REGULATIONS

RELATING TO
INTEGRATED
FIVE YEAR B.A., LL.B
DEGREE COURSE

2013 Admission onwards

KERALA UNIVERSITY

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REGULATIONS RELATING TO INTEGRATED FIVE YEAR
B.A., LL.B DEGREE COURSE
1. Title
The regulations shall be called the Regulations relating to Integrated Five Year
B.A., LL.B Degree Course
2. Commencement
These regulations shall come into force with effect from Academic Year 2011 -
2012.
3. Duration of the Course
(a) The course shall be of a double degree integrated course comprising BA and
LL.B Degrees. The Bachelor’s Degree in BA and Law shall consist of regular course
of study for a minimum period of 10 Semesters in Five Years and shall consist of 14
papers in BA and 31 papers in Law.
(b) Each semester shall consist of 90 instructional days having 5 hours per day
for lectures, seminars, debates and test papers. There shall be not less than four hours
per subject per week and one/two hours for seminar/debates/test paper.
4. Eligibility for Admission
(a) No candidate shall be admitted to the course unless he has passed the Higher
Secondary Examination of the Government of Kerala or any other examination
recognized as equivalent thereto by this University with not less than 45% marks for
general category and 40% marks for SC and ST.
5. Attendance and Progress
No candidate shall be permitted to register for the end semester examinations
conducted by the University unless the Principal has certified that he has obtained not
less than 75% of the attendance in each paper and his conduct and progress has been
satisfactory.
6. Examinations
(a) There shall be a University examination at the end of each semester. Each
written paper carrying 100 Marks is divided into 80 Marks for written examination
and 20 Marks for internal assessment.
(b) Paper IV in Seventh, Eighth, Ninth and Tenth semesters shall be evaluated
internally. Internal Viva shall be conducted by the board of examiners constituted by
the Principal from among Senior Teachers.
(c) Paper II in the Tenth Semester is optional paper. 1/3 (one third ) of the total
number of the students of that semester can choose either of the two papers.
(d) Internship - Each student shall have completed minimum of 20 weeks
internship during the entire period of legal studies under NGO, Trial and Appellate
Advocates, Judiciary, Legal Regulatory authorities, Legislatures and Parliament,
Other Legal Functionaries, Market Institutions, Law Firms, Companies, Local Self

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Government and other such bodies where law is practiced either in action or in
dispute resolution or in management.
Provided that internship in any year cannot be for a continuous period of more
than Four weeks and all students shall at least gone through once in the entire
academic period with Trial and Appellate Advocates.
Each student shall keep internship diary and the same shall be evaluated by the
Guide in Internship and also a Core Faculty member.
(e) Viva-voce examination in the Tenth semester shall be conducted by the
Board of Examiners constituted by the University.
7. Internal Assessment
Marks for the internal assessment in each written paper shall be distributed as
follows.
(i) Attendance - 5 Marks (2.5 Marks for 75% of attendance and additional
0.5 Marks for every 5% attendance above 75%)
(ii) Test Paper – 5 Marks
(iii) Assignment – 5 Marks
(iv) Seminar/Debate – 5 Marks
The marks for internal assessment shall be awarded by the Teacher in charge of
each paper, countersigned by the Principal and forwarded to the University before the
commencement of the written examination. A statement containing the marks
awarded to every student as internal assessment in each paper shall also be published.
Guidelines for Internal Assessment –
(i) – Introduction -The objectives of introducing internal assessment are:
(i) to develop in the students the ability for critical analysis and
evaluation of legal problems; (ii) to develop communication skill, both
oral and written; (iii) to create an awareness of current socio-legal
problems; (iv) to ensure the involvement and participation of students
in academic programmes; and (v) to make evaluation of students a
continuous process. In order to achieve these objectives it is
imperative that internal assessment is made by teachers in a fair and
objective manner and in an atmosphere of total transparency and
confidence. The following guidelines are issued to secure fairness,
objectivity and transparency in internal assessment.
(ii) Attendance – (a) For each subject attendance shall be taken in the class
and recorded in a register maintained by the teacher. A statement of
attendance shall be prepared every month which shall be available for
inspection by the students. Complaints, if any, shall be brought to the
notice of the teacher and the Principal before the seventh working day
of the publication of the statement.

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 Students representing the College/University in Sports/Games,
Arts/Cultural events or Moot Courts, Client Counseling competitions,
Academic activities and Office bearers of the College/University
Union may, with the prior permission of the Principal, take part in
such competitions or activities and be given attendance as directed by
the Principal for such participation, subject to a maximum of 10 days
in a semester.
(iii) Test Paper – Two test papers shall be conducted for each subject in a
semester. The marks obtained by each student in the test paper shall
be announced by the teacher within ten days from the date of the test
paper and shall also be recorded in a register maintained by the
teacher.
(iv) Assignment – Every student shall write one assignment for each paper,
on a subject chosen in consultation with the teacher. The assignment
should reflect the ability of the student to identify and use materials
and his/her capacity for original thinking, critical analysis and
evaluation. Each student shall select the topic of assignment before
the 20th working day of the semester.
The assignment shall be submitted before a date prescribed by the
teacher. If the assignment submitted by a student is found to be
unsatisfactory by the teacher, the student shall be given an option to
revise the assignment or write an assignment on another subject
chosen in consultation with the teacher.
The marks obtained by each student and the criteria adopted for
evaluation of assignments shall be announced by the teacher within 10
days from the date of submission of the assignment. The marks shall
also be recorded in a register maintained by the teacher.
(v) Seminar/Debate – Every student shall participate in one seminar or
debate for each paper. A synopsis of not more than one page shall be
submitted by each participant to the teacher before the seminar/debate.
In the evaluation, 50% credit shall be given to the content and 50% for
presentation. The topic of the seminar/debate shall be selected by the
student in consultation with the teacher before the 20th working day of
the semester. The marks awarded for the seminar/debate shall be
announced by the teacher at the end of the seminar/debate and shall
also be recorded in a register maintained by the teacher.
8. Pass minimum and classification
(a) A candidate who secures not less than 50% marks for each paper in a
semester shall be declared to have passed the examination in that semester.

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 (b) A candidate who obtains pass marks (50%) in one or more papers, but fails
in other papers in a semester is exempted from appearing in the papers in which
he/she has obtained pass marks.
(c) A candidate who fails in Paper IV of Seventh or Eighth or Ninth or Tenth
semester shall appear in that paper in the next academic year without obtaining re-
admission.
(d) A candidate who fails in Internship or viva-voce has to complete the
internship and viva-voce in the next academic year without obtaining re-admission.
(e) There shall be no chance to improve either the internal assessment marks or
written examination marks.
(f) Classification is as shown below:-
Distinction – 80% and above
First Class - 60% and above, but below 80%
Second Class-50% and above, but below 60%
(g) Ranking shall be done on the basis of the marks obtained by the candidate in
the whole examination (Ten semesters) passed in the first chance.
(h) A candidate admitted in this course shall complete the course and shall pass
all papers within a period of ten years from the date of admission.
9. Publication of Results
The results of the Tenth semester examination shall be published only after the
candidate has passed the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth
and Ninth semester examinations.
10. Award of B.A.,LL.B Degree
A candidate who successfully completes all the Ten semesters shall be eligible
for the award of B.A.,LL.B Degree from the faculty of Law.
11. Prohibition against lateral entry and exit
There shall be no lateral entry on the plea of graduation in any subject or exit by
way of awarding a degree splitting the integrated double degree course, at any
intermediary stage of integrated double degree course.
12. Applicability of Regulations
This regulations supersede the existing regulations relating to LL.B Five Year
course provided however that students of Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth,
Ninth and Tenth semester LL.B Five Year course shall continue to be governed by
the existing regulations till they complete the course.

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 Scheme
Scheme of the Course
First Semester
Name of the Paper Duration Marks Marks Total
of Exam Internal Written
1 Listening and Speaking Skills 3 hrs 20 80 100
and Drama
2 Writings on Contemporary 3 hrs 20 80 100
Issues
3 Political Theory and Political 3 hrs 20 80 100
Thought
4 Legal Method, Legal Language 3 hrs 20 80 100
and Legal Writing
5 Law of Tort including MV 3 hrs 20 80 100
Accident and Consumer
Protection Laws
Total 500

Second Semester
Name of the Paper Duration Marks Marks Total
of Exam Internal Written
1 Basics of Communication 3 hrs 20 80 100
2 Study of Language 3 hrs 20 80 100
3 Modern Economic Theory and 3 hrs 20 80 100
Law
4 Law of Crimes – Paper - I – 3 hrs 20 80 100
Penal Code
5 Law of Contract 3 hrs 20 80 100
Total 500

Third Semester
Name of the Paper Duration Marks Marks Total
of Exam Internal Written
1 Modern English Grammar and 3 hrs 20 80 100
Usage
2 Development, Environment and 3 hrs 20 80 100
Indian Economy
3 Comparative Politics 3 hrs 20 80 100
4 Jurisprudence 3 hrs 20 80 100
5 Special Contracts 3 hrs 20 80 100
Total 500

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 Fourth Semester
Name of the Paper Duration Marks Marks Total
of Exam Internal Written
1 Poetry 3 hrs 20 80 100
2 Money, Banking, Public 3 hrs 20 80 100
Finance and International Trade
3 International Politics 3 hrs 20 80 100
4 Constitutional Law – I 3 hrs 20 80 100
5 Family Law – I 3 hrs 20 80 100
Total 500

Fifth Semester
Name of the Paper Duration Marks Marks Total
of Exam Internal Written
1 Writing and Presentation Skills 3 hrs 20 80 100
2 Law of Crimes –Paper - II – 3 hrs 20 80 100
Criminal Procedure Code
3 Civil Procedure Code and 3 hrs 20 80 100
Limitation Act
4 Family Law – II 3 hrs 20 80 100
5 Constitutional Law -II 3 hrs 20 80 100
Total 500

Sixth Semester
Name of the Paper Duration Marks Marks Total
of Exam Internal Written
1 Prose and Fiction 3 hrs 20 80 100
2 Interpretation of Statutes and 3 hrs 20 80 100
Principles of Legislation
3 Administrative Law 3 hrs 20 80 100
4 Law of Evidence 3 hrs 20 80 100
Total 400
Seventh Semester
Name of the Paper Duration Marks Marks Total
of Exam Internal Written
1 Information Technology Law 3 hrs 20 80 100
2 Property Law 3 hrs 20 80 100
3 Principles of Taxation Law 3 hrs 20 80 100
4 Drafting Pleading and 100 100
Conveyance
Total 400

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 Eighth Semester
Name of the Paper Duration Marks Marks Total
of Exam Internal Written
1 Banking Law 3 hrs 20 80 100
2 Labour and Industrial Law - I 3 hrs 20 80 100
3 Company Law 3 hrs 20 80 100
4 Professional Ethics and 100 100
Professional Accounting
System
Total 400

Ninth Semester
Name of the Paper Duration Marks Marks Total
of Exam Internal Written
1 Private International Law 3 hrs 20 80 100
2 Environmental Law 3 hrs 20 80 100
3 Labour and Industrial Law - II 3 hrs 20 80 100
4 Alternate Dispute Resolution 100 100
Total 400

Tenth Semester
Name of the Paper Duration Marks Marks Total
of Exam Internal Written
1 Trade in Intellectual Property 3 hrs 20 80 100
2 Criminology and Penology 3 hrs 20 80 100
Or
Women and the Law
3 Public International Law 3 hrs 20 80 100
4 Moot court exercise, 100 100
Observance of Trial,
Interviewing techniques and
Pre-trial preparations.
Internship 50 50
Viva voce 50
Total 500

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 First Semester
Paper – I

Course Title: English Paper 1 – LISTENING, SPEAKING and READING SKILLS

No. of Instructional hours: 4 hours/week

AIMS
1. To familiarize students with English sounds and phonemic symbols.
2. To enhance their ability in listening, speaking and reading
3. To make students competent in advanced reading skills like skimming, scanning and reading for meaning
and pleasure.

OBJECTIVES
On completion of the course, the students should be able to
1. listen to lectures, public announcements and news on TV and radio, and engage in telephonic conversation.
2. communicate effectively and accurately in English and use spoken language for various purposes.
3. identify various text types and comprehend them.
4. apply reading techniques like skimming and scanning to understand the main arguments and themes and
distinguish supporting details.

COURSE OUTLINE

Module 1: Pronunciation
Phonemic symbols - consonants - vowels - syllables - word stress - strong and weak forms- intonation.

Module 2:Listening Skills

Difference between listening and hearing - active listening -barriers to listening - academic listening - listening
for details - listening and note-taking - listening for sound contents of videos - listening to talks and descriptions -
listening for meaning - listening to announcements - listening to news programmes.

Module 3:Speaking Skills

Interactive nature of communication - importance of context - formal and informal - set expressions in different
situations -greeting - introducing - making requests - asking for / giving permission - giving instructions and
directions - agreeing / disagreeing - seeking and giving advice - inviting and apologizing telephonic skills -
conversational manners.

Module 4: Reading Skills

Intensive reading - reading for information - application of scanning and skimming - silent and loud
reading - various techniques - advantages and disadvantages. Introducing students to different text types-poetry -
drama - prose – fictional/nonfictional/ scientific/biographical and autobiographical - news paper and magazine
articles - reviews - legal language.

COURSE MATERIAL

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Modules 1 - 4

Core reading: English for Effective Communication. Oxford University Press, 2013

Further reading:
1. Marks, Jonathan. English Pronunciation in Use. New Delhi: CUP, 2007.
2. Lynch, Tony. Study Listening. New Delhi:CUP, 2008.
3. Kenneth, Anderson, Tony Lynch, Joan MacLean. Study Speaking. New Delhi: l:UP, 2008.

Reference:
Jones, Daniel. English Pronouncing Dictionary 17th Edition. New Delhi: CUP, 2009.

Paper – II

Course Title: English Paper 2 – MODERN ENGLISH GRAMMAR AND USAGE

No. of Instructional hours: 4 hours/week

AIMS:
1. To help students have a good understanding of modern English grammar.
2. To enable them produce grammatically and idiomatically correct language.
3. To help them improve their verbal communication skills.
4. To help them minimise mother tongue inf1uence.

OBJECTIVES: On completion of the course, the students should be able to

1. have an appreciable understanding of English grammar.
2. produce grammatically and idiomatically correct spoken and written discourse.
3. spot language errors and correct them.

COURSE OUTLINE
Module 1:

• Modern English grammar - what and why and how of grammar - grammar of spoken and written language
• Sentence as a self-contained unit - various types of sentence - simple - compound - complex -declaratives -
interrogatives - imperatives - exclamatives.
• Basic sentence patterns in English - constituents of sentences - subject - verb - object – complement-
adverbials.
• Clauses - main and subordinate clauses - noun clauses - relative clauses - adverbial clauses - finite and non-
finite clauses - analysis and conversion of sentences - Active to Passive and vice versa - Direct to Indirect and
vice versa - Degrees of Comparison, one form to the other.
• Phrases - various types of phrases - noun, verb, adjectival and prepositional phrases.
• Words - parts of speech - nouns - pronouns - adjectives verbs - adverbs - prepositions - conjunctions -
determinatives.

Module 2:

• Nouns - different types - count and uncount - collective - mass - case - number - gender.
• Pronoun - different types - personal, reflexive - infinite-emphatic - reciprocal.
• Adjectives - predicative - attributive - pre- and post-modification of nouns.
• Verbs - tense-aspect - voice -mood- Concord - types of verbs - transitive - intransitive-finite – non-finite.
• Helping verbs and modal auxiliaries - function and use.

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Module 3:

• Adverbs - different types - various functions - modifying and connective.

• Prepositions - different types - syntactic occurrences - prepositional phrases - adverbial function.
• Conjunctions - subordinating and coordinating Determinatives articles - possessives - quantifiers

Module 4:

• Remedial grammar - error spotting - errors in terms of specific grammatical concepts like constituents of
sentences - parts of speech - concord - collocation - sequences of tense - errors due to mother tongue influence
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• Written Composition - precis writing - outline story - expansion of proverb - short essay.

