Law Ministry holds national conference on integration of regional languages in legal education

 

The Department of Legal Affairs under Ministry of Law and Justice, in collaboration with the Bar Council of India (BCI), today organised a National Conference on Strengthening Legal Education through Integration of Regional Languages in New Delhi. The Conference was organised with the objective of formulating a Ten-Year Perspective Action Plan for promoting Legal Education in Hindi and other Indian languages and the justice delivery system.

The deliberations focused on developing a phased, structured, measurable and quality-assured framework for integrating Indian languages into legal education while preserving English as an important national and international link language. The proposed framework aims to promote a bilingual and progressively multilingual legal education model to enhance legal comprehension, improve access to justice, strengthen legal aid and clinical legal education, and better prepare future legal professionals for practice before district and subordinate courts. The participants also deliberated upon the role of technology in accelerating language integration within the legal ecosystem.