With lack of academicians in the Bar Council of India (BCI) many law college faculties have raised their concern stating that BCI is not an academic body and lacks expertise in understanding the significance of a balanced legal curriculum. They claim that uniform syllabus is not followed across universities in the state and country.
 
Similarly serious concerns were raised by the SNDT Law School (SNDT Women’s University), Santacruz West, which had recently written to the Union Ministry of Law and Judiciary, (copy with this paper), raising concern about the practice adopted by the BCI with reference to inspection of law colleges and charging exorbitant inspection fees. The letter also claims that BCI lacks expertise in administering legal education, as its members are law graduates and are practicing advocates, governed under the Advocates Act 1961.

Rajesh Wankhede, in-charge head, SNDT Law School, said, “Unlike other professions like medicine and engineering, which have their own academic councils consisting of expert academicians, who design the academic courses / curriculum and regulate the same, law is the only professional course, where there is no regulatory body, to regulate the legal education system. BCI is depicting itself to be the regulatory body, which is not the case and hence the letter has been sent to the ministry of law and judiciary, which has taken cognizance of my letter and has reverted back to me.”