Teaching Law and Development in India: Reflections, Insights and Challenges

Document Type

Research Article

Abstract

In 2016, Azim Premji University, Bangalore launched an LL.M. program with a specialisation in Law and Development. A course called ‘Law and Development’ is taught as a mandatory core course in the first semester of the program. Across a period of six years, the two of us have taught this core course either individually or in collaboration with each other. As the LL.M. enters its seventh year, we reflect on the experience of teaching the course, by taking stock of its strengths and weaknesses. In this article, we present an account of the motivations of the program and the course, the challenges we faced, how we engaged with these challenges, and our reflections on the experience of teaching the course. In this recounting, we focus specifically on three aspects: (a) the interdisciplinary character of Law and Development and the consequent difficulty in ascertaining its boundaries, given the vast scope of the subject; (b) building an Indian context to the subject of Law and Development while preserving its comparative aspects; and c) the authors' experiences of teaching Law and Development as a public and private law scholar respectively.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5771/0506-7286-2022-2

Publication Date

7-1-2022

Journal

VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee

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