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The Central Law College

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SYLLABUS

COURSE: LLM SUBJECT CODE: PFL YEAR/SEM: I YEAR/I SEM

LEGAL EDUCATION & RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

1. Objectives of Legal Education.

2. Lecture Method of Teaching - Merits and Demerits.

3. The Problem Method.

4. Discussion method and its suitability at postgraduate level teaching.

5. The Seminar Methods of teaching

6. Examination system and problems in evaluation-external and internal assessement

7. Student participation in law school programmes - Organization of Seminars, publication

of journals and assessment of teachers.

8. Clinical legal education- legal aid, legal literacy, legal survey and law reform.

9. Clinical legal education - legal

9.1. Socio Legal Research.

9.2. Doctrinal and non-doctrinal.

9.3. Relevance of empirical research.

9.4. Induction and deduction.

10. Identification of Problem of research

10.1. What is s research problem?

10.2. Survey of available literature and bibliographical research.

10.2.1. Legislative materials including subordinate legislation, notification

and policy statements.

10.2.2. Decisional materials including foreign decisions; methods of

discovering the rule of the case"; tracing the history of important cases and
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ensuring that these have not been over-ruled; discovering judicial conflict
in the area pertaining to the research problem and the reasons thereof.

10.2.3. Juristic writings-a survey of juristic literature relevant to select

problems in India and foreign periodicals.

10.2.4. Compilation of list of reports or special studies conducted, relevant

to the problem.

11. Preparation of the Research Design

11.1. Formulation of the Research problem.
11.2.Devising tools and techniques for collection of data: Methodology.
11.2.1. Methods for the collection of statutory and case materials and
juristic literature.
11.2.2. Use of historical and comparative research materials.
11.2.3. Use of observation studies.
11.2.4. Use of questionnaires/interview.
11.2.5. Use of case studies.
11.2.6. Sampling procedures-design of sample, types of sampling to be
adopted.
11.2.7. Use of scaling techniques.
11.2.8. Jurimetrics.
11.3. Computerized Research - A study of legal research programmes such as
Lexis and West law coding.
11.4. Classification and tabulation of data - use of cards for data collection Rules
for tabulation. Explanation of tabulated data.
11.5. Analysis fo data.

BIBILIOGRAPHY:
RECOMMENDED READING:

BOOKS
1. High Brayal, Nigel Dunean and Richard Crimes, Clinical Legal Education: Active
Learning in your Law School, (1998) Blackstone Press Limited, London.

2. S.K. Agrawal (ed.), Legal Education in India (1973), Tripathi, Bombay.

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3. N.R. Madhava Menon, (ed.) A Handbook of Clinical Legal Education, (1998) Eastern
Book Company, Lucknow.

4. M.O. Price, H. Bitner and Bysiewiez, Effective Legal Research (1978)

5. Pauline V. Young, Scientific Social Survey and Research, (1962).

6. William J. Grade and Paul K. Hatt, Methods in Social Research, Mc Graw-Hill Book
Company, London. H.M. Hyman, Interviewing in Social Research (1965).

7. Payne, The Art of Asking Questions (1965).

8. Erwin C. Surrency, B. Fielf and J. Crea, A Guide to Legal Research (1959).

9. Morris L. Coha, Legal Research in Nutshell, (1996), West Publishing Co.

10. Harvard Law Review Association, Uniform System of Citations.

11. ILI Publication, Legal Research and Methodology.

FURTHER READING:
BOOKS
1. Black & Champion-Research Methodology.
2. C. M. Coroll and Frederic Coroll : Methods of Sociological Research.
3. Campbell, Fox Kentey-Students guide to Legalwriting.
4. S.K. Sharma, “Legal Profession in India, Sociology of Law and Legal Profession: A Study
of Relations between Lawyers and their Clients”
5. David J. McQuoid-Mason (Ed.), “Legal Aid And Law Clinics In South Law”, Howard
College, University of Natal, 1985.
6. P.L. Mehta, Sushma Gupta, “Legal Education and Profession in India” (2000).
7. Jain S. N. : Legal Research and Methodology.
8. N. R. Madhava Menon (ed.) A Handbook of Clinical Legal Education (1988), Eastern
Book Company, Lucknow.
9. S. K. Agrawal (Ed.), Legal Education in India (1973), Tripathi, Bombay.
10. Erwin C. Surrency, B. Fielf and J. Crea, A Guide to Legal Research (1959).
11. Festinger L. and Katz, Daniel : Research Methods in the Behavioural Sciences.

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12. David J. McQuoid-Mason (Ed.), “Legal Aid And Law Clinics In South Law”, Howard
College, University of Natal, 1985.

INDIAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORK:

1. Qualitative research design : A interactive approach Maxwell, Joseph A, Sage

Publication, New Delhi, 1996.
2. Participatory research and evaluation : experiment in research as a process of liberation-
Fernandes Walter, Rajesh Tandon. Indian Social Institute, New Delhi, 1856.
3. Doing legal research : A guide for social scientists and mental health professionals,
Morris Roberta, Sales Bruce D, Shuman Daniel W. Sage Publication, London.
4. Research Methodology: A step by step guide for beginners-Kumar Ranjit, Sage
Publication, London, 1996.
5. Developing effective research proposals-Punch Keith, Sage Publication, Londoan, 2000.

JOURNALS/ ARTICLES

1. A.S. Anand, “Legal Education in India - Past, Present and Future”, 3 SCC (Jour.) 1
(1998).
2. A.Lakshminath, “Legal Education, Research and Pedagogy – Ideological perceptions”,
Journal of Indian Law Institute, Volume 50:4, 2008
3. D.C. Mukherjee, “Practical Side of Law Teaching”, 2 Journal of Bar Council of India,
1973.
4. A.T. Markose, “A Brief History of the Steps taken in India for Reform of Legal
Education”, 68 Journal of the All India Law Teachers Association, 1968.
5. Frank J. Macchiarola, “Teaching in Law School: What are we doing and what more has
to be done?” 71 1994.
6. “Institutionalizing A Social Justice Mission for Clinical Legal Education: Cross-National
Currents From India And The United States'”, 13 Clinical Law Review 165 (2006-2007).
7. Frank S.Bloch, Iqbal S. Ishar, “Legal Aid, Public Service and Clinical Legal
Education:Future Directions from India and the United State”, Mic. J. Int’l. L. (1990).
8. JagatNarain, “Legal Aid - Litigational or Educational: An Indian Experiment”, 28 JILI
(1986).

REPORTS

1. American Bar Association, “Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar,
Legal Education and Profession Development - An Educational Continuum”, Report of
the Task Force on Law Schools and the Profession: Narrowing the Gap, (ABA 1992).
Government of India, Ministry of Law, Justice and Company Affairs, Department of
Legal Affairs, “Report of Expert Committee on Legal Aid :Processual Justice to the
People” (1973).

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2. Government of India, Ministry of Law, Justice and Company affairs, Department of
Legal Affairs, “Report of Expert Committee on Legal Aid: Processual Justice to the
People” (1973)
3. Government of India, Ministry of Law, Justice and Company Affairs, Department of
Legal Affairs, “Report on National Juridicare: Equal Justice - Social Justice”(1977) 4.
Law Commission of India, 14th Report on Reform of Judicial Administration” (1958).
4. Law Commission of India, 184th Report on The Legal Education and Professional
Training and Proposal for Amendments to the Advocates Act 1961 and the University
Grants Commission Act, 1956”.

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