COURSE MATERIAL

Modules 1- 4

Core Reading: Concise English Grammar by Prof. V. K. Moothathu. Oxford University Press, 2012.

Further Reading:
1. Leech, Geoffrey et al. English Grammar for Today: A New Introduction. 2nd Edition. Palgrave, 2008.
2. Carter, Ronald and Michael McCarthy. Cambridge Grammar of English.CUP, 2006.
3. Greenbaum, Sidney. Oxford English Grammar. Indian Edition. Oxford University Press, 2005.
4. Sinclair, John ed. Collins Cobuild English Grammar. Harper Collins publishers, 2000.
5. Driscoll, Liz. Common Mistakes at Intermediate and How to Avoid Them.CUP, 2008.
6. Tayfoor, Susanne. Common Mistakes at Upper-intermediate and How to Avoid Them.CUP, 2008.
7. Powell, Debra. Common Mistakes at Advanced and How to Avoid Them.CUP, 2008.
8. Burt, Angela. Quick Solutions to Common Errors in English. Macmillan India Limited,2008.
9. Turton. ABC of Common Grammatical Errors. Macmillan India Limited, 2008.
10. Leech, Geoffrey, Jan Svartvik. A Communicative Grammar of English. Third Edition. New Delhi: Pearson
Education, 2009.

Direction to Teachers: The items in the modules should be taught at application level with only necessary details
of concepts. The emphasis should be on how grammar works rather than on what it is. The aim is the correct usage
based on Standard English and not conceptual excellence.

Paper - III

POLITICAL THEORY AND POLITICAL THOUGHT

I (a) Approaches to the study of politics: Traditional, Behavioural, Post

Behavioural.
(b) Inter-disciplinary approaches in Politics: Political sociology, Political
Economy – Geo-Politics.

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II (a) State : Elements of the State –
Origin of State (Evolutionary theory), Sovereignty,
Monism and Plurlism.
(b) Concepts : Liberty – Equality – justice
(c) Classical Political Thinkers:
Plato : Theory of Justice – Education – Communism –
Philosopher King – Ideal State.
Aristotle : Theory of State, Classification of Constitutions,
slavery, revolutions.
Kautilya : Statecraft, foreign policy

III a) Modern Thinkers

Machiavelli : Human Nature, Religion and Politics
Hobbes : Social contract theory
Locke : Social contract theory: Limited Government
Rousseau : Social contract theory General Will
b) Idealist Thinkers
Hegel : State, Dialectics
T.H.Green : State, Rights, Political Obligation.
Bentham : Utilitarianism
Mill : Liberty, Individualism, Representative Government.
IV a) Marxian Thought
Marxism : Basic principles
Lenin : Idea of Party, Theory of Imperialism.
b) Modern Indian Political Thought
Gandhian thought:
Moral Ideas, Ahimsa/Non-violence, Gramaswaraj, Sathyagraha
M.N.Roy : Radical Humanism.
B.R.Ambedkar : Social and political ideas,
Crusade against Castism.
Sree Narayana Guru : Santhana Dharma, Humanist Secular society.
Sri.Chattampi Swamikal : Theory of Identity
Reading Lists
1. Amal Rey and Mohit Bhattacharya :Political theory: Institutions and Ideas
(The World Press, Private Limited,
Calcutta, 1988)
2. N.P. Barry : An Introduction to Modern Political
Theory
3. C.B. Macpherson : Life and Times of Liberal Democracy
4. C.B. Macpherson :Democratic Theory:

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 Essays in Retrieva ( Oxford, 1973)
5. D.D. Raphel :Problems of Political Philosophy
6. S.P. Varma :Modern Political Theory
( Vikas , New Delhi, 1976)
7. W. Ebenstein : Great Political Thinkers
8. A. Giddens : Capitalism and Modern
Social Theory
9. C.B.Macpherson :The Political Theory of Possessive
individualism(Oxford,Clarendon, 1965)
10. L.Straluss and J.Cropsey, eds : A History of Political Philosophy
11. S.Wolln : Politics and Vision (Boston, 1960)
12. V.R.Mehta : Ideology, Modernization and
Politics
in India
13. Alan Swingewood :Marx and Modern Social Theory
(London, Macmillan, 1975)
14. T.Pantham and K.L.Deutsch, eds : Political Thought in Modern
India.
15. Bhikhu Parekh : Gandhi’s Political Philosophy
16. Randhir Singh :Rationalism,Romanticism and
Political Theory, PPH,
New Delhi, 1967
17. N.Winthrop :Liberal Democratic Theory and its
Critics
18. A.D.Smith : Theories and Nationalism
19. W.T.Bluhm :Theories of the Political System
(London, 1971)
20. I.Berlin : Four Essays on Liberty
21. M.J.Sandel : Liberalism and Its Critics
22. L.Kolakowski : Main current of Marxism (3
Vols.)
Oxford, Clarendon, 1978
23. D.McLellan :Marxism after Marx
(Macmillan, London, 1979)
24. O.P. Gauba : An Introduction to Political Theory
(3rd Edition)(McMillan India Limited
New Delhi, 1995)
25. Subrata Mukherjee and
Sushila Ramaswamy : A History of Political Thought,
Plato to Marx). (Prentice Hall of
India, New Delhi 1999)

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26. Andrew Hacker : Political Theory: Philosophy,
Ideology Science
(Macmillan Company,
New York, 1969)
27. Bertrand Russell :History of Western Philosophy
(London, 1955)
28. Dante Germino :Modern Western Political
Thought:
Machiaelli to Marx: (Chicago, 1972)
29. Carew Hunt :The Theory and Practice of
Communism
30. M.Judd Harmen : Political Thought: From Plato to
the
Present (McGraw-Hill Book
Company, New York, 1964)
31. L.Colletti : Rousseau to Lenin (New York,
Monthly Review Press, 1972)
32. John Plamenatz :Man and Society
(London, Longmans, 1965)

Paper – IV

LEGAL METHOD, LEGAL LANGUAGE AND LEGAL WRITING

(1) Meaning and Definition of Law and its relevance in the society - legal
Institutions including courts, tribunals and other adjudicatory bodies-
hierarchy of Courts and nature of dispute decided by different courts and
tribunals in India.
(2) Primary sources of legal materials - Constitutions, Legislation, Delegated
Legislation, Custom Precedent - Structure and Content of Statutes, Rules
and Regulations, Orders, Notifications etc.
(3) Secondary sources of legal materials - Text books, Digest, Encyclopedia,
Commentaries, Law Journal, Law Commission Reports, Law Reports,
Research and Other reference materials, Constituent Assembly Debates and
Legislative Assembly Debates.

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(4) Pleadings in civil cases - Plaint, Written Statement, Affidavit, Interlocutory
Applications - Judgment, Decree and Order - Pleadings in Criminal case -
Bail Applications - Private complaint, Criminal Miscellaneous Applications –
Appeal, Review and Revision in Civil and Criminal Cases - Different types
of legal documents viz. Agreement, Sale Deed, Gift Deed, Lease Deed,
Mortgage Deed, Exchange deed, Bill of Exchange, Promissory Note,
Partnership Deed, Power of Attorney (students need not be asked to do actual
drafting) – Memorandum and Articles of Association, Bye Laws etc.
(5) Using law library-students should be trained in using law library -
understanding citations footnotes and legal abbreviations - language of law and
legal writing - preparation of head notes, abstract, synopsis using of legal terms
and expressions in sentences, writing of case comments and articles on legal
issues.
(6) Legal Writing - Drafting representation and petition – Writing articles on
current topics relating to law.
(7) Legal Maxims (Latin Maxims)

1. Actio personalis moritur cum persona (A personal action dies with the
person)

2. Actus non facit reum, nisi mens sit rea (The Act itself does not constitute
guilt unless done with a guilty mind)

3. Audi alteram partem (Hear the other side) - No man shall be condemned
unheard.

4. De minimis non curat lex (Law does not deal with trifles).

5. Ex nudo pacto non oritur actio (No cause of action arises from a bare
promise).

6. ex turpi causa non oritur actio (An action does not arise from a base cause).

7. Falsus in uno falsus in omnibus (False in one particular is false in general).

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8. Fiat justitia ruat coelum (Justice shall be done even if the heavens fall
down).

9. Generalia specialibus non derogant (General things do not derogate from

special things)

10. Ignorantia juris non excusat (Ignorance of law is not an excuse)

11. Lex injustita non est lex (An unjust law is not a law)

12. Nemo dat quod non habet (No one can convey a better title than what he
himself has)

13. Nemo debet bis vexari pro una et eadem causa (No one shall be vexed
twice for the same cause)

14. Nemo debet esse judex in propria sua causa (No man can be a judge in
his own cause)

15. Novus actus interveniens ( A new intervening act)

16. Quit facit per alium facit per se (He who does an act through another does
it himself)

17. Res ipsa loquitur (The things speaks for itself)

18. Respondeat superior (Let the Principal be held responsible)

19. Ubi jus ibi remedium (Where there is a right, there is a remedy) – There is
no wrong without a remedy.

20. Volenti non fit injuria (He who consents suffers no injury)

21. Nulla poena sine lege (No punishment without legal authority).

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 Books for Reference and Study

(1) Glanville Williams, Learning the Law

(2) Arthur.T.Vonderbilt, studying Law, New York University Press, Washington

(3) H.C.Jain, “Using Law Library” (1904) 24 JILI 575

(4) R.S.Atiyah, Law and Modern Society, Oxford University Press

(5) James.A.Holland and Juline.S.Webb, Learning Legal Rules- Universal Book

Traders, Chapter 426

(6) Glanville Williams, Language and Law (1961) L.Q.R 71, 179, 293, 384

(7) Ervin.H.Pollock - Fundamental of Legal Research, Foundation Press, INC.

Newyork

Paper -V

LAW OF TORT INCLUDING MOTOR VEHICLES ACCIDENT AND

CONSUMER PROTECTION LAWS

1. Definition – Distinction between tort and crime – Tort and contract –

foundations of tortuous liability – Essential conditions of liability in tort –
damnum sine injuria – injuria sine damnum – Principles of insurance in tort
– defences – capacity of parties.
2. Master and Servant – vicarious liability -distinction between servant and
independent contractor – course of employment – common employment –
servant with two masters – liability of the state.
3. Joint tortfeasors – Remedies – judicial and extra judicial remedies – kinds of
damages – Remoteness of damages – Novus actus intervenious – Foreign
torts – Effect of death of parties in tort – Strict liability – Rule in Rylands v.
Fletcher -
4. Assault – Battery – False imprisonment – Nervous shock – Defamation –
slander – libel – Innuendo – Defences – Justification – fair comment –

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 privileges – Tresspass to land – trespass to goods – Deceit – Rule in Derry v.
Peak – Negligence – Res ipsa loquitor – contributory negligence – The last
opportunity rule – Nuisance
5. Liability under Motor Vehicles Act 1988 – Compensation in Motor Vehicle
Accidents – nature and extent of insurer’s liability – claims tribunal – award
of compensation.
6. Concept of consumer protection – Consumer protection under the Consumer
Protection Act 1986 – Definitions – consumer – goods – services- Defect –
Deficiency - Unfair Trade Practice – Restrictive Trade Practices -
Commercial Service - Consumer Safety - Public Utility Service- Liability of
Doctors and Hospitals and Other Professionals, Engineers, Lawyers etc –
Consumer disputes redressal agencies – composition and jurisdiction –
Remedies – Role of consumer protection councils.
Prescribed Readings: (With amendments)
1. Salmond, Law of Torts
2. Winfield, Law of Torts
3. Prof.P.S.Achutan Pillai, Law of Torts
4. Consumer Protection Act, 1986
5. Gurjeet Singh, The Law of Consumer Protection in India (New Delhi, Deep and
Deep Publications 1996)
6. Avtar Singh, The Law of Consumer Protection (2nd Ed. )
7. Halsbury’s Laws of England (IV Ed. Reissue Vol.45 pp 555-725)
8. R.K. Bangia, A Handbook of Consumer Protection Laws and Procedure
9. P.K. Sarkar, The Motor Vehicles Act, 1988
10. R.K. Bangia, Law of Torts

Second Semester
Paper – I

Course Title: English Paper 3 – BASICS OF COMMUNICATION

No. of Instructional hours: 4 hours/week

AIMS:
1. To provide the students with an ability to build and enrich their communication skills.
2. To make them familiar with different types of communication.
3. To understand the barriers to effective communication
4. To engage students in meaningful communication through effective tasks.

OBJECTIVES
On completion of the course students should be able to:
1. Identify the basic principles of communication

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 2. Analyse the various types of communication
3. Make use of the essential principles 'of communication.
4. Identify the prominent methods and models of Communication.

COURSE OUTLINE

Module 1

Communication - definition - meaning - elements - basics of communication - communication process -

importance of communication - the seven C's of communication - completeness – conciseness-consideration -
concreteness- clarity - courtesy and correctness.

Module 2

Models of communication
Ancient - rhetorics - Aristotle - modern - Linear model - dynamic models

Module 3

Channels of communication - formal and informal - verbal - non-verbal - body language - sign language -para
language circumstantial language - intrapersonal and interpersonal communication - group and mass
communication - network communication - impact of IT on communication - pathways of communication -
downward - upward - horizontal.

Module 4

Barriers to communication - sender-centric - receiver-centric and organizational - socio-cultural -information

overload - overcoming communication barriers.

COURSE MATERIAL

1. Fisk, J. Introduction to Communicative Studies, 1990. London: Routledge.

2. Aggrval, Shalini. Essential Communication Skills, 2009. New Delhi: Anne Books.
3. Marsen, Sky. Communication Studies 2009.New York, Palgrave.
4. Knapp .M. Essentials of Non- Verbal Communication Theory Rea. 1995 Orlando, FL: Harcourt.
5. Cobley. P. (ed.) The Communication Theory reader 1995, London: Routledge.
6. McQuail d. Communication, 1975; London; Longman.
7. Prince. S. Communication Studies, 1997. London, Longman.
8. Beck, Andrew et al, AS Communication Studies: The Essential Introduction. 2004. London. Routledge.

Paper – II
Course Title: English Paper 4 – WRITINGS ON CONTEMPORARY ISSUES

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No. of Instructional hours: 4 hours/week

AIMS:

1. To sensitize students to the major issues in the society and the world.
2. To encourage them to read literary pieces critically.

OBJECTIVES
On completion of the course, the students should be able to
1. have an overall understanding of some of the major issues in the contemporary world.
2. respond empathetically to the issues of the society.
3. read literary texts critically.

COURSE OUTLINE

Module I: Globalization and its Consequences

Essays: (1) "The Globalized World" - Avinash Jha.

(2) "Globalization and Education: Third World Experience" - Amit Bhaduri.
Poem: "Unending Love" - Rabindranath Tagore

Module II: Environmental Issues

Essay: "Forests and Settlements" - RomilaThapar

Poems: (1) "God's Grandeur" - G.M.Hopkins
(2) "The World is too Much with Us" - Wordsworth

Module III: Human Rights

Essay: "Thinking about Human Rights" - ManishaPriyam, Krishna Menon & Madhulika Banerjee,
Poem: "London" - William Blake
Fiction: Untouchable [an extract] - Mulk Raj Anand

Module IV: The Gender Question

Friction: “The Elder Sister” – M.T. Vasudevan Nair

COURSE MATERIAL

Modules 1 - 4
Core reading: Meeting the World: Writings on Contemporary Issues. Pearson, 2013.

