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Project Legal Information Exchange Network (LIEN)

By Raghul Sudheesh

Efficient Legal Education depends a lot on research and application skills.

While the top NLUs are efficient enough to provide opportunities for

developing such skills among the students, the students at the other law

institutions often lag behind. This has been an important factor in the creation

of the mass opinion about law as a career option, and most of it seems to bemythical. As such, to improve the status of legal education and bring forward

its real potential, a uniform standard of quality education needs to be set so as

to bring the law students across the country at par, albeit their educational

background and the nature of their institution. This will not only add new

career prospects for the students in the numerous law institutions in the

country but would also improve the outlook of the masses towards legal

education. The legal fraternity must take responsibility of meeting these

objectives to elevate the status of law on the educational as well as vocational

strata.

As an effort in this direction, Stripped Law  <

www.strippedlaw.blogspot.com> in collaboration with Career and

Counselling Cell of Government Law College, Calicut is pleased to

introduce Project LIEN: a project aimed at tapping the potential of the students

in the lesser known law colleges and giving them opportunities to develop

unique application skills. Project LIEN (Legal Information Exchange Network)

proposes a unique four tier process to augment the assimilation of valuable

knowledge from authoritative sources to the students and also among the

students themselves. It brings forward a platform which facilitates the top

layers and the legal fraternity to contribute to this collective responsibility,

thereby also facilitating students with expert guidance.

 The Project proposes a four staged process. Initially, the students are

sensitized by various legal experts as to the various areas of law, for instance,

mergers, acquisitions, intellectual property regulations, etc. This forms the

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First Stage and would facilitate insight into various legal dimensions, delivered

by the experts themselves.

 The second stage would include the formation of student groups. These

groups will be formed by the students among themselves after the

sensitization process is over. The groups will be formed according to theinterests of the students in the various areas of law. For instance, there may

be an IPR group constituted by students interested in the Intellectual Property

Regulations. Each group shall also appoint a team leader. These student

groups will then sensitize each other on the area chosen and will get updated

to the maximum. Each student can pick up a specific sub-topic and update the

other group members regarding the same. In this way, each student will be

able to get a comprehensive insight of the particular area.

After the intra-group sensitization concludes, the groups begin an inter-group

approach and assimilate the knowledge of their areas to students of othergroups. This can be done by organising seminars, workshops and other such

activities. This forms the Third Stage.

After the extensive exercise of information exchange, the process of 

institutionalisation will start, when the students will initiate the process of 

forming academic power houses among themselves. The students create a

platform and then participate in the subsequent developments in their

respective areas of interest by analysing and commenting on the

advancements happening in the legal arena. This forms the fourth stage