The Clinical Legal Education (CLE): A Less Travelled Pathway in Pakistan

Abstract

Clinical legal education in Pakistan has attained formal attention after the significant judgment of the Apex Court in 2018. The judgment laid down various standards for improving legal education and emphasized including professional training in the curriculum. Further, the judgment provided an impetus for law schools to take a step forward from traditional teaching to modern teaching methods by incorporating clinical legal education into their curriculum. Hence the need to evaluate the existing standards of law education in Pakistan in the light of the judgment and to highlight the challenges being faced in this connection. Relying on secondary data available in the context of Pakistan, Qualitative methodology will be used to reveal the current trends and challenges in this research article. The paper will suggest solutions to cope with the challenges and present proposals to materialize the objective/s laid down in the supreme court judgment.

Keywords: Pakistani legal system, Law Clinic, Legal Education, Law Profession, Legal Reforms