There was a post on Linkedin that quality of law graduates has gone down.The author wondered whether it is the students passing out or the law education system which is responsible for the decline.
Here is my response thereon:
Why just the education system?
The Palkhiwalas and the Dasturs and all the esteemed judges came through the same system...among finest in the world.
Some of the greatest judgements in history of taxation(my field so I know) were written from 50s to 80s when there was no moot court,no internet,archaic teaching methods,pedantic syllabus and law pursuit looked down upon as a refuge of second raters who could not handle science ,humanities or commerce.
.I know bec i was a student in mid 80s myself.
Truth is,introspection as an instrument of analysis,correction and growth is an alien concept nowadays.It was the go to thing in my gen.
sorry to compare ,but resilience,tenacity and depth ...I see nothing nowadays.There are no vectored hard yards just carbon copy automatons going through the motions of a mindless 14 hour workdays.
And when things go south we have the system and seniors to append blame to.
Lucky ,pre internet gen knew and experienced 'dolce far niente'...no one knows what it means anymore.
Now TY,CFBR ,LOL,et al is our vocabulary.Chat GPT and AI are the gods next to google.
True ,class mentors are rare.But who wants them?We want joker guides teaching a bag of tips and tricks to win cases.No wonder we are where we are.
