Cracking CLAT doesn't necessarily result in students with right ethos: CJI DY Chandrachud

Chief Justice of India (CJI) Justice DY Chandrachud said that one of the problems that National Law Universities may be facing is the model that they utilise to select students.

While inaugurating the first academic session of the India International University of Legal Education and Research, Goa (IIULER), Chief Justice of India (CJI) Justice DY Chandrachud said that one of the problems that National Law Universities may be facing is the model that they utilise to select students.

He batted for value-based, inclusive legal education for students from diverse backgrounds.

“We must have a student body which is inclusive. One of the problems which national law universities have faced is perhaps the model which we use to select students for our national law universities does not always promote value-based legal education, because we have a common law entrance examination and we test the ability of students to crack the CLAT,” he said.

"Cracking the CLAT does not necessarily result in students who have the right ethos to pursue a career in the law, of reflecting the culture of the law in our country as a representative of a just society, a value-based society, an ethical society," he explained, as reported by Bar and Bench.

CJI DY Chandrachud also said that by using technology, other law students who are not part of the IIULER must also get access to the legal education of IIULER.

"Those resources can be used by pitchforking technology by promoting access to other students who are not as fortunate as the students will be coming to this university," the CJI said.

"The quest to know yourself is a continuing quest. You must begin that quest to know yourself early, which is when you will see yourself evolve into individual personhood as your life goes along. Seek better for your soul and understanding your mind," he said to the first batch of the university.

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