Imparting of training in various skills relating to different courses concerning statutory and procedural laws or other aspects concerning legal education would require considerable planning and organisation. This presentation would help the faculty towards that aim.

1. HOW TO INCORPORATE SKILLS IN
LEGAL EDUCATION

2. Presentation by
Maj Gen Nilendra Kumar
Director
Amity Law School, Noida
and
Director General
Amity Directorate on Research &
Innovation in Law & Allied Areas

3. Legal Education
To impart knowledge about legal studies

4. Legal education is teaching of
law subjects which are meant
to be applied and or practiced.
Legal education is also known as the education
of individuals who intend to become legal
professionals or those who simply intend to use
their law degree to some end, either related to
law or business.

5. The faculty would need to plan and organise skill
training.

6. Application and practice of specialized courses
would involve teaching, explaining and
demonstrating skills.

7. What is skill?
An ability and capacity required through
deliberate, systematic and sustained effort to
smoothly and adaptively carry out complex
activities.

8. CLASSIFICATION OF SKILLS
1. Drafting
2. Counselling
3. Interviewing
4. Filling of forms
5. Due diligence
6. Addressing the court
7. Negotiations

9. OTHER SKILLS
1.Oral communication and listening ability.
2.General research skills.

10. Identify and select what topics in each course
can be taught by way of skills.
Then categorise the skills.

11. The initial skills should be easy to acquire

12. Skill acquisition must be a component of
assessment process or examination.

13. The purpose and use of skill should be clearly
explained. Also limitations, if any, brought out.

14. HOW TO CARRY OUT TRAINING
1. Be innovative
2. Avoid stereotyped
3. Break into simple steps

15. Prepare a narration with regard to each skill
training exercise.

16. PROBLEM
should be actual and realistic

17. Issue study material to the students

18. EXAMPLES OF SKILLS
Taxation How to fill a tax return
CrPC To prepare a bail bond
CPC To work out a written notice
Family Law To get a marriage registered
Property Law To prepare a sale deed
Law of Contract To design a service contract
Law of Evidence Cross examination of a witness

19. Professional
Ethics
Investigation of a complaint
against an advocate
Legislative
drafting
Design a simple statute
Constitution To prepare a writ petition
ADR Negotiation and mediation
Law of Crimes An exercise to see, if defence
of intoxication is available
Public
International Law
To design a complaint about
ill treatment of PWs

20. STAGES IN TEACHING
1. Step one Demonstration
2. Step two Do it yourself

21. Faculty should be specially chosen for skill
training.

22. The faculty may first conduct dry runs

23. ISSUE TO THE STUDENTS
1.Aid memoire
2.Good and bad examples

24. Cater for feedback and mid course correction

25. Explain correct methods and then guide the
students to acquire them.

26. Take help of experienced legal practitioners

27. Teaching of skills should be progressive, starting
from simple and easy to relatively difficult.

28. Teaching of skills should keep pace with and
correspond to subjects being taught.

29. People need a broad range of skills in order to
contribute to a modern economy.

30. CONCLUSION
The five steps in teaching new skills are
preparation, explanation, demonstration,
observation and supervision.