ABOUT
THE INSTITUTE
The Fairfield Institute of Management and Technology (FIMT) is a NAAC accredited prestigious college in Delhi with an ambiance of representing the academic culture of the capital town of the largest democracy of the world and a vibrant emerging economy.
Established by the Fairfield Group of Institutions, it is an ‘A’ Grade College approved by the Government of NCT of Delhi, affiliated to the prestigious Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, which is the first university established by the Government of Delhi. FIMT is approved by the Bar Council of India and National Council for Teacher Education and other authenticating bodies. It is backed by a legacy of 46 years of shaping students career in the country in areas of Management, Commerce, Teachers’ Education, Journalism, Information and Communication Technology, Humanities, and Law and Legal Studies. The institutional distinction includes social outreach, field studies and job orientation programmes in respective areas of study. It offers improvising add on and value addition courses, especially with health care and other significant activities in context in context.
Its vision is to equip
students with the knowledge, skill, and values that are necessary for
sustaining one’s balance between a livelihood and life by providing an
effective, supportive, safe, accessible and affordable learning environment.
ABOUT
THE CONFERENCE
For long in the
history of the world, the concept goes as ‘law is an agency of social control’
with other social institutions including ethics, morality, religion and so on. In
the most modern human experience, in advanced processes of governance, trade,
social transformation, politics, justice delivery, technological development
and the management of environment, the institution of law has emerged as the
unparalleled establishment for the sustenance, effective performance and
further development of all these processes. Every day innumerable instruments
of law are born and scraped to meet the requirements of a successful operation
of the mechanisms for regulation of personal, local, national, regional and
global human affairs. Issues related to matrimony, family, kinship, society,
polity, economy and inter-generational concerns: in particular, related to
child bearing and raring, education and training, economic actions, environmental
supervision, public administration, worldwide travelling, entertainment,
national dealings, international interactions, planetary anxiety, human rights
and dignity, no-war strategies, working of national and international legal
institutions, conflict resolution fora and mechanisms, efficient justice
delivery, prevention of starvation, alleviation of poverty and promotion of
happiness. Responsibilities are spread over to all, viz, legislature, executive
and judiciary. This all needs best of the human resource with capacity to act
appropriately, and come with expected results. In turn is needs an effective
legal education system with appropriate curriculum and result-oriented teaching
and learning plans. The colossal challenges which the legal and justice system
in India is presently openly facing are: inordinate delay in disposal of cases,
piling up of cases in courts, increasing number of prisoners, accessibility to
justice, the idea of satisfaction of consumers of justice, use of emerging
technologies, questions related to indeterminate jurisdictions,
The New Education Policy 2020, in Clause 20.4., provides:
“Legal education needs to be competitive globally, adopting best practices and embracing
new technologies for wider access to and timely delivery of justice. At the same
time, it must be informed and illuminated with Constitutional values of Justice-Social,
Economic, and Political-and directed towards national reconstruction through instrumentation
of democracy, rule of law, and human rights. The curricula for legal studies must
reflect socio-cultural contexts along with, in an evidence-based manner, the history
of legal thinking, principles of justice, the practice of jurisprudence, and other
related content appropriately and adequately. State institutions offering law education
must consider offering bilingual education for future lawyers and judges-in English
and in the language of the State in which the institution is situated”.
The institutions imparting legal education in the country
are the National Law Universities, Faculties of law in other general
universities and a more than 1500 private law colleges. Now some affiliating
law universities have also been established. Many more institutions are
imparting special training in areas like alternative dispute resolution,
judicial education, corporate law, public interest advocacy, competition
advocacy, workers jurisprudence, human rights, emerging technologies and governance.
In their respective programmes they now focus on producing general
professionals, lawyers and judges, mediators, arbitrators, counselors, adjudicators, agents, business executives,
governance masters and skilled staff for institutions and industry, learned
citizenry, trainers and mentors, authors
and, visionaries, and path
breakers and leaders. The success depends on diligence and action, i.e., how
curriculum is designed, methodologies for teaching and learning are determined,
issues are focused, outcome is evaluated and sensitization and incentivization
is carried out. Moreover, how efficiently experiential learning programmes are
executed and values are integrated in the overall process and functioning of
the system.
In India, present legal education system and research practices
are oriented to common law tradition of education, research advocacy, and
judicial system. Presently, the institutional buildup is enormous. Quality and
outcome require periodical evaluations with no break/recesses or complacence.
There should be a formal accreditation as has been initiated in the form of
NAAC, NIRF, etc. Besides, institutional and individual appraisals by themselves
are really becoming common, especially for catchment. This all is very
important, but there is a pressing need for organizing a Conference on Legal
Education, as required by everyday developments in global context and, at home,
as imperatives of New Education Policy 2020, to spotlight in particular on the
Curriculum Development and Pedagogy.
The FIMT SCHOOL OF LAW is, therefore organizing a Three Day National Conference on Curriculum Development and
Pedagogy for Legal Education in Contemporary India: Perspectives in National
Education Policy 2020 on 1st September 2022 at FIMT CAMPUS, Kapashera,
New Delhi-110037.
