Goa is set to host a new pillar of India’s legal education infrastructure.
While addressing the students at Deeksharambh, the orientation programme for IIULER’s 2026 batch, the Bar Council of India’s Chairman, Manan Kumar Mishra, highlighted the Council’s proposal to set up the National Legal Academy for the mandatory training of lawyers at the India International University of Legal Education and Research (IIULER), Goa.
This academy is proposed to be set up along the lines of the National Judicial Academy at Bhopal, which trains judicial officers nationwide.
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As per the PTI report, Mishra added, “Around two weeks back, a judgment of the honourable apex court came. The BCI was directed to establish a National Legal Academy on the lines of the National Judicial Academy in Bhopal. This Academy will be situated in your own campus at Goa”. He notes that young lawyers from across the country would travel to the Goa campus for compulsory training, likely structured as a 10-day to two-week course along with a chance to interact with judges, trainers, senior advocates and noted professors as part of the programme.
Supreme Court judge Justice P S Narasimha, whose bench, during a hearing last month, had directed the BCI to set up the NLA, was present during the orientation programme.
Applied to the legal profession, the new Academy would give the BCI a dedicated institution to standardise and mandate training for lawyers.
Before the announcement, the BCI Chairperson met Chief Minister Dr. Pramod Sawant, along with Advocate General Devidas Pangam and Justice Narasimha, signalling that state-level coordination for the Academy is already in motion.
For Goa, this development adds another national-level institution to a state already positioning itself as an emerging legal education hub through IIULER.