The Bar Association of India (BAI) is calling for an exchange program between India and China as a team of Indian lawyers is to attend a legal conference in Beijing beginning Monday, the Indo-Asian News Service reported Saturday.

The BAI has called for a program, wherein Chinese law students can come to India to study Indian law and Indian students can learn Chinese law in China. The association also plans an exchange of faculty and legal lectures between the two countries.

The week-long conference, to be held in Beijing and Shanghai, will be attended by a team of 12 Indian lawyers, led by well-known jurist K.K. Venugopal, also the vice-president of the BAI.

This is the first time that such a major legal conference is being held jointly by the two countries.

Source: Xinhua