THEME
AND SUB-THEMES
The main themes
for discussion will be:
·
The
Growth and Development of Legal Education System in India: General View of
Experiences of Last 100 Years
[Imperative and Avenues during British Period;
Urgencies and Transformation from 1950 onwards; Prime Influences and Advances
from 1995 till date (in globalizing India).]
·
Patterns
of Curicullum Development and Pedagogy for Legal Education since the Adoption
of the Constitution of 1950: ‘The Matters Ignored’, ‘The Issues Attended’ and
‘The Goals Unmet’.
·
Institutional
Reformation and Reorganisation for Effective Curricullum Structuring and
Delivery with Time Changes: Establishment of University Faculties, NLUs and
Self Financing Institutions, & the
Bar Council of India and UGC
(Regulators)
·
Contemporary
Major Challenges for Legal Education System and Curicullum Designing in India:
Looking for Employability as well as Promotion of Thought
·
Imperatives
of Emerging Technologies on Legal Education: Actualisation of Content and
Pedagogy to Needs of a Robust Judicial System
·
Experiential
Learning in Law: Getting Ready for Opportunities and Approaches to Multiple and
Altering Avenues for Law Careerists
·
Any
other related topic
[The discussions may be preferably, wherever
possible, carried out with reference to NEP 2020]
SUBMISSION
GUIDELINES
Manuscript
Guidelines:
·
Long and short articles
must be accompanied by an abstract of not more than 250 words (along with
keywords).
·
There can be a maximum of
one co- author in one submission.
·
All manuscripts must be
submitted in English language only.
·
The research paper must
be original and unpublished work of the author(s). Plagiarism above 10 % shall
attract immediate disqualification.
·
The manuscript must be
typewritten. The font should be Times New Roman, font size 12, line spacing
1.5, justified alignment (except the title and ‘abstract’ caption which should
be centrally aligned). All pages shall be numbered.
·
All entries should be
submitted electronically in .doc or .docx format.
·
All manuscripts must be
accompanied by:
o A cover
letter with the name(s) of author(s), designation,
institution/affiliation, the title of the manuscript and contact information
(correspondence address, email id, phone number etc.).
o A declaration that
the manuscript submitted is a piece of original and bonafide research work and
has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere.
·
Abstract and manuscript
file should be <Name of the author(s)> _ Abstract/ Manuscript
SUBMISSION
PROCEDURE
Submit your manuscript to
fimtlegaleducationconference@gmail.com
PARTICIPANTS
Academics,
Lawyers, Judges, Executive officers, Legislators, Policy Makers, Scholars,
Activists, Media Persons and Students
Participants
can register at the following link: https://forms.gle/8TpwJqvBeguPG7ps5
IMPORTANT DATES
|
Submission of Abstract: |
22th May 2022 |
|
Communication of Acceptance |
25th May 2022 |
|
Submission of Full
Paper |
25th June 2022 |
|
Communication of
acceptance |
5th July 2022 |
|
Date of Conference |
15th to 17th July
2022 |
MODE
Conference will be conducted in Hybrid mode, both online and offline,
for authors and participants both.
REGISTERATION FEE
No registration
fee will be charged from the authors or participants.
REWARDS
Accepted papers will be published in the
form of an edited book with ISBN No.
Every participant will receive a certificate
of presentation.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Email
Id: fimtlegaleducationconference@gmail.com
Address: I/C,
Internal Quality Assurance Cell, Fairfield Institute of Management and
Technology (FIMT), 1037, Kapashera Extension, Kapashera, New Delhi, Delhi
110037
ORGANISATION
COMMITTEES
|
CORE COMMITTEE |
|
Dr. S P Singh |
|
Dr. Shalini |
|
Dr. Manmohan |
|
Ms. Swati Pandita |
|
Ms. Malvika Sharma |
|
Ms. Akiriti Mehra |
|
SCREENING & DOCUMENTATION COMMITTEE |
|
Mr. Mayank Singhal |
|
Mr. Anurag Rao |
|
Ms. Sheetal Gehlot |
|
Ms. Sringarika Tyagi |
|
Dr. Shikha Sharma |
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TECHNICAL COMMITTEE |
|
Mr. Shashikant Tiwari |
|
Ms. Nidhi |
|
Ms. Shivangi Gupta |
|
Mr. Mudit Jain |
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STAGE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE |
|
Ms. Parul Manchanda |
|
Ms. Himani Ahlawat |
|
Ms. Tripti Aggarwal |
|
Mr. Rahul Gandhi |
|
Ms. Anandita Gaur |
|
Ms. Vandana Chaudhry |
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CERTIFICATE COMMITTEE |
|
Mr. Deepanshu Yadav |
|
Ms. Parul Shokeen |
|
Ms. Rishu Rani |
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LIASONING |
|
Dr. Manish Kumar Yadav |
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MEDIA COMMITTEE |
|
Mr. Surrender Dogra |
|
Ms. Nidhi |
|
Ms. Swati Pandita |
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RAPPORTUERS |
|
Ms. Aarti Yadav |
|
Ms. Mridula |
|
Ms. Shringarika Tyagi |
|
Ms. Shivangi Gupta |
|
Ms. Vandana Chaudhry |
|
Ms. Rishu Rani |
|
Ms. Parul Shokeen |
|
Ms. Deepanshu Yadav |
|
Ms. Akiriti Mehra |
|
Ms. Malvika Sharma |
