Urmil Shah
Auro University, Surat.
Edited by: Amar
Law school is not only a place to learn and get educated but essentially a journey which a law student goes through in his life. However, hard or tormenting it may be, it remains one of the most memorable experience of his life.
This doesn’t mean that a law student doesn’t face any problems during his 5-year tenure at the law schools. Some of the most pertinent problems faced by several law school students are:
1. More Work, Less Time: This is a common phrase that you will hear law students iterating in India. The work at law school never gets over, be it assessments, assignments, moots, research papers, debates, extra-curricular activities. We often get very less time to pursue our hobby instead, and lesser time to socialize with people or even for that matter sleep, because we have to be awake for almost entire nights.
2. Politics and Partiality: Almost every law student knows this fact that to succeed in law school they will have to and have to be socially and personally connected with teachers. This is very common in traditional law schools, where students go over to faculties and literally lick to get their work done. Of course, then politics rises and sense of partiality increases.
3. Beg, Follow up, Wait for the D-Day: This process is quite common when we as law students try and secure top tier internships. Being from non law background one has to apply and then make end number of follow up calls and mails for the approval of the internship. Even after a good CV and interview, there is no guarantee of internship till the last time of academic year and starting of internship break.
4. Frustration from non-law friends: Of course, this is not an academic shortcoming, but is definitely a problem faced by every law students who has non-law friends, where they will keep irritating you for not knowing every legal nuances and you get frustrated after spending loads of bucks in the tuition fees, but at the end of the day they don’t realize there’s no set answer because the law can be interpreted in so many ways.
5. Future: A Doom: A law student after his schooling often goes into the college feeling that after college he will get into a reputed law firm and would be earning in 6 figures, and this is further motivated by the Placement Cell of your college during orientation. But however, that’s not the case to be when you realize that the placement cell in the college is a myth and everything boils down to an individual waiting for a dooming future.
Every good thing comes with certain drawbacks. Of course, studying law has its own problems, but at the end it is making you want to be and that’s what matters, essentially.
