Deferred dreams: Bureaucratic lethargy in CLAT and judicial service exams unravels the dim future of the legal profession in India

In April, a Supreme Court bench chastised the CLAT consortium for the “casual manner” in which it framed questions in CLAT 2025, putting at risk lakhs of careers. Meanwhile across Indian states, judicial service exams have remained on hold. Stuck between lethargy and institutional incompetence, the emergence of a generation of unemployed law graduates shows mirror to the crisis confronting the legal profession.
Deferred dreams: Bureaucratic lethargy in CLAT and judicial service exams unravels the dim future of the legal profession in India
Shikhar Shrivastava

Samaira Singh is a law student at Jindal Global Law School. Her primary interests lie in the domains of literature, particularly historical fiction, and the intersection between law and policy-making.

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