“ACADEMICS AS A CAREER OPTION FOR LAW STUDENTS”

On 24/12/2021 Saveetha School of Law conducted a webinar on “Academics as a career option for law students" The speaker of the day was Ms. Somya Khare who holds a Bachelor degree in Law, LLM specialised in Intellectual property rights and holds a Diploma in Cyber laws. She is currently working as Assistant Professor of law in Jagran Lakecity University, Bhopal. The Speaker started with a quote as”Everyone Wants A Good Teacher But Not Everyone Wants To Be A Teacher” and divided the webinar into three Major categories as the first half dealt with an general interactive session extracting from the participants about their ambition after completing the Bachelor's Degree in law. Thus, she divided the job preference of students into three as (i) Corporate firms, (ii) Litigation and (iii) Judiciary. Thereafter, she dealt with the reasons as to why academics is not an favourable career option among young aspirants under law; main reasons being, that these issues were never counselled in the under graduation course, risks of low pay in academics and lack of patience. She concluded the webinar by stating few cruxes on the vision of academics as a professional career where it gives a sense of academic freedom, autonomy with never ending quality of learning, discovering and self satisfaction. The session was of high relevance as each and every stage in one's life one need the guidance of good academicians.