International Conference on the Future of Legal Education

Mandava Rama Krishna Prasad

M.R.K. Prasad is a senior lecturer in V.M.Salgaocar college of Law, Miramar, Panji, Goa India. He is the first recipient of Vanderbilt – Fulbright fellowship in clinical legal education from India. He is also very active in the clinical education movement in India, most notably through establishing 40 community law clinics in state of Goa. He is an active member of Global Alliance for Justice Education. He was instrumental in establishing Forum of South Asian Clinical Law Teachers. Presently he is the Secretary of the Forum. He is also actively involved in training 200 law teachers all over India in clinical legal education in association with Menon Institute of Legal Advocacy and Training. He is also a member of National Coordination Committee to conduct National rounds of Louis M. Brown International Client Counseling and Interviewing competition. Over the course of his career, he had acted as Chairman of Moot Court Society and Free Legal Aid Society of V.M.Salgaocar College of Law. His work on clinical legal education in India was published in Clinical Law Review Vol.13 No.1 2006(Prof. Frank Bloch is the co author of the article). His paper on Clinical Legal Education in India: A model Blue Print for Offering Quality Clinical Education, Scientific Supervision, and Assessment is currently under consideration of Griffith Law Review, Australia.