), although not entirely. But, none of these TV shows remotely reflect what lawyers in India […]