Paper – III

MODERN ECONOMIC THEORY AND LAW

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I (a) Introduction- Nature and scope of Economics – Positive and Normative
Economics – Nature of Wants and its classification- Structure of the Economy –
House holds, Business Firms, Government, Markets – Definitions of Economics
(b) Inter-relation between Economics and Law – Approach of Law and
Economics in Social-welfare.
II (a) Concept of Utility – Cardinal and Ordinal approaches to utility – Meaning
of Indifference curve approach and Revealed Preference theories and consumer –
equilibrium. Law of Demand and Elasticity of Demand- Demand Force casting –
concept of consumer’s surplus.
(b) Theory of supply and production – Functional, relationship between, total
average and marginal cost – Total, average and marginal revenues. Breakeven –
analysis – The concept of opportunity cost
III Welfare Economics and market and Market structures.
(a) Pricing under different Market conditions – Perfect competition, Monopoly,
Monopolistic competition and Oligopoly
(b) Pareto criterion, New welfare economics and Modern approach to welfare.
IV (a) National income study – Micro –Macro Economics, A macro Economic
Model- Stock and flow – Circular flow analysis.
National income concepts, Estimation of National Income. A frame work for National
income accounts – An accounting Matrix
(b) Classical and Keynesian theories of Employment and output. - Keynesian
theory of consumption function
Reading Lists:
1. Kout Soyiannis.A (1990) : Modern Microeconomics,Macmillan
2. Stonier.A.W.And D.C.Hague (1972) : A Textbook of Economic
Theory, LBS, London
3. Rayan W.J.L (1962) : Price Theory, Macmillan
4. Henderson.J And R.E.quandt(1989) : Micro Economic Theory -
A Mathematical Approach Tata
Mc Grow Hill
5. Dorfman.R. : Prices and Markets
6. Pindyck : Micro Economics, Pearson
7. Dwivedi : Micro Economics; Theory and
Application, Pearson
8. Gravelle : Micro Economics, Pearson
9. Salvator : Micro Economics Theory
10. Ackley.G (1976) : Macroeconomics- Theory and Policy,
Macmillan Publ.Coy
11. Stone AND Stone (1977) : National Income and Expenditure-
Bowes and Bowes

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12. Shapiro, Edward (1996) : Macroeconomic Analysis-
Galgotia Publication, New Delhi
13. Thirwall : Economic Development
14. S.B.Gupta (1994) : Monetary Economics,
Chand and Company, New Delhi.
15. Dornbusch.R, Fischer,S.And Startz-R : Macro economics (2000) Publisher
Tata Mc Graw Hill, New Delhi
16. Hejidra B.J. And F.V.Ploeg (2001) : Foundation of Modern Macro
Economics Oxford University Press
17. Levacic : Macro economics, ELBS, London
18. Froyen : MacroEconomics, Theories and
Policies, Pearson
19. Abel : Macro Economics, Pearson
20. Salvatro : Macro Economic Theory

Paper – IV
LAW OF CRIMES – PAPER - I – PENAL CODE

1. Concept and Nature of Crime – definitions – General principles of Criminal

Liability – Constituent Elements of Crime – Intention – Dishonestly –
Fradulently – Maliciously etc. – Exceptions to Mens rea in Statutory Offences -
General Defences and Exceptions.
2. Inchoate Offences – Attempt – Distinction between preparation and attempt –
group liability – common object – aiding and abetting – unlawful assembly –
rioting – Principal and Accessories.
3. Joint and Constructive Liability – Accessories after – Jurisdiction – personal –
Territorial – extra-territorial – Extradition as an exception to Jurisdiction –
Punishment.
4. Offences affecting the State - Armed Forces – Public Peace – Public
Administration – Offences by Public Servants and by Others – Administration
of Justice – Elections – Public Economy – Public Nuisance – Offences against
Religion.
5. Offences against Human Body – Causing Death – Culpable Homicide – Murder
– Culpable Homicide not amounting to murder – Rash and negligent act causing
death – Dowry death – Attempts – Suicide – Abetment – Hurt – Grievous hurt –
Criminal force and Assault – Offences affecting liberty – Kidnapping –
abduction etc – Sexual Offences – Rape – Custodial Rape – Homosexuality –
Prostitution – Suppression – Regulation and abolition of Abortion – M.T.P.Act.
6. Offences against property – Theft – Extortion – Robbery – Dacoity – Criminal
misappropriation – Criminal breach of trust – cheating – forgery – fraudulent
deeds – mischief – trespass – house breaking – arson etc. – Offences against

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 public safety and health – Terrorist activities – disturbances of public order –
adulteration of food and drink – offences against environment.
7. Offences by or relating to public servants – illegal gratification – corruption –
Offences relating to marriage – mock marriages – adultery – bigamy – offences
relating dowry – Offences relating to reputation – defamation – libel and slander
– Property Dispossession without consent – fraudulent deeds – fraudulent
transfers – mischief – use of false tokens for fraudulent purpose.
Prescribed Readings: (With amendments)
1. Outlines of Criminal Law, Kenny
2. Indian Penal Code, Ratanlal
3. Criminal Law Text and Materials 1990, Clarkaon and Keaty
4. Penal Law of India, Dr.Sir Hari Singh Gour
5. Some Aspects of Criminal Law, K.K.Dutta
6. A Text Book on the Indian Penal Code, D.D.Gaur
7. Law of Crimes, D.A.Desai
8. Criminal Law Cases and Materials, Ratanlal & Dhiraj Lal
9. Criminal Law, B.M.Gandhi
10. Criminal Law, P.S.Achuthan Pillai
11. Principles of Criminal Law, Andrew Ashwarth 1995
12. Text Book of Criminal Law, Glanwille Williams
13. Law of England, Halsbury, Vol II pp,16-536

Paper – V

LAW OF CONTRACT

1. General features of Contracts - classification – Historical Development, of the

law of contracts.
2. Formation of contracts with special reference to the different aspects of offer
and acceptance – Consideration – Privity of contracts – Charitable subscriptions
Consideration and discharge of contracts – Doctrine of accord and satisfaction.
3. Capacity of parties – Minority – Indian and English Law - Mental incapacity.
Drunkenness – Other in – capacities like political status and corporate
personality.
4. Factors invalidating contracts like, mistake, coercion, undue influence, fraud,
misrepresentation and unlawful object, immoral agreements and those opposed
to public policy, consequences of illegality.
5. Void, voidable and contingent agreements – Legal proceedings and uncertain
agreements – Wagering agreements – contingent contracts.
6. Performance of contracts – privity of contracts and its limitations –
Assignment of liabilities and benefits – Time and place of performance –

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be performed.
7. Breach and impossibility – Meaning of Breach – Anticipatory breach – strict
performance – Impossibility of performance and doctrine of frustration – Effect
of frustration – discharge of contract by operation of law.
8. Damages – Nature and meaning of Rule in Hadley’s case penally and
liquidated damages.
9. Quasi contracts – Nature and basis of Quasi contracts, Insurance of Quasi
Contracts – Quantum merit.
10. Specific Relief – General Principles – Parties in relation to specific
performance – Specific performance of part – Rescission, rectification and
cancellation – Preventive relief by way of injunction.
Prescribed Readings: (With amendments)
1. Guest A.G. Anson’s Law of Contract, (Clarendon Press, Oxford).
2. Pollock and Mulla. Indian Contract Act.
3. M.Krishnana Nair. The Law of Contracts. (Orient Longman, Ltd)
4. Subba Rao, Law of Contracts
5. Dr. Avtar Singh. Law of Contracts
6. V.D. Kulshreshta. Indian Contract Act.
7. Halsbury’s Law of England ( IV Edn. Reissue) Vol. 31 p. 611-690,
Vol.32p.l-45
8. Leake M.S. Principles of the Law of Contract

Third Semester
Paper – I

Course Title: English Paper 5 – STUDY OF LANGUAGE

No. of Instructional hours: 4 hours/week

AIMS:
1. To familiarize students with the origin, development and evolution of language.
2. To help students have a good theoretical understanding of the various aspects of human language.
3. To help students analyse language from different concepts of study.
4. To enable students to understand language as a tool for discourse and as a cultural medium.

OBJECTIVES
On completion of the course students should be able to
1. trace out the evolution of the language and language changes.
2. identify various aspects of human language.
3. look at language analytically from linguistic, physiological and literary perspectives.
4. identify the discourse and cultural significance of language.

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 COURSE OUTLINE
Module 1
The origin of language - various theories - animal and human language - communicative and informative aspects -
characteristics of human language.

Orthography - writing as a system - speech sounds - classification - phonology - allophones – syllables-etymology

- word formation - morphology - morphemes - free and bound morphemes.

The concept of grammar - types of grammar -traditional --- prescriptive and descriptive approach - Phrase
Structure Grammar - TG Grammar - concept of ambiguity -- syntax - inflection - parts of speech - form classes -
grammatical categories.

Semantics - the diversity of meaning - lexical meaning -homonymy - polysemy - synonymy - sense and
denotation.

Pragmatics – context and meaning – invisible meaning.

Module 2
Physiology of language - language and brain - neuro-linguistics - speech mechanism.
Mind and language - psycholinguistics.

Module 3
Historical study of language -language changes - diachronic and synchronic study of languages - accent and
dialect - Sociolinguistics -language as a social system - bilingualism - register - slang - social barriers - varieties of
language - American English - General Indian English - Australian English.
Module 4
Language and pedagogy -- First language and second language acquisition.
Language and culture - cultural diffusion - cultural overlap.
Language and literature - narratology.
Language and the machine - computational linguistics - discourse analysis - interpretation - speech events -
conversation.

COURSE MATERIAL

Reading list
Yule, George. The Study of Language, 2006.CUP.
Lyons, John. Language and Linguistics: An Introduction, 1981. CUP.
Roach, Peter. English Phonetics and Phonology, 2009.CUP.
Krishnaswamy, Net al.Modern Applied Linguistics, 2008. Macmillan India Limited.
Baugh A and T Cable. A History of the English Language, 1993.Routledge.
Bauer, L. English Word Formation, 1983. CUP.
Hudson R.A. Sociolinguistics, 1980.CUP.
Leech G.N. Semantics, 1971. Penguin.
Ritchie G.D. Computational Grammar, 1980.

Direction to teachers
The items in the modules are to be taught only at the introductory and conceptual levels. No in-depth analysis is
expected.

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 Paper – II

DEVELOPMENT, ENVIRONMENT AND INDIAN ECONOMY

I (a) Economic growth and Development – Meaning of Economic growth and

development, Factors affecting growth and development, Measurement of Economic
Growth in terms of per capita income. Features of less developed economy.
(b) Theories of development. (Only, fundamentals of growth models of Harrod-
Domer, Solow, Joan Robinson,), Balanced and Unbalanced theories of growth,
Vicious circle of under development.
II (a) Indian Economy under the colonial rule, Manpower resources in India and
Kerala. Population policy .
(b) Environment and development– Environment as a public good, Concept of
commons and property rights, Environment policy of India.
III (a) Planning and Economic policies, objectives and strategies of planning of pre
and post globalization periods, Objectives and achievements of five year plans
(current five year plan)
(b) Agriculture and Industry – Trends in Agricultural production, Factors
determinining agricultural production , Land Reforms in India , Trends of agricultural
performance during post – reform period.
(c) Industrial policy during pre – reform and post- reform periods – structural
changes in Industrial sector in the post reform period
IV a) Development Issues – Poverty and unemployment in India , Trends of
inequality in income distribution.
(b) Financial and External sector – Reserve Bank of India and its present position
, Role of Multinational corporations and Foreign investment , India and WTO .
Current International Trade and Balance payments positions and policies.
Reading List:
1.V.M.Dandekar (1994) : Indian Economy 1947-79 Vol. I&II,
Safe publication, New Delhi
2. Uma Kapila(ed)1982 :The Cambridge Economic History of India,
Vol.II1757-1990,OrientLongman,
Hyderabad
3. Misra J.K.And V.K.Puri (2001) :Indian Economy- Its Development
Experience, Himalaya Publishing House,
Mumbai
4.Center for Development Studies,1977:Poverty Unemployment and Development
policy; A case study of selected issue with
reference to Kerala, Orient Longman

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5.Thirwall (1999) :Growth and Development
6.Adelman.I (1961) :Theories of Economic Growth and
Development Stauford
7.B.Higgins (1969) :Economic Development
8.Meir.G.M (1995) :Leading issue in Economic Development
9.Ghatak.S (1986) :An Introduction Development Economics.
Allen & Unwin
10.Chakravarthy.S (1987) : Development Planning, Oxford
11.Kolstad C.D. : Environmental Economics
Additional Reading List
12.TietenberG :Environmental and Natural resource
Economics
13.Todaro.M : Economic Development
14.B.A.Prakash (2004) : Kerala’s Economic Development:
performance and problems in the post
liberalization period, safe publication
New Delhi

15.M.A.Oommen 1993 : Essays on Kerala’s Economy,

Oxford and IBH
16.P.R.Brahmananda and
V.R. Panchamukhi (ed) 1987 : The Development Process of Indian
Economy, Himalaya Publishing House,
Bombay
17.Bimal jalal(ed) 1992 :The Indian Economy Problems and
prospects, Penguin
18.Kirit S. Rarikh and
R.Radhakrishna (ed) 2005 :Indian Development Report 2004-05,
Oxford University Press, New Delhi
19.Chakravarthy.S : Development Planning
20.Ahlawalia.I.J and
Imd Little(ed)1999 :Indian Economic Reforms and
development, Oxford University Press
New Delhi
21.Government of India : Economic Survey ( Annual ) New Delhi
22.B.A.Prakash (ed) 1994 : Kerala’s Economy, Sage publications,
New Delhi
23.K.K. George(1999) : Limits to Kerala Model of development,
C.D.S
24.R.C. Zachariah. K.P.Kannan And

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25.E.R.Mathew1997 : Employment & Unemployment in Kerala
Sage publication, New Delhi
26.K.C. Zachariah, E.T.Mathew,
S. Irudaya Rajan, :Impact of Migration on Kerala’s Economy
and Society. CDS working paper
No. 297 July 1991
27.K.P.Kannan : Poverty Alleviation as Advancing Basic
Human capabilities Kerala’s Achievements
compared, CDS working paper 294,
May 1999
28.State Planning Board, Economic Review (Annual), SPB, Thiruvanathapuram

Paper – III

COMPARATIVE POLITICS

I (a) Nature and scope of comparative politics – Distinction between

Comparative politics, Comparative Government and Comparative Political System
(b) Socio-political and economic features of developing and developed
countries.
II (a) Constitution and Constitutionalism – Basic features of the Constitutions of
UK,USA, Switzerland, France and China
(b) Federalism – A comparative study of USA, India and Switzerland
(Federation, Quasi-federation and Confederation) – Comparison of Unitary systems –
UK, France and China
(c) Executive – Legislative relationships (UK, France, USA)
III (a) Administrative Law, Rule of Law, Judicial Review (France, UK, USA)
(b) Party system and Coalition politics – Experiences of France, UK, USA and
India – Factors affecting voting behaviour.
IV Issues in Comparative Politics – Militarism, Terrorism, Religious
Fundamentalism and Ethnicity.
Reading Lists:
1. S.N.Ray :Modern Comparative Politics
(Prentice Hall, New Delhi, 1999)
2. Roger Charleton : Comparative Governments
3. Lawrence C. Mayer : Redefining Comparative politics
(Sage, New Delhi, 1989)
4. R.H.Chilcotte : Theories of Comparative Politics

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 (West View Press, Oxford, 1994)
5. H.Scarrow : Comparative Political Analysis:
An Introduction (New York, Har)
6. Almond & Powell : Comparative Politics Today: A World View
(Little Brown & Co., Boston, 1992)
7. Peter Markl : West European Party systems
(Press New York 1980)
8. John D. Nagle : Introduction to Comparative Politics:
Political System Performances in Three Worlds
(Nelson – Hall Publishers, 1992)
9. J.C.Johari : Comparative Political Theory: New
Dimensions Basic Concepts and Major Trends
(Sterling, Delhi, 1987)
10. Deol : Comparative Government and Politics
11. Almond &Coleman : The Politics of the Developing areas
Princector, New Jersey, 1960)
12. Sudaptakaviraj (Ed.) : Politics in India (OUP Calcutta, 1992)
13. G.K.Roberts :The Government of France Fifth Republic
14. Paul G.Le : The Practice of Comparative politics: A
Reader (Longman New York, 1978)
15. Ralph D.Dahrendrof : Class and Class Conflict in Industrial
Society (Stanford University, 1959)
16. Roy C. Macridal : Comparative Government
17. K.John Wilson Lewis : Leadership in communist China
18. Harris Warden : China and the Third World Champion or
Challenger (Groom Helm. London, 1986)
19. Hed Hagne M.Haroop : Comparative Govt. and Politics, An
& S.Brestlia Introduction (Macmillan, London, 1998)
20. H.Eckstein & D. : Comparative Politics: A Reader
(Free Press, London, 1963)
21. Stephen V.Mansma : American Politics (The Dryden Press,
Illinois, 1973)
22. Richard Watson : Promise and Performance of American
Democracy
23. Martin O.Heister(Ed. : Politics in Europe: Structures and Processes
In Some Post Industrial Democracies avid
McKay & New York, 1924
24. Peter Calvert : Comparative Position – An Introduction

