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Can you provide me the syllabus for LL.M. ( Master of Laws) Program offered by the Department of Law Dr. Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya, Sagar (M.P.)?

[Neelu Bhasin]

The syllabus for LL.M. ( Master of Laws) Program offered by the Department of Law Dr. Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya, Sagar (M.P.) is as fllows:


LL.M. I SEMESTER

Course Code
LAW- CC - 121

LAW AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION IN INDIA

Syllabus :

Unit I
1. Law and Social Change
• Law as an instrument of social change.
• Law as the product of traditions and culture. Criticism and evaluation in the light of Colonization and the introduction of common law system and institutions in Indian and its Impact on further development of law and legal institution in India.
2. Religion and the Law
• Religion as a divisive factor.
• Secularism as a solution to the problem.
• Reform of the law on secular lines: Problem.
• Freedom of religion and non-discrimination on the basis of religion.
• Religion, minorities and the law.


Unit II
1. Language and the Law
 Language as a divisive factor.
 Constitutional guarantees to linguistic minorities.
 Language policy and the Constitution: Official language ; multi
language system.
 Non- discrimination on the ground of language.
2. Community
• Caste as a divisive factor.
• Non - discrimination on the ground of caste.
• Acceptance of caste as a factor to undo past injustice.
• Protective discrimination: Scheduled caste, tribes and backward classes.
• Reservation; statutory commissions, Statutory provisions.


Unit III
Regionalism and the law.
• Regionalism as a divisive factor.
• Concept of India as a one unit.
• Right of movement, residence and business; impermissibility of state or regional
• barriers.
• Equality in matters of employment the slogan “Sons of the soil” and its practice.
• Admission to educational institutions: preference to residents of a state.


Unit IV
1. Women and the Law
• Gender injustice and its various forms.
• Women’s commission.
• Empowerment of women: Constitutional and other legal provisions.
2. Children and the Law
• Child labour
• Sexual exploitation.
• Adoption and related problems.
• Children and education.


Unit V Lectures-10
Modernization and the Law
• Modernization as a value: constitutional perspectives reflected in the fundamental duties. • Modernization of social institutions through law.
• Industrial reform: Free enterprise V/s State regulation – Industrialization Vs
Environmental protection.
• Democratic decentralization and local self government.
• Socialist thought on law and justice. An enquiry through constitutional debates on the
right to property.


Syllabus LL.M.Program Dr. Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya, Sagar (M.P.)