SEMESTER I

SUBJECT
1. Research Method and Legal Writing.
2. Comparative Law/Systems of Governance.
3. Law and Justice in a Globalization World.
4. Criminology and Criminal Justice Administration.
5. Victimolgy.

RESEARCH METHOD AND LEGAL WRITING (TOPIC)-LL.M 1101

MODULE I: INTRODUCTION
 The Science of research and scientific methodology.
 Interrelation between speculation, fact and theory building some fallacies of scientific
methodology with reference to socio legal research
 Inter-disciplinary research and legal research models.
 Arm chair research vis-à-vis empirical research.
 Legal research-common laws and civil law legal systems

MODULE II: RESEARCH DESIGN

 Workable Hypothesis-formulation and evaluations.
 Major steps in research design.

MODULE III: RESEARCH TECHNIQUES

 Sampling
 Survey and Case Study Method
 Scaling and Content Analysis

MODULE IV: RESEARCH TOOLS AND DATA PROCESSING

 Observation
 Interview and Schedule
 Questionnaire
 Socio-Metrics and Jurimetrics
 Data Processing (deductions and Inductions) analysis and interpretation of data

MODULE V: LEGAL WRITING

 Report/article writing in legal research
 Use of definition, maxims concepts, principles, doctrines in legal research
 Citation methodology
 Book review and case comments.
COMPARATIVE LAW/SYSTEMS OF GOVERNANCE LL.M 1102
MODULE I: INTRODUCTION
 Meaning and definition of Public Law.
 Concept of Public Law.
 Globalization of Comparative Public Law.

MODULE II: TOOLS OF COMPARATIVE PUBLIC LAW

 Constitutional Law-Common Law Civil Law.
 Legislative Mechanism-Common Law, Civil Law.
 Typology of Federalism-USA, India.

MODULE III: PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION-US, INDIA

 Locus Standi.
 Judicial Activism.
 Judicial Accountability.

MODULE IV: COMPARATIVE CRIMINAL LAW-COMMON LAW, CIVIL LAW

 Domestic Violations-International, National.
 Provisions relating to Rape.
 Plea Bargaining-USA, India.
 White Collar Crimes.
 Juvenile Justics.

MODULE V: OMBUDSMAN
 Ombudsman in Scandinavian countries.
 International Scenario-Common Law and Civil Law.
 Indian Scenario.
 Lokpal (Ombudsman).
 Lokayukta.
LAW AND JUSTICE IN A GLOBALIZATION WORLD LL.M 1103
MODULE I: INTRODUCTION
 Meaning and Significance of Globalization.
 Concept of Global Justice
 Global Justice and Right to Development.
MODULE II: THEORETICAL PREPOSITION OF GLOBAL JUSTICE
 Realism
 Particularism
 Nationalism
 Cosmopolitanism

MODULE III: HISTORICAL AND CENTRAL CHALLENGES TO GLOBAL JUSTISE.

 Global Poverty-Role of International Mechanism.
 Armed Conflict.
 Nationalist practices.
 Crimes against Humanity.
 Environment and Health.
 Oppressive Policies-Threat of Terrorism Global Politics.

MODULE IV: ROLE AND REFORMATION OF GLOBAL INSTITUTIONS

 States Sovereignty and Transnational Law
 Economic and Trade Institutions-MNC’s
 Structural reforms and United Nations Security Council
 International Judicial Institutions.

MODULE V: MODELS TO ACHIEVE GLOBAL JUSTICE

 Social Contract and Social Justice.
 Sarvodaya Model of Justice
 Multi Culturalism and Cosmopolitanism
 Significance of Human Rights Education
 Global Justice and Global Rule of Law.
CRIMONOLOGY AND CRIMINAL ADMINISTRATION LL.M 1106

MODULE I: THE CONCEPT OF CRIMONOLOGY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE

ADMINISTRATION
 Notion of deviance and Crime
 Constituent Elements of Crime
 Nature and Scope of Criminology
 Methods of Criminological Studies.

MODULE II: SCHOOL OF CRIMINOLOGY

 Classical
 Biological
 Cartographic
 Sociological
 Socialist

MODULE III: A BRIEF DISCUSSION OF MODERN TRENDS IN CRIMINOLOGY.

 Phenomenology
 Postmodernism
 Crime and Feminism

MODULE IV: PUNISHMENT: CONCEPT AND THEORIES

 Death Sentence
 Treatment of Offenders: Prison, Probation and Parole

MODULE V: INDIVIDUALISTIC APPROACHES TO CRIME-BIO -

ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORIES
 Lombroso
 Modem Crimino-Biological School
 Frustration-Aggression Theories.
VICTIMOLOGY LL.M 1107

MODULE I: THE CONCEPT OF VICTIMOLOGY

 Constituent Element of Crime and Victimolgy
 Nature and Scope of Victimolgy
 Methods of Victimolgy Studies

MODULE II: JUSTICE FOR VICTIMS

 Ideology and the behavior of perpetrators and victims of violence Noach

MODULE III:
 Malimath Committee and Crime Victims
 Justice J.S. Verma Committee Report
 Criminal Law Amendment Act

MODULE IV: ISSUES OF SEXUAL VICTIMIZATION

 Women Victims of Sexual violence and the Civil legal System
 Victims of Sexual harassment in modern work places in India
 Blaming victims and bystanders in the context of rape.

MODULE V: SEXUAL ASSAULT VICTIMS

 The relationship between childhood victimization, durg abuse
 PTSD and adult delinquency in a prison population
 Resurrecting the forgotten voices of the Indian criminal justice system
1. Criminal Victimization and social networks in India.