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25. Peter Burnell & : Politics in the Developing World, Oxford
Vicky Randall University Press, Delhi

Paper IV

JURISPRUDENCE

1. Nature and value of jurisprudence, various Schools of jurisprudence and their

methodology – Positivistic schools – Austin, Salmond, Kelsen, Hart. Hart–
Fuller Conflict – Comparative Jurisprudence – Marxist theory – Historical
Schools – Savigny and Henry Maine – Modern status of Natural Law –
Sociological Jurisprudence – Legal realism. Feminist Jurisprudence – Critical
Legal Studies.
2. International Law, Constitutional Law, Authority and Territorial Nature of
Law, Law and Fact, Functions and purpose of Law.
3. Law and Justice – Different Theories of Law and Justice – Rawls Theory –
Distributive Justice – Corrective Justice – Natural Justice – Civil and
Criminal Justice – Merits and defects of Administration of justice –
Essentials of Criminal and Civil Justice – Theories of Punishment and their
comparative evaluation.
4. Sources of Law – Meaning of the term sources – Legislation – Codification
of statutes – Interpretation of enacted law – Custom – Reasons for the
reception of custom and prescription – Customary Law – Legal custom and
conventional custom – General custom and local custom. Precedent –
authority of precedent – over-ruling – prospective and retrospective – Ratio
decidendi and obiter dicta and stare decisis.
5. Elements of law – The juristic concepts of Rights and Duties; possession and
ownership – Titles – Liability and Obligations; persons, property and
procedure.
Prescribed Readings:
1. Friedman, Legal Theory. (5th Edn. Chapter 1,3,5,7 to 14,19,20, Columbia
University Press)
2. Salmond, Jurisprudence (Sweet and Maxwell, 1966)
3. Paton, Jurisprudence.
4. Dias, Jurisprudence. (Aditya Books, 1985)
5. Lloyd, Introduction to jurisprudence, (Sweet and Maxwell, 1994)
6. Prof.P.S.Achutan Pillai, Jurisprudence.
7. L.S.Carzon, Jurisprudence (1996)
8. J.W.Harris, Legal Philosophies. (Butterworths, 1993)
9. N.K. Jayakumar, Lectures in Jurisprudence.

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Paper – V

SPECIAL CONTRACTS

1. Contract of indemnity and guarantee – Different aspects of surety’s

liability. Comparison of guarantee with indemnity – Discharge of
surety – Rights of surety against creditor; principal debtor and co-
sureties.
2. Bailment – General features – Divisions of bailments – Requirement
of consideration – Rights and liabilities of bail and bailees. Finder of
lost goods – Pledge or pawn special property in Favour Pawnee –
Pledge by limited owners.
3. Agency – General Features – Creation of agency and different
method of such creation – Different kinds of agent – Delegation of
authority - Sub Agents and substituted agents. Rights and duties of
agents and principal inter se notice to agent – Fraud of agent - Agent’s
liability to third persons – Rights against agent personally, Breach of
warranty of authority – Undisclosed principal – Termination of agency
– Revocation and renunciation – Termination by operation of law.
4. Sale of goods – sale and agreement to sell – Formalities of sale –
The price – Conditions and warranties (implied and express) –
Fundamental breach – Transfers of property – Passing of risk –
Effecting the performance of sale of goods – C.I.F. contracts – F.O.B.
contracts - Right of buyer against seller – Suits for breach of contract –
Rights of unpaid seller – Action sale and hire purchase.
5. Partnership – Essentials partnership compared with ownership
Company, Joint Hindu Family business and Society – Partnership.
A creation of status – Mode of determining partnership – Firm and firm
name – Different type of partnership – Formation of partnership –
Partnership property. Partnership by holding out – illegal partnership –
Relations of partners to one another and to third parties – Incoming and
outgoing partners – Retirement – Dissolution – Settlement of accounts
– Sale of goodwill – Registration of firm.
Prescribed Readings: (With amendments)
1. Sale of Goods Act : Pullock and Mulla
(Orient Longman)
2. The Law of Contracts : M. Krishnan Nair
3. Law of Contracts : Avtar Singh

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5. Law of Contracts : Anson
6. Laws of England : Halsbury’s (IV ed. Reissue Vol. 1
(2) pp 1 – 136. Vol.2. pp 829 –
905.

Fourth Semester

Paper – I

Course Title: English Paper 6 – POETRY AND DRAMA

No. of Instructional hours: 4 hours/week

AIMS:
1. To sensitize students to the language, forms and types of poetry.
2. To enable the students to read, analyse and appreciate poetry and short plays.
3. To make them aware of the diverse poetic and dramatic devices.
4. To enhance the level of literary and aesthetic experience and to help them respond creatively.
OBJECTIVES
On completion of the course, the students should be able to
1. identify the various forms and types of poetry.
2. explain the diverse poetic and dramatic devices.
3. read, analyse and appreciate poetry critically.
4. respond critically and creatively to the world around.

COURSE OUTLINE

Module 1:
• Subjective and Objective Poetry
• Types of Poetry: Lyric, Ode, Sonnet, Elegy, Ballad, Epic, Mock Epic, Dramatic Monologue, Haiku.
• Stanza - couplet, tercet, terzarima, ottavarima, quatrain, spensarian stanza, rime royal.
• Poetic devices: alliteration, assonance, simile, metaphor, image, symbol, rhythm, rhyme.
• Meter: Heroic Couplet, Free Verse and Blank Verse.

Module 2:
Representative poetry from British, American, Irish, Australian and Indian literatures.

Module 3:
• Drama - Origins and early forms: Greek Drama, Mystery plays, Miracle Plays, Morality Plays and
Interludes.
• Structure of a play: Act and Scene -Five Act structure - One Act plays.
• The Major Dramatic Genres: Tragedy, Comedy, and Tragi-Comedy.
• Other forms: melodrama, masque, One-Act Plays, epic drama, absurdist drama, kitchen-sink drama
• Dramatic Devices - irony, soliloquy, aside, chorus.

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One-Act plays.

COURSE MATERIAL

Module 1:
Core reading: Chapter 1 from A Concise Companion to Literary Forms. Emerald, 2013.

Reference
1. Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms (Rev. ed.)
2. Hobsbaum, Philip. Metre, Rhyme and Verse Form. New Critical Idiom. Indian Reprint. Routledge, 2007.

Reading List
1. Wainwright, Jeffrey. The Basics: Poetry. Indian Reprint. Routledge, 2009.
2. Hudson, W.H: An Introduction to the Study of English Literature (Chapter 3, The Study of Poetry)

Module 2:
The following poems are prescribed for detailed study:
1. William Shakespeare - Sonnet 18 (Shall I compare Thee to a Summer's Day)
2. Thomas Gray - Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
3. Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Kubla Khan
4. Robert Browning - Porphyria's Lover
5. W.B. Yeats - The Circus-Animals' Desertion
6. Robert Frost - The Road Not Taken
7. T.S. Eliot - Macavity: The Mystery Cat
8. Louis Macneice - Prayer Before Birth
9. Peter Porter - A Consumer's Report
10. Kamala Das - An Introduction

Core reading: Aeolian Harp: An Anthology of Poetry in English. Scientific International Pvt. Ltd, 2013.

Module 3:
Core reading: Chapter 2 from A Concise Companion to Literary Forms. Emerald, 2013.

Module 4:
Core reading: Dramatic Moments: A Book of One Act Plays. Orient Black Swan, 2013.

The following One-act plays prescribed:

1. Serafin and Joaquin Alvarez Quinters - A Sunny Morning

2. H. H. Munro - The Death Trap
3. Vincent Godefroy - Fail not our Feast

Instruction to Teachers:
• The work of each author has to be placed against the literary backdrop of the age.
• The literary significance of the work is to be briefly discussed in the classroom and hence the student is
expected to have an awareness of the respective works.

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Paper – II

MONEY, BANKING, PUBLIC FINANCE AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE

I (a) Money – its functions, Inflation and deflation, causes and control Quantity
theory of money. I/S and L/M curve theory.
(b) Development of commercial Banks in India, Balance sheet of Bank ,
Process of credit creation – Recent reforms in commercial banking – Nationalisation
of banks - Recent trends of disinvestment in the Banking sector.
(c) Theory of central banking- objectives and methods of credit control –
Money and capital markets in India.
II (a) Meaning and scope of public finance, The principle of Maximum social
advantage
(b) Difference sources of public revenue – principles of taxation – Public
expenditure and causes of its increase and impact of public expenditure and financial
policy.
(c) Sources of public debt. Effect of public debt, Redemption of public debt,
Role of Budget and budgetary process.
III (a) International Trade – Internal and international Trade, Theories of
absolute advantage, comparative advantage , Heckscher – Ohlin theory of
international trade , Tariffs and quotas in international trade.
(b) Balance of trade and Balance of payments – Disequilibrium in balance of
payments and How is it rectified.
IV Functions of IMF, IBRD and WTO in International Trade and economic
relations.
Reading Lists:
• R.S.Sayers : Modern Banking
• S.K.Basu :A Survey of contemporary Banking
Trends
• Decock : Central Banking
• Reserve Bank of India : Report on currency and Banking

• Narasimhan Report
• Musgrave .R and :Public Finance Theory and practice
Musgrave .R.B
• Mithani.D.M :Modern Public Finance
• Bhargava.R.N :The timing and working of woman

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 finance in India
• Govt.Of India :Economic Survey
10.Browning :Public Finance and the Price Systems,
Pearson.
11.Cnossen :Public Finance and Public Policy in
new century, Pearson.
12.Kenan.P.B(1994) :The International Economy,
Cambridge University Press, London
13.Kindlberger. C.F (1973) :International Economics,
R.D.Irwin, Homewood
14.Krugman.P.R. and
M.Obstageld (1194) :International Economics:
Theory and Policy, Glenview, Foresman.
15.Salvatore,D.L(1997) : International Economics, prentice
Hall, Upper Saddle Rivewr,N.J
16.Sodersten,B(1991) :International Economics,
Macmillan Press Ltd, London
17.Aggarwal,M.R.(1979) : Regional Economic Corporation in South
Asia, S.Chand and Co, New Delhi.
18.Bhagwati,J.(Ed)(1981) :International Trade, Selected Readings,
Cambridge University Press, Mass.
19.Crockett,A(1982) :International Money:issue
and Analysis,ELBS and Nelson, London.
20.Greenway,D(1983) :International Macmillan Publishers Ltd,
London

21.Heller,H.R (1968) :International Monetary Economics,

Prentice Hall India
22.Joshi.V.andI.M.D.Little(1998):India’s Economic Reforms, 1999-2001,
Oxford University Press, Delhi.
23.Nayyar.D (1976) : India’s Exports and Export Policies in the
1960’s, Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge.
24.Panchmukhi,V.R(1978) : Trade Policies of India: A quantitative
Analysis, Concept Publishing company,
New Delhi.
25.Patel,S.J (1995) : Indian Economy Towards the
21st Century, University Press Ltd, India.
26.Singh,M (1964) : India Export Trends and the Prospects for
Self-sustained Growth, Oxford University
Press, Oxford.
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 Paper – III

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS

I a) Meaning, Nature and Scope of International Politics.

Major Actors of International system – Nation State System, Evolution,
Features, Territoriality, Sovereignty, Nationalism, National Power, Elements of
National Power.
(b) International Law; Meaning, Nature, sources, The role of International
Law in International Politics
c) Non-State Actors; Features, Types, Impact
Approaches to the study of international politics – Idealism Vs. Realism. – Game
Theory, Communication Theory – Systems Theory, Dependency Theory
II Instruments for the promotion of National Interest.
Foreign Policy and National interest
Nature of Foreign Policy, Determinants
India’s Foreign Policy: Basic Principles, Non-Alignment
India and her Neighbours
India and Major Powers
India’s Nuclear Policy
Diplomacy: Meaning, Evolution, Functions of Diplomats, Classification of
Diplomats, Diplomatic Rules and Procedures, Appointment, Privileges, Termination,
Types of Diplomacy, Decline of Diplomacy.
III Mechanisms for Controlling Inter - State Relations.
Balance of power: Meaning and Characterization, Evolution, Devices, Relevance
Pacific Settlement of Disputes – Meaning, Chief Methods
Collective Security: Meaning, Basic Principles and Evolution, Collective Security
under UNO
IV (a) International Organisations : World Community in Transition
Evolution of International Organizations, United Nations Organisaiton. Major
Organs, Specialised Agencies, Relevance, Restructuring of the UNO.
Regional Organisations: Importance of Regional Organizations. Types,
Regional Arrangements, Regional Arrangements in Europe, NATO, Regionalism in
ASIA, ASEAN and SAARC. UNO and Regional Organizations.
Disarmament and Arms Control: Meaning, Disarmament and UNO, Major
Agreements of Disarmament – Features of Disarmament.
(b) Post-Cold War International Politics
Globalization and the Emerging world Order. World Trade Organisation.
Reading Lists:

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1. Calvocoressi, Peter : World Politics since 1945
London, 1982.
2. Claude, Inis : Power and International Relations
NewYork, 1962.
3. Clauds, Inis : Swords into Plowshares,
New York, 1964.
4. Deutsch, Karl : The Analysis of International
Relations, Prentice Hall, 1967.
5. Dougherty James and : Contending Theories of International
Roberty Pfalt Zgraft Relations, Philadelphia, 1971.
6. Frankel, Joseph : Contemporary International Theory
and the Behaviour of States,
New York, QUP, 1973.
7. Frankel, Joseph : International Relations in a Changing
World, London, Mac Millan, 1976.
8. Goodrich, Leland : The United Nations, New York, 1955.
9. Holsti,K.J : International Politics: A Framework
for Analysis.
10. Kaplan, Morton : System and Process in International
Politics, Princeton, PUP, 1969.
11. Knorr, Klaus & Games : Contending Approaches to
International Rosenan
Politics, Princeton, PUP, 1969.
12. Morgenthau, Hans,J : Politics Among Nations, New Delhi,
Kalyani Publishers, 1985.

