Clinical and Continuing Legal Education- Interface for Confidence Building Between Law Students and Legal Professionals in Contemporary India

Journey of clinical legal education (CLE) and Continuing Legal Education (CoLE) encountered lots of vicissitudes in India. It teaches “learn the law through experiences”. Until 1996, law students only learned legal principles without practical training. Thereafter, apprenticeship began under senior advocates and practical papers were inducted in syllabi to makelaw students hover around legal problems, acquaint themselves with laws established to articulate solutions.Curricular Clinical trainingnurtures law students to acquire expertise on legal principles which can boost them to acclimatize tothe profession.This paper highlightsthe relevancy of CLE and CoE, their impacts, and their necessity in contemporary legal perspectives based on primary and secondary data