CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -The birth anniversary of Prof. (Dr) Neelakanta Ramakrishna Madhava Menon, the father of modern legal education in India and the architect of the five-year integrated LL.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Constitution (Eighty-sixth Amendment) Act, 2002 inserted Article 21-A in the Constitution of India to provide free and compulsory education of all children in the age group of six to fourteen years as a Fundamental Right in such a manner as the State may, by law, determine.

Detailed explanation-3: -History. Early Western legal education emerged in Republican Rome. Initially those desiring to be advocates would train in schools of rhetoric. Around the third century BCE Tiberius Coruncanius began teaching law as a separate discipline.

Detailed explanation-4: -Formal legal education in India came into existence in 1855 and its aim was to equip law students so that they could help the lower courts and High courts by enrolling themselves as Vakils or becoming judicial officers.