Author: Arindam Gupta

Few educational reforms in post-Independence India have been as transformative as the creation of the National Law Universities (NLUs). In less than four decades, these institutions have altered the landscape of legal education, reshaped the legal profession and produced a generation of lawyers who now occupy influential positions in courts, corporate boardrooms, academia and public policy institutions. Yet the success of the National Law School model raises an uncomfortable question: has India’s most celebrated experiment in legal education fulfilled its broader constitutional mission, or has it gradually evolved into an elite pipeline serving a narrow segment of the legal market?…