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Integrated Law Course Design will comprise of a total number of ten (10) semesters and Sixty (60) courses (excluding the internship and court-room exercises).
A student during the five-year stay at the University shall have to study (a) (06) Six Interdisciplinary courses. (b) Twelve (12) base courses in a stream. (c) Thirty Six (36) Law Courses. (d) Six (06) Courses in Honors in a Legal discipline.
- Interdisciplinary courses will comprise of six (06) courses with six (06) credit points. All students shall take the following six courses in view of the mandatory requirements of the Bar Council of India namely Constitutional and Legal History, Economics, Political Science, Sociology, English and Legal Language
- Base Courses in each stream will comprise of 12 courses each with 6 credit points and the streams are as follows.
- Management Stream: Business Communication, Business Mathematics and Statistics, Principles of Management, Principles of Accounting, Organizational Behavior, Cost and Management Accounting. Managerial Economics, Marketing Management, Strategic Management, Human Resources Management, Financial Management and Operational Management.
- Sciences & Technology Stream: Physics (4 courses); Chemistry (4 courses), Life Science (4 courses) including normal laboratory courses.
- Policy Sciences Stream: Economics (3 Courses), Political Science and Public Administration (3 Courses), Sociology (1 Course), Philosophy (2 Courses), History (1 Course) Psychology (2 Courses).
- Law courses will comprise of Thirty Six (36) courses and will include (i) Four (04) Courses in Major Law Courses; (ii) Seven (07) courses in Clinical/Operational Courses; (iii) Twenty (20) Courses in Substantive law Courses, (iv) Five (05) Optional Courses from Optional Courses and (v) Six (06) Courses from Honors in a Legal Discipline.
- Major Law Courses will be in two (02) subjects namely Constitutional Law and Crime & Punishments. Both these subjects will consist of two (02) courses each, which will have ten (10) credits each.
- Operational courses will be seven (07) courses with six (06) credit points. Moot court, Internship, Legal Aid and Rules of courts will be a continuous process. The courses will have to be elected from Drafting and Pleading; Professional Ethics and Law relating to Legal Profession; Jurisprudence II: Interpretation of Statutes; Civil Procedure; Criminal Procedure; Alternative Dispute Resolution and Principles of Arbitration; and Law of Evidence.
- Substantive law courses will be twenty (20) courses with six (06) credit points each in Legal Methods and Legal Research, Torts, General Principles of Contracts and Specific Relief, Applied Contracts, Family Law I, Family Law II, Jurisprudence I, Administrative Law, Company Law I, Company Law II, Property Law, Labor Law I, Labor Law II, Public International Law, Law and Agriculture, Private International Law, Environmental Law, Consumer Protection Law, Commercial Transactions, Equity; Trust and Specific relief.
- Optional Courses will include five (05) courses with six (06) credit points each to be selected from Taxation I, Taxation II, Intellectual Property I, Intellectual Property II, Information Technology, Mines and Minerals, Banking and Financial Institutions Insurance, Forest Law, Capital Market Regulation, Secured Lending & Securitization Social Security, Law on Education, Health and Housing, Law and Medicine, Maritime Law, and Law, Poverty and Development.
- Honors in a Legal discipline will comprise of six (06) courses each with 10 credit points in the following streams.
- Constitutional Governance: Comparative Constitutional Law, Election Law, Media and Law, Population studies, Local Self Government, Theory of Justice.
- Corporate Legal System: Corporate Government, Corporate Finance, Corporate Taxation, Industrial Labor, Infrastructure Law and Contract.
- Trade and Investment: International Investment and Banking Standards, International Trade in Goods and Services, International Labor Standards, International trade in Intellectual Property and Technology, International Bankruptcy, and International settlement of accounts.
- Law and Intellectual Property Rights: Legal Software creation I, Patents Law I, Patents Law II, Patent documentation, Geographical Indications, Industrial Designs and Integrated Circuits, Biodiversity, Framers and breeders' rights.
- Criminal Administration of Justice: Criminology and Penology, Police Studies, Comparative Criminal Law, Economic Offences, Juvenile Justice, International Criminal Law.
- Human Right studies: 'Right Jurisprudence' and Obligation Discourse; Law and enforcement of International Human Rights; Law and enforcement of National Human Rights; Comparative Law and practice of Regional Human Rights; Law and practice relating to rights of women, children and underprivileged and International Humanitarian Law and Refugee Law.
