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6th June 2016, 10:54 AM
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University of Madras Faculty of Law
Can you provide me the syllabus of Degree of Master of Law (M.L.) (Private Study) Program as offered by Department of Legal Studies of University of Madras?
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6th June 2016, 12:40 PM
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Re: University of Madras Faculty of Law
The syllabus of Degree of Master of Law (M.L.) (Private Study) Program as offered by Department of Legal Studies of University of Madras is as follows: I YEAR PAPER: I – CONSTITUTIONAL NEW CHALLENGES Creation of new states, Allocation and share or resources-distribution of Grantsin-aid, Rehabilitation of internally displaced persons, Centre’s responsibility and internal disturbances within States, Direction of the Centre to the State under Article 356 and 365, Federal Comity: Relationship of trust and faith between Centre and States, Special status of certain States. – “State”: Need for widening the definition in the wake of liberalization, Right to equality: Privatization and its impact on affirmative action, Empowerment of women, Freedom of press and challenges of new scientific technology. Freedom of speech and right to broadcast and telecast, Right to strike, hartal and bandth, Reading Directive Principles and Fundamental Duties into Fundamental Rights. Compensatory jurisprudence – Right to education, Commercialization of education and its impact, Brain drain by foreign education market, Right of minorities to establish and administer educational institution and state control, Secularism and religious fanaticism, Separation of powers: Stresses and strain, Judicial activism and judicial restraint, PIL: implementation, Judicial independence, Appointment, transfer and removal of judges, Accountability: executive and judiciary, Tribunals, Nexus of politics with criminals and the business, Election, Election Commission: Status, Electoral Reform, Coalition government, stability, durability, corrupt practice, Grass root democracy. PAPER: II – RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND LEGAL EDUCATION Socio Legal Research, Doctrinal and non-doctrinal, Relevance of empirical research, induction and deduction, What is a research problems? Survey of available literature and bibliographical research, Legislative materials including subordinate legislation, notification and policy statements, Decisional Material including foreign decision; methods of discovering the “rule of the case”, tracing the history of important cases and ensuring that these have not been over-ruled discovering judicial conflict in the area pertaining to the research problems and the reasons there of, Juristic writings – a survey of juristic literature relevant to select problems in India and foreign periodicals. Completion of list of reports or special studies conducted, relevant to the problems. Formulation of the research problems. Devising tools and techniques for collection of data: Methodology, Methods for the collection of statutory and case materials and juristic literature, Use of historical and comparative research materials, Use of observation studies. Sampling procedures- design of sample, types of sampling to be adopted, Use of scaling techniques, Jurimetrics. Computerized Research - A study of legal research programmers such as Lexis and West law coding, Classification and tabulation of data – use of cards for data collection – Rules for tabulation. Explanation f tabulated data, Analysis of data. Objective of Legal Education, Lecture Method of Teaching – Merits and Demerits, The problem method, Discussion method and its suitability at postgraduate level teaching, The Seminar Methods of Teaching, Examination system and problems in evaluation – external and internal assessment, Student participation in Law School programmers – Organization of Seminars, publication of journals and assessment of teachers, Clinical legal education – legal aid, legal literacy, legal survey and law reform, Clinical legal education – legal. |