13. Padleford Norman and : The Dynamics of International Politics,

George Lincoln New York, Mac Millan, 1962.
14. Rosenau, James (Ed.) : International Politics and Foreign
Policy: A Reader in Research and Theory,
New York, Free Press, 1969.
15. Said, Abdul (Ed.) : Theory of International Relations:
The Crisis of Relevance,
Prentice Hall, 1968.
16. Schuman, Frederick : International Politics, New York,
McGraw Hill, 1969.
17. Schwarzenberger, : Power Politics: An introduction to the
George Study of International Relations and
Postwar Planning, London,
Jonauathan Cape, 1941.
18. Sprout, Harold and : Foundations of International Politics,

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 Margaret Sprout Princeton, Van Noztr and Company, 1962.
19. Sullivan, Michael.P : International Relations: Theories and
Evidence, Englewood Cliffs,
Prentice Hall, 1976.
20. Thomas , Kenneth : Political Realism and the Crisis of
World Politics, Princeton, PUP, 1960.
21. Van Dyke, Vernon : International Politics, Vakils, Fetter and
Simons, 1968
22. Waltz, Kenneth : Theory of International Politics,
Reading, Addison Wesley, 1979.
23. Wright, Quincy : The Study of International Relations,
New York Appleton Century, 1955.
24. Zisgler, David : War, Peace and International Politics,
Boston Little Brown, 1977.
25. Hoffman, Stanley : The State of War, New York,
Frederic Pasgar, 1965.
26. Appadorai.A : Domestic Roots of India’s Foreign
Policy , Delhi OUP. 1971
27. Appadorai.A : Select Documents on India’s Foreign
Policy and Relations: 1947-72.
28. Appadorai and
M.S Rajan : India’s Foreign Policy and Relations
New Delhi, South Asian Publishers, 1985.
29. Bhambri.C.P : The Foreign Policy of India, New
Delhi, Sterling Publishers, 1987.
30. Bagchi, Amyakumar : Political Economy of Under
Development: London Cambridge
University Press, 1982.
31. Bandyopandhyaya.J : The Making of India’s Foreign Policy
Bombay, Allied Publishers, 1989.
32. Benner, Jeffrey : Structure of Decision: New Delhi,
South Asian publishers,1984.
33. Berkes, R.N and : The Diplomacy in India: Indian Foreign
M.S.Bedi Policy in the United Nations, Stanford,
Stanford University Press,1958.
34. Brecher, Michael : India and World Politics:
Krishna Menon’s View of the World,
London OUP, 1968.
35. Brines, Russel : Indo-Pakistan Conflict, London , Pall
Mall Press, 1968.
36. Chopra.S(Ed.) : Studies in India’s Foreign Policy

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 Awaitsan, GND University, 1980.
37. Cohan, Stephen Philip : The Security of South Asia, New Delhi,
Vistar, 1986.
38. Dutt, Srikant : India and the Third World – Altruism
or Hegemony, London, Zed Books, 1989.
39. G.Gopa Kumar (Ed.) : International Terrorism and Global
Order in the 21st Century, Kanishka,
New Delhi, 2003.
40. G.Gopa Kumar (Ed.) : Iraq War and the World Order,
Icon Publishers, New Delhi, 2005.
41. George Timothy : Security in South Asia: India and the
Great Powers, Aldershot, Gower, 1984.
42. Gupta, Sisir : Kashmir: A study in India – Pakistan
Relations, Bombay, Asia Publishing, 1966.
43. Jackson, Robert : South Asian Crisis: India – Pakistan –
Bangladesh, London Chatte and
Windus, 1975.
44. Jain.J : Nuclear India, New Delhi, Radiant, 1974.
45. Jai Singh, Hari : India and the Non –Aligned World:
Search for a New Order.
46. Jettey, Nancy : India – China Relations, Delhi,
Radiant 1979.
47. Jha,S.K : Indo – Nepalese Relations:1951 –1972,
Bombay, Vora. 1972.
48. Harrison, Selig : India and the United States, New York,
Macmillan, 1961.
49. Heimsath, Charles : A Diplomatic History of Modern
Indiaand Surjit
50. Mansingh, Surjit : India’s Search for Power:
Indira Gandhi’s Foreign Policy 1966 – 82,
New Delhi, Sage, 1982.
51. Misra.K.P : Janata’s Foreign Policy, New Delhi,
Vikas, 1979.
52. Misra.K.P : Studies in India’s Foreign Policy,
New Delhi, Vikas, 1969.

Paper – IV
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW – I

Introduction: - Historical Background – The nature of the Constitution – Salient

features of the Constitution.

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Preamble: - Significance and importance – Declaration of the objectives of the State -
Preamble and interpretation of the Constitution.
Union and its territory (Art. 1-4): - Territory of India – Admission and alteration of
boundaries – formation of new States - Cessation of Indian Territory to foreign
country.
Citizenship (Art: 5-11) - Meaning of citizenship – Various Methods of acquiring
citizenship – Termination of citizenship – Relevant provisions of the Citizenship Act,
1955.
Fundamental Rights (Art 12-35): - (a) General – Definition and nature of
Fundamental Rights – Balance between individual liberty and collective interest –
Definition of State (Art :12)
(b) Violation of Fundamental right (Art. 13) – Doctrine of ultravires – Pre-
constitution Laws –Doctrine of severability – Doctrine of eclipse – Post
Constitutional Laws _ Doctrine of waiver – “Law” and “Law in Force”.
(c) Equality (Art.14-18) – Introduction – Equality before Law and equal
protection of Laws classification – Test of reasonable classification Rule against
arbitrariness – No discrimination on grounds of Religion, Race, Caste etc. Special
provisions for Women and Children – Special provisions for advancement of
Backward classes – Equality in Public Employment – Reservation for Backward
Classes – Abolition of untouchability – Abolition of Titles.
(d) Right to Freedom (Art. 19) - Meaning and Scope -Test of Reasonableness
–Rights apply to Citizens only.
(e) Protection in respect of convication for offences (Art. 20) – Nature and
Scope – Doctrine of expost facto Law – Rule of double prohibition against double
jeopardy – protection against self incrimination.
(f) Right to life and personal liberty (Art. 21) – “Personal liberty” – Meaning
and Scope - Interrelation of Art. 14, 19 and 21 – New judicial trends in interpretation
of Art. 21 “Due Frocess of Law” and “Procedure established by Law “– Concept of
Liberty and Natural Justice – Emergency and Art. 21.
(g) Protection against Arbitrary Arrest and Detention (Art. 22) – Rights of
detenue – Rights to be informed of grounds of arrest, right to be defended by a lawyer
of his own choice, right to be produced before a magistrate – Preventive detention
Laws.
(h) Right against exploitation (Art. 23-24) – “Traffic in Human beings” and
“Forced Labour” – Prohibition of employment of children in factories etc.
(i) Freedom of Religion (Art. 25, 26, 27, 28) – Concept of “Secular State” –
Secular but not anti – religious –Restriction of Freedom of Religions.
(j) Cultural and Educational rights (Art. 29-30) – Protection of Minorities –
Right to establish and manage their Educational Institutions.
(k) Saving of certain laws (Art. 31 A-31 G) – Savings of laws providing for
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 (l) Right to Constitutional Remedies (Art. 32-35&226) – Introduction who
can apply Public Interest Litigation – Scope of Writ Jurisdiction of the Supreme
Court and High Courts – Distinction between Art.32 and 226 – Res Judicata
Restrictions while material Law in force.
Directive Principles of State Policy (Art. 36-51) - Underlying Principles behind
Directive Principles Social and Economic Charter – Social Security Charter –
Community Welfare Charter – Relation between Fundamental Rights and
Fundamental Duties (Art. 51 A) - Need for fundamental duties – Enforcement of
Fundamental Duties.
Prescribed Readings: (With amendments)
1. Shorter Constitution : D.D. Basu
(Wadhwa and Co.)
2. Constitutional Law of India : H.M.Seervai
(N.M. Tripathi Pvt. Ltd.1993)
3. Constitutional Law of India : Jain, M.P.
(Wadhwa and Co.)
4. Constitutional Law of India : J.H. Pandey
5. Law of Indian Constitution : Prof. P.S.Achuthan Pillai
6. Constitution of India : V.N. Shukla
7. Working a Democratic Constitution : Austin,G.
(Oxford University Press, 1999)
8. Directive Principles of State Policy : K.C. Markandan
in the Indian Constitution (A.B.S.
Publications, Jalandhar 1987).
9. Constitutional Questions in India. : Noorani,
(Oxford University Press 2000)

Paper – V

FAMILY LAW - I

Nature and sources of personal laws, marriage, divorce, adoption, guardianship

and maintenance among various communities.

1. Nature and Sources – The study will include the nature and sources (traditional and
modern) of personal laws.
2. Laws of marriage - This course will comprise, Hindu, Muslim and Christian Law
of marriage and divorce. Emphasis should be laid on the nature of marriage and its
development, Hindu Law of marriage and divorce and the changes brought about
by modern legislation.

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 Matrimonial remedies – Hindu, Muslim and Christian Laws
3. Law of adoptions – Hindu law of adoption will include special reference to the
juristic concept and development of case laws & changes brought about by the
Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956. The study will also include the
Muslim law of Legitimacy. Parentage and Doctrine of Acknowledgement.
4. Law of Guardianship – Hindu Law of Minority and Guardianship with the changes
brought about by the modern legislation. Provisions in the Muslim Law of
Minority and Guardianship.
5. Maintenance – Hindu Law relating to maintenance – Muslim law relating to
maintenance with reference to the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on
Divorce Act, 1986).
Matrimonial Remedies through Family Courts.
Statutory materials: (With amendments)
1. The Hindu Widows Remarriage Act, 1856.
2. The Child Marriage Restraint Act, 1929.
3. The Special Marriage Act, 1954.
4. The Hindu Marriage Act, 1955.
5. The Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956.
6. The Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act, 1956.
7. Guardian’s and Wards Act, 1890.
8. The Dissolution of Muslim Marriage Act, 1939.
9. The Christian Marriage Act, 1872.
10. The Indian Divorce Act, 1869.
11. Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961.
12. Family Courts Act, 1984.
13. Family Courts Act
Prescribed Readings: (With amendments)
1. Hindu law : Mulla
(N.M.Tripathi Pvt. Ltd.)
2. Mohammedian Law : Mulla
3. Introduction to Modern Hindu Law : Duncan M. Derrett
4. Hindu Law – I : Paras Diwan
5. Family Law : Prof.M.Krishnan Nair
6. Muslim Law : A.A.A. Fyzee
7. Outlines of Muhammedan Law : Asaf.A.A. Fyzee
8. Marrriage and Divorce
(5th Edition Eastern Law House 1987) : A.N. Saha
9. Laws of England IV Edition Re –issue
Vol.13 pp 239 - 665
Vol. 22 pp 565 - 717. : Halsbury’s
10. Hindu Law : Raghavachari, N.R.

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11. Hindu Law : Subramania Iyer, V.N.
12. Muslim Law in India : Tahir Mohammed.
13. Christian Law : Sebastian Champapilly.
14. Hand Book of Christian Law : Devadasan, E.D.

Fifth Semester

Paper – I

Course Title: English Paper 7 – WRITING AND PRESENTATION SKILLS

No. of Instructional hours: 4 hours/week

AIMS:
1. To familiarize students with different modes of general and academic writing.
2. To help them master writing techniques to meet academic and professional needs.
3. To introduce them to the basics of academic presentation
4. To sharpen their accuracy in writing.

OBJECTIVES
On completion of the course, the students should be able to
1. understand the mechanism of general and academic writing.
2. recognize the different modes of writing.
3. improve their reference skills, take notes, refer and document data and materials.
4. prepare and present seminar papers and project reports effectively. \;

COURSE OUTLINE

Module 1
Writing as a skill- its importance - mechanism of writing - words and sentences - paragraph as a unit of structuring
a whole text - combining different sources - functional use of writing - personal, academic and business writing -
creative use of writing.

Module 2
Writing process - planning a text - finding materials - drafting - revising - editing - finalizing the draft - computer
as an aid - key board skills - word processing - desk top publishing.

Module 3
Writing models - essay - précis - expansion of ideas - dialogue - letter writing - personal letters - formal letters -
CY - surveys - questionnaire - e-mail - fax - job application - report writing.

Academic writing - writing examinations - evaluating a text - note-making- paraphrasing - summary writing -
planning a text - organizing paragraphs - introduction - body - conclusion - rereading and rewriting - copy editing
- accuracy.

Module 4

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Presentation as a skill - elements of presentation strategies - audience - objectives - medium - key ideas-structuring
the material - organizing content - audio-visual aids - handouts - use of power point - clarity of presentation - non-
verbal communication - seminar paper presentation and discussion.

COURSE MATERIAL

Modules 1- 4
Core reading: English/or Effective Communication. Oxford University Press, 2013.

Further reading:
1. Robert, Barraas. Students Must Write. London: Routledge, 2006.
2. Bailey, Stephen. Academic Writing. Routledge, 2006.
3. Hamp-Lyons, Liz, Ben Heasley. Study Writing. 2nd Edition. Cambridge UtyPress •• 2008.
4. Ilona, Leki. Academic Writing.CUP, 1998.
5. McCarter, Sam, Norman Whitby. Writing Skills. Macmillan India, 2009.
6. Jay. Effective Presentation. New Delhi: Pearson, 2009.

Reference:
Mayor, Michael, et ai, Ed. Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English. 5th Edition. London:
Pearson Longman Ltd, 2009.

Paper – II
LAW OF CRIMES – PAPER - II – CRIMINAL PROCEDURE CODE

1. Important definitions under the code of criminal procedure 1973 (Act 2 of

1974) - Constitution of Criminal Courts and Offices – Court of sessions –
Assistant Sessions Judges – Judicial Magistrates. Special Judicial
Magistrates Jurisdiction – Executive Magistrate – Public Prosecutors –
Assistant Public Prosecutors.
2. Power of courts – Jurisdiction in the case of Juvenile, Natures of
sentences which could be passed by various courts.
3. Powers of Police Officers – Aid and information by Public.
4. Arrests of Persons – without warrant by Police Officer – By Magistrate –
By private persons – Search – Seizure of offensive weapons, Medical
Examination of arrested persons – procedure to be followed on arrest.
5. Process to compel appearance – summons service of summons – Warrant
of arrest – Search warrant – Proclamation and attachment – Bond for
appearance – Impounding documents – Process to compel the production
of thing.
6. Security for keeping the peace and for good behaviour Ss 106 and 107
suspected persons – Habitual offenders – Imprisonment in default of

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 Security order for maintenance of wives, children and parents (s.125)
Procedure – Alteration in allowance – Enforcement of order of
maintenance - Maintenance of public order and tranquility – urgent cases
of nuisance or appreherded danger (s.144) Disputes regarding immovable
property – procedure local inquiry – preventive action of the police –
Cognisable offences.
7. Information of the police and their powers to investigate information –
procedure on investigation – S. 162 statements Regarding of confessions
and statements Power of Police Officer on investigation – Inquiry by
Magistrate into cause of death – Jurisdiction of the criminal courts in
inquiries and trials – conditions requisite for initiation of proceedings –
Cognisans of offences by courts of session – Prosecution in special cases –
Complaints – Procedure on receipts of complaints – The charge – form
and contents of charge effect of errors – Joinder of charges.
8. Trial before a court of session – Framing of charges – Discharge Acquittal
– Judgement of acquittal or conviction – Trial of warrant cases by
Magistrates –Upon Police Report or otherwise, procedure trial of
summons cases withdrawal. Summary trials Attendance of persons
contained or detained in prisons.
9. Evidence in inquiries and trials – Commissions for examination – Record
of evidence in absence of accused – General provisions as to inquiries and
trials – Legal aid to accused at State expenses in certain case – Tendering
pardon to accomplices – Power to examine the accused (S.313)
Competency of accused to be a witness (315) Compounding of offence –
withdrawal from prosecution.
10. Special provisions as to accused persons of unsound mind –
Provisions as to offences affecting the administration of justice –
judgement –Orders to pay compensation – confirmation of death
sentences.
11. Appeals References and Revision – Transfer of Criminal cases.
12. Execution, Suspension, Remission and Commutation of sentences –
Death sentence – Imprisonment.
13. Provisions a to bail and bonds – Disposal of property – Limitation
for taking cognisance of certain offences.
14. Relevant Provisions of Juvenile Justice Act and probation of
Offenders Act
Prescribed Readings: (With amendments)
1. The code of Criminal Procedure, 1975 (Act 2 of 1974)
2. Ratanlal and Dheerajila, Code of Criminal Procedure (Wadhwa and
Co. 1987)
3. A.K. Pavithan, Lecturers on the Code of Criminal Procedure.

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 4. R.K. Kelker. Outlines of Criminal Procedure. (Eastern Book
Company).
5. Criminal Rules of Practice.

