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LLM (Criminal Law Group) CBCS Syllabus 2011
Document code : / SYLLABUS MLLMC2011
Revision No: / 00
Name of Faculty / LAW
Faculty Code / LW
Programme Name : / LLM (Criminal Law Group)
Programme Code : / MLLMC
Effective from: / JUNE-2011
Sem / CC / Old Paper Code / New Paper Code / Paper Type / Paper Name / Marking scheme / Total Mark / Credit / Remarks
External / Internal
The / Pra / The / Pra
1 / Course– I. / MLLMC101CC / CC / Indian Constitutional Law ; The New challenges (ICL) / 70 / 30 / 100 / 4
1 / Course– II. / MLLMC102CC / CC / Judicial Process (JPC) / 70 / 30 / 100 / 4
1 / Course– III. / MLLMC101ES / ES / Penology: Treatment of Offenders (PTG) / 70 / 30 / 100 / 4
1 / Course– IV. / MLLMC102ES / ES / Drug Addiction, Criminal Justice and Human Rights (DCH) / 70 / 30 / 100 / 4
1 / Course– V. / MLLMC103ES / ES / Collective Violence and Criminal Justice System (CCJ) / 70 / 30 / 100 / 4
1 / MLLMC101SK / SK / Communicative Skills (CSK) / 50 / 50 / 2
Sem / CC / Old Paper Code / New Paper Code / Paper Type / Paper Name / Marking scheme / Total Mark / Credit / Remarks
External / Internal
The / Pra / The / Pra
2 / Course– VI. / MLLMC201CC / CC / Jurisprudence(JCC) / 70 / 30 / 100 / 4
2 / Course– VII. / MLLMC202CC / CC / Law and Social Transformation in India (LST) / 70 / 30 / 100 / 4
2 / Course– VIII. / MLLMC201ES / ES / General Principals of Criminal Procedure (GPC) / 70 / 30 / 100 / 4
2 / Course– IX. / MLLMC202ES / ES / Juvenile delinquency (JDC) / 70 / 30 / 100 / 4
2 / Course–X. / MLLMC203ES / ES / Privileged Class Deviance (PCD) / 70 / 30 / 100 / 4
2 / MLLMC201SK / SK / Computer Awareness (CAS) / 50 / 50 / 2
Sem / CC / Old Paper Code / New Paper Code / Paper Type / Paper Name / Marking scheme / Total Mark / Credit / Remarks
External / Internal
The / Pra / The / Pra
3 / Course–XI. / MLLMC 301CC / CC / Legal Education and Research Methodology (LEM) / 70 / 30 / 100 / 4
3 / Course- XII / MLLMC 302CC / CC / Principles of Human Rights (PHR) / 70 / 30 / 100 / 4
3 / Course–XIII / MLLMC 301ES / ES / Comparative Criminal Procedure (CCP) / 70 / 30 / 100 / 4
3 / Course-XIV. / MLLMC 302ES / ES / Forensic Science (FSC) / 70 / 30 / 100 / 4
3 / Course–XV. / MLLMC 303ES / ES / General Principal of Law of Torts (GPT) / 70 / 30 / 100 / 4
3 / MLLMC 301Sk / SK / Environment
Awareness (EAS) / 50 / 50 / 2
Sem / Combination Code / Old Paper Code / New Paper Code / Paper Type / Paper Name / Marking scheme / Total Mark / Credit / Remarks
External / Internal
The / Pra / The / Pra
4 / Course-XVI. / MLLMC 401CC / CC / The Information Technology Act, 2000(TIA) / 70 / 30 / 100 / 4
4 / Course-XVII. / MLLMC 401PR / PR / Practical (PPR) / 70 / 30 / 100 / 4
4 / Course-XVIII. / MLLMC 401ES / ES / Specific Torts (SES) / 70 / 30 / 100 / 4
4 / Course-XVIII. / MLLMC 401DI / DI / Dissertation (DDI) / 150 / 50(Viva) / 200 / 8
HEMCHANDRACHARYA NORTH GUJARAT UNIVERSITY, PATAN
Programme code : / MLLMC / Programme Name : / MASTER OF LAW
Course Code / MLLMC101CC / Semester : / 1
Indian Constitutional Law ; The New challenges (ICL)
Course type : / Core Course / Total Credit : / 04
Teaching time (hours) / Examination Marking scheme
Theory
(hrs) / Practical
(hrs) / Internal
(Marks) / External
(Marks) / Total
(Marks)
4 X 15 = 60 / 30 / 70 ( Paper of 3 hrs) / 100
Objective / Constitution of India is one of the largest in the world. We must respect it. Looking to present scenario, it is right and proper time to review some of the articles. It is a challenge before us. By introduction of this subject in LL.M programme, students will go into the depth of the subject.
