Syllabus for Recruitment of Lecturers in Law
Unit – I: Jurisprudence
i) Schools of jurisprudence
• Natural Law School
• Historical School
• Analytical Positivism
• Sociological Jurisprudence
ii) Emerging Dimensions of Jurisprudence
• Environmental Jurisprudence
• Consumer Jurisprudence
• Gender Jurisprudence
• Legal Aid
iii) Sources and concepts
• Custom
• Precedent
• Legislation
• Rights and Duties
iv) Administration of Justice
• Development of Sovereignty
• Meaning and concept of Administration of Justice
• Advantages and Disadvantages
• Development of Public Interest Litigation
Unit – II: Constitutional Law: New Dimensions
i) Introduction
• Preamble
• Salient Features
• Union and its Territory
• Concept of State and the changing Horizon
ii) Right to Equality etc.
• Equal protection and protective Discrimination
• Freedom of Speech and Expression
• Media Freedom
• Freedom of Religion
iii) Emerging Rights and Remedies
• Right to Life and Personal Liberty: New Dimensions
• Right to Constitutional Remedies
• Emergence of New Rights under Directive Principles of State Policy
• State Liability Under Torts and Contracts
iv) New Dimensions and New Regime
• Rights of Displaced Persons
• Right to Education & Commercialization of Education
• Centre-State Relations
• Judicial Review
Unit –III: Law of Contract
i) General Principles of Contract
• Offer & Acceptance
• Elements of Consideration
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• Capacity to contract and free consent
• Legality of contract, void and voidable Contract
ii) Performance of Contract etc.
• Performance of contract
• Quasi Contract
• Doctrine of Frustration
• Breach of Contract
iii) Specific Contracts
• Bailment
• Guarantee
• Indemnity
• Agency
iv) Sale of goods
• Definition and Essentials of sale
• Contract for sale
• Transfer of Title
• Conditions and Warranty
Unit – IV: Law & Social Transformation in India
i) Law and Social Change
• Concept and theories of social change and the role of law
• Concept and jurisprudential theories of social engineering
• Law as an instrument of social change and development
• Fundamental Rights and new social ordering, Directive principles
of State policies and social transformation.
ii) Religion and the Law
• Religion as a divisive factor.
• Secularism as a solution to the problem
• Reform of the law on secular lines: Problems
• Freedom of religion and Rights of Religious minorities
iii) Community and the Law
• Caste as a divisive factor
• Non-discrimination on the ground of caste
• Protective discrimination: Scheduled castes, trines and backward
classes
• Reservation: Statutory Commissions, Statutory Provisions.
iv) Gender Mainstreaming and Law
• Gender injustice and feminist jurisprudence
• Broader concept of gender equality
• Inclusion and participation of women in Governance and Decision
Making process
• Women’s Commission: Determination of status of women,
redressing unfair practices affecting women
Unit – V: Legal Education System in India
i) Scope and Extent of Legal Education
• Professional Education and status of legal education in India.
• Growth and objectives of legal education in India
• Continuing Legal Education
• Globalization and future of legal education
ii) Law Curriculum
• Curriculum model for law studies
• Curriculum contents
• Evaluation of BCI and UGC curricular Model
• Defects of present curriculum model
iii) Teaching Method
• Lecture Method
• Case study method
• Seminar method
• Clinical legal education
iv) Evaluation process
• Objectives of Examinations
• Internal and external Assessments
• Practical / Oral Examination
• Problems in law examination and solution