Paper – III
CIVIL PROCEDURE CODE AND LIMITATION ACT

1. Meaning of procedure – Distinction between procedural and

substantive laws.
Definitions-Judgements, decree, order foreign judgement, government
pleader, Judge, Judgement debtor, legal representative, mense profits,
movable property, pleader, public officer.
2. Jurisdiction of courts, to try civil suits, stay of suit, resjudicata Place
of suing. - Institution of suits, pleading, plaint, written statement and set off.
Parties to suits, joinder of parties, misjoinder of parties, frame of suits.
Summons and discovery, issue and service of summons.
3. Appearance of parties, consequence of non – appearance, expart
decree, setting aside of ex parte decree; examination of parties by the court,
discovery and inspection, admission, production impounding and return of
documents’ settlement, of issues and determination of a suit on issues of law
or on issue agreed upon; disposal of suit of first hearing. Summoning and
attendance of witness, adjournment. Hearing of the suit and Examination of
witness, affidavit.
4. Judgement and degree : Execution of decree, interest, cost’
compensatory cost. Property liable to attachment and sale in execution of
decree.
5. Appeal: - First appeal, croses appeal and cross objection, Second
appeal, Appeal to the Supreme Court. Reference, Revisions and Review.
Supplementary Proceedings : Arrest before judgement, attachment before
judgement, injunction, Appointment of receiver, security for costs,
withdrawal of suits, payment into court, compromise of suits.
6. Special proceedings : Suits in particular cases: Notice before suit,
Inter-pleader suit, suits by paupers, suit by or against firms, suits by or
against a minor suit, in respect of public charities.
7. Incidental proceedings :
Miscellanious:
Exemptions of certain woman from personal appearance application or
restitution, proceedings by or against representative, saving of inherent power
amendment of Judgement and decree.
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 Nature of the law of limitation – Limitation of suits, Appeal and
applications – Computation of the period of limitation – Acquisition of
ownership by possession. Extension of time prescribed for certain cases –
Doctrine of ‘pith and substance’-Expiry of the prescribed period when court
is closed. Legal disability and limitation. Continuous running of time-
Exclusion of time in cases where leave to issue appeal. Exclusion of time
proceeding in court without jurisdiction. Effect of death on or after the
accrual of the right to sue, Effect of acknowledgement in writing –Effect of
acknowledgement in writing – Effects of substituting or adding new plaintiffs
or defendants – Continuing breaches and torts – Acquisition of easement by
prescription.
Statutory materials: (With amendments)
Code of Civil Procedure, 1976
Limitations Act, 1963.

Prescribed Readings: (With amendments)

Code of Civil Procedure (Students Edition) - Mulla
Civil Rules of Practice (Kerala) 1971.

Paper – IV
FAMILY LAW – II
I Hindu Law
1. Joint Family
Origin and Constitution of Joint Hindu Family – Mitaksharara co-
parcenary, Co-parcenary Joint Family, Co-parcenary within a co-parcenary –
Incidents of co-parcenary property. Right of co-parceners Managing member
Powers & duties of a manager in a Joint family business. Dayabhaga Joint
Family Hindu Succession Act, 1956.
2. Partition
What is partition – Subject matter of partition – Persons entitled to a share
– What constitute partition – The mode of partition – Re-opening and reunion.
Inheritence – General Principles
Exclusion from inheritance – Hindu Succession Act, 1956.
Sreedhana and Women’s estate – Changes effected by the Hindu
Succession Act. Right of widow and other female heirs, Religion and charitable
endowments – Endowments Public and Private.
Marumakkathayam Law – Tharavadu and its management – Karanavan
his position, powers etc. Statutory changes – Debits and alienations – Partition
– Nature of property allotted to a Marumakkathayi female member in particular
of her tharavad property on the subsequent birth of a child to her. Acquisitions
– Nature and effect of sthanoms – Statutory changes.

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 General rules of succession of Hindu males and females – Order
ofsuccession. Rules of succession of persons governed by Marumakkathayam
Law –Right of child in womb, rules of evidence in case of simultaneous death,
preferential right to acquire the share of another heir Dwelling house.

II Muslim Law
1. Introduction
General principles
1. General Principles – Life estate and vested remainder – Hanafi Law
of inheritance – The three classes of heirs – Principles of succession
among shares and residuaries – Doctrine of Increase and Return-
Comparison with Shia law of inheritance – Scope of the doctrine of
representation.
2. Wills – Persons capable of making Wills -Bequest to heirs –
Bequest to non –heirs Limits to testamentary power – Revocation of
Bequest –Death bed gifts and acknowledgement.
3. Gifts –Persons capable of making gifts – The three essentials of a
gift – Delivery of possession of immovable properties contingent gifts –
Revocation of gift – Hiba Bill –Iwaz- Hiba-Behart-UI-Iwaz.
4. Wakf.- Wakf definition-Subject of Wakf - object of Wakf - Wakf
how completed-Reservation of life interest for the benefit of Wakf- Public
wakf and private wakf. The Wakf Act, 1954 –Muttawallis or managers of
wakf properties-Powers-Statutory control. Removal or Muttwallis.
5. Law of Pre-emption

III Christian Law

1. Law of succession of Christians, Rules of Succession under Indian
Succession Act.
2. Interpretation of Wills, words of limitation.
Probate and letters of administration, duties of executor or
administrator, succession certificate.
Prescribed Readings : (With amendments)
1. Indian Succession Act 1925 :
2. Hindu Law (N.M. Tripathi Pvt. Ltd.) : Mulla
3. Hindu Law : Paras Diwan
4. Introduction to Modern Hindu Law : Duncan M Derret
5. Mohammedan Law : Mulla
6. Outlines of Mohammedan Law : A.A.A. Fyzee
(Oxford University Press)
7. Marumakkathayam Law : K. Sreedhara Warrrier
8. Family Law : Prof. M.Krishnana Nair

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 9. Christian Law : Dr. Sebastian
10. Hindu Law : N.R.Raghavachari
11. Hindu Law : V.N.Subramonia Iyer
12. The Muslim Law of India : Tahir Mohammed

Paper – V
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW – II

Union Executive, President, Vice-president and Council of Ministers (Art.52 – 78)

and 123): - Constitutional position and powers of the President – Privileges of the
President _ Constitutional position and powers of Vice – President – Council of
Ministers – Principle of Collective Responsibility – Power of the Prime Minister –
Dismissal of the Cabinet – Attorney General of India.
Parliament (Art. 79 – 122) - Composition of Parliament – Rajya Sabha and Lok
Sabha – Qualification for Membership of Parliament – Speaker and Deputy Speaker –
Session of Parliament – Functions of Parliament.
Union Judiciary (Art. 124 – 147) - Composition of Supreme Court – Jurisdiction of
Supreme Court Independence of Judiciary how maintained under the Constitution.

State Executive (Art. 153 -167) - The Governor – Constitutional powers and
functions – Council of Ministers – Chief Ministers, Appointment – Advising the
President for the proclamation of State Emergency under Art. 356.
State Legislature (Art.169 -212) - Creation and abolition of Legislative Councils –
Compositions and functions of the Houses – Qualification for membership – Speaker
and Deputy Speaker – Session of the Houses.
State Judiciary (Art. 214 -237) - Appointment of Judges – Jurisdiction of the High
Courts Writ jurisdiction under Art.226 – Subordinate Courts.
Legislature Privileges (Art. 105 and 194) - Powers, privileges and immunities of
Parliament and its members – Powers and Privileges of State Legislature and its
members – Privileges and courts.
Relation between Union and State (Art. 245 – 293):
a. Legislative relations (Art. 245 – 255) – Extent of Laws passed by the
Parliament and State Legislatures – Residuary Power of Legislation – Doctrine of
Colourable Legislation – Pith and substance – Doctrine of occupied field.
b. Administrative Relations (256 – 263) – Duties of Union and States –
Control of Union over States – Co-ordination between States.
c. Financial Relations (Art.268 -291) – Distribution of revenue –
Collection of taxes – Restriction on Taxing powers.
Trade, Commerce and Inter course within the territory of India (Art. 301-307):
Parliament’s power to regulate imposition of taxes. Services under the Union
and States (Art. 303 -323):

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tenure – Dismissal – Reduction in rank. Compulsory retirement.
Election Commission (324). Powers and Functions Emergency Provisions
(352-360):
National Emergency- State Emergency – Financial Emergency – Emergency
and Fundamental Rights – Emergency and judicial Review.
Amendment (Art. 368):
Various methods of amendment – concept of basic structure – Amendment and
Fundamental Rights – Amendment and Judicial Review.
Prescribed Readings: (With amendments)
1. Constitutional Law of India : H.M. Seervai
(N.M. Tripathi Pvt. Ltd.)
2. Shorter Constitution of India : D.D. Basu
(Wadhwa and Co.)
3. Constitutional Law of India : Dr. Jain
(Wadhwa and Co.)
4. Constitutional Law of India : J.N. Pandey
5. Constitutional Law of India : Prof. P.S. Achuthan Pillai
6. Constitution of India : V.N. Shukla
(Eastern Book Co.)

Sixth Semester

Paper – I

Course Title: English Paper 8 – PROSE AND FICTION

No. of Instructional hours: 4 hours/week

AIMS:
1. To help students understand and appreciate different types of prose writing and fiction.
2. To introduce to them the basics concepts of style and literary devices in prose.
3. To help them write creatively, critically and imaginatively.

OBJECTIVES
On completion of the course, the students should be able to:
1. recognize various types of prose and fictional writings.
2. analyse, understand and appreciate prose and fictional writings.
3. write creatively and critically in an expository or argumentative way.

COURSE OUTLINE

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Module 1:
Forms of prose (excluding fiction) - Prose up to the 18th Century - Essay - types of essays - persuasive,
descriptive, satirical, argumentative and expository - travel writing - diaries - speeches.

Module 2:
Prose

Module 3:
Types of fiction - types of novel - romance, picaresque, autobiographical, epistolary, historical, gothic.
Bildungsroman, satire, utopian, dystopian, detective and science fiction - elements of fiction - plot, theme,
characterization, setting, point of view, view of life - narrative strategies - stream of consciousness, meta fiction -
truth in fiction.

Module 4:
Fiction.

COURSE MATERIAL

Module 1
Core reading: Chapter 4 from A Concise, Companion to Literary Forms. Emerald, 2013.

Reference: Prasad B.A. Background to the Study of English Literature, Chennai: Macmillan, 2008

Module 2
Core reading:
Reflections (A Collection of Essays published by Pearson Education)

The following essays are prescribed for detailed study:

1. Bacon : Of Studies
2. Addison : Sir Roger at the Assizes
3. Lamb : Dream Children
4. Hazlitt : On Familiar Style
5. Ruskin : On Reading
6. Robert Lynd : Indifference.
7. Anne Frank : The Diary of a Young Girl. [extract]

Further reading
Hudson, W.H. An Introduction to the Study of English Literature. (Chapter: The Study of The Essay)

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Module 3
Core reading:
Chapter 3 from A Concise Companion to Literary Forms. Emerald, 2013.

Module 4
Core reading:
George Orwell: Animal Farm (Penguin Edition)

Further reading
Hudson, W. H. An Introduction to the Study of English Literature. (Chapter: The Study of Prose Fiction)

Instruction to Teachers:
• Students should be made to listen to and read speeches and prose passages.
• The work of each author has to be placed against the literary backdrop of the age.
• The literary significance of the work is to be briefly discussed in the classroom and hence the student is
expected to have an awareness of the respective works.
• While discussing fiction, the formal, structural and stylistic aspects of the work should be referred to.
• Questions are not to be asked from such details at the examination.

Paper – II

INTERPRETATION OF STATUTES AND PRINCIPLES OF LEGISLATION

A. Principles of Legislation :
Principles of utility – Principle of Ascetic and Arbitrary Theory –
Principle of sympathy and Antipathy – Application of these theories upon
Legislation – Theory of sanctions on Legislations – Distinction between
Legislation and Morality – False Reasonings on Legislation.

B. Legislative Drafting:
Principles in drafting a bill, Montesquieu rules in drafting – Rules
pertaining to the entire frame work of a statute.
C. Interpretation:
Interpretation – Rules in Interpretation –Literal Golden and Mischief rules
– Aids in interpretation – kinds of statutes – Interpretation of the constitution –
Interpretation of Penal Statutes – Interpretation of Taxation Statutes –
Interpretation of Remedial Statutes – Retrospectivity Repeal of Statutes. Effect
of usages – Argument Inconvenients – Contemporanea exposite – Expression
uniust exclusio alteirus – in benampaurtem – ejusdem generis –nosctur asicius
– reddendo singular singulis.
Prescribed Readings:
1. Theory of Legislation - Bentham
2. Legislative Drafting - Bakshi
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4. Interpretation of Statutes - Swaroop
5. Interpretation of Statutes - Bindra
6. Interpretation of Statutes - Varghese and Madhavan Potti
7. Interpretation of Statutes - Sarathi
8. Principles of Legislation,
Legislative Drafting and - Prof.M.Krishnan Nair and
Statutory Constitutions A.Gopinatha Pillai
9. Statutory Interpretation - Singh, G.P.
Wadhwa and Co. (1992)
10. Principles of Legislation - Dr. Nirmal Kanthi Chakravarthi
and Legislative Drafting

Paper – III

ADMINISTRATIVE LAW

1. Introduction to Administrative Law : - Definition and scope of

administrative law – Causes for the growth of Administrative Law with special
reference to India. Difference between Constitutional Law and Administrative
Law. Droit Administration (French Administrative Law) Concept of Rule of
Law – Evaluation of Dicey’s Thesis. Doctrine of separation of powers.

2. Anatomy of Administrative Actions : Quasi legislative Action - Quasi

judicial Action - Administrative Action - Ministerial Actions - Administrative
Instructions: - Administrative Discretion – Judicial behaviour and
administrative discretion in India.
3. Rule-Making Power of the Administration (Quasi legislative action) - Reasons
for the growth of Administrative rule – making action of Delegated Legislation.
Classification of Administrative Rule making power or Delegated Legislation.
Constitutionality of Administrative Rule making action or Delegated
Legislation. - Control Mechanism of Administrative Rule making action or
Delegated Legislation in India - Legislative Control - Procedural Control -
Judicial Control
4. Adjudicator Power of the Administration - Need for Administrative
Adjudication. - Court of Law and Administrative Agency, exercising
adjudicatory powers. - Problems of Administrative Adjudication. - Needs of
Administrative decision making - Statutory Tribunals. - Domestic Tribunals. -
Practices and Procedure of Administrative Adjudication - Rule against Bias. -
Audi Alteram partem or the Rule of Fair Hearing. - Reasoned Decisions. - Post
Decisional Hearing. - Exception to the rules of natural justice.