Unit
No. / Topic
No. / Content / Hrs. / Marks
W + % / Credit
1 / Federalism :
1.1 / Allocation and share of resources - distribution of grants in aid.
1The inter-state disputes on resources
1.2 / Directions of the center to the state under article 356 and 365
1.3 / Special status of certain states.
1Tribal Areas, Scheduled Areas.
2
2.1 / "State" : Need for Widening the Definition in the Wake of Liberalization.
3
Right to Equality : Privatization and Its Impact on Affirmative Action.
4
Freedom of press and challenge of new scientific development.
4.1 / Freedom of speech and right to broadcast and telecast.
4.2 / Access to information
4.3 / Right to strikes, hartal and bandh
5
Immerging Regime of New Rights and Remark
Realign Directive principles and fundamental duties into fundamental rights.
1Compensation jurisprudence
Right to education
1Commercialization of education and its impact
2Brain drain by foreign education market
6
Secularism and Religious Fanaticism
7 / Separation of Powers : Stresses and Strain
7.1 / Judicial activism and judicial restraint
7.2 / PII : implementation
7.3 / Judicial independence
7.4 / Appointment, transfer and removal of judges
7.5 / Accountability : executive and judiciary
7.6 / Tribunals
Bibliography.
No specific bibliography is suggested for this course since the course materials obviously depend upon the latest development. These development in the areas specified in the course can be gathered from the recent materials such as case law, changes and amendments to laws, critical comments, studies and reports, articles and research papers and lastly contemporary emerging ethos impacting on constitutional values.
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Programme code : / MLLMC / Programme Name : / MASTER OF LAW
Course Code / MLLMC102CC / Semester : / 1
Judicial Process (JPC)
Course type : / Core Course / Total Credit : / 04
Teaching time (hours) / Examination Marking scheme
Theory
(hrs) / Practical
(hrs) / Internal
(Marks) / External
(Marks) / Total
(Marks)
4 X 15 = 60 / 30 / 70 ( Paper of 3 hrs) / 100
Objective / Being a student of Law, student must be acquainted with judicial process of our country that is the main reason for introducing this course in Master of Law.
Unit
No. / Topic
No. / Content / Hrs. / Marks
W + % / Credit
1 / Nature of Judicial Process:
1.1 / Judicial process as an instrument of social ordering
1.2 / Judicial process and creativity in law - common law model. - Legal Reasoning and growth of law-change and stability.
1.3 / The tools and techniques of judicial creativity and precedent.
1.4 / Legal development and creativity through legal reasoning under statutory and codified systems.
2 / Special Dimensions of Judicial Process in Constitutional Adjudications :
2.1 / Notions of judicial review various theories of judicial role
2.2 / Role in constitutional adjudication -
2.3 / Tools and techniques in policy - making and creativity in constitutional adjudication.
2.4 / Variants of judicial and juristic activism.
2.5 / Problems of accountability and judicial law-making.
3.
Judicial Process in India :
3.1 / Indian debate on the role of judges and on the notion of judicial review.
3.2 / The "independence" of judiciary and the "political" nature of judicial process.
3.3 / Judicial activism and creativity of the Supreme Court the tools and techniques of creativity.
3.4 / Judicial process in pursuit of constitutional goals and values-new dimensions of judicial activism and structural challenges.
3.5 / Institutional liability of courts and judicial activism-scope and limits.
4
The Concept of Justice :
4.1 / The concept of justice or Dharma in Indian thought
4.2 / Dharma as the foundation of legal ordering in Indian thought
4.3 / The concept and various theories of justice in the western thought
4.4 / Various theoretical based of justice : the liberal contractual tradition, the liberalUtilitarian tradition and the liberal moral tradition.
5
Relation between Law and Justice :
5.1 / Equivalence Theories - Justice as nothing more than the positive law of the stronger class.
5.2 / Dependency theories - For its realization justice depends on law but justice is not the same as law.
5.3 / The independence of justice - the relationship in the context of the Indian constitutional ordering
5.4 / Analysis of selected cases of the Supreme Court where the judicial process can be seen as influenced bytheories of justice.
Bibliography
Henry J. Abraham, The Judicial Process (1998), Oxford.
