Lack of legal education within the Tibetan Diaspora is one of the key impediments in empowering the Tibetans in exile. Tibetan Legal Association’s (to be referred as TLA henceforth) recent legal surveys in few Tibetan settlements and educational centers in India testified to the fact that the level of understanding of Tibetans, even on rudimentary legal processes of the host country (India), is painfully low. This serious lack of legal education not only contributes to various social, economic and political problems for Tibetan refugees in India but also impede them in effectively contributing to the nascent exile Tibetan democracy. The case is not so different with Tibetans in Tibet under Chinese rule. A focus-group discussion conducted by TLA with some new-arrivals from Tibet indicated that their understanding on rule of law is minimal, yet they showed strong interest on legal education. The same discussion also revealed that many of them are ill-informed about democracy and its processes. To address these issues, TLA has conducted series of activities since its inception to spread legal awareness. The impacts of these activities have encouraged TLA to further increase and intensify our campaign to benefit as many Tibetans as possible, both in and outside Tibet.
For a better legal help can be accessed to different settlements of Tibetans in Exile, in 2013 TLA launched Bangalore and Mysore Chapters where there are more Tibetan Law Students, the chapter members always try to provide legal awareness amongst Tibetans in their own locations, their executive members are elected by their own chapter members.
on 13th October 2018, Bangalore Chapter held their annual meeting in Bangalore, the 2nd working committee members presented their reports on the meeting, at the same time, the 3rd working committee members were elected. they have had discussed all the legal issues amongst Tibetans, and set one year planing for the up coming year of 2019.