India as a Legal Research Powerhouse?
Not yet, according to widely reported remarks from Bangalore over the weekend, to the graduating class at the National Law School. See the Hindu ((Not the Hindu Times, Simon, as you blogged in August)),Economic Times and Mangalorean reports.
National Law School of India University Vice-Chancellor A. Jayagovind on Sunday expressed concern over decline in the number of students pursuing higher studies in law.
The Vice-Chancellor went on:
“Our law schools are however yet to make a mark in terms of advancement of knowledge. Hopefully, most of us have been able to impart reasonably good legal education which was otherwise practically non-existent; but we have not established ourselves as good research centres”, he said.
“Legal research has not made much headway in India even in comparison with other social science researches. In the years to come, I hope that we will address these problems seriously”.
Oops.
Must have been thinking of the Hindustan Times.
And perhaps influenced by the superficial similarity of the masthead logos:
Outsourcing is part of what we do, BUT it is based on trust and testing the vendor.
When it comes to legal research, I still prefer to have someone in the office or someone I’ve already worked with do the research.
Mitch Kowalski of the Legal Post raised this issue again today.