Note: The Faculty may periodically revise the courses of study and the Academic Council shall approve the same.
Remarks:
- Normally students are required to work 60 - 65 hours in a week.
- Unless otherwise instructed by the Faculty all courses other than Honors courses in the first three years are "taught courses." In a "taught course" one credit shall mean one class hour and ½ to 1 hour self-learning per week in normal condition. A 6-credit course means 6½ to 7 hours work per week. Optional and compulsory law courses require 1-hour class with 1-hour self-study. Each course with 6 credits would require 6 class hours and 6 hours self-study i.e., 12 hours of work per week. Honors course is a mixed course of research and teaching. Teaching in honors course is not expected to be more than 25% to 331/3% of the entire teaching learning system. In Honors course one credit shall mean one class hour and 2 to 3 research hours per week in normal condition. Therefore 10-credit honors course may mean 3 class hours and 7 research hours or as instructed by the faculty per week. Each semester Program is for 18-20 weeks duration.
SUMMARY OF COURSES WITH CREDITS/GRADE POINTS
| Courses of Study |
Number of Courses |
Credit Points |
Total Credit Points |
Maximum Cumulative Grade Point in Ten Point Scale |
| Inter-disciplinary Courses |
6 |
6 |
36 |
360 |
| Base Courses in a Stream |
12 |
6 |
72 |
720 |
| Major Law Courses |
4 |
10 |
40 |
400 |
| Operational/ Clinical Courses |
7 |
6 |
42 |
420 |
| Substantive Law courses |
20 |
6 |
120 |
1200 |
| Optional Courses |
5 |
6 |
30 |
300 |
| Honors Courses in a Legal Discipline |
6 |
10 |
60 |
600 |
| Total |
60 |
|
400 |
4000 |
Semester-wise Course Structure
I Semester
- English
- Political Science
- Legal Methods and Legal Research
- Law of Torts
- Two Courses from Policy Science/Management Studies/Science
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| Policy Science |
Management Studies |
Science |
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| Philosophy I (Logic) |
Business Communication |
Physics I |
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| Economics |
Business Mathematics& Statistics |
Life Science I |
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II Semester
- Legal Language
- Economics
- Constitutional Governance I: (Human Rights in Constitution of India)
- General Contracts and Specific Relief-I
- Two Courses from Policy Science/Management Studies/Science
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| Policy Science |
Management Studies |
Science |
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| Philosophy II |
Principles of Management |
Physics II |
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| Political Science II |
Principles of Accounting |
Chemistry I |
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III Semester
- History
- Constitutional Governance II: Federalism under Indian Constitution
- Special Contracts
- Crime and Punishment I
- Two Courses from Policy Science/Management Studies/Science
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| Policy Science |
Management Studies |
Science |
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| Psychology |
Organizational Behavior |
Chemistry II |
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| Political Science III |
Cost & Management Accounting |
Life Science III |
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IV Semester
- Sociology
- Criminal Procedure Code
- Family Law I
- Civil Procedure and Limitation
- Two Courses from Policy Science/Management Studies/Science
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| Policy Science |
Management Studies |
Science |
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| Economics III |
Managerial Economics |
Physics III |
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| History |
Marketing Management |
Life Science IV |
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V Semester
- Law of Evidence
- Company Law II
- Commercial Transactions
- Family Law II
- Two courses from Policy Science/Management Studies/Science
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| Policy Science |
Management Studies |
Science |
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| Psychology |
Strategic Management |
Chemistry III |
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| Sociology |
Human Resources Management |
Physics IV |
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VI Semester
- Jurisprudence I
- Company Law II
- Criminology and Penology
- Property Law
- Two courses from Policy Science/Management Studies/Science
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| Policy Science |
Management Studies |
Science |
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| Political Science IV |
Financial Management |
Chemistry IV |
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| Economics IV |
Operational Management |
Life Science IV |
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VII Semester
- Jurisprudence II
- Administrative Law
- Public International Law
- Environmental Law
- Labor Law I
- Honors Paper I
VIII Semester
- Land Law (Law and Agriculture)
- Private International Law
- Labor Law II
- Optional Paper I
- Honors Paper II
- Honors Paper III
IX Semester
- Consumer Protection Law
- Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Optional Paper II
- Optional Paper III
- Honors Paper IV
- Honors Paper V
X Semester
- Drafting and Pleading
- Professional Ethics
- Equity, Trust and Fiduciary Relations
- Optional Paper IV
- Optional Paper V
- Honors Paper VI
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