Designing Legal Education to Support Social Evolution in Pakistan

The present legal crisis in the country mainly gripped by legal fraternity has appeared to the stakeholders to perceive role of legal profession in state constitutional affairs and re-examine the areas of legal education. Legal education has a critical role in egalitarian society as it promotes awareness on public rights and obligations. This is the need of an organized political society to strengthen pace of social evolution. Every citizen has a function to perform in state system to support social evolution. This imperative societal role demands state system to strengthen foundations of legal education, which is not in the form to produce required results. It should be able to produce nationalism to support social evolution. The study identifies issues like mushroom growth of private institutions, substandard curriculum, imperfect evaluation system and lack of research and literary resources in public and private institutions. It also suggests strategies of standardized academic development and international collaboration so that system of legal education may be enabled to contribute material progress for social evolution in state system.