HEMCHANDRACHARYA NORTH GUJARAT UNIVERSITY, PATAN
Programme code : / MLLMC / Programme Name : / MASTER OF LAW
Course Code / MLLMC101ES / Semester : / 1
Penology: Treatment of Offenders (PTG)
Course type : / Elective Subject / Total Credit : / 04
Teaching time (hours) / Examination Marking scheme
Theory
(hrs) / Practical
(hrs) / Internal
(Marks) / External
(Marks) / Total
(Marks)
4 X 15 = 60 / 30 / 70 ( Paper of 3 hrs) / 100
Objective / There are various kinds of theories of punishment. Looking to some of the western countries, where there is a strong demand of abolition of capital punishment. Students of Ist Sem. should have idea regarding criminal administration
Unit
No. / Topic
No. / Content / Hrs. / Marks
W + % / Credit
1. / Introductory :
2
Theories of Punishment :
2.1 / Retribution
2.2 / Utilitarian prevention : Deterrence
2.3 / Utilitarian Intimidation
2.4 / Behavioral prevention : Incapacitation
2.5 / Behavioral prevention : Rehabilitation - Expiation
3
The Problematic of Capital Punishment :
3.1 / Constitutionality of Capital Punishment
3.2 / Judicial Attitudes towards capital punishment in India- An inquiry through the statute law and case law
4
Sentencing :
4.1 / Principal types of sentence in the Penal Code and special laws
4.2 / Sentencing in white collar crime
4.3 / Sentencing for habitual offender
5
Imprisonment :
5.1 / Classification of prisoner
5.2 / Rights of prisoner and duties of custodial staff
5.3 / Open prisons
Bibliography.
1 / H.L.A. Hart, Punishment and Responsibility (1968)
2 / Law Commission of India, Forty-Second Report Ch. 3(1971)
HEMCHANDRACHARYA NORTH GUJARAT UNIVERSITY, PATAN
Programme code : / MLLMC / Programme Name : / MASTER OF LAW
Course Code / MLLMC102ES / Semester : / 1
Drug Addiction, Criminal Justice and Human Rights (DCH)
Course type : / Elective Subject / Total Credit : / 04
Teaching time (hours) / Examination Marking scheme
Theory
(hrs) / Practical
(hrs) / Internal
(Marks) / External
(Marks) / Total
(Marks)
4 X 15 = 60 / 30 / 70 ( Paper of 3 hrs) / 100
Objective / Regularly and day to day, we have been watching our youth addicted to drugs. It is also a socio- psycho problem not for our country only but it is an international matter of concern. We have introduced International legal regime and criminal justice system along with Human Right aspects.
Unit
No. / Topic
No. / Content / Hrs. / Marks
W + % / Credit
1. / Introduction :
1.1 / Basic conceptions
1 Drugs 'narcotics', "psychotropic substances"
2 ''Dependence', "addition"
3 "Crimes without victims"
4 "Trafficking" in "drugs"
2 / How Does One Study the Incidence of Drug Addiction and Abuse ?
2.1 / Self-reporting
2.2 / Victim-studies
2.3 / Problems of comparative studies
3 / Anagraphic and Social Characteristics of Drug Users
3.1 / Gender
3.2 / Age
3.3 / Religiousness
3.4 / Single individuals / cohabitation
3.5 / Socio-economic level of family
3.6 / Residence patterns (urban/rural/urban)
3.7 / Educational levels
3.8 / Occupation
3.9 / Age at first use
3.10 / Type of drug use
3.11 / Reasons given as cause of first use
3.12 / Methods of intake
3.13 / Pattern of the Use
3.14 / Average Quantity and Cost
3.15 / Consequences of addict's health (physical/psychic)
4 / The International Legal Regime :
4.1 / Analysis of the background, text and operation of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961,1972
4.2 / Analysis of the Convention on Psychotropic Substances, 1972.
4.3 / International collaboration in combating drug addition
4.4 / The SARC, and South - South Cooperation
4.5 / Profile of international market for psychotropic substances
5 / The Indian Regulatory System :
5.1 / Approaches to narcotic trafficking during colonial India
5.2 / Nationalist thought towards regulation of during trafficking and usage.
5.3 / The penal provisions (under the IPC and the Customs Act)
5.4 / India's role in the evolution of the two international conventions
5.5 / Judicial approaches to sentencing in drug trafficking and abuse
5.6 / The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985
5.7 / Patterns of resource investment in India : policing adjudication, treatment, aftercare andrehabilitation.
6 / Human Rights Aspects :
6.1 / Deployment of marginalized people as carrier of narcotics
6.2 / The problem of juvenile drug use and legal approaches
6.3 / Possibilities of misuse and abuse of investigative prosecutor powers
6.4 / Bail
6.5 / The problem of differential application of the Ugal Regimes, especially in relation to theresource less
7 / The Role of Community in Combating Drug Addiction :
7.1 / Profile of Community initiatives in inhibition of dependence and addiction
(e.g. deaddiction andaftercare)
7.2 / The role of educational systems
7.3 / The role of medical profession
7.4 / The role of mass media
7.5 / Initiatives for Compliance with regulatory systems
7.6 / Law reform initiatives
Bibliography.
