Unlike most other professional courses, the legal training imparted in colleges is mostly restricted to classroom teaching only. Almost all of the subjects one is introduced to in one’s law school tenure, majority of the subjects are taught by the Law Faculties with the help of the conventional textbook reading and learning style, which is alittle discouraging and makes the highly practical profession of law look extremely […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Being a law teacher is not easy. Every year you have a noble obligation of imparting knowledge in a new set of students who are basically ‘clean slates and who thinks they know everything! Sometimes you feel like you are being scrutinised, judged and assessed by 80 pair of eyes. You are put-in-charge of making […]