The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court recently observed that it is not necessary to appoint law graduates as guest or part-time lecturers to teach law subjects in arts and science colleges in Tamil Nadu. A bench of Justices CV Karthikeyan and R Sakthivel was disposing of a PIL filed seeking a direction to ensure that only lecturers with requisite law qualifications are engaged to teach law subjects in all arts and science colleges across the state. The petitioner, T Muthukrishnan, a part-time lecturer from Tirunelveli, had alleged that B.Com and B.B.A. students have law classes six hours a week, but these classes are assigned to assistant professors who do not hold law qualifications. The court observed that colleges and universities would assess teachers on their knowledge of the particular subject in which they are engaged to teach students.