PART

UNIT

Details

I

Judiciary

1. Structure and Hierarchy of Courts and Legal Offices in India
2. Constitution, Roles and Impartiality
3. Appointments, Trainings, Retirement and Removal of Judges
4. Courts and Judicial Review

II

Topics of Law

1. Law of Property
2. Law of Contracts
3. Law of Torts
4. Introduction to Criminal Laws in India

III

Arbitration, Tribunal Adjunction, and Alternative Dispute Resolution

1. Adversarial and Inquisitorial Systems
2. Introduction to Alternative Dispute Resolution
3. Types of ADR
4. Arbitration, Administrative, Tribunals
5. Mediation and Conciliation
6. Lok Adalats
7. Ombudsman
8. Lokpal and Lokayukta

IV

Human

Rights in India

1. Introduction – International Context
2. Constitutional framework and Related laws in India
3. Complaint Mechanisms of Quasi-Judicial Bodies

V

Legal Profession in India

Introduction

The Advocates Act, 1961, The Bar Council of India, Lawyers and Professional Ethics, Advertising by Lawyers, Opportunities for Law graduates, Legal Education in India, Liberalization of the Legal

Profession, Women and the Legal Profession in India

VI

 Legal Services

1.  Legal background – Free Legal Aid under    

    Criminal law, Legal Aid by the State, Legal     

    Aid under the Indian Constitution, NALSA  

    Regulations, 2010

1. Criteria for giving free Legal Services
2. Lok Adalats
3. Legal Aid in Context of Social Justice and Human Rights

VII

International Context

1.   Introduction to International Law
2.  Sources of International Law –

     Treaties, Customs and ICJ Decisions

1. International Institutions, International Human Rights
2. Customary International Law
3.  International law & Municipal Law
4. International Law & India
5. Dispute Resolution – ICJ, ICC and Other Dispute Resolution Mechanisms

VIII

Legal Maxims

Important Legal Maxims.

Meaning with illustrations of the following:

• Actus non facit reum nisi mens sit rea
• Ad valorem
• Amicus Curiae
• Audi alterem partum
• Assentio Mentium
• Bona fide
• Bona Vacantia
• Caveat Emptor
• Corpus Delicto
• Damnum Sine Injuria
• De Die in Diem
• De Minimis Lex Non Curat
• Doli Incapax
• Ejusdem Generis
• Ex Post Facto
• Ignorantia Facti Excusat – IgnorantiaJuris Non Excusat
• Injuria Sine Damnum
• Locus Standi
• Nemo Debet Esse Judex in Propria SuaCausa
• Nemo debt non quad habit
• Noscitur a Sociis
• Obiter Dicta
• Pari Materia
• Per Incuriam
• Qui Facit Per Alium, Facit Per Se
• Quid pro quo
• Ratio Decidendi
• Res ipsa loquitur
• Res Judicata Accipitur Pro Veritate
• Salus Populi Est Suprema Lex
• Stare Decisis
• Ubi Jus Ibi Remedium