10 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
If the curriculum is expanded in the way suggested, then it seems to me that the one and the only answer to the second question namely what should be the period for a complete course of legal education is that it cannot be a two years’ course as it is now. It must be more than two years. What exactly should the period be is a question on which there might be a difference of opinion. In my view, the period should be four years. I would divide this course of four years into two periods each of two years. At the end of the first two years, there is to be an examination to be held either by the University or by some other body appointed for the purpose, which examination to be called the First LL.B. Exmination. At the end of second two year’s period, there is to be another examination held by the same authority and to be called the second LL.B. examination.
I will next deal with the question of dividing the curriculum between the first LL.B. and the Second LL.B. under my scheme. The course of the First LL.B. should include the following subjects :–
Sociology and Psychology. 2. Logic and Rhetoric.
English. 4. Law of Contracts. 5. Legal Philosophy and Legal Maxims. 6. Constitutional Law. 7. Government of India Acts.
Law of Crimes and Criminal Procedure.
The Course for the second LL.B. will include the course of study now prescribed for the First and the Second LL.B; minus Constitutional Law, the Government of India Acts, the Law of Crimes and Criminal Procedure and Contract which are under my scheme transferred to the First LL.B. I would, however, like to add the following Acts to the curriculum of the second LL.B. :–
(1) Provincial and Presidency Small Cause Court Acts, and
(2) Bombay Civil Courts Act.
I am not in favour of omitting the study of Civil and Criminal Procedures as is suggested in some quarters from the course of Collegiate studies especially as under my scheme there would be ample time for their study.
Having given my views on the questions relating to the course of studies and the period of studies, I take the consideration of the