does India really need another private law school?
Kumar strongly believes so. He says that the creation of the national law schools in the late 80s was a “massive leap” forward for legal education and coupled with the liberalisation of the Indian economy in the 90s, this had made law an attractive career for young Indians for the first time. In founding JGLS, Kumar hopes to continue this development and emulate and compete with US and UK law universities particularly on the academic front, where he feels that most law schools and Indian universities in other fields are currently ill equipped. “We strongly believe that universities are knowledge institutions. They are not teaching institutions – although of course that should happen,” says Kumar, “but there is a larger obligation to create knowledge.” He argues that you can not create knowledge without engaging in serious research, which requires faculty members who have the ability to “undertake research, publish it and go through a rigorous academic process and actually produce schol
