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Topic Name
No.
1 What is Law
2 Critical Analysis of Definitions of Law
3 Functions of Law
4 Law and Morality
5 Classification of Laws: Moral and Legal laws: Civil -Criminal and Public- Private
6 Legal Laws: Substantive, Procedural and Adjective Law
7 International and Municipal Law
8 Language of Laws
9 Sources of Law
10 Legislation as a source of Law
11 Kinds of legislation
12 General principles on Interpretation of Statutes
13 Precedent as a source of Law: Meaning,
14 Significance and Theories of Precedent
15 Precedent: The Doctrine of Stare Decisis, Ratio Decidendi, Obiter Dicta
16 Techniques of Reading a Case and Essentials of a judgment and their identification from the judgment -
Citation, Quorum & its nature (Single, Division, Constitutional etc.), Docket Number, Catch Words, Marginal
Notes, Precedent, Nature of Opinions (Minority, Majority, Unanimous etc.), Obiter Dicta, Ratio Decidendi, Order
etc
17 Analysing various case laws
18 Custom as a Source of Law: Meaning and Definition, Essentials of a Valid Custom
19 Identification of Customary Laws
20 Custom as a Source of Law: Analysing Custom as a source of Law in India
21 Secondary Sources
22 Revision and Interactive Session
23 Main Features of Indian Legal System
24 Principle of Justice
25 Theories related to concept of Justice
26 Principle of Liberty
27 Principle of Fraternity
28 Rule of Law
29 Interactive session and identifying application of these concepts through judicial system etc
30 Separation of Powers
31 Judicial System in India- Hierarchy of Courts
32 Appeal, Revision and Review
33 Rights of Accused and Victim
34 Role of Prosecutors/ Legal officers/ Lawyers and Judges in Justice System
35 Interaction Session
36 Basic Concepts in Logic and Legal Reasoning: Propositions, Arguments and Explanations
37 Deductive and Inductive methods
38 Applications of Deductive and Inductive methods in Law
39 Revision
40 Meaning and objectives of Legal Research
41 Kinds of Legal Research
42 Difference between Doctrinal and Non- Doctrinal Legal Research
43 Process of Legal Research
44 Difference between Research Methods and Research Methodology
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45 Techniques used in Data Collection
46 How to Use Law Library
47 How to find out relevant authorities from print journals, online databases.
48 Basic Rules of Legal Writing
49 Writing of Reports: Thesis, Projects
50 Practical execution of report writing
51 Writing of Reports: Case Comment and Book Review
52 Importance and modes of Citation
53 Bibliography
54 Concept of Plagiarism
55 Tools to avoid or check plagiarism
56 Turnitin, I Authenticate
57 Doubt Class