Handbook on Clinical Legal Education

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Description
Clinical legal education as a mode of instruction is vital to inculcate legal skills in law students to make their studies meaningful. It is a step to make them efficient practitioners of law and also to equip them to contribute significantly to the community and society needs. Not much attention was paid to the Clinical legal education in the curriculum of most of the law schools so far particularly as regards preparation of a manual or handbook to guide the students. An effort has been made in this book to describe a few modes of legal skills which the law students can conveniently grasp, practice and put to use during their tenure of stay in law schools. The faculty would also find it helpful to plan dissemination of their instructions facilitate application of law. The work, first of its kind, has been undertaken to make law curriculum more practical. The authors will be grateful for any comments or suggestions aimed at improving its contents so as to be more useful to the students.
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Contents
1.    Broad Outline of clinical Legal Education
2.    Internship
3.    Legal Writing
4.    Moots
5.    Legal Aid
6.    Cross Examination
7.    Mock Trail
8.    Case Method
9.    Opinion Work
10.  Legal Enterpreneurship
11.  Client Counselling
12.  Due Deligence
13.  Community Lawyering
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Author Details
Maj Gen Nilendra Kumar, AVSM, VSM; studied for his B.A. and LL.B. degrees from Lucknow University. He obtained a Diploma in Public Administration, Personnel Management and Industrial Relations from the same University. He was commissioned in the Regiment of Artillery through the National Defence Academy and the Indian Military Academy. He took part in action on the Western front during the 1971 Indo-Pakistan War. He served as a military lawyer from 1982 to 2008 and retired as the Judge Advocate General (Army). He is an alumnus of the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Bombay and member of the Supreme Court Bar Association. He contributes articles regularly on military law and other topics to various professional journals. He is presently Director Amity Law School, NOIDA.
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