India needs better law graduates to compete globally: Goa varsity VC

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Panaji: Prof R Venkata Rao, the Vice Chancellor of India International University of Legal Education and Research (IIULER) located in Goa, stated on Friday that Indian law schools must generate more skilled graduates and post-graduates. This will enable them to compete with foreign lawyers and law firms that are gradually being allowed to operate in India.

 He was speaking during an interactive session at the IIULER moot court hall here in the presence of Jharkhand High Court Judge Justice Deepak Prakash and Vice Chancellor of the Maharashtra National Law University in Nagpur Prof Vijender Kumar. With the recent notification of the Bar Council of India (BCI), foreign firms would not find it difficult to practise in India now, Rao said.  "So we obviously there is a need to produce more competent Indian law students through our law schools," he said.

Using a metaphor from sports, he said that long ago the Indian cricket team was just a tiger on its home turf and whenever it toured foreign countries like Australia and England, it was being mauled. "But it improved by leaps and bounds and now it easily defeats the foreign teams in those countries," he added.

(With inputs from PTI)

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