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 5. (A) Judicial Review of Administrative Action – Principles - Remedies against
Administrative Action - Public Law Review (Constitutional Remedies) -
Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court under Art. 32 and 136. - Jurisdiction of the
High Courts under Art. 226 and 227. - Against whom writ can be issued. -
Locus standi to challenge Administrative Action. - Laches or unreasonable
delay. - Alternative remedy, Res – judicata. - Finality of Administrative Action.
(B) Judicial Review of Administrative Action – Modes - Remedies against
Administrative Action - Public Law Review (Constitutional Remedies) -
Writ of Certiorari - Writ of Prohibition - Writ of Mandamus - Writ of Quo
– warranto - Writ of Habeas - Corpus
Private Law Review ( Statutory Remedies) – Injunction – Declaration - Suit
for damage - Administrative action for the enforcement of Public Duties.
6. Public Interest Litigation or Social Action Litigation: - Nature and Purpose,
Constitutional Habitat. - Locus Standi – Procedure; Complexities and
Problems. - Notable Case Laws- Class Actions.
7. Liability of the Administration: - Liability of the Administration in Contract –
Constitutional Provisions and the Development of the concept of liability. -
Liability of the administration in Tort. - Privileges and immunities of the
Administration in suits. - Privileges of Notice. - Privileges to withhold
documents. - Immunity from Statute operations. - Immunity from Estoppel.
Promissory Estoppel – Change of Policy decision of the Government.
8. Statutory and Non-Statutory Public undertakings: - Relative Merits and
Demerits of various organizational forms of Public enterprises. - Statutory
Public Corporations-Control devices. - Government Companies.
9. Citizen and the Administrative Faults: - Ombudsman-Development in U.K.,
U.S.A. and in India. - Central Vigilance Commission.- Lokpal and Lokayuktha
in India.
10. Constitutional Protection of Civil Servants and the Administrative Service
Tribunals: - Service Rules- Doctrine of Pleasure. - Constitutional Safeguards to
Civil Servants - Procedural Safeguards. - Administrative Service Tribunals. -
Relevant provisions of Administrative Tribunals Act, 1985.
Prescribed Readings:
1. H.W.R. Wade, Administrative Law. : (Claredon Press-Oxford)
2. Jain & Jain, Principles of Administrative. : Law (N.M. Tripathi)
3. Cases and Materials Administrative Law. : Indian Law Institute
4. Dr.A.T. Markose, Judicial Control of
Administrative Action in India. :
5. I.P. Massey Administrative Law : (Eastern Book Company)
6. Dr.N.K. Jayakumar, Administrative Law. :
7. Constitution of India Relevant Chapters :
8. Administrative Law :

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(IV Ed. Re-issue Vol. 1 pp. 1-376) :
10. Thakwani C.K. Administrative Law :
11. S.P.Sathe, Administrative Law :
12. J.F. Garner and B.L. Jones, Garner’s
Administrative Law : (Butterworths 1985)

13. Tapash Gan Choudhary, Penumbra of

Natural Justice : (Eastern Law House 1997)
14. Steven J. Cann Administrative Law : (Sage publications 1995)
15. Schwartz, Administrative Law : (Little Brown and Company
1991)
16. S.H. Bailey., R.L. Jones and A.R.Mowbrav:
Cases and Materials on Administrative Law : (Sweet and Maxwell 1992)
17. Neil Hawke: An introduction to
Administrative Law : (ESC publishing, Ltd.1993)
18. Peter Cane, An Introduction to
Administrative Law : (Clarendon Press Oxford
1987)
19. Genevra Richardson and Hazel Genn:
Administrative Law and Government
Action : (Clarendon Press Oxford
1994)
20. Craig P.P Administrative Law (1999)

Paper – IV

LAW OF EVIDENCE

The Indian Evidence Act, 1872

1. Nature and purpose of the Law of Evidence exposing the difference between
“Real Evidence” and “Evidence” as defined in the Act.
2. “Fact” - Fact distinguished from Law – Fact in issue-Relevance of Fact –
Presumption regarding proof – Classification of presumptions – Res Gestae –
Difference between Indian and American Law. When irrelevant facts
become relevant –Mode of proving a custom – The accidental or
international nature of event.
3. “Admissions” and ‘Confessions” in evidence. Distinction between them –
Admissions when can be proved by or on behalf of the person making
admission – probative value of a confession under the Evidence Act – A
retracted Confession – Discovery under Sec.27 of the Act – Confession of

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depose in the open court can be admitted in evidence – dying declaration -
showing the difference between Indian and English Law – Pedigree evidence
– Meaning and nature of Evidencial value of books of accounts – Nature of
relevancy in evidence of the judgements of courts of Law – Expert opinion at
evidence – Who is an expert? Scope of character evidence regarding parties
and witnesses in civil and criminal proceedings – Hearsay evidence –
Exceptions to the hearsay rule primary and secondary evidence – Oral
evidence – Documentary evidence – Exclusion of oral by documentary
evidence – Ancient documents – The modus operandi of proof, Nature of
burden of proof in civil and criminal cases.
4. Nature and Kinds of Estoppel: - Distinction between an accomplice and an
approver, what is the evidentiary value of accomplice evidence. The
uncorroborated testimony of accomplice – Examination-in-chief cross
examination and re-examination. Leading questions in the examination of
witnesses – What is meant by impeaching the credit of witness –
Competency and compellability of witness-Protected statements – Dumb
witness-Hostile witness – Child witness – Appreciation of circumstantial
evidence – Nature of judges power to put questions – Facts which are
judicially taken notice of improper admission and rejection of evidence.
Prescribed Readings: (With amendments)
1. Rantal – Indian Evidence (Act Wadhwa and Co.)
2. P.S. Achudhan Pillai – Law of Evidence
3. Vepa .P.Sarathi – Elements of Law of Evidence
4. Dr.Avtar Singh – Law of Evidence
5. Ratanlal and Dhiraj Lal – The Law of Evidence (Wadhwa and Co.
1988)

Seventh Semester
Paper - I

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LAW

1 Problem of jurisdiction in cyber space and legal response - relevancy and

admissibility of computer evidence - existing legal regime to facilitate
electronic commerce and its efficacy.
2 Legal issues relating to Internet contract - liability of Internet Service
Provider - spread of obscene material in Internet and legal response.
3 Requirement of law on data protection in the digital age – encryption and right to

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4 Sale through Internet and consumer protection – Information Technology
Act - Legal response to electronic governance - taxation in Internet; legal
response.
5 Domain name dispute - legal response - copyright infringement in Internet -
response of investment law in Internet age – UNICITRAL Law of Electronic
Commerce 1986 and Information Technology Act 2000 - Fraud in Internet; legal
response - defamation in Internet; legal response - cyber forensic - legal issues.
Prescribed Readings: (With amendments)
1 D.P. Mittal, Law of Information Technology
2 UNESCO, The International Dimensions of Cyber Space Law
3 Suresh T. Viswanathan, The Indian Cyber Law
4 Paras Diwan (Ed.), Cyber and E-Commerce Laws

Paper – II

PROPERTY LAW

1. Concept of property, Kinds of property, Intellectual property, General principles

of transfer, Definitions of immovable property notice, transformability of property,
Effect of transfer, Rules against inalienability and restriction on enjoyment by
transfers Conditional transfers, Transfer to urban persons, Rules against
perpetuity and accumulation of income. Transfer to a class vested and contingent
interests, condition precedent and condition subsequent.
2. Doctrine of Election , Appointment, Covenants running with land, Transfer by
Ostensible owners and doctrine of Estoppel Transfer by limited owner,
Improvement effected by bona fide purchaser, Transfer to defraud creditors,
Doctrines of lis Pendens and part performance.
3. Sales of Immovable Property:
Sale meaning and scope of sale and contract for Sale how made – Rights and
liabilities of seller and buyer Marshalling, Discharge of encumbrances on sale.
4. Mortgage:
Different types of mortgages and their distinctions, Rights and liabilities of
Mortgager and Mortgagee (Sec.60 to 77) Priority: Marshlling and Contribution,
Deposit in Court, Redemption : Who may sue for Redemption – Subrogation, Taking
Rights of redeeming co-mortgager : Mortgage by deposit of Title Deed, Anomalous
Mortgage.
5. Charge Doctrine of Merger, Notice & Tender, Floating charge.
6. Lease – Rights and liabilities of lesser and lessee, Termination of lease.
7. Exchange – Scope and meaning of Rights and liabilities of parties of Exchange of
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9. Actionable claimes: Scope and meaning of, Notice, Liability on transfer –
Assignment of different policies – Incapacity of certain Officers – Saving of
negotiable instruments.
10. Easements – Definition – Classification and Characteristic features – Modes of
acquisition – Easement of necessity – Quasi Easement by prescription – Right to
ancient light – Extinction of easements – Easement compared with license and
lease.
11. A comparative study of the corresponding provisions of the English real
property law is to be made for better appreciation of the Indian Law.
Statutory Materials: (With amendments)
1. Transfer of Property Act, 1882
2. Easement Act, 1892
Prescribed Readings: (With amendments)
1. Halsbury’s Laws of England (IV Ed. Reissue Vol. 1 pp. 1-127, Vol. 35 pp.721 -
770, Vol.32 pp. 181-474.
2. D.F.Mulla : Transfer of Property Act
3. M.Krishna Menon : Law of property
4. Sukla : Law of Property

Paper – III

PRINCIPLES OF TAXATION LAW

1. Indian Income Tax Act 1961 and Kerala Agricultural Income Tax Act, 1950 -
The study will consist of the following: - Cannons of Taxation – Distinction
between tax and fee classification of taxes. - Constitutional basis for taxation
– Art 265 Fundamental rights and Taxing statutes Legislative entries relating
to taxation Income its meaning Income and capital – Leading cases. Income
tax Authorities – Basis of charge under the Act. Total Income previous year
Status - Residence.
Mutual Relation of Income Tax Act with Finance Acts. Incomes not forming
part of total income. Income of charitable or religious trusts and Institutions.
Incomes forming part of total income on which no income tax is payable –
Deductions to be made in computing total income – Rules of computation under
the different heads of income – carry forward and set off of losses.
Representative assessees: - Provisions as to a advance payment of tax deducted
at source, Registration and assessment of firms and its partners, Brief outline of
procedure for assessment, collection and recovery of tax and remedies under the Act,
Penalties and prosecution under the Act.

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 The Kerala Agricultural Income Tax Act, 1991 - Principles are on the same
lines as that of Central Income Tax Act. - Wealth Tax Act, 1963 - Definition –
Exemption Deduction, Total and Net Wealth, Authorities – Charging provisions ,
Assessment collect on and Remedies – Principles of valuation.
Kerala General Sales Tax Act, 1963.
Prescribed Readings; (With amendments)
1. Ranga and Palkhivala - “Law and Practice of Income
Tax” (Students Edn)
2. Taxman - Direct Taxes
3. Sampath Iyengar - Three New Taxes
4. Saju K. Abraham - Guide to Sales Tax law in
Kerala

Paper – IV

DRAFTING, PLEADING AND CONVEYANCE

Outline of the course : (a) Drafting :- General principles of drafting and relevant substantive
rules shall be taught
(b) Pleadings:-
(i) Civil : Plaint, Written Statement, Interlocutory Application, Original Petition,
Affidavit,
Execution Petition, Memorandum of Appeal and Revision, Petition under
Article 226 and 32 of the Constitution of India.

(ii) Criminal : Complaint, Criminal Miscellaneous Petition, Bail Application,

Memorandum of
Appeal and Revision.

(iii) Conveyance : Sale Deed. Mortgage Deed, Lease Deed, Gift Deed, Promissory Note,
Power of
Attorney, Will, Trust Deed

(iv) Drafting of Writ Petition and PIL petition

The course will be taught through class instructions and simulation exercises,
preferably with the assistance of practicing lawyers/retired judges. Apart from
teaching the relevant provisions of law, the course may include not less than 15
practical exercises in drafting carrying a total of 45 marks (3 marks for each) and 15
exercise in conveyance carrying another 45 marks (3 marks for each exercise)
remaining 10 marks will be given for internal viva voce which will test the
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 Eighth Semester
Paper – I

BANKING LAW

Importance of banking in modern economy – Recent development in

banking practices – Banking institutions in general – Nationalisation of banking
institutions.
Different kinds of Accounts: - Joint accounts, minor’s account, combination of
accounts, the pass book and its legal position. - Garnishee orders, pledges, guarantees,
documents of title to goods, mortgages. - Nature and incidents of banker’s lien,
termination of lien, waiver of lien.
General principles of negotiable instruments with reference to bills of exchange,
cheque and promissory notes. - Special incidents of banker and customer relationship
– Valuables for safe custody – Banker’s commercial credits – Payment of different
types of cheques – Collecting banker and paying banker – special protection against
forgery. - Statutory control and relation of banking business in India the position of
the Reserve Bank. Powers of the Reserve Bank to control banking operations in
India.

Prescribed Readings: (With amendments)

1. Chorley – Law of Banking
2. Paget - Law and Bnking
3. Tannan - Law of Practice of Banking in India
4. Bhashyam and Adiga - Law of Negotiable Instruments
5. M.Krishnan Nair - Law of contracts, ((orient Longman)
Statutes: ( with amendments)
Banking Regulation Act, 1949.
Reserve Bank of India Act, 1949
The Banking companies (Acquisition and Transfer of undertakings) Act, 1970.

Paper – II

LABOUR AND INDUSTRIAL LAW – I

(TRADE UNIONS AND INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES)
1 History of trade union movement - trade unions and Indian Constitution - definition of
trade union.
2 Registration of trade unions - powers and functions of Registrar of Trade Union -
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immunities –
nature and scope.
4 Industry, industrial dispute and workman - meaning and definition - dispute resolution
methods
and authorities - powers and functions - governmental controls.
6. Strikes, lock outs, lay offs - retrenchment and closure - legal controls- protected workman.
7. Standing Orders.
Statutory Materials: (With amendments)
1. Trade Unions Act, 1926.
2. Industrial Dispute Act, 1947.
Prescribed Readings: (With amendments)
1 Malhotra, Law of Industrial Disputes.
2 Indian Law Institute, Labour Law and Labour Relations.
3 K.D. Srivastava, Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act,1946.
4 K.D. Srivastava, Law Relating to Trade Unions and Unfair Labour Practices.
5 H.L. Kumar, Misconducts, Charge Sheets and Enquiries.
6 P.R.Bagri – Law of Industrial Disputes
7 O.P. Malhothra – Labour Law
8 Labour Law and Labour Relations – Indian Law Institute
9 V.V.Giri – Labour problems in Indian Industry
10 H.K.Saharay – Labour and Social Laws
11 Mishra – Labour and Industrial Laws

Paper – III

COMPANY LAW

History: - Emergence of corporation as a commercial association and brief

history of Companies Act. - Formation of a Company: - Procedural requirements –
Effect of incorporation – The doctrine of lifting the veil company distinguished from
other association. - Different Kinds of Companies: - Limited by shares, Limited by
Guarantees and unlimited – Charted, chartered statutory and registered Holding, and
subsidiary private public and deemed public, foreign Companies, Government
Companies – Illegal association.
Constitutional Documents: - Memorandum of Association and objects clauses
there on – Grounds and procedure for alteration of this Clauses – Articles of
association - Alteration of articles. The contract in the memorandum and articles –
Distinction between memorandum and articles of association – The rule in Fass v
Harbottle and its exceptions. - Rights and liabilities of the Corporation for the acts of
its agents and organs. - Doctrine of ultra vires – Tortious liability of Corporation –

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and Indoor management – Rule in Turquand’s case.
Promoters: - Their position, duties and liabilities – Remuneration of promoter
contracts by promoters. - Prospectus and statement ion lieu of prospectus: - Contents -
Mis-statement in prospectus – Meaning of liabilities respect of prospectus –
Statement in lieu of prospectus. - Members: - Modes of acquiring membership –
Register of members and entries herein minor as a member.
Capital: - Rules for raising and maintenance of capital legal nature of shares –
Types of shares “class rights” and variation of class rights – Allotment of shares –
Effect of irregular allotment – Transfer of shares and certification of transfer – Share
Certificate and share warrant – Share forfeiture, capital redemption – Reserve Fund –
Call on share – Forfeiture of shares – surrender of shares – Rule in Teryol v. White
worth.
Meetings: - Statutory General meeting and statutory Report – Annual general
meeting – Extraordinary general meeting – Procedure and requisites of a valid
meeting – chairman Voting at meeting – Kinds of resolution – Minutes.
Divident Accounts and Audit: - Divident distinguished from interest –
Declaration of divident Capitalisation of profit – Accounts Rule with regard to the
keeping of proper books of account preparation and filing of balance sheet and profit
and loss account etc., Auditors – Qualification and disqualification, Appointments
and removal – Remuneration: Powers and duties.
Board of Directors : - Their positions, powers, duties, appointment,
qualifications, disqualifications, vacations of office, removal remuneration liabilities,
etc. Managing Director, his position, remuneration appointment etc. Government
Directors, when appointed – Their role Managers and Secretaries – Their position and
duties – Majority rule and minority protection.- (Rule in Foss v. Harbottle and
Common Law exceptions) - Statutory remedies against oppression and Mis
management: - Power of the court under SS. 397-407. - Power of the Central
Government under SS. 408-409 - Investigation into the affairs of the company and
appointment of Inspectors. - Powers of the Central Government to remove managerial
personnel. - Other circumstances where the Central Government / Court can interfere
in the internal management of Company – Compromises, arrangements and
reconstruction Chapter V, Part VI.
Winding up: - Types of winding up - Winding up by court - Grounds: who can
apply? Commencement and consequences of winding up order ; Procedure of
winding up by court – Powers of the liquidator, committee of Inspection, Public
Examination: Dissolution. - Voluntary winding up: - Members voluntary winding up
– Creditor’s voluntary winding up. Declaration of solvency; Powers of Liquidator. -
Winding up subject to supervision of Court conduct of winding up – Contributories –
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Act.
Prescribed Readings: (With amendments)
1. Lectures on Company Law : Shah
2. A Guide on Companies Act : A.Ramaiah
(Wadhwa and Co.)
3. Company Law : Avtar Singh
4. MRTP Act

Paper – IV

PROFESSIONAL ETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ACCOUNTING SYSTEM

Outline of the course: Professional Ethics, Accountancy for Lawyers and Bar-Bench Relations

This course will be taught in association with practising lawyers on the basis of the following
materials.
(i) Mr.Krishnamurthy Iyer’s book on “Advocacy”
(ii) The Contempt Law and Practice
(iii) The Bar Council Code of Ethics
(iv) Advocates Act, 1961.
(v) 50 selected opinions of the Disciplinary Committees of Bar
Council and 10 major judgments of the Supreme Court on the
subject.
(vi) Other reading materials as may be prescribed by the University
Assessment in this paper shall consist of the following:
a. Case study – 30 marks b. Written test – 30 marks c. Problem solution – 20 marks
d. Internal viva voce to test the students knowledge in this paper – 20 marks

Ninth Semester
Paper – I

PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW

1. The nature and scope of private International Law Fundamental concepts

of Private International Law-Classification-Domicile Public Policy-
Renvoi-The authority of personal laws in Indian Courts.
2. Jurisdiction of Court in cases involving foreign elements.
3. Principles of Indian Private International Law relating to the following
matters : - Persons-status and capacity-corporations - Family - Validity
and effects of marriage - Divorce Legitimacy -Adoption-Guardianship.

