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?

[pawan]

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.