Reforming legal education in Pakistan by introducing practical aspects in the current syllabus at the law schools and enhancing compulsory program during pupillage period

Teaching method in law schools should facilitate law students with an understanding of legal principles and concepts. Besides, during the studies law students should be able to apply the relevant legal knowledge and skills to solve legal problems. On top of that, the students should be able to de...

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Main Authors:	Dastagir, Ghulam, Ambaras Khan, Hanna, Hussain, Faridah, Abdul Hak, Nora, Abdul Wahab, Mohd Iqbal
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English English
Published:	2019
Subjects:	K Law (General) L Education (General)
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/71838/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/71838/3/Schedule%2021-3-2019%20Curved.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/71838/2/Reforming%20Legal%20Education%20in%20Pakistan%20by%20Introducing%20Clinical.pdf

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spelling	iium-718382019-04-26T02:57:29Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/71838/ Reforming legal education in Pakistan by introducing practical aspects in the current syllabus at the law schools and enhancing compulsory program during pupillage period Dastagir, Ghulam Ambaras Khan, Hanna Hussain, Faridah Abdul Hak, Nora Abdul Wahab, Mohd Iqbal K Law (General) L Education (General) Teaching method in law schools should facilitate law students with an understanding of legal principles and concepts. Besides, during the studies law students should be able to apply the relevant legal knowledge and skills to solve legal problems. On top of that, the students should be able to demonstrate good drafting and advocacy skills. The challenges facing by legal education in Pakistan is the tendency of maintaining the earlier methods of teaching without making changes for many years which affected the institutions of the country being weakened, and thereafter facing crisis in legal education as highlighted by the Supreme Court of Pakistan’s recent judgment. Therefore, the stakeholders are expected to make in supporting the order of the Court to revamp and enhance the current legal education. This paper aims to compare the mode of teaching, assessments, and examinations at the law schools in Pakistan and Malaysia by adopting qualitative method and comparative analysis. Besides, syllabus in the law schools in Pakistan and Malaysia are analysed. It is found that the Malaysian universities stressed the practical aspect to the law students. This research will recommend that the syllabus, the method of teaching, assessment and examination, needs to be reformed by looking at the Malaysian practice. The enhancement includes to have a compulsory Legal Attachment Program (“LAP”), revising the final year’s syllabus by including vocational and clinical legal practice subjects in preparing the students for pupillage, to introduce Alternative Dispute Resolution subject in providing skills to resolve dispute through non-adversarial method and to introduce compulsory mooting as part of adversarial skills. The new method will promote the development of the critical thinking and problem-solving skills, team skills, ethics and professionalism for competent lawyers in Pakistan. The paper further suggests that the Pakistan Bar Council to introduce strict ethic’s course for pupil and a legal aid program. 2019 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/71838/3/Schedule%2021-3-2019%20Curved.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/71838/2/Reforming%20Legal%20Education%20in%20Pakistan%20by%20Introducing%20Clinical.pdf Dastagir, Ghulam and Ambaras Khan, Hanna and Hussain, Faridah and Abdul Hak, Nora and Abdul Wahab, Mohd Iqbal (2019) Reforming legal education in Pakistan by introducing practical aspects in the current syllabus at the law schools and enhancing compulsory program during pupillage period. In: International Conference on Legal Education in Pakistan: Opportunities and Challenges, 27th-28th March 2019, Islamabad, Pakistan. (Unpublished)
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spellingShingle	K Law (General) L Education (General) Dastagir, Ghulam Ambaras Khan, Hanna Hussain, Faridah Abdul Hak, Nora Abdul Wahab, Mohd Iqbal Reforming legal education in Pakistan by introducing practical aspects in the current syllabus at the law schools and enhancing compulsory program during pupillage period
description	Teaching method in law schools should facilitate law students with an understanding of legal principles and concepts. Besides, during the studies law students should be able to apply the relevant legal knowledge and skills to solve legal problems. On top of that, the students should be able to demonstrate good drafting and advocacy skills. The challenges facing by legal education in Pakistan is the tendency of maintaining the earlier methods of teaching without making changes for many years which affected the institutions of the country being weakened, and thereafter facing crisis in legal education as highlighted by the Supreme Court of Pakistan’s recent judgment. Therefore, the stakeholders are expected to make in supporting the order of the Court to revamp and enhance the current legal education. This paper aims to compare the mode of teaching, assessments, and examinations at the law schools in Pakistan and Malaysia by adopting qualitative method and comparative analysis. Besides, syllabus in the law schools in Pakistan and Malaysia are analysed. It is found that the Malaysian universities stressed the practical aspect to the law students. This research will recommend that the syllabus, the method of teaching, assessment and examination, needs to be reformed by looking at the Malaysian practice. The enhancement includes to have a compulsory Legal Attachment Program (“LAP”), revising the final year’s syllabus by including vocational and clinical legal practice subjects in preparing the students for pupillage, to introduce Alternative Dispute Resolution subject in providing skills to resolve dispute through non-adversarial method and to introduce compulsory mooting as part of adversarial skills. The new method will promote the development of the critical thinking and problem-solving skills, team skills, ethics and professionalism for competent lawyers in Pakistan. The paper further suggests that the Pakistan Bar Council to introduce strict ethic’s course for pupil and a legal aid program.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Dastagir, Ghulam Ambaras Khan, Hanna Hussain, Faridah Abdul Hak, Nora Abdul Wahab, Mohd Iqbal
author_facet	Dastagir, Ghulam Ambaras Khan, Hanna Hussain, Faridah Abdul Hak, Nora Abdul Wahab, Mohd Iqbal
author_sort	Dastagir, Ghulam
title	Reforming legal education in Pakistan by introducing practical aspects in the current syllabus at the law schools and enhancing compulsory program during pupillage period
title_short	Reforming legal education in Pakistan by introducing practical aspects in the current syllabus at the law schools and enhancing compulsory program during pupillage period
title_full	Reforming legal education in Pakistan by introducing practical aspects in the current syllabus at the law schools and enhancing compulsory program during pupillage period
title_fullStr	Reforming legal education in Pakistan by introducing practical aspects in the current syllabus at the law schools and enhancing compulsory program during pupillage period
title_full_unstemmed	Reforming legal education in Pakistan by introducing practical aspects in the current syllabus at the law schools and enhancing compulsory program during pupillage period
title_sort	reforming legal education in pakistan by introducing practical aspects in the current syllabus at the law schools and enhancing compulsory program during pupillage period
publishDate	2019
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/71838/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/71838/3/Schedule%2021-3-2019%20Curved.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/71838/2/Reforming%20Legal%20Education%20in%20Pakistan%20by%20Introducing%20Clinical.pdf
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Reforming legal education in Pakistan by introducing practical aspects in the current syllabus at the law schools and enhancing compulsory program during pupillage period

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