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 Contracts - Formation, interpretation, illegality and discharge. - Torts -
Proper law -Modern trends. - Property-Transfer, succession (Movables&
immovables) - Administration of estates.
4. Procedure and evidence-Proof of foreign law-Recognition and
enforcement of foreign judgments and decrees.
(On matters not covered by Indian Statutes and decisions reference should
be made to the English and American Law)
Prescribed Readings:
1. Cheshire-Private International Law
2. Prof.K.Sreekantan-Private International Law
3. Paras Divan-Private International Law

Paper – II

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

Concept of Environmental Protection - Sources, Causes and effects of

Environmental pollution Classification of different types of pollution. - Air Pollution
and Noise Pollution - Water Pollution – Marine Pollution - Land Pollution - General
Powers of the Central Government. Scope of Art 32 and 226 of the constitution in
environmental matters. –
Environmental Protection under the Constitution. - Right to Clean Environment.
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Public Interest Litigation. - New Trends. - Environmental protection Law and its
implementation Operational mechanism of boards functioning Central and State
Boards functioning. Legal regime for pollution control..
Air (Prevention and control of Pollution) Act, 1981. - Penalties and procedure.
- Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974. - Powers and functions of
State pollution Control Board. - Environment (Protection) Act, 1986. - Protection of
Forest and Wild Life. - Preservation of heritage-Conservation of bio-diversity. -
Common Law remedies for protections of the environment.
Prescribed Readings: (With amendments)
1. Kailas Thakur-Environmental Protection law and Policy in India.
2. Dr.H.Mahaeswaraswamy-Law relating to Environmental Pollution and
protection.
3. Cases and Material on Environment and pollution Laws-Law
Publishers (India) Pvt.Ltd.
4. Environmental Law-Susan Wolf and Anna White.
5. Environmental Law in India (Eastern Book company)-Dr.Leela
Krishnan.
6. Cases and Materials-Rosen Cronz.

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 7. Public liability Insurance Act, 1991.
8. National (Environmental ) Tribunal Act, 1995.

Paper – III

LABOUR AND INDUSTRIAL LAW – II

(SOCIAL SECURITIES LAW)
1. Approval, Licensing & Registration of factories - health, safety & welfare of
workers-working hours Employment of women & young persons-leave-Authorities
& their powers.
2. Administration of ESI scheme- ESI Corporation-standing committees-medical
benefit council-Benefits-E.S.I fund-Liability of the employer.
3. Employer's liability to pay compensation-nature and extent. Notional extension of
time and place of employment- powers of Workmen’s Compensation
Commissioners.
4. Responsibility for payment of wages-Fixation of wage periods-Deduction & fines-
Authorities & adjudication of claim. Fixation & revision of minimum wages-Powers
of appropriate government advisory committee and Board- payment of minimum
wages.
5. Bonus - meaning- eligibility for bonus. Calculation of bonus-Full bench formula-
minimum bonus-maximum bonus-forfeiture of bonus-recovery of bonus. Gratuity-
meaning –concept of deferred wages- eligibility for gratuity-.forfeiture of gratuity.
Employees’ provident scheme- basic features.

Prescribed Readings: (With amendments)

1. S.C. Srivastava, Social Security Laws, Eastern Book Co. (Latest Edition)
2. Victor George, Social Security and Society.
3. Harry Calverty, Social Security Law.
4. Julian Fulbrook, Law and Worker Social Security.
5. R.N. Choudhary, Commentary on the Workmens’ Compensation Act,1923, Orient
Publishing Co. ((Latest Edition).
6. KD. Srivastava, The Payment of Bonus Act,1965,Eastern Book Company ((Latest
Edition)
7. R.G. Chaturved, Law of Employees Provident Funds, Bharat Law House (2000).
8. P.R.Bagri – Law of Industrial Disputes
9. O.P. Malhothra – Labour Law
10.Labour Law and Labour Relations – Indian Law Institute
11. V.V.Giri – Labour problems in Indian Industry
12. H.K.Saharay – Labour and Social Laws
13. Mishra – Labour and Industrial Laws

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Statutory materials (With amendments)
1. The Factories Act, 1948.
2. The Employees State Insurance Act, 1948.
3. The Workmen’s Compensation Act, 1923 .
4. The Payment of wages Act, 1936.
5. The Minimum wages Act, 1948.
6. The Payment of Gratuity Act.
7. The Payment of Bonus Act,1965.
8. Employees’ Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952.

Paper – IV

ALTERNATE DISPUTE RESOLUTION

Outline of the course :

(i) Negotiation skills to be learned with simulated programme

(ii) Conciliation skills
(iii) Arbitration Law and Practice including International Arbitration and Arbitration Rules.

The course is required to be conducted by senior legal practitioners through simulation and case
studies. Evaluation may also be conducted in practical exercises at least for a significant part of
evaluation.

Assessment in this paper shall consist of the following:

a. Written test – 40 marks
b. Lok adalath – 25 marks
Students shall take part in at least one Lok Adalat organized by the State Legal Service
Authority, voluntary agencies or the University/College Legal Aid Clinics. The students shall
study the cases, meet the parties and motivate them to attend the Lok Adalat and to agree to a
mediated settlement of the dispute.
a. Negotiation and Conciliation – 25 marks
This shall be done by simulation exercise on the basis of hypothetical
problems. The performance of teams consisting of three students [ two
lawyers and one client] shall be recorded and assessed.
e. Internal viva voce to test the students knowledge in this paper – 10 marks

Tenth Semester
Paper – I

TRADE IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

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 Nature of intellectual property: - International Character of Intellectual property
- Commercial Exploitation of Intellectual property - Intellectual Property and
Economic Development
Patent Law: - What is Patent? - Object of Patent Law - Patentable Invention -
Patent a source of Technical information - How to obtain Patent - Objection to Grant
of Patent - Rights and Obligations of Patents - Register of Patents and Patent Office -
Transfer of Patent Right - Revocation and Surrender of Patents - Infringement of
Patents and Proceedings - Offences and penalties.
Trade Mark: - What is Trade Mark? - Forms of protecting Trade Mark and
Goodwill Certification of Trade Marks - Property in Trade Mark and Registration -
Licensing of trade mark and registered users - Different terms of protecting trade
marks and Goodwill passing off - Service marks - Infringement, Threat and
Tradelabel - Assignment and Transmission - Deceptive Similarities
Copyright: - Definition of copyright - Object of copyright, Nature of Copyright
- Subject matter of Copyright - Rights conferred by copyright - Assignment,
Transmission and relinquishment of copyright - Infringement of Copyright -
Remedies against infringement of Copyright - Copyright Office, Copyright Board, -
Registration of Copyright & Appeal - Copyright societies - Rights of Broadcasting
Organisation & Performers - Copyright and International Law
Industrial Designs: - Subject matter of Designs - Novelty and originality,
Registration of designs - Registration of design and Rights thereof - Infringement of
copyright in a design - Civil remedies against piracy and defences - Suit for
injunction and recovery damages
Confidential information and Breach of confidence: - Protection of confidential
information - Action for breach of confidence - Industrial and trade secrets –
Remedies - Application of LPR in Agriculture Biotechnology Biodiversity –
Conservation, challenges and legal solutions Bio-technology and patent protection -
Plant genetic resources in nature. The value of genetic diversity-Evolution of plant
protection systems in international community-Farmers and breeders rights-
Legislative initiatives. - Intellectual Property and Conservation of traditional
knowledge.
Prescribed Readings: (With amendments)
1. Copy right of Trade Mark and GATT. Taxman.
2. P. Narayanan, Patent Law, Second Edn., Eastern Book Co.
3. W.R. Cornish, Intellectual Property, I Edn., Universal Book Co.
4. Hillary, a person of Clifford Miller, Commercial Exploitation of
Intellectual Property, Universal Book Traders(1994).
5. Beier, F.K., R.S., Crespi, J. Straus. Biotechnology and Patent protection
(1986) Oxford and IBH Pub. Co.
6. Vandana Shiva Ingunn Moser (Edn.) Bio-politics (1996).

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 7. Jayashree Watal, Intellectual property and WTO in the Developing
countries, 2000, OUP.
8. Suman Sahai Ed. Bio-resources and Biotechnology, Policy Concerns for
the Asian Region (1999) Gene Compaign.
9. State.
(i) Concept of environmental protection.
(ii) Sources, causes and effects of environmental pollution-
classification of different types of pollutions.
(a) Air Pollution and Noise.

Paper – II
Criminology and Penology

1. Nature and Scope of Criminology:

Inter relation between Criminology, Penology and Criminal Law
Criminal Law and its nature and elements –
Concept of Crime – Intention and Motive
Importance of Criminology
2. Schools of Criminology:
Pre – classical School of Criminology
Classical School
Positive School
Clinical School of Criminology
Sociological School of Criminology
The New Criminology
3. Causation of Crime:
Mc. Maughten Rule
Insanity Under Indian Criminal Law
Bio-Physical Factors and Criminality
Preud’s theory of Criminal Jurisprudence
Conflict Theory of Crime
4. Sociological Theory of Crime:
Multiple factor approach to crime causation
Mobility, Culture, Conflict, Family background
Political ideology, religion and crime influence of media, economic condition.
5. Temptative Theory of Crime:
Crime as a product of social disorganization –
Socio Cultural Pattern and Criminal Behaviour
6. Organised Crimes:
Main characteristics of Organised crime
7. White collar crime:
` Definition
Contributing Factors

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Whiter Collar Crime in Professions
8. Alcoholism, Drug Addition and Crime:
Main causes of Drug Addiction
Classification of Indian Law

Penology

Theories of Punishment
Essential of an ideal Penal System
Penal Policy in India

9. Capital Punishment:
Capital Punishment
Should Euthenasia be legalised
10. Police System:
Development of Police Organisation
Legal function of Police
Women Police
Criminal Law Court
11. Lok Adalat:
Legal Services Authority Act 1987
Object of Criminal Trial
Function of Criminal Law Court
12. Prison Administration:
Prison Discipline, Prison Labour
Jail Reform Committees – Prison Reform
Problem of under – trial prisoners
Bar against Handcuffing
Solitary confinement
Custodial Torture in prisons
13. Probation of Offenders:
Probation of Offencers Act, 1958

Prescribed Readings;
1. Prof. H.V. Paranjapa – Criminology and Penology
2. Ahmad Siddique – Criminology and Penology.

Or

Women and the Law

1. Status of Women in Indian Society:

Rights of the women under the Constitution-Women
Reservations in Election Local Bodies – Directive

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2. Personal Laws and Gender Justice – Uniform Civil Code
3. Women and Criminal Law:
Offences relating to Marriage
Cruelty by husband or his relatives for dowry
Outranging the modesty of women – Police Atrocities
Custodial Rape – Sexual harassment
Legislation on Criminal Traffic
4. Prevention of Immoral Traffic and Women:
Rehabilitative and Remedial Provisions
5. Law relating to Dowry Prohibition:
Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961
Dowry death and dowry suicide
6. Women and Industrial Law:
Equal Remuneration for Men and Women
Welfare and Safety of Women in Industrial law
7. Women and Special Laws:
Women’s Commission
Family Court Act
Indecent Representation of Women (Act)

Prescribed Readings:
G.B. Reddy - Women and the Law

Relevant Provisions of the Constitution ( with amendments)

“ Hindu Marriage Ac, 1955
“ Adoption and Maintenance Act, 1956
“ Maternity Benefit Act, 1961
“ Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961
“ Family Court Act, 1984
“ National Commission for Women Act, 1990
“ Protection of Human Rights Act
“ Muslim Women’s (Right on Protection of
Divorce) Act, 1986

Paper – III

PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW

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 Nature-origin and basic of International Law-Various theories and schools. -
Sources of International Law. Traditional and modern. -
Relationship between International Law and Municipal Law-Theories- Practice in
US, UK and India.
Subjects of International Law, States-Non-States entities-International
Organizations and private individuals. - Recognition-Theory and practice-kinds of-
effects. - State territorial sovereignty and other lesser territorial rights. - Rights and
duties of States.
State territory-Modes of acquisition and loss of territory State servitude. - State
Jurisdiction-Territorial-personal and extra-territorial jurisdiction. - Law of the sea, Air
and outer space. - State responsibility. - State succession. - International transactions-
agents of international business, their Privileges and immunities.
International Law and Practice as to Treaties. - International Organizations-U.N. and
sister Organisations and ICJ. - International Economic Law-New International
Economics, Order GATT/WTO Regime TRIPS and World Bank.
Human Rights: - Philosophical foundation of the c concept of Human Rights. -
Internationalisation of Human Rights - Civil and Political Rights - Social, Economic
and Cultural Rights - Rights of specific groups - Rights of Women, Children,
Indigenous Population etc. - Concept of sustainable Development - Concept of
Corruption free Governance - Human Rights protection Mechanism-National and
International level.
Prescribed Readings:
1. Oppenheim-International Law
2. Starke-International Law
3. Paras Divan-Human Rights and Law Universal and Indian
4. Kapoor-International Law
5. Tandon-International Law
6. Venkateswaran-Human rights in the changing world.
7. A.H. Robertson and J.C. Hevills-Human Rights in the world(1996)
8. Henry Steiner and Philips Aster-International Human Rights in Context
(Clarendon Press 1996)
9. D.J. Harris-Cases and Materials on International Law
10. Michael A Kehurst -A Modern Introduction to international Law
11. Malcolm N.Shaw-International Law

Paper – IV

MOOT COURT EXERCISE, OBSERVANCE OF TRIAL, INTERVIEWING

TECHNIQUES AND PRE-TRIAL PREPARATIONS

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 This paper may have three components of 30 marks each and a internal viva voce for 10
marks.
(a) Moot Court (30marks) - Every student may be required to do at least three moot courts
in a year with 10 marks for each. The moot court work will be on assigned problem and
it will be evaluated for 5 marks for written submissions and 5 marks for oral advocacy. The
evaluation shall be done by a panel of two teachers nominated by the Principal. Every
student shall secure a minimum of at least 75% attendance for the Moot Court.
If a student fails to participate in the Moot Court due to unavoidable circumstances he may
be permitted to appear for the examination. But his results will be published only after
satisfying the requirement regarding Moot Court in the following academic year.
(b) Observance of Trial in two cases, one civil and one criminal (30marks).
Students may be required to attend two trials in the final year of LL.B. studies. They will
maintain a record and enter the various steps observed during their attendance on different
days in the court assignment., This scheme will carry 30 marks.
(c) Interviewing techniques and Pre-trial preparations (30 marks):

Each student will observe two interviewing sessions of clients at the Lawyer’s Office/Legal
Aid Office and record the proceedings in a diary, which will carry 15 marks. Each student
will further observe the preparation of documents and court papers by the Advocate and the
procedure for the filing of the suit/petition. This will be recorded in the diary, which will
carry 15 marks.
(d) The fourth component of this paper will be internal viva voce examination on all
the above three aspects. This will carry 10 marks.

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