LAW COLLEGES AND LAW STUDENTS IN BIHAR.

The departure of the British opened new, competing, career alternatives, and a widening net of education undercut the advantages of wealth, family and caste. New social conditions have not only required the advocate to rely upon different sources for his legal income, they have begun to transform the nature of the profession itself. The purpose of this article is to examine the environment of legal education in Bihar, India, to assess the pressures and demands for its reorientation, and to explore the changing complexion of the legal profession by an appraisal of the law college students. There are ten law colleges in Bihar, attached to the five degree-granting universities in the state. Patna Law College, the premier law college in Bihar, conducts law classes for the bachelor and master degrees in law granted by Patna University, and the remaining nine colleges are spilt up amongst the other universities. Though the enrollment totals in the colleges are misleading as an index of the number of students receiving legal education, because up to one-third may not obtain their degree for one reason or another, they do supply some indication of interest in law studies.