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UNIT I: JURISPRUDENCE
1. Nature and sources of law
2. Schools of jurisprudence
3. Law and morality
4. Concept of rights and duties
5. Legal personality
6. Concepts of property, ownership and possession
7. Concept of liability
8. Law, poverty and development
9. Global justice
10. Modernism and post-modernism
UNIT II: CONSTITUTIONAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE LAW
1. Preamble, fundamental rights and duties, directive principles of state policy.
2. Union and State executive and their interrelationship
3. Union and State legislature and distribution of legislative powers
4. Judiciary
5. Emergency provisions
6. Temporary, transitional and special provisions in respect of certain states
7. Election Commission of India
8. Nature, scope and importance of administrative law
9. Principle of natural justice
10. Judicial review of administrative actions - Grounds.
UNIT-III: PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW AND IHL
1. International law - Definition, nature and basis
2. Sources of International law
3. Recognition of states and governments
4. Nationality, immigrants, refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs)
5. Extradition and asylum
6. United Nations and its organs 7. Settlement of international disputes
8. World Trade Organization (WTO)
9. International humanitarian law (IHL) - Conventions and protocols
10. Implementation of IHL Challenges
UNIT IV LAW OF CRIMES
1. General principles of criminal liability - Actus reus and mens rea, individual and group liability and constructive liability
2. Stages of crime and inchoate crimes - Abetment, criminal conspiracy and attempt
3. General exceptions
4. Offences against human body.
5. Offences against state and terrorism
6. Offences against property
7. Offences against women and children
8. Drug trafficking and counterfeiting 9. Offences against public tranquility
10. Theories and kinds of punishments, compensation to the victims of crime
UNIT - V: LAW OF TORTS AND CONSUMER PROTECTION
1. Nature and definition of tort
2. General principles of tortious liability
3. General defenses
4. Specific torts - Negligence, nuisance, trespass and defamation
5. Remoteness of damages
6. Strict and absolute liability
7. Tortious liability of the State
8. The Consumer Protection Act, 1986 - Definitions, consumer rights and redressal mechanism
9. The Motor Vehicles Act, 1988- No fault liability, third party insurance and claims tribunal 10. The Competition Act, 2002 - Prohibition of certain agreements, abuse of dominant position an regulation of combinations
UNIT-VI: COMMERCIAL LAW
1. Essential elements of contract and e-contract
2. Breach of contract, frustration of contract, void and voidable agreements
3. Standard form of contract and quasi-contract
4. Specific contracts - Bailment, pledge, indemnity, guarantee and agency