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9 Asian J. Legal Educ. 7 (2022)

handle is hein.journals/asjledu9 and id is 1 raw text is: Article Clinical Legal Education- A Robust Asian Journal of Legal Education 9(l) 7-22, 2022 Instrument for Attainment of ©2021 The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences Justice: An Indian Perspective Reprints and permissions: DOI: 10.1 177/0971721821 1030784 journals.sagepub.com/home/ale *SAGE Ravindra Kumar Singh' Abstract Legal education is to serve the purpose of creating well-versed and proficient professionals who can render the best legal service to the people and help them get justice. Moreover, it is also to produce law- abiding and well-informed citizens who can carry out their duties in their professional life (irrespective of the nature of profession) for maintaining the rule of law. Along with a very strong foundation of substantive law, law students must also be oriented to the application of law during their undergraduate programme. This goal is to be realized through clinical legal education (CLE), which was introduced with an aim of combining the theory with practice. It also helps inculcate a sense of social justice in law students, as they closely see the application of law in a real life situation; they realize how law benefits people; they get closely connected to the society; they learn professional ethics; they develop problem solving approach; they get immeasurable satisfaction and confidence in the power of law; and more particularly, they comprehend that law is the real robust instrument to ensure and secure inclusive justice in the society. CLE, thus, makes the legal education all-inclusive and wholesome by making law students the agents of social change and champions of justice. This research article argues that CLE is indispensable for the attainment of inclusive justice. It also gauges the state of CLE in India from this perspective. Lastly, the article offers a few convincing suggestions which need to be incorporated in the legal education framework of India in order to ensure the higher goal of attainment of inclusive justice in India. Introduction Legal education, in particular, produces proficient professionals, in addition to serving the society by creating law-abiding and well-informed citizens who are needed in every profession for maintaining the Disclaimer: This research article is the revised and upgraded version of the paper which the author submitted to and presented at the 17th ASLI (Asian Law Institute) Conference held (online) and co-organized by the National Law University, Delhi and the Asian Law Institute from 7 November 2020 to 9 November 2020.As per the policy of ASLI Conference, neither the soft copies nor hard copies of individual papers will constitute publication; and the individual presenters retain copyright of their papers and are free to submit them for publication elsewhere. 'Associate Professor of Law, Former Dean (Academic Affairs), Gujarat National Law University & Former ICCR Rotating Chair (Visiting Professor of Indian Studies), Leibniz University Hannover, Germany. Corresponding author: Ravindra Kumar Singh, Associate Professor of Law, Former Dean (Academic Affairs), Gujarat National Law University, Koba, Gandhinagar 382426, Gujarat, India. E-mails: rsingh@gnlu.ac.in; ravindrasinghshoorwar@yahoo.co.in