IDIA (Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access to Legal Education) seeks to enhance access to legal education by training kids from underprivileged backgrounds for the law entrance examination (CLAT). The hope is that with intensive CLAT (and English) training, some of these children might make it to the premier law schools in India and have a shot at a decent legal education.
CLAT is a joint entrance examination run by 11 national law schools. It consists of different components such as i) English comprehension ii) Current affairs and GK iii) Mathematics iv) Logical Reasoning and v) Legal Reasoning.
While it is easy to source practice questions on most components above, good legal reasoning questions are hard to come by. And thus was born the IDIA competition to help source interesting questions from creative minds…questions that will form part of the training material being handed out to underprivileged students. Sample questions have been offered to give you a sense of what we’re looking for…and one of the questions deals with the issue of patentability of medical methods.
The prize money is not all that great…but the intellectual challenge and the good karma might more than compensate….