1 / J.A. Incard, C.D. Chambers, (eds.), Drugs and the Criminal Justice System (1974).
2 / Social Defence Research Institute (UNSDRI) Combating Drug Abuse and Related Crimes (Rome, July 1984, Publication No.21)
HEMCHANDRACHARYA NORTH GUJARAT UNIVERSITY, PATAN
Programme code : / MLLMC / Programme Name : / MASTER OF LAW
Course Code / MLLMC103ES / Semester : / 1
Collective Violence and Criminal Justice System (CCJ)
Course type : / Elective Subject / Total Credit : / 04
Teaching time (hours) / Examination Marking scheme
Theory
(hrs) / Practical
(hrs) / Internal
(Marks) / External
(Marks) / Total
(Marks)
4 X 15 = 60 / 30 / 70 ( Paper of 3 hrs) / 100
Objective / Ever since Criminalization entered in to the politics and society, it is quite necessary to acquaint Law students regarding collective violence. It includes communal violence and violence against certain communities in India.
Unit
No. / Topic
No. / Content / Hrs. / Marks
W + % / Credit
1. / Introductory :
1.1 / Notions of "force", "coercion", "violence"
1.2 / Distinctions : "symbolic" violence, "institutionalised" violence "structural" Violence
1.3 / "Collective political violence" and legal order
2. / Approaches to Violence in India :
2.1 / Religiously sanctioned structural violence : Caste and gender based
2.2 / Gandhiji's approaches to non-violence
2.3 / Discourse on political violence and terrorism during colonial struggle
3. / Violence against the Scheduled Castes :
3.1 / Notion of atrocities
3.2 / Incidence of atrocities
3.3 / User of Criminal Law to combat atrocities or contain aftermath of atrocities
3.4 / Violence against woman
4 / Communal Violence :
4.1 / Incidence and courses of "communal" violence
4.2 / The role of police and para-military systems in dealing with communal violence.
Bibliography.
1 / U. Baxi, “Dissent, Development and Violence” in R. Meagher (ed.), Law and Social Change : Indo-American Reflections 92 (1988).
2 / G. Shah, Ethnic Minorities and Nation Building : Indian Experience (1984).
HEMCHANDRACHARYA NORTH GUJARAT UNIVERSITY, PATAN
Programme code : / MLLMC / Programme Name : / MASTER OF LAW
Course Code / MLLMC101SK / Semester : / 1
Communicative Skills (CSK)
Course type : / Soft Skills / Total Credit : / 02
Teaching time (hours) / Examination Marking scheme
Theory
(hrs) / Practical
(hrs) / Internal
(Marks) / External
(Marks) / Total
(Marks)
2 X 15 = 30 / 50 ( Paper of 3 hrs) / 50
HEMCHANDRACHARYA NORTH GUJARAT UNIVERSITY, PATAN
Programme code : / MLLMC / Programme Name : / MASTER OF LAW
Course Code / MLLMC201CC / Semester : / 2
Jurisprudence(JCC)
Course type : / Compulsory Subject / Total Credit : / 04
Teaching time (hours) / Examination Marking scheme
Theory
(hrs) / Practical
(hrs) / Internal
(Marks) / External
(Marks) / Total
(Marks)
4 X 15 = 60 / 30 / 70 ( Paper of 3 hrs) / 100
Objective / Jurisprudence is the main source of Law. Some of the theories and concepts are required to be understood prior to go in to the detailed syllabus. It is necessary to know what Law is? It is the main reason for introduction of this subject in LL.M Programme.
Unit
No. / Topic
No. / Content / Hrs. / Marks
W + % / Credit
1. / Concept of Law
1.1 / School of Jurisprudence
1.2 / Kinds of Law
1.3 / Nature of Law
1.4 / Administration of Justice
1.5 / Sources of Law
1.6 / Legal Concepts
Concepts of Rights
1.7 / Concepts of Ownership
1.8 / Concepts of Possession
1.9 / Concepts of Title
1.10 / Concepts of Liabilities
1.11 / Concepts of Personality
1.12 / Concepts of Law of Obligation
1.13 / Concepts of Property
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Programme code : / MLLMC / Programme Name : / MASTER OF LAW
Course Code / MLLMC202CC / Semester : / 2
Law and Social Transformation in India (LST)
Course type : / Compulsory Subject / Total Credit : / 04
Teaching time (hours) / Examination Marking scheme
Theory
(hrs) / Practical
(hrs) / Internal
(Marks) / External
(Marks) / Total
(Marks)
4 X 15 = 60 / 30 / 70 ( Paper of 3 hrs) / 100
Objective / India is governed by rule of Law. Law and society are complementary to each other. There is also close relationship between Religion, Language, Community and Regionalism. There is alternative approach to law required to learn by all students of LL.M that is the reason this subject is selected as a core subject. Reformation is essential in modern world.
