Bharatiya Vidhi Sansthan is an autonomous body, set up on 26th may, 2006, as Centre for Advanced Socio-Legal Research (CASLR), has done significant work in the field of legal research, education, and promotes the systematization of law. Sansthan encourage, conduct investigations in legal and allied fields for improvement in legal education and impart instructions in law via training program to meet the social, economic, legal and all other needs of the Indian people.
Besides performing important advisory role in fostering the empirical research and making law as an instrument of social engineering, it undertakes research on current legal issues. Sansthan has the requisite independence and academic freedom to carry out its objectives. Sansthan has achieved the place of a premier center of national & international legal research and studies, in which the lawyers, professionals, judges, government officials and academicians have been participating.
Objectives :
“Law is the great civilizing machinery. It liberates the desire to build and subdues the desire to destroy. And if war can tear us apart, Law can unite us – out of fear, or love or reason, or all three. Law is the greatest human invention. All the rest, give man mastery over his world. Law gives him mastery over himself”.
Bharatiya Vidhi Sansthan promote advanced studies, research for advancement in law sectors and also engaged in clarification, simplification, systematization of law, and conduct investigations in legal and allied fields. Sansthan involve in promoting legal education from primary section to higher studies in India and involved in promoting legal education in rural area of India via trainings program, by organizing workshop, seminars and by participation.
Bharatiya Vidhi Sansthan involve in Panel Discussions, Colloquium, National and International Conferences, Symposiums and training program for young lawyers/judicial officer etc. Sansthan also indulges in Publication of journal, Annual Survey of Indian Law, Index of Indian Legal Periodicals, inviting national and international legal luminaries to deliver talks and lectures and conducting Orientation programs.Publish studies, treatises, books, periodicals, reports and other literature relating to law and allied fields & undertake documentation of important legal and allied materials and maintain libraries for Sansthan.
Bharatiya Vidhi Sansthan Cooperate with other Government and non-government institutions and organizations of national and international levels, in the pursuit of all or any of the above objects. Constitute or cause to be constituted regional offices at convenient centers in India to promote the activities of the Sansthan.
Even though, in tune with the time, Clinical Legal Education holds an indispensable position, still its acceptance, existence and development in present legal education system, is at its nascent stages. The curriculum adopted at various law schools has not been structured to give adequate time for clinical training programs. The divergence between law in books and law in action calls to strike a balance between the law curriculum and the teaching methods. The monologue lecture scheme adopted in law schools, where practical training is either totally neglected or marginally implemented at the level of Moot Courts, Court visits and legal research will not make good lawyers in today. Therefore, Sansthan take responsibility to prescribe and maintain the standards of legal education in consultation with legal bodies.