Unit
No. / Topic
No. / Content / Hrs. / Marks
W + % / Credit
1. / Law and Social Change :
1.1 / Law as an instrument of social change
1.2 / Law as the product of traditions and culture. Criticism and evaluation in the light of colonization and the introduction of common law system and institutions in India and its impact on further development of law and legal institutions in India.
2 / Law and its Inter-relationships with Religion, Language, Community and Regionalism
2.1 / Religion, language, community and regionalism as divisive factors
2.2 / 2.2Responses of law to
a.Religion - through secularism
b.Language - through constitutional guarantees
c.Community - through non-discrimination
d.Regionalism - through unity
e.Non-discrimination and protective discrimination (reservation)
3 / Women and the Law
Crimes against woman
Gender injustice and its various forms
Woman's Commission
Empowerment of woman : Constitutional and other legal provisions
4 / Children and the Law :
4.1 / Child labour
4.2 / Sexual exploitation
4.3 / Adoption and related problems
4.4 / Children and education
5 / Modernization and the Law :
5.1 / Modernization as a value : Constitutional perspectives reflected in the fundamental duties
5.2 / Modernization of social institutions through law
1 Reform of family law
2 Agrarian reform – Industrialization of agriculture
3 Industrial reform : Free enterprise v. State regulation - Industrialization v. environment protection
5.3 / Reform of court processes :
1 Criminal law : Plea bargaining; compounding and payment of compensation to victims
2 Civil law : (ADR) Confrontation v. consensus; mediation and conciliation;Lokadalats
3 Prison reforms
5.4 / Democratic decentralization and local self-government
6 / Alternative Approaches to Law :
6.1 / The jurisprudence of Sarvodaya - Gandhiji, VinodaBhave; JayaprakashNarayan – Surrender of dacoits; concept of gramanyayalays
6.2 / Socialist thought on law and justice : An enquiry through constitutional debates on the right toproperty
6.3 / Indian Marxist critique of law and justice
6.4 / Naxalite movement : causes and cure
Bibliography.
1 / U. Baxi(Ed.), Law and Poverty : Critical Essays (1988).
2 / Indian Law Institute, Law and Social Change : Indo-American Reflections, Tripathi (1988).
3 / N.K. Indrayan – Law and Public Opinion in India.
HEMCHANDRACHARYA NORTH GUJARAT UNIVERSITY, PATAN
Programme code : / MLLMC / Programme Name : / MASTER OF LAW
Course Code / MLLMC201ES / Semester : / 2
General Principals of Criminal Procedure (GPC)
Course type : / Elective Subject / Total Credit : / 04
Teaching time (hours) / Examination Marking scheme
Theory
(hrs) / Practical
(hrs) / Internal
(Marks) / External
(Marks) / Total
(Marks)
4 X 15 = 60 / 30 / 70 ( Paper of 3 hrs) / 100
Objective / It is quite necessary to know about the formation of the court and criminal justice system of the country. PIL is now effective organ. Looking to all the aspect, we introduced in syllabus.
Unit
No. / Topic
No. / Content / Hrs. / Marks
W + % / Credit
1. / Organization of Courts and Prosecuting Agencies :
1.1 / Hierarchy of criminal courts and their jurisdiction
-NyayaPanchayats in India.
-Panchayats in tribal areas.
1.2 / Organizations of prosecuting agencies for prosecuting criminals.
- Prosecutors and the police.
1.3 / Withdrawal of prosecution
2 / Pre-trial Procedures :
2.1 / Antes and questioning of the accused
2.2 / The rights of the accused
2.3 / The evidentiary value of statements / articles seized / collected by the police
2.4 / Right to counsel
2.5 / Roles of the prosecutor and the judicial officer in investigation
3 / Trial Procedures :
3.1 / The accusatory system of trial and the inquisitorial system,\m
3.2 / Role of the judge, the prosecutor and defense attorney in the trial
3.3 / Admissibility and inadmissibility of evidence
3.4 / Expert evidence
3.5 / Appeal of the court in awarding appropriate punishment